FBI Profiler Explains the Shocking Silence in the Celeste Rivas Tesla Case
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of Hidden Killers, we’re joined by Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former Chief of the Bureau’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, to dissect what that silence really means.
This isn’t just a case of tragedy—it’s a case of narrative control. From the decision to place Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s body in the front trunk of a Tesla, to the legal firepower that arrived before any charges were filed, to the digital vanishing acts and cancelled appearances, every move—or lack of one—is behavior that tells a deeper story.
Dreeke walks us through critical psychological insights:
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What does it mean when a person shows both concealment and carelessness?
- Why does someone lawyer up fast but never speak for themselves?
- How does celebrity and charisma protect people from scrutiny—even when a child is found dead?
- And what does the absence of a missing persons report tell us about the people around Celeste—and the man whose car she was found in?
If you've been watching this case and wondering why no one is saying anything—this episode breaks the silence. Robin Dreeke provides expert behavioral analysis that cuts through the PR and goes straight to the human behavior beneath it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.7 | Let's move on now to the David story, the Celeste story, whatever you want to call it story, |
| 0:15.8 | a teenage girl's dead in the front trunk of a Tesla, the frunk, and that vehicle registered to rising music star David. |
| 0:24.8 | You see him listed as D4VD. |
| 0:27.6 | No one reports her missing, though. |
| 0:31.0 | The car sits in plain view for weeks, and when her body is finally discovered, there's silence. |
| 0:37.2 | No public statement, no |
| 0:38.2 | arrest, no answers as of right now. We're going to be joined again. Robin Drake, retired FBI, |
| 0:43.9 | special agent, former chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program to continue |
| 0:48.4 | discussing this story. I know people are going, wait a second. She was reported missing, |
| 0:53.4 | but let's go back to that for a |
| 0:55.1 | second. She was a year earlier. And then she was back at home again. So it's appearing at this point in |
| 1:02.8 | time that she came back. She was on her security camera, at her family home. So somebody knew she was back. That disappears to be a |
| 1:13.5 | factual piece of the story now at this point. There wasn't necessarily a second report of being |
| 1:18.7 | missing. So I'm wondering, was she ever missing? And let's talk about that for a little bit. |
| 1:26.1 | When someone goes missing, we have this every single day. |
| 1:30.0 | Only certain ones seem to get the attention or qualify for the Amber Alert or qualify for |
| 1:34.9 | whatever alert they're going to put out there. |
| 1:38.2 | Let's talk about that in our system of what we have going on here of people when they go |
| 1:42.5 | missing. |
| 1:43.1 | And is it effective in any way, shape, or form for helping people be found when they are going missing, especially in a situation like this? |
| 1:52.8 | Boy, missing. |
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