Transcript
A (0:00)
This is an I heart podcast, guaranteed human bombshell. Tonight, a star musician, multimillionaire musician, D4VD, aka David Anthony Burke, watches while Celeste Rivas, 13, a little schoolgirl, 13, bleeds in a hidden kiddie pool while he stands there and watches. Good evening, I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. This little girl, partially skeletonized, her left eye gone.
B (0:50)
We don't know why they wanted to keep it secret for so long.
A (0:53)
When I read this, I felt nauseous. I got hot all over, over. Because I think of Celeste as that little girl. Repeat. I have just reviewed the people's brief regarding preliminary evidence, Estate vs. David Anthony Burke. And I've got to tell you, I prosecuted a lot of homicides. I've handled cases where bodies were rendered. All sorts of cases this beyond practically anything I've ever seen. Joining me, an all star panel to make sense of what we are learning, straight out to Joseph Scott Morgan. He is a professor of forensics, Jacksonville State University, is the author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. He's the star of a hit podcast series, Body Bags with Jo Scott Morgan. But most important, he is a death investigator with over 10,000 death scenes under his belt. Did you read this? That's a yes. No. Yes. No. Did you read it?
C (1:58)
Yes. Yes. Yes. I sure did.
A (2:02)
Okay. I really don't know where to start, but can we start with he D4VD? David Anthony Burke stands by. Remember the other night I was talking to you and I said, you know, what we are learning is that there are tiny fragments, microscopic fragments of blue plastic in her body, in the cuts on her body. And we were talking. Where did that come from? What could it be? Now we know that SOB plays this girl in a kitty pool. I just. It's more than I can take in.
C (2:46)
Yeah, I'm glad that you're using the term bleed out, because let me explain something to you real quick. The injury, which in my opinion, and I think that the ME corner holds this opinion as well, is the lethal injury here is going to be the liver. Nancy, if you sustain trauma to the liver, I've seen this with stab wounds, gunshot wounds and motor vehicle accidents. It is not a quick death. This is an agonizing death. The liver is very vascular. Next to the brain, it is the most vascular organ in the body. And so as she was laying there, having had this happen to her, where she is attacked with this weapon, and they're not being very specific here, we know it's sharp Nancy, she would have bled out, or exsanguinated is a fancy term, but bled out into her abdomen. And it. It's not one of these things like a gunshot wound, all right, to the head or something like that. That. That's not what we're talking about here. It would have been a slow, agonizing death. That she would have gone through that experience specifically is enough to send a chill up and down your spine.
