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UPDATE: Singer D4vd Arrested For Murder Of 14 Year Old  Celeste Rivas Hernandez

Intimate Knowledge

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

3.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

7 months after police found the badly decomposing, dismembered body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, singer D4vd has been arrested for her murder. D4vd, whose name is David Anthony Burke, was officially named a suspect last November, Burke has maintained his innocence, his attorney saying Burke “was not the cause of her death.” 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.1

Hey there, folks. It is Friday, April 17th, and it's finally happened.

0:11.9

Singer David has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 14-year-old girl.

0:18.9

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, I say finally, because from the moment we heard about the death of this young woman, this, excuse me, this child, and her connection to David, we were all kind of waiting around. When is he going to be arrested? Roves didn't know it was going to take this many months. Didn't think it was going to take seven months.

0:38.8

That's right, because 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez,

0:42.8

her body was found, badly decomposing, dismembered,

0:47.3

in the trunk of a car registered to singer David.

0:51.9

And by the way, his name, his official name is David Anthony Burke. But he goes by, it looks like DeForvid, D4VD. And we're going to screw that up at some point during this conversation. That's how we kind of learn to say his name, DeFovit. That's how we learned to spell it because it looks weird. But this is what kids do nowadays, everything on social media. They change it up.

1:11.6

So we're going to make that mistake at some point. Robs win this. It, like how could anything else

1:17.3

be possible? Look, I don't know. This is not a criticism of the police, but they're getting there,

1:22.3

they were getting their ducks in a row, but robes every what, there was no other suspect they

1:27.1

talked about. There was nobody else

1:28.8

involved. There's nobody else arrested. It was in his car. All of this. And Robes, he was still on

1:33.4

tour at the time. And wrote, it was seven months, you said? Yes. She was found September 4th one day

1:41.2

after what would have been her 15th birthday. So it was, it's been a while, and it was November that he was named officially a suspect in the case, and then there were reports of a grand jury convening and different folks being brought to the Los Angeles area to testify.

2:00.5

But this was a tightly guarded investigation.

2:05.0

In fact, the medical examiner put out a statement.

2:08.5

He was upset.

2:09.4

He wasn't allowed to give autopsy results or even speak to the press,

2:13.5

and he felt like this was a suppression of information.

2:18.4

He wanted more transparency.

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