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From Celeste’s Death to Diddy’s Sentencing: What Prosecutors Aren’t Saying-WEEK IN REVIEW

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News Commentary, News

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

From Celeste’s Death to Diddy’s Sentencing: What Prosecutors Aren’t Saying

A missing teenager.
 A decomposed body found in a Tesla.
 No charges. No suspects. Just silence.
 Meanwhile — in a different courtroom — a global music icon awaits a sentence that could stretch into the next decade.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, we sit down with former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis to tackle two of the most widely watched legal stories of the moment:


  • The stalled investigation into Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose body was found in the front trunk of a Tesla linked to the artist d4vd — and


  • The upcoming federal sentencing of Sean “Diddy” Combs, whose plea deal has sparked national backlash over justice, celebrity, and accountability.

Faddis gives us a legal deep dive into:


  • Why Celeste’s case still hasn’t resulted in charges — and what legal thresholds are holding it back


  • Whether celebrity protection is at play behind the scenes — or if the evidence simply isn’t strong enough


  • The exact legal standard for charging someone with body concealment when cause of death is still unknown


  • How Diddy’s sentencing could swing from 14 months to 11 years — and why uncharged conduct like sex abuse is still influencing the outcome


  • What the courts can consider when high-profile names collide with public outrage, victim impact statements, and sentencing guidelines


  • And most importantly — how two very different cases reveal the same systemic tension: what happens when prosecutors hold back, and justice delays itself

This isn’t about drama. It’s about law — and what it takes to make it move when the stakes are enormous.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Week in review.

0:02.3

I look back at the most prolific stories of the week.

0:05.1

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

0:15.0

Let's move on and continue the conversation, but now for more of a legal perspective, we have a missing girl,

0:22.8

a body in the trunk of a Tesla, and a rising music star at the center of it all.

0:28.6

Right now, no one has been charged.

0:30.8

The cause of death, it's still pending, but questions are stacking up about timeline,

0:35.9

silence, and whether justice is coming at all.

0:39.3

As you heard Jennifer Coffendaffer recently say, yeah, this thing we may not know exactly what was the cause of death.

0:49.0

That's the medical examiner.

0:50.3

I'm kind of paraphrasing that.

0:52.2

Today, now we're to be joined by criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Fattis

0:56.4

to unpack the legal fault lines in this case involving Celeste Rivas Hernandez and the artist

1:02.2

known as David.

1:03.9

So let's start here.

1:05.4

I know you've been watching this thing.

1:07.0

What does the law see here?

1:08.9

And more importantly, what are we still waiting for in terms of

1:13.0

charges legally against somebody? Yeah, Tony, I think the law sees a lot of holes so far in this case

1:22.8

based largely on how things went down in the possible timeline.

1:28.9

Like you said, there hasn't been a cause of death determined.

1:32.5

There hasn't been a manner of death determined in terms of, you know, the prosecution that

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