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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

P.I. DROPS BOMBSHELL: NEW PROBE IN TEEN CELESTE’S BODY IN SINGER D4VD’S TESLA

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mladen Trifunovic, the owner of the home Burke was renting for $20,000 a month, has hired private investigator Steve Fischer to try and find out what was happening in the home he owns.

Fischer was hired shortly after a forced-search entry search warrant was served at the home. Nobody was home when police served a search warrant, and no paperwork was left behind to indicate what was being sought or what was taken. Fischer is helping provide additional information for law enforcement and make sure nothing is missed in the search for what happened to Celeste.

The LAPD says Celeste had been deceased for weeks before being discovered in Burke's Tesla.  Private investigator Steve Fischer says he has seen surveillance video from neighbor homes and knows exactly when the Tesla was last moved and who moved it to the location from where it was towed, in very late July, but cannot reveal that yet.

The Tesla owned by Burke had been his daily driver for a long time, regularly getting the car cleaned inside and out. However, when the Tesla was towed, it was dirty with body damage.

PI Fischer says it looks like the car had been "off-road" in the desert with wheel wells beat up and a huge dent in the back.  While his former daily driver sits dirty by the curb for weeks, Burke keeps a clean, red Tesla in the garage.

Surveillance cameras in the Hollywood Hills build a complete timeline showing when Burke's Tesla was parked on Bluebird Avenue, who parked it, and whether anything was placed in the vehicle after it was parked.

There is also no evidence indicating Celeste's body was transferred into the Tesla AFTER it was parked on the street.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

  • Randy Kessler  - Atlanta Trial Lawyer, Emory Law School Professor, Past Chair ABA Family Law Section, and Author: "Divorce, Protect Yourself, Your Kids and Your Future;" Instagram: @rkessler23, X: @GADivorce
  • Dr. John Delatorre -  Licensed Psychologist and Mediator (specializing in forensic psychology); Psychological Consultant to Project Absentis: a nonprofit organization that searches for missing persons; X, IG, and TikTok - @drjohndelatorre
  • Steve Fischer  - Missing Persons Private Investigator, Search & Rescue Specialist, & Owner of Search Investigations (he has been hired by the owner of the Hollywood Hills property where D4vd had been staying to look into this case); Facebook: SearchInvestigations, X: @SF_Investigates
  • Rob Shuter  - Host: Naughty But Nice Podcast, Author of Upcoming Novel, “It Started With A Whisper." and Former Publicist of Sean Combs; IG: @naughtygossip
  • Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Host of NEW Podcast, "Mayhem in the Morgue,”and Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
  • Katy Forrester  - Assistant Exclusives Editor at The U.S. Sun, covering true crime and showbiz; X: @katyshowbix
  • Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:10.8

A private investigator drops a bombshell in a new probe in Teen Girl Celeste.

0:17.8

Her body, her decomposing body found in the singer D4VD, aka David Anthony

0:29.1

Burke's Tesla.

0:30.6

I'm Nancy Grace.

0:32.1

This is Crime Stories.

0:33.1

I want to thank you for being with us.

0:35.7

Celeste is found dead in the trunk of his Tesla.

0:41.3

Her body was an advanced state of decomposition.

0:44.8

Who would have a motive to kill her?

0:47.1

It's obviously a homicide.

0:51.7

A private investigator says that after amassing ring doorbell cam and other cam from all around the neighborhood,

1:03.8

he knows who and when D4VD, aka David Anthony Burks, Tesla was moved. Do I care about the Tesla? No. Do I care who put

1:15.4

the Tesla there or moved it? Yes. Because I believe that person had knowledge that Celeste's

1:21.3

body, a little girl, was decomposing in the trunk.

1:32.6

If he knows that, certainly the LAPD knows that.

1:33.1

Listen.

1:37.9

Mladen Trevunovig, the owner of the home Burke was renting for $20,000 a month, has hired a private investigator, Steve Fisher, to try and find out what was happening

1:42.6

in the home he owns.

1:43.9

Fisher was hired shortly after

1:45.4

a forced search entry search warrant was served at the home. Nobody was home when police served a

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