Singer D4VD Charged in Teen Death | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 04.25.26
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Sidney. From the heights of TikTok |
| 0:06.5 | stardom and billion stream hits to a high security courtroom in Los Angeles. Today, the music |
| 0:12.7 | industry is reeling as one of its fastest rising stars faces allegations of a crime so gruesome it |
| 0:19.0 | seems pulled from the lyrics of his own breakout hits. |
| 0:22.7 | 21-year-old David Anthony Burke, known to millions of fans globally as David, |
| 0:28.0 | appeared in a Los Angeles court Monday afternoon, arraigned on charges of first-degree murder, |
| 0:33.4 | lewd and lascivious sexual acts with a child under 14 and the mutilation of a human body. |
| 0:39.3 | The victim, 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. |
| 0:42.8 | Her body was discovered last year dismembered and decaying in the trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke. |
| 0:49.0 | Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hatchman laid out the severity of the state's case. |
| 0:53.5 | Today I am announcing the charges against David Anthony Burke, the musician known as David, spelled D4VD, |
| 1:03.6 | in connection with the brutal and horrific murder of Celeste, a 14-year-old at that time. |
| 1:13.6 | These charges include the most serious charges that a DA's office can bring. That is, first-degree murder with special circumstances. |
| 1:20.1 | The special circumstances being lying in wait, committing this crime for financial gain, |
| 1:25.7 | or murdering a witness in an investigation. |
| 1:29.0 | Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He's currently being held without bail, a decision |
| 1:34.2 | finalized by the judge yesterday. But the details emerging from the LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division |
| 1:39.9 | paint a chilling timeline that began over a year ago. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was first reported missing in April 24 from her home in Lake Elsinore. |
| 1:50.1 | For months, her family searched for answers while she was classified as a runaway. |
| 1:54.9 | It wasn't until September 8, 2025, that the search ended in a North Hollywood impound lot. |
| 2:02.4 | A Tesla, which had been abandoned on a Hollywood Hill street for weeks, was towed after neighbors complained of a foul odor. |
| 2:07.6 | When investigators opened the front trunk, the front trunk of the electric vehicle, they found |
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