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T.J. Holmes
Hey there folks. It is Wednesday, November 19th. Singer David is now finally and formally being called a suspect in the death of a 15 year old girl who was found in the trunk of his car. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. This is a story we have been following from the absolute very beginning. And from the beginning people were scratching their heads about why he hasn't been called a suspect the past several months.
Amy Robach
Yes, there have been a lot of curious and interesting questions around this case. Number one. Yes. Why was David not named a suspect immediately or at least with in a few days or weeks? And number two, why have they not ruled this a homicide yet? Those are two questions. And look, we understand it takes time for police to run the test they have to run and obviously make sure that they have all of their evidence in a row before they make these announcements. But it's been months. Her body was found early September so that's quite some time to be waiting, especially if you're the family.
T.J. Holmes
So they finally. It took a while before they even spoke of a homicide that that word was even used in this case. And again we're Talking about a 15 year old girl in the trunk. How does she get in the trunk? What? Dismembered. Dismembered and body decomposing is how she was found. But if folks don't know what genre do we say of music? Neo Soul. He's 20 years old. David Anthony Burke is his name but he goes by David and it's spelled D4V D, right?
Amy Robach
Yes.
T.J. Holmes
Spelled out.
Amy Robach
Yes. I actually in my head have to say deforvid so I know how to spell it when I'm actually googling or searching this story. And we have.
T.J. Holmes
And I laughed at you the first time you did it and now that's what I do every single time. Deforvid to have to write his name. DeForvid. But it helps. It's David is how you say it.
Amy Robach
Yes. But now we are starting to get some information from, from the police department and we haven't had much at all. But we do know, yes, they have acknowledged that David is officially a suspect and they have told some media that they are certain they are going down the right path for a suspect. So that was the closest we got to them saying we got our guy, we know who he is.
T.J. Holmes
And, and they haven't announced what the cause of death is. Is now I don't know how much robes they might know about the cause of death but once that is announced, once that's released, things might move really quickly.
Amy Robach
Yes. They said once the medical examiner makes that determination, then things will progress very quickly. And according to members of the media who have spoken to police, they mentioned they actually got specific about Celeste and her name, by the way. Have we said her name? Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 15 years old. She actually turned 15 the day before her body was found. Police believed that she had been dead for weeks and now they're even saying potentially months. So she never made it to 15. She was actually 14 when she died. But police say that they believed the way her body was dismembered, the process by which it was dismembered. They don't think that one person could have done it by themselves. So they say they are talking to other people who they believe may have been a part of the COVID up or the aftermath of this crime. So that is interesting.
T.J. Holmes
That detail expands this story, makes it in that moment. It's one thing to say he's a suspect. Now we're talking about suspects. Possibility of several people being a part of what? The death or the dismemberment, we don't know. But this story, it never ever sounded. It's tough to explain this type of thing. It's his car registered to him, parked up the street from where he's living in. Her body's in the trunk. Okay, well, there could be some explanations, ropes, but from the very beginning, and then his behavior, what we were expecting and what we were wanting from the beginnings to come out. I cannot believe this has happened. This poor girl. I want to get to the bottom of what happened. Stone cold silence. Have we even heard from a rep of his through this whole thing?
Amy Robach
No, only that he was cooperating with police early on. They did say that. But here's. You said stone Cold. Look, if he has something to do with this, if he loved this girl, if he knew this girl the day her body was found, the following day he's on a stage in Minneapolis continuing his tour. Yes, that is cold.
T.J. Holmes
We were, we were, we were scratching our heads about it and look, a lot of things. He could have been on stage to honor her. He could have. I don't. We just didn't know. But in the moment, in that moment, it seemed. We say cold, but it seemed borderline tacky. Just out of respect, bad taste. That's the one I'm looking for.
Amy Robach
It was your car. At the end of the day, you had nothing to do with it. A young girl who had been missing for a year and a half was found. Dismembered and decomposing in your car. You don't go on stage and sing and, you know, be adored by fans.
T.J. Holmes
We were trying to understand at the time, and I'm not sure who we were talking about the other day, but you said this young girl, we forget, don't we? We see her picture. Child. A child was in the trunk of his car.
Amy Robach
She was 14.
T.J. Holmes
Yeah.
Amy Robach
And when she went missing, when her mother put up the flyers and went to police, I mean, she had been missing, went missing several times. There definitely was some issues for her and her family life. But she was 13 when her mother last saw her. She was a child. Child. So this is really interesting. So we know that what we got this fall, the only details we had, we knew police went to the house that David was renting. $20,000 a month. He broke his lease, I believe, went back home. But they were seen taking boxes of evidence out of that house. TMZ had reported that they were looking for blood evidence in the home. So we know that they have been on the case. We just have had almost zero leaks about what's been happening with the case. And yes, David has obviously. He canceled his tour. He had a big tour set for Europe as well. Canceled that. So he has just really gone underground at this point.
T.J. Holmes
Yeah, really. I haven't seen report of where he is or hearing anything from him lately at all. Can't imagine we are going to hear anything anytime soon.
Amy Robach
The only thing we did hear, which is a complete reversal from earlier, police have said now that he is no longer cooperating with police.
T.J. Holmes
This all looks bad, but he is innocent until proven otherwise and always have to caution and pump the brakes no matter how bad something might look. We just don't know.
Amy Robach
We just don't know. Now we still actually don't even have full confirmation that David was in a relationship with Celeste. But there is some evidence out there that has been mounting. Of course, you've got all these online sleuths looking for any sign, sign of their relationship in his work, in any photos that may have been online. And those are all surfacing there a song called Celeste that he had out in 2023. And people are pointing to some of the lyrics. Have you read the lyrics? And so just to prove at least there was a girl that he sung about in 2023 named Celeste. The name of his song is Celeste.
T.J. Holmes
Yeah. And people piece all these things together and none of this proves anything. And none of this proves any type of relationship. But given where we are, I mean, people just start to connect some dots. And that could be all kinds of coincidences, but damn, there are. These are stacking up with the tattoos and the songs and the pictures and the lyrics and the name and the. I mean, yes, their connection seems clear. The affection even, I would argue, seems that way.
Amy Robach
Yes, in the pictures. And then even her own mom, Celeste. Mom said that her daughter went missing in April of 2024 and had a boyfriend named David. Her brother has been talking as well, Matthew Rivas. And he said that the family knew that the teen girl knew David. By all accounts, they believe they met online and they think she might have been as young as 11 when she first started talking with him online. He was young, too, so he was it. He was a teen at that point too, so he was probably 16, 17, but still a big age gap between the two. And her brother says that his sister vanished when she was on her way to see a movie with David. He said she was going to the movies with singer David and that is the last time he saw his sister.
T.J. Holmes
That's tough. I mean, obviously this girl had some. Some issues with just the. Who knows what her life has been like. It seems like nobody knows. Her family hadn't seen her in a year, year and a half. What has her life been? Where has she been? What has she been doing? How's she taking care of herself? How is she eating? Where'd she get a roof over her head? Where has she been?
Amy Robach
According to people around David's circle, they said that she looked older, so she was able to. She would go out with him. She was in clubs with him, she was living with him. This is according to folks who are around him, but nothing has been substantiated. I have to say, though, I was looking at some of his work and we're not huge fans of his music at all. Not our genre. Nothing against him specifically, but there is a video called Rehab of one of his songs, and he was into anime. He loved all of that. He. In this video, this music video, his anime character is very violent and actually dismembers a girl in this video. So people are pointing to that. Then with the situation at hand with what happened to Celeste, it's really eerie. And there might not. That could be a coincidence, but that is so eerie.
T.J. Holmes
They're really stacking up here. This is one of those. All this stuff, all you can say is, okay, I know what you're thinking, but let me explain. And I would love to hear the explanation, but yeah, I just don't. Just don't want to get too far ahead of it. And we were always cautious when we first heard this story, when we first heard about his behavior and the concerts. And it just. Nothing made sense. And we were waiting to hear something robes. And we've heard nothing from police. So I don't know what else, how else to. What else to make of these facts, including the last one you're giving about a video. It just all looks awful.
Amy Robach
And the lyrics to some of his songs. Romantic Homicide is his number one song, in fact. And here's the other. I just want to point out something about us, human nature. I get that this happens, but there were many articles when, after the body was found and when they were rating his home within a few weeks of one another. His songs, which had not even been. They had been so low on any sort of Spotify chart, they didn't even really register. All of a sudden, for the first time in David's music musical career, his song Romantic Homicide shot into the top 10 in late September on Spotify's chart. So people started getting, I think there was another artist, and it was in terrible taste, was complaining that he wished he could get some publicity like David. Maybe he needed to have something happen so that he could get his music played more. But it's disturbing to think that, yes, people were so fascinated by him and the mystery surrounding this young girl. His music shot up the charts.
T.J. Holmes
Look, I was, I am guilty of that. As a matter of research, I didn't know who he was and I think a lot of people didn't know who he was. I'd never seen the name David before. Sabine knew who he was. She knew that song Romantic Homicide. So I jumped on to figure out who he was, what kind of music if I. I jumped on to see if we had heard any of his songs before, which we had not. So, yeah, there was a lot of curiosity, morbid and otherwise. Yes, I suppose. Right.
Amy Robach
And just trying to figure out who this guy is and if what people were saying or implying could possibly be true. When we come back, we're going to talk about the victim in this case. Who is Celeste? Who was she? Who loved her? And how did she go missing for so long?
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Kal Penn
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Exclusive supply I turned off news altogether. I hate to say it, but I.
Kal Penn
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Yeah, the weight came off, but facial volume loss and dull sagging skin are making you look older. That's where the next phase of your weight loss journey comes in there's before.
Amy Robach
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To learn more, visit face after weight loss.com that's face after weight loss dot com. Continuing now with this fairly breaking story. We've been waiting to hear what might happen in the case of David and the young girl who was found dismembered and decomposing in the front trunk of his Tesla. Well, David is now officially a suspect in the investigation into her death. We still don't have it ruled as a homicide. We are waiting for the LA county medical examiner to make the determination what her cause of death was. But this is a young girl who actually really had a mysterious upbringing. There isn't a lot about her out there. We know that she was reported missing from her hometown of Lake Elsinore, California. Are you familiar with that area? I understand it's about a 90 mile drive from Los Angeles or at least from where her body was found. She was last seen on April 5, 2024. And as we reported, her brother said she was supposedly going to the movies with David and wow, it's just so ironic and sad that her body was found the day after what would have been her 15th birthday.
T.J. Holmes
Were they looking for her? I mean, I just wonder who. I think we said this at the very beginning when we heard she'd been missing so long, like who loved her? That's a kid in Southern California, a child. What are we talking about? She started going missing at 11, 12, 13.
Amy Robach
They believe she may have started talking to David online around the age of 11.
T.J. Holmes
So I mean that's just to think a kid, that's. Yeah, that just, it's tragic. Okay, it ended tragically, but it was tragic before she ever got to that Tesla.
Amy Robach
Look, she had a history of running away. According to family members, one of her, actually a cousin of hers, went on to TikTok. You know, it's interesting, people in the family have, some of them have spoken out a little bit, but she claims that she had run away at least four times before the last one in April and that she would go and live with extended family. She would go and live with an aunt or an uncle or someone other than her immediate family. But everyone who described her described her as bubbly and sweet. And look, we have a few pictures that we can go by that we can see of her. And she did look older than 13 for sure. But she did have that sweet smile. She was a, she was a young girl who had a future. It's just incredibly tragic, incredibly sad. And I don't know, I just. I have gotten more and more concerned by the lyrics I have been reading in some of his songs. They are violent. They are about being upset about a.
Kal Penn
Girl.
Amy Robach
Finding someone else or leaving him or he's even put some things on TikTok himself that were disturbing about what he would do. Ha ha ha. Joke. Lol. If he caught his girl looking at another guy. I mean, it's a little scary.
T.J. Holmes
Supposed to be art, right? Supposed to just be art. And folks are now wondering if there's more. Look, we always know this. When there is a lack of information or official information, people will fill in the blanks. And a lot of people are filling in blanks. The story has gone a little wild in a lot of areas I'm sure you've seen on the Internet, but the facts still remain. And the fact is now robes. I'm probably sure. Plenty of police officers, the moment this girl was found, had in their mind that he was their suspect.
Amy Robach
Yes, yes. And I'm. And of course they have to make sure they've checked out and exhausted all other potential suspects. But now we are talking about suspects with an S potentially here. And I am curious because we did have so many months of complete silence. No leaks, no information, nothing. I think TMZ was finding things here and there, but they were getting their information from family members, from folks who knew David, folks who knew Celeste. They weren't getting it from police. Now that they have officially gone on the record and said that David is a suspect, I'm curious if more information will be coming out quicker. They know that once they make a declaration like this or they acknowledge something like this, now the media is going to be even more hungry for details and what happens next and where this is headed. So I have a feeling this is just the beginning and we are going to be getting a lot more information in the coming days and weeks for sure. And we will, of course, make sure we pass that along to you all because this is a developing and morbid, but it is a fascinating case nonetheless and we will be on top of it. So thanks for listening to us, everybody. I'm Amy Robach alongside T.J. holmes. We will talk to you soon.
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You're almost at the finish line, but first.
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Amy Robach
A GLP one helped you lose weight, but now you're noticing unwanted facial changes.
T.J. Holmes
Yeah, the weight came off, but facial volume loss and dull sagging skin are making you look older. That's where the next phase of your weight loss journey comes in.
Amy Robach
There's before weight loss, after weight loss, and then the after.
T.J. Holmes
Yeah, help restore and refresh your facial skin and reclaim your natural looking youthful glow.
Amy Robach
To learn more, visit faceafterweightloss.com that's faceafterweightloss.com.
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This episode covers the dramatic and disturbing developments in the ongoing investigation into the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose dismembered and decomposing body was found in the trunk of a Tesla belonging to rising neo soul singer D4vd (pronounced “David,” real name: David Anthony Burke). Amy and T.J. break down the timeline, why it took months for D4vd to be named an official suspect, the known details about the victim, speculation about the nature of their relationship, and what happens next in this chilling case.
T.J. Holmes on the case’s strangeness:
Amy Robach questioning D4vd’s behavior:
Amy Robach on the victim:
T.J. Holmes on the public’s reaction:
Amy Robach on media and human nature:
Amy Robach on Celeste's life:
T.J. Holmes on the case’s future:
The conversation is serious and empathetic, with both hosts expressing bewilderment, sadness, and frustration at the circumstances of the case, balanced with journalistic caution regarding public speculation and presumption of innocence. Their language is conversational but respectful, conveying both their personal reactions and the gravity of the crime.
This episode provides a comprehensive review of the facts known so far in a disturbing case that has captured public obsession. The hosts are committed to following the story as it develops, emphasizing the tragedy of a lost teen and the bizarre ascent of a musician now embroiled in a murder investigation. They urge listeners not to jump to conclusions before the legal processes and official findings are complete, while acknowledging the deeply unsettling connections between D4vd's art, his behavior, and the details of this case.