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Was Celeste Pregnant and Did She Lie About Her Age? Unraveling the D4vd Tesla Controversy · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: Okay, we're diving deep today into something really disturbing. It's
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this intersection of like massive viral fame and just absolute tragedy.
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We're looking into the whole defoer VD Tesla homicide case.
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It's a story that really blew up online, a huge
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celebrity scandal that's unfolded over the last few weeks. The
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starting point, the really shocking moment, was back on September eighth,
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twenty twenty five, police found human remains, highly decomposed in
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the trunk of an abandoned car. And this wasn't just
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any car. It was a Tesla Model three found in
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a Hollywood Hill's impound lot. And it was quickly traced
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back to David Anthony Burke. You probably know him better
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as dfour VD. He's only twenty three huge gen Z
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artists behind massive tracks like Romantic Homicide and here with
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me just gigantic streaming numbers.
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Speaker 2: And then the story got even darker really. The remains
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were identified as Celestereevas Hernandez. She was only fifteen years
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old from Lake elsin Or, California, and crucially, she'd been
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officially missing since way back in April twenty twenty four
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So for you listening, we're trying to do here is
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well cut through all the noise. There's so much flying around.
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We need to carefully piece together, you know, how D
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four VD got so famous, the actual timeline of celeste disappearance,
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and then tackle all these wild claims, these contradictory stories online.
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But and this is key, we have to be super
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rigorous about what the police have actually confirmed versus you know,
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just speculation.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this. Then we've got a pile of
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sources here, police statements, news articles, but also like archived
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discord chats, viral tweets. It's a real mix. The big challenge,
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I think is figuring out what's real evidence and what's
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just noise or maybe even deliberate leaks.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. It's about structuring this whole thing. We should probably
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start with D four d's fame, right, like how did
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he get so big so fast, and how did that
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whole digital world maybe enable this alleged relationship. Then we
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can move into the timeline, the evidence, the really disturbing
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forensic details from the discovery, and after that, yeah, we
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definitely need to spend some serious time picking apart those
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huge rumors, the ones about pregnancy and stuff, and really
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fact check them hard against official statements.
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Speaker 1: Right. So to really get why this so hard, you
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need to grasp just how massive D forty D became.
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David Anthony Burke born in Brooklyn, two thousand and two.
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His rise wasn't just quick. It was like a blueprint
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for modern fame, not radio, not labels. Initially it was
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all algorithms, all online.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and his influences people like Frank Ocean The Weekend.
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You can hear it in his sound, that kind of moody,
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atmospheric vibe. But it wasn't just the music. Smart entrepreneurial,
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dropped out of high school at seventeen, just focus purely
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on production, started uploading low fi beats first, you know,
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music specifically designed for TikTok for YouTube edits background tracks. Basically,
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he tapped right into that aesthetic.
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Speaker 1: And that's kind of the structural thing, isn't it. He
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wasn't going through gatekeepers. He was a bedroom producer talking
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directly to his audience, unfiltered, and that connection just exploded
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with Romantic Homicide in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that track was huge, not just popular, like a
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genuine cultural moment, a billion streams maybe more now it
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just cemented him as this almost mythic figure for gen Z.
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The moody talented out his fang wasn't a slow burn.
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It was like bang, an overnight digital thing, which meant
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almost immediately he had this immense power, maybe unearned power,
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over a really young fan base.
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Speaker 1: And this is where looking back gets well chilling. The
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music video for Romantic Homicide, we know it had this
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blood soaked alter ego, themes of violence, toxic relationships. Sources
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point out it was released on October twentieth, which it
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turns out with celest twelfth birthday. That detail feels heavy.
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Speaker 2: Now, it really does. It shows how art and reality,
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especially in that superstylized celebrity world, just kind of blurred
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together when something like this happens. His whole image, right,
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the big hoodies, the kattoos, those intense lyrics about pain
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and violence he used to read as authentic, relatable. Maybe
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now every single piece is being re examined through this
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lens of potential guilt.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that scrutiny of his art. More sources
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are saying people are going back through everything he ever released.
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Speaker 2: They absolutely are lyrics that maybe seem like, you know,
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just angsty teenage stuff for artistic fiction about breakups. Now
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they're being used as evidence fueling accusations of grooming of violence.
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There's that track Rehab. People point to that one a
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lot references to conflict violence. But the real bombshell, artistically speaking,
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is that unreleased demo, the one simply titled Celeste Wow.
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Speaker 1: Just the title alone. What are the sources actually say
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is in that demo?
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Speaker 2: Well, the leap lyrics, the one circulating everywhere. They seem
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to directly feed into that huge pregnancy rumor the motive
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theory lines like I thought you said you didn't want
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no kids, and then you lied to my face and
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say it is what it is. Now, if those lyrics
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are genuinely his, and if they're about celest it changes everything.
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It potentially turns art into well maybe a confession or
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at least really chilling insight into motive.
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Speaker 1: That shift in perception is huge. How context just completely
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flips the script on art. What was maybe a moody
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song is now seen as potentially a blueprint precisely.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's shift focus now to Celesta Revas Fernandez herself,
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because her story, her background. It's absolutely critical to understanding
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the power dynamics here. Born twenty ten, Lake Elsinor, Riverside County.
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Prescribed as you know, vibrant but also quite vulnerable.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The sources say she was artistic, wanted to be
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a singer, like a lot of kids her age. She
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was on TikTok posting covers personal stuff, but there were
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vulnerabilities there too, right. The sources mentioned family issues, maybe
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some bullying at school.
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Speaker 2: That's right, family tensions, bullying, things that often push young
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people to look for connection, for validation online, and that
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combined with what seems like an early interest in older guys,
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maybe a bit naive, it created this kind of perfect storm.
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Potentially she was looking for acceptance, maybe admiration, and D
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four D's discord server that was like the VIP area
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for his fans. It probably felt like a safe direct
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line to the star she.
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Speaker 1: Looked up to, and that vulnerability it ultimately connects to
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her disappearance. She vanished April fifth, twenty twenty four. She
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was only thirteen. Her mom, Maria Hernandez, filed missing persons report,
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and this is crucial. Sources confirmed she told the police
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and later places like TMZ that Celeste had a boyfriend
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named David.
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Speaker 2: That was a first real link, wasn't it connecting this
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missing girl to this massive celebrity.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so once the police started making that connection missing
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girl boyfriend named David, famous musician David Anthony Burke, the
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focus really sharpened onto specifics like that shared tattoo.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the tattoo. That's one of the most jarring details
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in all of this. So let's have this small, quite
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distinct tattoo on her finger, and police sources confirm not
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only did that help identify the remains, which were badly decomposed,
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but it was an exact match two D four eight's
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own tattoo, same symbol right there on his right index finger.
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Speaker 1: But the timing, the timing of his tattoo is what's
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so deeply unsettling. Sources say he got that tattoo in
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September twenty twenty four. That's after she disappeared, five months after, right, And.
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Speaker 2: If you're looking at this from say a psychological angle, no,
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why why get a matching tattoo months after the person
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you allegedly had this relationship with vanishes? It could suggest
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so many things, none of them could like some kind
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of twisted memorialization or a really calculated move adopting her
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specific mark, maybe even a kind of narcissistic ownership display.
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It's not just a coincidence. It feels really suggestive of
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well continued to obsession or maybe involvement long after she
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was gone.
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to how this all started online, the
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grooming allegation, because the source is making clear this wasn't
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some random sudden thing. There's a history here.
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Speaker 2: A long history. Yeah, the digital trail, the archind evidence,
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it goes back pretty far. Celeste apparently first interacted with
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DEFOURVD online way back in twenty twenty one. She would
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have been just eleven years old then, and she wasn't
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just some random face in the crowd. She was really
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active in his discord server, like a proper superfan who
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got noticed.
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Speaker 1: And that access led to more direct personal interactions. What
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do the sources.
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Speaker 2: Show the screenshots the digital evidence recovered it paids a
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picture of things escalating, defour BD responding to her directly
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using terms like hey Celeste, pretty girl, which given her age.
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There's also that really disturbing joke where he apparently called
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her his best bodyguard. He'd kill for me. I mean
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hearing that now it's horrifying. By twenty twenty three, it
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seems pretty clear the interactions had moved way beyond just fanchat.
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It looked like a private, maybe intimate, online relationship.
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Speaker 1: And then there are those livestream clips from January twenty
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twenty four, she was thirteen. Then this takes it from
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just text on a screen to actual visual evidence potentially.
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Speaker 2: Yes, those clips, they allegedly show them physically together in
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the same room. There's one bid people focus on where
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D four seems to like physically silence her after she
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says something maybe controversial or offscript. It really suggests a
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power imbalance, right, like she had to watch what she
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said around him. And then her mom telling police about
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the secret boyfriend named David. It just ties all that
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digital stuff back to the real world disappearance.
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Speaker 1: While all this online history was being dug up, the
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police were following a much more grim trail that smell
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the abandoned car and the impound lot. That's when it
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flipped from missing person to homicide.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, September eighth, twenty twenty five, lapd gets called out
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to this impound lot in the Hollywood Hills because of
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the smell. They find the Tesla Model three, the one
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D four VD bought in twenty twenty three, and when
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they search the trunk, it's gruesome. The sources are very
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clear the remains were highly decomposed and dismembered.
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Speaker 1: That detail highly decomposed is significant. If she vanished in
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April twenty four and was found in September twenty five,
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that's a long time. What does that level of decomposition
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suggest about maybe the time of death.
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Speaker 2: Well, it strongly suggests the death likely happened much closer
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to when she disappeared in April twenty twenty four, rather
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than near the discovery date in September twenty twenty five,
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depending on the conditions inside the car trunk, of course,
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or potentially the body could have been stored somewhere else
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for a period before being moved to the car, and
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the dismemberment that plates directly towards an attempt to conceal
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the body to make identification harder, to basically obstruct the investigation.
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It suggests planning calculation, not necessarily a sudden panicked act.
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Speaker 1: Identification was confirmed with dental record and that sh tattoo
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which put D four VD right at the center of
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it all. The investigation then moved straight to his place,
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right It's a rented.
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Speaker 2: House, that's right. Sources confirmed the tesla had been abandoned
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weeks before it was found, and it was last seeniar
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D four vd's rented Hollywood Hills home. So police rated
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his place on September nineteenth. They seized electronics, computers, phones,
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clothing too. But and this is important, the specifics of
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what they found on those devices, that's all sealed by
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the court. Right now, we don't know the details.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but if the ray details are sealed, how much
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weight should we give those reports saying dfour VD is
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cooperating with police. Couldn't that just be like spin from
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his legal team to manage the public image.
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Speaker 2: That's a really sharp point. Absolutely, when evidence details are sealed,
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any claims of cooperation need to be taken with a
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grain of salt. It's often a standard legal strategy. It
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baids a picture of compliance, even if seizing his stuff
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required a warrant. What we do know for sure is
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that DFOURVD was actually on tour in Chicago when the
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body was identified, and the sources are clear his remaining
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tour dates were canceled immediately, just boom gone. The commercial
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fallout was instant and.
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Speaker 1: Severe, and his only public comment was that one cryptic tweet, right,
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take me to where I Belong, which sounds a lot
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like his own lyrics exactly.
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Speaker 2: Legally it means nothing concrete, but publicly, yeah, it was
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widely read as almost a coded admission. It just poured
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fuel on the fire online, but we had to stick
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to the facts legally speaking. As of today, September twenty third,
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twenty twenty five, no charges have been filed against him.
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Lapd is leading the homicide investigation. Riverside County Sheriff his assisting,
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but dfour VD hasn't been arrested. They're still processing forensics,
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still looking at that sealed electronic evidence.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so this is where things get really messy. You've
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got the official investigation moving slowly, carefully with sealed evidence,
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and then you have the Internet just exploding with these huge,
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really inflammatory theories providing instant motives, whether they're verified or not.
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Speaker 2: Classic, isn't it. People need answers, they need a narrative,
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and when the official facts are slow to come out,
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especially in a case the shocking involving a celebrity, the
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void gets filled with the most dramatic story available, and
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here D four Ved's own dark lyrical themes kind of
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prefit the narrative people wanted to build.
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Speaker 1: So controversy number one the alleged pregnancy and the absolutely
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horrifying claim that infant remains were also found. This seemed
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to really kick off around September nineteenth, from an ex
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user at Real Quickness claiming they had old Discord screenshots
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from twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 2: Right, let's break down those alleged leaks, because this is
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where the motive theory really took root in the public mind.
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The screenshots supposedly showed D four ved tagging a deleted
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user who people assumed was Celeste and saying something like
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kid on the way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: There were other messages about a WiFi future plans, and
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then a separate photo supposedly of Celeste's hand showing a
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David tattoo in what looked like a diamond ring.
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Speaker 1: And these leaks, combined with those Celestemo lyrics we talked about,
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the ones about unwanted kids and lies that just clicked
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for people online, the narratives became he killed her to
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hide the pregnant. It spread like wildfire.
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Speaker 2: It absolutely did, and it reached a peak when another
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user at sogidy tweeted on September twenty first, making that
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really specific claim infant remains were discovered near D forty's residents.
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They confirmed Celeste was pregnant. That tweet got massive engagement,
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thousands of likes, shared everywhere. It ended up in countless
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YouTube videos tiktoks all pushing this pregnancy motive is fact.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we have to pause here because the online noise
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on this point was deafening. What is the actual official,
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confirmed police response to that specific claim about infant remains
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in pregnancy.
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Speaker 2: The official response is crucial and it's a flat denial.
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The LAPD actually put out a specific statement on September
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twenty second. They explicitly said no confirmation of additional remains
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or pregnancy has been made. That is vital, the biggest,
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most sensational mode of driving. The online conversation is, according
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to police, unsubstantiated and beyond.
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Speaker 1: The police statement, weren't There also doubts about the discord
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leaks themselves. Sources mentioned online communities places like Reddit, calling
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them speculative fanfic. What were the red flags there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there were several technical points that raise suspicion among
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people who analyze this stuff. First, that deleted user tag
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is a bit weird. Often, even if an account is
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deleted on discord, there are still ways to trace original
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IDs or logs, especially if mods are involved. A simple
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deleted user tag can sometimes be faked. Second, some people
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noted potential inconsistencies in the timestamps sort of the image metadata,
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suggesting they might have been edited or created after the
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fact rather than being genuine old screenshots. In a case
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this huge, you always have to be wary of people
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trying to manufacture evidence, even if they think they're helping.
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It just muddies the water for the real investigation.
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Speaker 1: Right. Okay, so that's the pregnancy rumor. Then there's the
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second major controversy, which feels almost like the opposite and
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attempt to defend D four VD, the age lie claim.
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Speaker 2: It's exactly this narrative popped up mainly from his remaining fans,
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the ones trying to find some way to excuse his behavior,
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ard circulating claims that Celeste had actually lied about her age,
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pretended she was nineteen. They pointed to things like a
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supposed leaf message from one of her friends, or old
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video clips where she might have joked about her age,
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or comments about how she looked older with makeup on.
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The goal seemed to be to paint D four ve
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as the one who was deceived, trying to lessen the
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severity of the grooming aspects, the classic victim blaming tactic.
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Speaker 1: Really, but that defense didn't get much traction with the
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wider public, did it. Most people saw right through it,
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like that tweet from at them with love saying basically,
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even if she lied, she was still a child who
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was groomed and murdered. The core issue remains the power dynamic.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, legally and ethically, she looked older or she might
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have lied. Defense holds almost no water statutory rape laws,
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grooming laws. They don't care if someone looked older. And critically,
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there's evidence suggesting D forty knew how young she was.
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Go back to those twenty twenty one discord messages him
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calling her, hey, celest pretty girl. That suggests he knew
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she was young, maybe even preteen then. Plus her mother
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has consistently confirmed her age. Celestia's a child. That's the
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fundamental fact here.
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Speaker 1: And then there's even another layer. Sources mention this emerging
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also unverified theory about blackmail that Celeste's friends tried to
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extort defour v D.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another rumor swirling based on another alleged leaked
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DM and suggests maybe friends found out about the relationship
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and tried to pressure them. If we step back and
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look at all these theories, pregnancy, age lies, blackmail just
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shows how a celebrity scandal becomes this breeding ground for speculation.
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Everyone wants a motive that fits their narrative, but the
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age discussions specifically, it really does shine a light on
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those bigger issues, right, how incredibly vulnerable young people are
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online and the huge power imbalance when a celebrity can
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slide into a fan's DMS. The verifiable core remains a
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child was found dead in the car of an adult
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celebrity she'd been interacting with since she was eleven. Everything
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else is for now noise around that horrific fact.
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Speaker 1: The fallout online from this was just immediate and overwhelming.
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D Forty's fan base basically imploded. Didn't it just split
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right down the middle.
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Speaker 2: Completely fractured. Yeah, we had this huge wave of outrage
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hashtag justice force less trending with like over a million posts.
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People were demanding answers, demanding accountability. But mixed in with
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that you also saw some really disturbing stuff fan edits
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using his songs over like crime scene photos or recreations.
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It's this weird, unsettling mix of genuine mourning calls for
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justice and almost morbid entertainment cancel culture meets true crime
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fandom in a really messy way.
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Speaker 1: And the real world consequences for D four VD financially
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professionally they hit instantly too, even without charges being filed. Yeah,
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his career just seems.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it basically evaporated overnight. Spotify streams reportedly dropped by
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forty percent almost immediately after the body was identified. Retailers
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were scrambling to pull his merchandise off shells, including stuff
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like that bloody shirt design, which now just looks grotesque
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in hindsight. The entire commercial machine built around his fame
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just seized up the second these accusations became tied to
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a confirmed death.
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Speaker 1: People are drawing parallels to other big industry scandals, obviously
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cases where miners were exploited. R Kelly comes up a lot.
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But how is this different structurally? Because this seems so
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tied to modern platforms TikTok discord, it feels different from
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older industry cover ups.
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Speaker 2: That's a really important distinction. Cases like R. Kelly often
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involved a whole system right labels, managers, entourages actively shielding
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the perpetrator, enabling abuse for years within a kind of
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protective bubble. What seems different here with dfour VD is
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how decentralized it allegedly was the grooming, the relationship building.
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It supposedly happened directly through platforms like Discord, through DMS.
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It bypassed a lot of the traditional industry structure.
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Speaker 1: So the technology itself, the thing that made him famous,
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also potentially enabled the alleged harm.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, the direct Afan model removed the middleman, which artists
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love for control, but also removes potential safeguards. The power
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imbalance gets amplified because a celebrity who maybe bypassed gatekeepers
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to get famous, can also bypass accountability checks when they're
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talking privately to very young, very impressionable fans. This whole
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case really throws a harsh light on a massive blind
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spot maybe in how the industry and the platforms themselves
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handle safety, especially when artists blow up super fast with
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young audiences, the conversation has to be bigger than just
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one alleged perpetrator.
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Speaker 1: And while all this online drama swirls, we have to
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remember the actual human cost back in like Elsin or
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Celest's hometown, there is a vigil, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, over one hundred people turned out. Sources quoted one mourner,
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Rube Alonzo, just saying she deserves justice. A sweet child lost. Yeah,
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you feel the real grief there away from the online
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chaos and Celes's family they're trying to navigate this unimaginable
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loss while it's being turned into this huge public spectacle.
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Speaker 1: There was that GoFundMe for the family. It raised a
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lot like one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which shows
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genuine public sympathy. But her mother, Maria Hernandez, she basically said,
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dealing with all the viral madness just adds another layer
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of pain. Her focus is simple, my baby deserves justice.
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That's the core for them.
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Speaker 2: And this leads to something experts are really warning about now,
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this phenomenon of true crime tourism, not just people being interested,
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but the way speculation and sensationalism can actually harm the
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real case. You get these YouTube videos like that one
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title the Real Reason D four VD want It's Less Dead,
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getting millions of views, pushing unverified theories as fact. That
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kind of stuff can potentially taint witness testimony. It forces
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police to waste time debunking rumors, and it's just incredibly
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painful for the victim's family to see their tragedy turned
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into clickbait.
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Speaker 1: So wrapping your head around it. The digital age makes
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these stories explode instantly globally, which is powerful for awareness maybe,
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but that same speed just completely muddies the water. Fact
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and rumor and speculation all blend together before the actual
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investigation can even catch up. It turns a horrible crime
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into content.
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Speaker 2: Right and accountability is being demanded fiercely online in the
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court of public opinion. Dfour VD seems largely convicted already,
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but we have to keep stressing until the LAPD comes
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forward with confirmed forensic results, analysis of those sealed electronics,
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actual evidence pointing to motive and means. The path to
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legal criminal accountability is still technically unfolding. It's not proven
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in a court of law yet. Hashtag taga outro Okay.
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Speaker 1: So to pull this all together, let's just reiterate what
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we actually know from the sources the established facts. We
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know the tesla was registered to David Anthony Burke D
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four VD. We know the remains were confirmed as celestrii
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ofus Hernandez through dental records and that specific tattoo, and
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we know there's documented evidence of online interactions between them
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going back to when she was just eleven years old.
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Speaker 2: Those are the anchors, yeah, and against those anchors, we
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have to consciously weigh the unverified claims that huge pregnancy
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in infant remains rumor explicitly denied by the LAPD in
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their statement. That needs to be clear, and the age
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line defense theory. It really looks like classic victim blemming,
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especially given the evidence suggesting he knew how young she
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was from way back in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: D four vd's silence since that initial tweet, it's definitely
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speaking volumes to the public. It creates this vacuum and
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the assumption of guilt just rushes in to fill it.
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But until the police provide actual factual confirmation about motive,
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about means about criminal culpability, the full truth of what
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happened here is still tragically lost in the fog of
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this massive, chaotic viral scandal.
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Speaker 2: And maybe the final thought here, based on all these sources,
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this case feels like a really stark warning, doesn't it
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about exploitation about what can happen when huge celebrity power
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crashes into teenage vulnerability online completely unchecked. So as you
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think about this, maybe consider what real accountability looks like,
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not just for David Anthony Burke, the alleged perpetrator, but
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also for the platforms right Discord, TikTok, the places where
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these interactions started when she was just eleven. What's their
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responsibility in preventing this kind of direct, potentially harmful access
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between stars and vulnerable young fans. That's a systemic question
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we really need to grapple with long after this specific
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case fades from the headlines.