Hey everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. Just a quick note, if you didn't know this,

my little companion in the studio, Atlas, he left us this week. I'm so sad to report that our Atlas cam today for this episode is showing

his collar and his leash and his water bowl that was always in the studio and a couple of his

favorite milk bones. I do have an episode telling the story of what happened to Atlas this week, but it's very sad.

He's 15 and a half, and it was time, and it was very sad.

But I am continuing to do the podcast by myself now, very lonely, but I do have some big bombshells in the case involving Celeste Rivas Hernandez and the singer known as David.

And I'm just going to say it.

What the hell is actually going on with this case?

Every time a new piece of this story surfaces, it doesn't clear anything up.

It just seems to blow the whole thing open even wider.

The singer who calls himself, you know, David with the four, is really David Anthony Burke.

That's his legal name.

And by the way, he might have to start using that legal name real soon.

And the underage girl that was found dead

in the trunk of his Tesla, that was his girlfriend, Celeste Rivas Hernandez, according to his friends.

And the more we learn about the investigation, the stranger this entire situation gets.

Nothing seems to line up. Everybody's clamming up and the questions are getting louder than the answers.

The bombshell, though, this week was that LAPD sources say investigators now consider

David the singer a suspect, which might raise the question, what took them so long?

Except that two and a half months after Celeste's decomposing remains were found in David's Tesla,

authorities still aren't saying how this young runaway died,

or whether anyone else may have had a hand in it.

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