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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

SINGER D4VD FLEES $20K/MONTH HOME, 'BLOOD-SOAKED' VIDEO AFTER TEEN GIRL DEAD IN HIS TELSA

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

D4vd was living in a home leased by his manager, Josh Marshal, but since police served a search warrant looking for blood at the residence, the singer has decided not to live in the $20,000-a-month home.

The home was leased from the owner, Mladen Trifunovic, who says Marshal signed the lease in February and he didn't know D4vd was living in the house. Regardless, after the raid on the home, Trifunovic says they didn't want to live there anymore and are breaking the lease.

Trifunovic says he doesn't know what was found or what kind of tests were conducted in the house.

Now, police are scouring the area around the home where the Tesla with the dismembered and decomposing body in the frunk was parked before being towed, and they are looking for video.

The rental home has security cameras positioned at all entry points, in the backyard, and on the street so people can't go in or out of the house without being recorded. 

Even as police investigate, photos are circulating alleging Celeste was with D4vd at his concert in Silver Springs, Maryland, on August 24.

If true, these photos create a timeline from August 24 until her dismembered, decomposing body is found in D4vd's Tesla in an impound lot on September 8, one day after her 15th birthday.

It is reported the Tesla was parked on the street for a month before it was reported abandoned on September 3rd and towed to the impound lot on September 5.

The footage shows a person looking very much like Celeste Rivas on the balcony to the side and back of the stage. This is an area usually reserved for backstage pass access only.

Her hair is the same style as Celeste's, and she is wearing a black tube top and ripped blue jeans. Even though police haven't given out much information about the body found in the Tesla, they have said she was wearing a black tube top and ripped jeans. 

Joining Nancy Grace today:

  • Troy Slaten  -  Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, Slaten Lawyers; X @TroySlaten
  • Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta Ga. Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital
  • Moses Castillo - Private Investigator for the Dordulian Law Group, Former Supervisor Detective with the Los Angeles Police Department
  • Tami Ballard - DNA and Crime Scene Consultant, Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, Former DNA Criminalist in the San Francisco Police Dept. Crime Laboratory
  • Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Host of NEW Podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue”, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
  • Melissa McCarty - Reporter & Host of the “Killer Genes” Podcast, Author of “The Making of a Crime Reporter;" TikTok: McCarty143, Instagram: MelissaMcCarty1
  • Dave Mack - Crime Stories Investigative Reporter 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.7

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:10.6

The singer David Anthony Burke, known as David, it looks like D4VD, has fled his $20,000 a month home, breaking a very expensive lease.

0:29.2

Why?

0:30.3

Why run out and flee your home in the middle of the night?

0:34.5

Are you concerned about what forensic evidence is found in the home or does it hold bad

0:41.2

memories? This is a blood-soaked video emerges after a teen girl, just 13 years old when she goes

0:52.0

missing, Celeste is found dead in the trunk of his Tesla. LAPD.

1:01.5

Why no arrest? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us.

1:08.3

You can smell the trunk as you approached the Tesla.

1:13.7

How could somebody put a then 13-year-old little girl in a trunk and leave the car there

1:20.6

for weeks on end?

1:24.6

An integral part of any homicide investigation is a timeline.

1:32.3

It's critical.

1:34.3

Based on a timeline, you can alibi people, you can un-aliby other people that you're

1:41.3

looking at as a suspect.

1:43.3

It changes everything.

1:45.7

And in the last hours, a video has emerged potentially placing this little girl just 13 years

1:53.6

old when she goes missing at a David D4VD concert in Maryland on August 24.

2:04.6

Significance. Very quickly, Dave Mack joining me, Crime Stories, investigative reporter.

2:09.6

Dave Mack, when was Celeste's body found in David Burke's Tesla Trump?

2:16.6

She was found on September the 8th.

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