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Singer D4vd Heads to Preliminary Hearing on Special-Circumstance Murder Charges | Crime Alert 07.13.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvoni.
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  Speaker 1: A major legal update out of downtown Los Angeles, where
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  Speaker 1: a judge has decided that the high profile murder case
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  Speaker 1: involving twenty one year old singer David whose real name
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  Speaker 1: is David Anthony Burke, will move forward toward a preliminary
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  Speaker 1: hearing starting July twenty first. Burke appeared at a twelve
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  Speaker 1: minute status hearing Tuesday. Defense attorney Blair Burke previously stated
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  Speaker 1: the evidence will show Burke did not murder fourteen year
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  Speaker 1: old Celeste Revas Hernandez. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's
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  Speaker 1: Office has not yet decided whether to pursue capital punishment.
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  Speaker 1: DA Nathan Hotchman noted these are the most serious charges possible,
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  Speaker 1: first degree murder with special circumstances continue with sexual acts
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  Speaker 1: and loot acts with a minor under fourteen. Burke stands
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  Speaker 1: accused of killing Celeste at a home in the Hollywood Hills.
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  Speaker 1: Court records say the teen was last seen April twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, when she went to Burke's home home
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  Speaker 1: and was stabbed multiple times. Prosecutors alleged Burke callously stood
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  Speaker 1: by as she bled out. On September eighth, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: her dismembered body was found inside the front trunk of
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  Speaker 1: a Tesla at a Los Angeles tow yard. Prosecutors alleged
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  Speaker 1: Burke killed Hernandez after she threatened to expose an illegal
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  Speaker 1: sexual relationship that could have damaged his music career. Having
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  Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty to first degree murder, sexual abuse, and
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  Speaker 1: unlawful mutilation, Burke faces special circumstance allegations of murdering a
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  Speaker 1: witness and murder for financial gain. He remains held without
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  Speaker 1: bail for the upcoming hearing, which is expected to last
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  Speaker 1: three to five days. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: In Washington State, eight months after a woman was found
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  Speaker 1: dead in her apartment, her husband has been officially charged
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  Speaker 1: with her murder, court record show thirty year old software
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  Speaker 1: engineer Ava Nash Narn was charged July first with first
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  Speaker 1: murder in the October twenty twenty five death of his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Rajita Sabinini. Narn is currently held on five million dollars
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  Speaker 1: bail and pleaded not guilty on July seventh. The King
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  Speaker 1: County Prosecuting Attorney's office alleges the engineer from India strangled
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  Speaker 1: his wife and staged the scene to appear as if
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  Speaker 1: he had just returned from running errands to find her
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  Speaker 1: missing from the couch. Local authorities responded to the couple's
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  Speaker 1: Bellevue apartment on October twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, after
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  Speaker 1: Narn called nine one one reporting his wife was locked
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom and unresponsive. First responders forced open the door,
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  Speaker 1: finding Sabinini on the floor. Despite life saving efforts, she
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  Speaker 1: died from strangulation. Investigators alleged Narn called the medical examiner
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  Speaker 1: multiple times the next day seeking updates. During his initial
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  Speaker 1: police interview, Narn stated they entered an arranged marriage in
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  Speaker 1: June twenty twenty five and moved in together the following month.
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  Speaker 1: He claimed he left the apartment to buy medicine and
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  Speaker 1: ice cream, denying he killed his wife. However, electronic door
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  Speaker 1: lock records revealed no one entered the home while he
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  Speaker 1: was out, and investigators found the bathroom door could be
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  Speaker 1: locked from the outside. Last month, authorities obtained a warrant
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  Speaker 1: for Narn's phone records, revealing a secret romantic relationship with
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  Speaker 1: a woman in India whom he was previously engaged to
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Despite text proof, Narn claimed she
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  Speaker 1: was just a friend. Investigators found he continued proclaiming his
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  Speaker 1: love to her, calling her multiple times on the day
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  Speaker 1: of the murder and continuing the next day. Prosecutors alleged
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  Speaker 1: Narn deleted a message right after the crime, which they
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  Speaker 1: suspect was a photo of Sabinini's body. Narn is expected
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  Speaker 1: back in court on July twenty third. In Ohio, an
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  Speaker 1: attorney representing a mother accused of child in dangerment after
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  Speaker 1: sixteen children were found living in squalid conditions as pushing
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  Speaker 1: back against authorities claims. Thirty three year old Elizabeth Siders
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  Speaker 1: was arrested June thirtieth, along with her husband, Gary Siders Junior,
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  Speaker 1: and his parents. Each faces sixteen counts of child and
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  Speaker 1: dangerment and is pleaded not guilty. Bonds were said at
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  Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars each, though the elder Gary Siders
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  Speaker 1: may be released for medical treatment. State Attorney General Andy
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  Speaker 1: Wilson described the Vinton County home as deplorable and pure evil,
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  Speaker 1: alleging the children aged eighteen months to eighteen years, were
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  Speaker 1: confined to a small room filled with human feces, lacked
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  Speaker 1: schooling and required urgent medical care. However, speaking to local
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  Speaker 1: station WBNS, defense attorney Thomas Staley rejected these claims, clarifying
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  Speaker 1: the children's freedom of movement inside the homes.
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  Speaker 2: Been no evidence to suggest that there were any restraints
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  Speaker 2: in the home, that that the children were locked or
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  Speaker 2: forced to remain in the twelve by twelve room. I
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  Speaker 2: think this is one of the things that's been really
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  Speaker 2: sensationalized on the internet.
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  Speaker 1: Stolly heavily criticized public statement officials, arguing they violate the
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  Speaker 1: family's presumption of innocence. He notes, Elizabeth shows no malice
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  Speaker 1: and simply wanted a large family.
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  Speaker 2: What she's told me repeatedly is that she and Gary
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  Speaker 2: wanted a big family. I don't know if they wanted
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  Speaker 2: a family that was this big, but they repeatedly said.
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  Speaker 2: She's repeatedly said to me that she wanted a big family.
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  Speaker 2: She said that kids are a gift from God.
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  Speaker 1: While child welfare officials of taking custody of the children,
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  Speaker 1: court records show Elizabeth and Gary were married in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eight, when she was fifteen and he was eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: with their first child born two months later. Stally filed
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  Speaker 1: emotion for her release on her own recognizance, stating she
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  Speaker 1: cannot afford bond, is not a flight risk, and wants
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  Speaker 1: only to reunite with her children. For more crime and
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  Speaker 1: now streaming on tub with this crime alert, I'm Sidney
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  Speaker 1: Silvanni