Eric Faddis: Inside the D4vd Felony Complaint and the Blair Berk Defense
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Part 2 of our deep-dive with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis. This one is on the charging document itself. First-degree murder with three special circumstances. Continuous sexual abuse of a child. Mutilation of human remains. The death penalty is on the table.
We cover DA Hochman's financial-gain theory and whether it actually fits the statute, Blair Berk's ten-day preliminary hearing push, the significance of a complaint versus an indictment after a grand jury failed to indict, the forty-plus terabytes of discovery Berk says she still has not received, and the newly unsealed autopsy report and what it could do to the entire defense theory.
Eric closes on the language the defense keeps using. Not "he didn't do it," but "he was not the cause of her death." Two separate legal claims. Eric explains exactly what trial theory that language signals and how the prosecution has to adjust for it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Dree. |
| 0:07.8 | First degree murder with three special circumstances, continuous ass abuse of a child mutilation of human remains. |
| 0:14.2 | Those are the charges against David Anthony Burke. |
| 0:17.4 | And together they put the death penalty on the table. |
| 0:39.8 | We haven't heard if Hockman is going to be pursuing it officially yet, but it is still there. I mean, my goodness, this has gone from a case where we were sitting here just a week or two ago going, maybe this was just all a horrible accident and then the cover up and it's not going to go as far as death. |
| 0:46.3 | Like somebody's going to get in trouble without a doubt, but maybe this isn't as sadistic as it looks. |
| 0:49.3 | It's as sadistic as it seems to look. |
| 0:52.1 | Whoever did this, whether it's David or whoever. |
| 0:54.1 | Eric Fattis defense attorney, |
| 0:55.9 | former prosecutor is with us, |
| 0:58.1 | along with Robin Drake, retired FBI Special Agent, |
| 1:00.7 | Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. |
| 1:05.0 | Eric, let's talk about one of the things that DA Hockman has said. |
| 1:08.2 | Financial gain, that's one of the big things they're saying as being a motive, reason for this event to have taken place. |
| 1:14.8 | And very specific wording, too, to maintain a very lucrative musical career that Celeste was threatening that night. |
| 1:23.0 | That's the quote. |
| 1:23.9 | That's what's in the document. |
| 1:25.4 | That's very specific. |
| 1:27.2 | I'm going to assume that |
| 1:28.6 | they got something that very much points in that specific of a direction to make that specific |
| 1:34.8 | of a statement on a charging doc. Oh, I would totally think so. Usually it's best practices |
| 1:42.0 | to kind of keep a lot close to the vest because you don't want all of your |
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