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Amy Robach
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Nicole Garcia
It may look different, but native culture is alive. My name is Nicole Garcia and on Burn Sage Burn Bridges we aim to explore that culture.
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Somewhere along the way it turned into this full fledged award winning comic shop.
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Sarah Spain
Get fired up y'.
Amy Robach
All.
Sarah Spain
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people, an incomparable soccer icon, Megan Rapinoe to the show and we had a blast. Take a listen.
Amy Robach
Sue and I were like riding the lime bikes the other day and we're like, wee.
Sarah Spain
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Bridget Todd
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T.J. Holmes
Hey there folks. It is Thursday, September 25, and the mystery deepens and the questions keep stacking up about just what was the relationship between a young girl found dead in the trunk of a car and singer David, who is the owner of that car. And with that welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. This story has kind of gone crazy online. There is so much flying around and so many rumors because there's so little official information.
Amy Robach
Actually that's correct. So we haven't really heard anything from police, only that they're investigating. And I think the big head scratcher is a few details have been sprinkling out over the last couple of days. We still don't have police on record saying the manner of death for this young woman, Celeste Rivas Hernandez. We they still haven't officially said she was murdered, although they have said her body was found not intact and so her body was dismembered.
T.J. Holmes
And anyone I have that right, that that is their. They have said that not decomposing.
Amy Robach
They've said, they've said decomposing and they said not intact. So it is absolutely come directly from police that her body was dismembered. So obviously we all understand that no one can dismember them, no one can put their body in a trunk to decompose. So obviously someone has to be responsible for the state she was in, the condition she was in and the fact that she was dead and not intact. So we all know this is a murder investigation. But it is interesting and puzzling that police won't even go so far as to say that.
T.J. Holmes
Okay, again, is this a dot in the eyes and crossing the T's situation right now? Because Robes, they have not said it's a homicide investigation officially. They have certainly not said anyone is a person of interest or a suspect of any kind.
Amy Robach
They have not. And yet we do know and they have said that the Tesla her body was found in was registered to David, the singer David. His actual name is David Anthony Burke. He's 20 years old and rising star. Huge rising star.
T.J. Holmes
Alternate. Alternate alternative R and B alternative pop or correct.
Amy Robach
It's yes, it's a kind of a sub genre and it was huge. He was getting. He had a multi million dollar contract so that was huge for him. So he was on the rise on tour when all of this happened. We also know, according to multiple news outlets who were there watching that police raided the home that he had been renting in the Hollywood hills, reportedly for $20,000 a month. But they saw police go in and take out computers and tablets, a lot of electronic and technical equipment. And then we had reports and video that we've all seen of moving trucks at that home, moving out the rest of what we believe is David's belongings. So there have been some developments. We also, this is also interesting. Police have released the remains of Celeste back to her family. They did that just yesterday. So if they don't have a cause of death, if they haven't released any details about what their investigation is even specifically, it's puzzling that they would have done what they could, I guess, in terms of investigating with her remains enough so that they could return them to her family. Her funeral is scheduled for this weekend.
T.J. Holmes
They're done examining or actually next week, October 4th. October 4th. But they are done examine. They, they release the body. That means they are done with that examination. So the only thing that would be left would be what? Toxicology, what else?
Amy Robach
So according to former district attorneys and prosecutors, they say there are a couple of things that investigators are likely doing. They will be going, they said they could actually have looked at the bone. They can actually tell if a body has been strangled, oftentimes with just your bone. They said they could be looking at all sorts of things when it comes to that. But truly at this point, they say with such a high profile case, with a high profile artist potentially implicated, and certainly people are doing that online for sure. They are wanting to make sure that they have dotted all their I's, crossed all their T's. They want to make sure that they have the evidence before they say anything further. And a lot of it is about establishing this alleged relationship between the singer David and the victim, 15 year old Celeste.
T.J. Holmes
And again online, they'll tell you it is well established, but authorities officially have not mentioned what they believe, the relationship, if there even was one. But they obviously have to look into it. We've mentioned there's just so much, this is one of those stories when there's a lack of official information. People are filling in a lot of blanks. You got a lot of Internet sleuths checking out his social media pages, checking out hers and places they've been when they could have been together and spotting them. All of that stuff is, is out there that seems to paint a picture of at least these two knew each other, the nature of that relationship.
Amy Robach
Who knows, we even have seen the fact that he has music lyrics. He has there was some leaked audio clip of a song that was named Celeste. People have leaked lyrics and certainly one of his big hits is Romantic Homicide. So people have pointed to that and started to try to read between the lines with again, his songwriting. So this has all been used against him in the court of public opinion. And if you go online, it's just. And it's, I would say, rumor after rumor and a lot of sources or friends or former friends. And look, we know what this is like. So we take these all with a grain of salt, claiming that they knew of that relationship and talked about the relationship. And this girl was 13 when she went missing. We know that for a fact. Celeste's mother said and reported her missing at the age of 13. I think she had been missing for about a year and a half when suddenly she found word or heard word about her. It's just devastating. Her daughter's body in the back of that test.
T.J. Holmes
A kid hasn't been seen since she was 13 by her family. Like, you just wonder who. I just wonder what that kid's life was like to like. There's a lot of ways a runaway kid at 13, things could go bad. Like this is the absolute worst that you could imagine. And even if you tried to imagine the worst, you wouldn't come up with this necessarily in the trunk of a car. And I've seen different reports of if she was found the day before or the day after her 15th birthday.
Amy Robach
I believe it was the day after her 15th birthday. So if obviously the state of decomposition, it looks as though she died at the age of 14. I was seeing online a lot of folks referring to her as a 14 year old. And then when you found out when her birthday was, it's heartbreaking. Her birthday comes the next day, they find her body, her decomposed body in the back of that Tesla. So she had. It looks as though she did die when she was just 14 years old.
T.J. Holmes
Again, she was found decomposed body in the back of that Tesla. Reminder of how this all started. And a reminder that that Tesla, which is registered to David Singer. David was parked not very far from the house where he was staying. And according to authorities, it had been abandoned in that spot for a month. And that's why someone called to have it towed. It was towed to a yard. A foul smell was detected after a couple of days. And that's when police got involved. But the thought robes that, I mean, I guess in all likelihood she was in the trunk for a month and that car was sitting in that same spot.
Amy Robach
That is what the speculation is. And the other issue too, because of that big time Spanish, you know, you police have to go through this particular. Who else had keys to the car? Who else had access to the car? Just because it's registered to David doesn't mean someone else couldn't have been driving it or been using it. So there's just so many. There's a big time gap, a time lapse from when he went on tour to when that Tesla was first reported. And that is a lot of the work that's going on right now. And certainly scouring through those cell phones and those computers to try and see the communications that may have occurred on all of that is being investigated right now. But it seems as though sooner rather than later, we've got to get some answers about the direction this investigation is heading. And certainly David is laying low. His reps, his publicists, none of his folks are talking now anymore. His tour has been canceled. He has. And the wild thing about this is when the body was first reported and we did not know the name or the identity of the body, it took investigators a week. That's just how bad the state of this body was in before they could actually identify the remains. He kept on touring, he did not cancel concerts until the name, the identity was revealed of this young woman.
T.J. Holmes
This is becoming a. It's getting a little out of hand. There's a bit of a frenzy online about this story and there are a lot of, I mean, things are just running wild online about this. And I just caution everybody and don't you, as you look through stuff, don't, certainly don't believe everything you read right now. Certainly we need to always keep in mind he hasn't been accused of a crime. And even if he is, he's innocent until proven guilty. And I even hate to say that because, well, I mean, no one is saying he is a. I mean, what are we supposed to piece together? The facts are what they are. Car is his, he owns it, Dead teenager in the trunk, period. Those are facts. And it's okay to probably make some assumptions or have some questions about what that means. And the first question goes to him. Do you know her? How did she end up in your trunk? And that is where the investigation has to start. After police get that answer, where do you go?
Amy Robach
Then you go into the forensics, then you go into the evidence. Then you go and you put together a timeline, you look for electronic communications between the two. And yeah, they also obviously going head to toe on that they were in the house for hours. They said obviously they're looking for blood evidence. There are so many tools, forensic tools available to these detectives to figure out where the crime scene was. So they'll be able to decide or determine if the crime scene was in that home or not, if it was in the car or not. And that's what they're trying to put together but are being tight lipped but.
T.J. Holmes
They should be able to, I don't know, do they have a time of death for this young lady? Because that's going to be key. Where was he? Maybe he has an alibi. Maybe he wasn't in town at all. Who was the last person driving that car? Did anybody else drive that car? I mean that obviously the first question is to the owner of that car. They're probing the relationship. Didn't they ask him, do you know this girl?
Amy Robach
One would hope they had. I mean, look at a certain point for him, maybe they took their time. Maybe they wanted him to not think they were onto him or that they were even suspicious of him and that might be why he continued doing his tour and thinking, oh, they don't think it's me. And then for him to abruptly stop the tour, go silent, go dark, his folks stop talking to anyone. That to me speaks volumes. That yes, I do believe a very serious dialogue is occurring and has occurred between David and the police even though they have not officially said that that happen would be a logical deduction.
T.J. Holmes
Illogical deduction. Yes. He canceled shows that we. As we mentioned he was wrapping up his US tour. Cancer. Those last couple of shows was supposed to be on tap for doing an international tour as well as. Well, all of that has been sidelined. But also shows aren't the only things that David has been losing lately.
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Jenica Lopez
In early 1988, federal agents raced to track down the gang they suspect of importing millions of dollars worth of heroin into New York from Asia.
Amy Robach
We had 30 agents ready to go with shotguns and rifles and you know David.
Jenica Lopez
But what they find is not what they expected.
Amy Robach
Basically your stay at home moms were.
Podcast Host (The Puzzler)
Picking up these Large amounts of heroin.
Amy Robach
They go, is this your daughter?
T.J. Holmes
I said, yes.
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T.J. Holmes
Her for like 25 years.
Jenica Lopez
Caught between a federal investigation and the violent gang who recruited them, the women must decide who they're willing to protect and who they dare to betray.
T.J. Holmes
Once I saw the gun, I tried.
Amy Robach
To take his hand and I saw.
Podcast Host (The Puzzler)
The flash of light.
Jenica Lopez
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Amy Robach
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T.J. Holmes
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Amy Robach
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Jacob Schick
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Amy Robach
Welcome to season two of the Good Stuff.
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Sarah Spain
Get fired up, y'.
T.J. Holmes
All.
Sarah Spain
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people and an incomparable soccer icon, Megan Rapinoe to the show and we had a blast. We talked about her recent 40th birthday celebrations, Co hosting a podcast with her fiance sue, bird watching former teammates retire and more. Never a dull moment with Pino. Take a listen. What do you miss the most about being a pro athlete?
Jenica Lopez
The final.
Sarah Spain
The final and the locker room.
Amy Robach
I really, really like you. Just, you can't replicate.
Sarah Spain
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Amy Robach
Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.
T.J. Holmes
All right, folks, we continue now talking about singer David canceling his shows, canceling his tour, and right now laying low as the investigation continues after the body of a 15 year old girl was found decomposing in the trunk of a car that was registered to him out in Southern California robes. It makes sense. Everybody is distancing themselves from him. He had some pretty major collaborators. Wasn't it Crocs?
Amy Robach
It was Crocs was. And it was a Crocs collab that he was in. And really after there was even a mention of a body in his car, they immediately took down all of the ads, all of the photos and replaced him with a different model. So that was, that was done almost immediately, I think it was. What was the other one? It was Crocs and I'm trying to remember Hollister, Hollister and Crocs. That was the collab that they did together. And also he obviously canceled all of his tours. That is an incredibly expensive endeavor to cancel all of your shows. He, he had a European leg coming up, I believe as well. And you know the Hollywood Hills rental home that he was in, the owner has been speaking out and did tell this to some media outlets that he has external security cameras so that there are cameras set up that get everyone coming and going. And he said he doesn't have access to them, but the police certainly do. So there very well could be some significant evidence if anything could have been caught on camera. The homeowner says it would have been caught. So that will be of note as well because at some point, we don't know how and where her body got into that trunk. But if there were cameras nearby or security cameras rolling in any way, shape or form, sure, you can be sure that police are looking through those right now.
T.J. Holmes
Man, what happened to that girl? What happened to that girl? Again, folks, we just caution, be careful. There's a lot out there. Careful what you believe and also careful what you repeat. On this story. There is a family, I guess robes that are. That's planning a funeral that's devastated right now. I guess it's been devastated for a while, not knowing where their loved one was all this time. So I don't know what that. Were they in contact at all? Had she called them by phone, had completely cut off? Had they stopped looking for.
Amy Robach
They said she had been reported missing three separate times. And think about it again, she was 13 years old. She did look much older. And there are a lot of reports that she did pass herself off as much older. So that, you know. But you have to like, actually remember how old this little girl was. She was a little girl. She was 13. Sabine's 12. I mean, this almost 13. I mean, that is a little girl. And to think that, yes, you're to not know is a horrific fate. But to find out that she. Her life ended the way it did is just horrific. I cannot imagine what that poor family is going through. And then to have all of the publicity surrounding and all the questions surrounding her death on top of them as well. But yes, October 4th is when her funeral, her memorial service has been scheduled. Now that they do have her remains back home with them.
T.J. Holmes
Folks, this is one we will keep an eye on as we wait for more possible official word from authorities on this one. But for now, we wait. And for now, on behalf of Ms. Amy Robach, I'm T.J. holmes. We'll talk to y' all soon.
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Podcast Host (The Puzzler)
Let'S start with a quick puzzle. The answer is Ken Jennings appearance on the puzzler with A.J. jacobs. The question is what is the most entertaining listening experience in podcast land? Jeopardy Truthers believe in?
iHeartRadio Announcer
I guess they would be conspiracy theorists.
Podcast Host (The Puzzler)
That's right.
iHeartRadio Announcer
They give you the answers and you still blew it.
Podcast Host (The Puzzler)
The Puzzler listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Nicole Garcia
It may look different, but native culture is alive. My name is Nicole Garcia and on Burnsage Burned Bridges we aim to explore.
iHeartRadio Announcer
Somewhere along the way it turned into this full fledged award winning comic shop.
Nicole Garcia
That's Dr. Lee Francis IV who opened the first native comic book shop. Explore his story along with many other native stories on the show. Burn Sage, Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage, Burn bridges on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Sarah Spain
Get fired up, y'.
T.J. Holmes
All.
Sarah Spain
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people, an incomparable soccer icon Megan Rapin, to the show and we had a blast. Take a listen.
Amy Robach
Sue and I were like riding the lime bikes the other day and we're like wee like this. People ride bikes because it's fun.
Sarah Spain
We got more incredible guests like Megan in store, plus news of the day and more. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Brought to you by Novartis, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports Network.
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The Internet is something we make, not just something that happens to us.
Bridget Todd
I'm Bridget Todd, host of the Tech and Culture Pod. There are no girls on the Internet. In our new season, I'm talking to people like Anil Dash, an OG entrepreneur and writer who refuses to be cynical about the Internet.
iHeartRadio Announcer
I love tech. You know, I've been a nerd my whole life, but it does have to be for something like it's not just.
T.J. Holmes
For its own sake.
Bridget Todd
It's an inspiring story that focuses on people as the core building blocks of the Internet. Listen to There are no girls on the Internet on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
Amy Robach
This is an iHeart podcast.
Podcast: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present
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Episode Date: September 26, 2025
In this deeply unsettling episode, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes dissect the rapidly developing case involving the discovery of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's dismembered body in the trunk of a Tesla registered to rising music star d4vd (David Anthony Burke). The hosts examine the facts, public speculation, and open questions surrounding the ongoing police investigation, noting the lack of official details and the rampant rumors circulating online.
Amy and T.J. address the material with sensitivity, underscoring both the need for patience as the investigation unfolds and the caution required by anyone following or discussing the story. Their tone is a mixture of incredulity at the disturbing details, frustration over the lack of official clarity, and empathy for the victim’s family. Throughout, they remind listeners to distinguish facts from rumor and to avoid jumping to conclusions until law enforcement provides further information.
Summary prepared for listeners who have not heard or cannot listen to the full episode. All timestamps are approximate based on the published transcript.