D4VD: The Murder Case Of Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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David Anthony Burke, the recording artist known as D4VD, is at the center of one of the most closely watched investigations in recent memory. Celeste Rivas Hernandez allegedly lost her life — and the questions surrounding what happened, who was involved, and what the evidence reveals are far from answered. Hidden Killers is delivering wall-to-wall coverage of the D4VD case — from the Los Angeles grand jury proceedings and key witness testimony to the physical evidence recovered by LAPD, the Burke family's legal fight against California subpoenas, and the people left demanding answers. This collection features expert interviews with former FBI agents and law enforcement professionals, deep-dive monologues breaking down every development, and real-time reporting as the case against D4VD unfolds. Celeste Rivas Hernandez deserved a future. Her family deserves accountability. And this case — involving alleged evidence destruction, a burn cage incinerator, cryopreservation forensics, and a second suspect identified by LAPD — deserves the kind of coverage that refuses to look away because a famous name is attached. If you believe victims matter more than celebrity, this is where you follow the D4VD murder case. New episodes drop as the investigation develops. Subscribe so you don't miss a single update. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForCeleste #LAPD #GrandJury #TrueCrimeCommunity

  1. 15m ago

    Celeste’s Father Claimed WHAT About D4vd?!

    After David Anthony Burke’s arrest, Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s father made a public claim through his attorney: he’d never had any contact with the singer. The preliminary hearing produced sworn testimony that said the opposite — church attendance together, a Las Vegas trip with her sister, and a notarized travel form bearing the parents’ signatures that sent their thirteen-year-old daughter to London with a grown man. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the legal fallout for Celeste’s parents — whether a father’s provable public denial, combined with signed documents and testimony about a pregnancy at thirteen, gives California prosecutors enough for an endangerment case. Teachers tried to warn authorities. Deputies visited Burke’s home and left. The question Faddis answers: do the people who were supposed to protect Celeste face charges for what they allegedly signed off on? Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Celeste was fourteen. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #D4vd #CelesteRivas #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #JusticeForCeleste

    Celeste’s Father Claimed WHAT About D4vd?!

  2. 2d ago

    D4vd's Reply To Celeste's Pregnancy Had A Laugh In It

    Celeste Rivas Hernandez was pregnant at thirteen, and when she told d4vd that neither of them could care for the baby, his reply came back with a laugh attached. Those words were read into the record at the July 24 session of the preliminary hearing, by LAPD Detective Corey Farell, the prosecution's final witness. This update walks the timeline the way the courtroom heard it, with the pregnancy texts at its core. August 2022, the first messages, when Celeste was eleven. November 2023, the point Farell testified the relationship changed, two months after her thirteenth birthday. January 2024, texts indicating a pregnancy, a procedure two days away, a question Burke said his mother advised him to ask, and an answer from Celeste that carried his name. Then April 23, 2025, and silence. Alongside the texts, Farell described nearly fifty images from Burke's devices that investigators labeled illegal material involving a minor, described to the court but never displayed. Earlier in the session, Dr. Grant Ho of the county medical examiner's office testified that Celeste died from two sharp-force wounds and had been dead at least weeks before anyone found her in the Tesla, and that decomposition closed doors no examination can reopen. Prosecutors say the tattoo of Burke's name in red ink explains the two fingers missing from her hand, and their brief says so in writing. Burke has pleaded not guilty to every count. His defense contested the evidence collection throughout the hearing, and Judge Charlaine Olmedo decides whether the case is held to answer. The texts are the spine of this case, from the first message to the last. This is where they end, and this is what was said before they did. Pinned Comment:Prosecutors put on days of evidence when probable cause needed far less. Smart pressure before trial, or showing the defense their whole hand? Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CelesteRivas #D4vd #TrueCrime #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #TrueCrimeCommunity #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #CourtNews #JusticeForCeleste

    D4vd's Reply To Celeste's Pregnancy Had A Laugh In It

  3. 2d ago

    D4vd Signed At 17 And Celeste Was HOW Old?!

    By seventeen he was signed to Interscope and still in high school. Prosecutors say that by then he had already met Celeste Rivas Hernandez online through gaming, and the age they put on that first contact is the fact that changes how the whole rise reads. This one is for everybody who has followed the d4vd case from the beginning and keeps circling the same question: who was David Burke before any of this happened? Tony and Robin build the timeline. Homeschooled after seventh grade. Gospel music only until he turned thirteen. Almost every relationship he had ran through a screen. A mother who told him to stop crying about copyright strikes on his gaming clips and go write his own songs. A deal with Darkroom and Interscope at seventeen, signed while he was still in high school. And an alter ego named Itami, which is pain in Japanese. Burke described him on camera as an agent of chaos, an evil version of himself in a blindfold, lifted from a manga about a detective who has to solve the murders his other self commits. He filmed the character with a bloody knife. He animated him taking a woman's arm. He released a video in which he personally drags a body and loads it into a car. There is a serious counterargument here and it gets made: violent material proves nothing by itself, and plenty of artists build entire careers on darkness and never hurt anyone. But prosecutors allege Burke did what his character did, and now the whole persona reads differently to everyone who bought it. Tony and Robin also put the industry on the table. A label valued him in the millions and sold the darkness as the product. Does anyone in that building own a piece of this? Burke has pleaded not guilty. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old. END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#D4vd #DavidBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #Itami #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RomanticHomicide #CaseUpdate #MusicIndustry #TrueCrimeCommunity

    D4vd Signed At 17 And Celeste Was HOW Old?!

  4. 3d ago

    D4vd's Phone Called Celeste's Number From WHERE?!

    Day three of the preliminary hearing produced the detail that stopped the room. Cell records and Tesla data put Burke's phone and his car off Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County the night prosecutors say Celeste died, and at 12:04 in the morning that phone dialed her number. For everyone following the d4vd case day by day, this is the evidence conversation. Tony and Robin take the state's exhibits one at a time and hand each one to the defense. An LAPD criminalist testified that Bluestar reacted strongly on the rubber mats covering the Hollywood Hills garage floor and on the bricks beneath them. A rowing machine, a green tarp, a charging cord, and a trash bag containing wipes all tested presumptive positive. A blue inflatable pool in the same garage showed nothing to the eye, smelled almost like laundry months later, and still produced a glow in one area. Another criminalist physically matched plastic fragments taken during the autopsy to the cuts in that pool. And in the same room, out in plain view, were jugs. Tested. Negative. Written up. Left in the report. The defense has a name for what those jugs were, and the whole question is whether that explanation survives being in the same room as everything else the state put on the table. Blair Berk's cross has been built on absence. Two chain saws whose handles were never swabbed for touch DNA, and a third saw found in a closet that investigators decided was not worth collecting. There were also possible footwear impressions on the pool that were never lifted or compared to any shoe. Testimony also placed a phone and a Tesla traveling together from that house to a remote part of Santa Barbara County on three separate occasions. Burke has pleaded not guilty and denies all wrongdoing. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old. END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#D4vd #DavidBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #BlairBerk #TrueCrime #CaseUpdate #LosAngeles #Evidence #TrueCrimeCommunity

    D4vd's Phone Called Celeste's Number From WHERE?!

  5. 3d ago

    Where Police Found D4vd's Missing Pool Fragments

    Fragments from a blue inflatable pool in d4vd's Hollywood Hills garage were found on Celeste Rivas Hernandez's leggings. Day 3 of the preliminary hearing against David Anthony Burke put the forensic connection into the court record through testimony from three LAPD criminalists. Lisa LaHendro, a trace analyst with over twenty years of experience, described the pool's cuts as "scalloped and straight," made by a sharp object. The missing pieces were recovered from Celeste's clothing. Samantha Tosch confirmed the DNA collected from the Tesla and the rental home matched Celeste. Lauren Wallace described blood cleanup across the garage and noted the presence of jugs of fake blood — which the defense attributes to Burke's music video production for his alter ego Itami. Blair Berk, Burke's attorney, pressed police on what they didn't test. The handles of two small chainsaws in the garage were never swabbed for touch DNA after the blades came back negative for blood. Berk established that multiple people lived in the residence. Under redirect, prosecutors noted that testing for the suspect's own DNA in his own home would be meaningless. Detective Roecker's testimony placed Burke's Tesla and phone on the road to Santa Barbara County three times — April 23–24 (the night of the alleged killing), and twice more in May. Celeste's passport card was found along that Highway 154 corridor. Burke charged his EV in Santa Ynez during one trip. Burke has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder with special circumstances and other charges. Celeste was fourteen. She went to Burke's home on April 23, 2025. She was never heard from again. The bindover ruling is imminent. END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags:#D4vd #CelesteRivas #D4vdCase #TrueCrime #PreliminaryHearing #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #LACounty #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrimeCommunity

    Where Police Found D4vd's Missing Pool Fragments

  6. 6d ago

    d4vd Had Three Chainsaws And NONE Had Blood?!

    d4vd case — the preliminary hearing revealed prosecutors' full digital timeline for the first time: chainsaws, a cadaver bag, laundry bags, a shovel, an inflatable pool, and a burn cage allegedly ordered under aliases but paid for with the defendant's own accounts and shipped to his own address. The digital paper trail is extensive.But the defense established a fact that prosecutors have not explained: all three chainsaws came back negative for blood. No DNA testing was ordered. The prosecution calls these tools central to the alleged cover-up. The defense says the prosecution's own lab work contradicts that claim.Court testimony also covered matching tattoos between the defendant and Celeste Rivas Hernandez, prosecutors' allegation that two fingers bearing his name tattoo were removed from her body and never found, and financial earnings exceeding ten million dollars — with the defense establishing that his mother and financial manager controlled virtually all spending.Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, examines whether the defense is building a real foundation for trial or just scoring preliminary hearing points — and what three special circumstances look like when the prosecution's physical evidence has gaps. Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #d4vd #CelesteRivas #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DavidBurke #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #EricFaddis #Murder #BlairBerk

    d4vd Had Three Chainsaws And NONE Had Blood?!

  7. 6d ago

    d4vd's Route Led Straight To WHAT On A Remote Highway?!

    Day 2 of d4vd's preliminary hearing opened the financial books and then followed a trail ninety-five miles into the mountains. Prosecutors called two financial witnesses who testified Burke earned above $10 million from Interscope and brand deals between 2022 and 2025 — establishing how much he allegedly stood to lose if Celeste Rivas Hernandez exposed their relationship. Then the questioning swerved. A money manager admitted knowing Celeste's first name. The prosecutor pressed him on Burke taking her to London and to nightclubs with fraudulent identification. The defense objected and the judge cut it off. A CHP officer then testified that a Caltrans worker found Celeste's passport card in tall grass along State Route 154 in Santa Barbara County. Prosecutors allege location data shows Burke drove to that spot twice after the alleged killing. An LAPD criminologist described the Tesla at the tow yard — dust, insects, decomposition, and air fresheners stuffed throughout the vehicle. The hearing continues. Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags:#CelesteRivasHernandez #d4vd #d4vdCase #TrueCrime #DavidBurke #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #MurderCase #Interscope #Justice

    d4vd's Route Led Straight To WHAT On A Remote Highway?!

  8. Jul 24

    D4VD Used Postmates To Order WHAT After Celeste Was Killed?!

    The first day of David Anthony Burke's preliminary hearing put evidence that had been under seal into a public courtroom for the first time. LAPD Detective Joshua Byers testified about a sequence of purchases prosecutors allege Burke made under fake names in the weeks and months after the alleged death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Every item was allegedly paid for with his own financial accounts and shipped to his own address. Prosecutors presented body camera footage from a February 2024 encounter where a sheriff's deputy informed Burke that Celeste — whose family had filed a missing persons report — was thirteen years old. According to the footage, Burke claimed he had met her once and that she said she was eighteen. Prosecutors say the relationship was already well established by that date. Burke's former financial director took the stand and put numbers to the career prosecutors allege Burke was protecting: more than ten million dollars in gross income between 2023 and 2025. The same witness described a pivot to encrypted communications within Burke's team after the body was discovered, discussions about transferring property titles, and a retainer arrangement with Burke's mother that continues to this day. The defense challenged how key evidence was preserved and processed, securing testimony that three chainsaws recovered from the home tested negative for blood and that the cadaver bag was not fully retained. The hearing resumes with additional prosecution witnesses expected. LINKS: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER: This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS: #d4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LAPrelimHearing #BlairBerk #TeslaCase #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrimePodcast

    D4VD Used Postmates To Order WHAT After Celeste Was Killed?!
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David Anthony Burke, the recording artist known as D4VD, is at the center of one of the most closely watched investigations in recent memory. Celeste Rivas Hernandez allegedly lost her life — and the questions surrounding what happened, who was involved, and what the evidence reveals are far from answered. Hidden Killers is delivering wall-to-wall coverage of the D4VD case — from the Los Angeles grand jury proceedings and key witness testimony to the physical evidence recovered by LAPD, the Burke family's legal fight against California subpoenas, and the people left demanding answers. This collection features expert interviews with former FBI agents and law enforcement professionals, deep-dive monologues breaking down every development, and real-time reporting as the case against D4VD unfolds. Celeste Rivas Hernandez deserved a future. Her family deserves accountability. And this case — involving alleged evidence destruction, a burn cage incinerator, cryopreservation forensics, and a second suspect identified by LAPD — deserves the kind of coverage that refuses to look away because a famous name is attached. If you believe victims matter more than celebrity, this is where you follow the D4VD murder case. New episodes drop as the investigation develops. Subscribe so you don't miss a single update. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForCeleste #LAPD #GrandJury #TrueCrimeCommunity

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