Latest / True Crime with Gavin Fish / D4vd Arrested, But What Took So Long? | Murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
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- 0:01Got to say I was pretty excited last night.
- 0:04I was working away click clacking away with the old
- 0:06keyboard here in the Home Office when I saw the AP news story
- 0:12come through that David Burke, David Anthony Burke, known as
- 0:17David, spelled with a four. Apparently, having not heard the
- 0:20Weird Al song and not knowing that he's not supposed to do
- 0:24that unless he's 7 or he's Prince has been arrested.
- 0:31Arrested. Why has he been arrested?
- 0:35He's been arrested in the investigation of the murder of
- 0:41this young woman who let's let's put it in perspective, OK?
- 0:47This is a 7th grader, 7th grade. When she went missing, she was a
- 0:537th grader and she her body was found in the front trunk of a
- 1:01Tesla automobile either owned or leased by this guy right here,
- 1:07an adult man, a young adult man, an adult man nonetheless.
- 1:12And for months we have been wondering, oh, like, what is
- 1:20going on and why hasn't there been and arrest?
- 1:23And last night it finally happened, but it was announced
- 1:26in the strangest way, I think in keeping with fine LAPD
- 1:33tradition. They're like, hey, we've
- 1:36arrested him. We'll get to like sending the
- 1:39file over to the DA next week. I don't know, guys, I'm in a
- 1:44mood. I'm in a mood.
- 1:47I'm a little tired. I'm a little cranky, a little
- 1:49grouchy, though this is good news.
- 1:51Why am I tired and cranky and grouchy?
- 1:53It's because this week was tax week.
- 1:57That's what it is. It's because this week was tax
- 2:00week and I just, I just, I just hate, I hate filing taxes.
- 2:05Why do I have to pay taxes and then tell you everything that I
- 2:11paid and I don't? It's just tiring.
- 2:15It's just tiring. So, yeah, I'm in a mood tonight.
- 2:19Maybe maybe Wanda has something that can cheer me up.
- 2:22Wanda, maybe cue something up. Maybe get ready for it.
- 2:25Yeah. OK, good.
- 2:27Wanda is going to is here. She's going to help me out.
- 2:29Javi is professionally toggling toggles, pulling levers,
- 2:34switching switches, pushing the occasional button.
- 2:39We're going to be covering this case, course case of Celeste
- 2:45Rivas Hernandez. And then we are actually, I've
- 2:49got some documents in this case that we've never talked about
- 2:52that give some information that maybe we haven't really dug
- 2:56into. Let's talk a little bit about
- 2:58why maybe it's taking so long for the LAPD to make an arrest,
- 3:04why the investigative grand jury, that whole thing.
- 3:08And but we'll go through those documents.
- 3:11They've been out there, but I don't think we've talked about
- 3:13them here on the channel. That and we have three
- 3:15questions. We have true crime headlines.
- 3:16We're going to talk about Amy Hilliard, Anna Kepner, Tyler
- 3:19Robinson, Spencer and Monique Tepi and maybe the stupid
- 3:24criminal of the decade as reported on crime COD.
- 3:28And then we've got a little good news.
- 3:30So as they say, we got 10 gallons of show and only a 5
- 3:35gallon bucket. So I hope you'll stick with me.
- 3:51This video contains mature themes and discussions intended
- 3:54only for adult audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
- 4:00Hello there, my friends. We're starting out with this
- 4:03comment from Just Call Me Kim P Just Say it Gavin Frank.
- 4:09I know no, Oh, I hate that. And and you know what?
- 4:15It was not my car. It was a company car, But when
- 4:18we lived back in Northern California, from time to time, I
- 4:21would drive a Tesla Model S and I just hated the kitchiness.
- 4:26I love the car fact. One of my like childhood friends
- 4:31was an early engineer at Tesla and brought, I mean brought so
- 4:36much to the world in terms of technology and everything.
- 4:41So it's like I'm a fan, but I'm not going to say a frunk I hate.
- 4:47I'll say front trunk. I'll say front trunk.
- 4:51And that reminds me, I don't, I don't know if I should say this.
- 4:55I don't know if I should say this.
- 4:57Oh no, I'm not going to. But my wife has a term that she
- 5:03uses with the word front in it that is both hilarious and
- 5:09conjures some of my funniest memories of raising little
- 5:14children. I'm not going to say it, but but
- 5:18every time, every time I hear front trunk, I'm just like, oh,
- 5:26I'm sorry. No, front trunk is fine.
- 5:28No, front trunk isn't even fine. Frunk is the worst though.
- 5:31It's the absolute worst. Well, hello there, my friends.
- 5:34Welcome back to another true crime conversation with me,
- 5:38Gavin Fish. Thank you for being here.
- 5:45Thank you for tuning in. Wherever you're tuning in from,
- 5:49please tell me in the comments where you are.
- 5:52I, I love that part of it. And if you are new here, you're
- 5:56into truth crime, but you like to cut past the sensationalism,
- 6:01the fluff, you're in the right place.
- 6:03Occasionally, though, I do, I do the occasional tangent.
- 6:07That's just something that I do. OK, What case are we talking
- 6:15about? We are talking mostly tonight
- 6:19about the case of missing. She was a missing 7th grader
- 6:25from Lake Elsinore, CA. She went missing and showed up
- 6:30in the orbit of this man, a man named David Anthony Burke, who
- 6:38is about six years older than her, something like that, about
- 6:42sixish years older than her. But the difference, of course,
- 6:46is that she is a child and he is a man.
- 6:48He he is exactly 50%. Not exactly.
- 6:52My math is horrible. Javi, can you check my math?
- 6:55Javi's not a mathematician either, everybody.
- 6:58He's roughly 50% older than this young lady, right?
- 7:03Just it's, it's creepy and weird.
- 7:08And what makes it even creepier is the fact that her dead body
- 7:13showed up in the trunk of his Tesla.
- 7:17And ever since what was that? September 8th, September 8th,
- 7:23October, November, December, January, February, March, April.
- 7:26So 7:00-ish months we've been waiting for an arrest.
- 7:34I think it's all been kind of like dead body decomposing in
- 7:41his car. Maybe an arrest is in order.
- 7:45Don't want to jump to any conclusions, but that didn't
- 7:48seem like a wide abysmal leap to make.
- 7:52It seemed pretty just Yeah, let's go ahead and do this.
- 7:58So why don't we start off by reading this article from the AP
- 8:04written by Andrew Dalton just to kind of get us into this.
- 8:08We're going to. We're going to ease into this.
- 8:10I feel like dancing, guys. I'm in a mood, man.
- 8:14Can you tell I'm in a mood? Wanda, Wanda.
- 8:20Wanda. Wanda.
- 8:21Wanda. Wanda.
- 8:21Do you have any, any music that we might be able to just kind of
- 8:25like, get our spirits up to? Yeah.
- 8:30I like this one. This is a good tune.
- 8:38OK, thank you, Wanda. That helped.
- 8:41I'm I'm in a mood, guys. All right.
- 8:45Written by Andrew Dalton for AP Dateline, Los Angeles singer
- 8:50David has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14 year
- 8:55old girl. Javi, you're going to have a
- 8:58hard editing job later on when we have to upload the live
- 9:02stream to Spotify, where it then is distributed out to wherever
- 9:10people get their podcasts. But if you're a Spotify premium
- 9:14video person and you're in the rewatch crew, that's a great
- 9:16place to watch it. I'm just saying there's a link
- 9:18in the description. Javi, you're going to have a
- 9:20hard time. I'm.
- 9:22I'm in a mood. I'm in a mood.
- 9:23OK, take two. Dateline Los Angeles singer
- 9:28David has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14 year
- 9:32old girl whose decomposed body was found seven months ago and
- 9:36his apparently abandoned Tesla, authorities said Thursday.
- 9:41David's lawyers declared his innocence as they should, as is
- 9:46appropriate, because as you guys know, in the land of the free,
- 9:52the home of the brave, the land of golden fields of grain,
- 9:57whatever it's called, we are innocent until proven guilty.
- 10:02Los Angeles police said in a brief statement, I'll say it was
- 10:05brief, that homicide detectives arrested the 21 year old Houston
- 10:09born alt pop singer whose name is David Burke on suspicion of
- 10:14murder in the investigation of killing and of the killing of
- 10:17Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Defense attorney Blair Burke,
- 10:22Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter responded in an e-mail
- 10:26quote, Let us be clear. Hey, I, I just want to, I, I
- 10:32want to, I want to give you a heads up on something.
- 10:36OK, Now this is a bit of a tangent.
- 10:41It's, it's a bit of a tangent. Let's let's let's queue.
- 10:52Yes, definitely, definitely a bit of a tangent.
- 10:55Listen, when anybody says any variation of let us be clear,
- 11:03let me be clear. Let's be clear.
- 11:05I want to be clear. I want clarity on this.
- 11:10They're lying, OK? They're they, this is a phrase
- 11:15that it is designed to let them think a little bit and make them
- 11:19sound like they're being purposeful and they're they're
- 11:22lying, OK? Usually this comes from like and
- 11:27I'm sorry, I'm usually apolitical, but I, I will, I
- 11:31will keep it agnostic, OK? They can be Democrats,
- 11:34Republicans, Tories. I can't think of any other like
- 11:40Labor. They, they, I can't think of any
- 11:43other parties. They could be whatever.
- 11:46They could be a president, a congressperson, an MPA,
- 11:51whatever, a lawyer. Let me be clear.
- 11:55Lie OK, You're about to hear a lie.
- 12:02I I hate I hate that this, this phrase let me be clear or let us
- 12:07be clear ranks right up there with me with I do apologize who
- 12:14says I do apologize. Nobody says I do apologize
- 12:18except for people who are apologizing when they don't want
- 12:22to be or they don't they don't really feel like they are
- 12:25apologizing. People who apologize say I'm
- 12:28sorry. People who just go through the
- 12:32motions of trying to apologize say I do apologize.
- 12:38OK, that's Gavin the tangent man.
- 12:43OK, let us be clear. Lie.
- 12:46The actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did
- 12:50not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the
- 12:54cause of her death. Close quote.
- 13:01The opinions expressed are those of the host only.
- 13:04OK, It's just an opinion. Let us be clear.
- 13:07Lie. Beep red flag.
- 13:11Red flag. OK.
- 13:12Continuing the article, police said investigators would present
- 13:15a case to prosecutors at the Los Angeles County District
- 13:18Attorney's Office on Monday. The office said in its own
- 13:22statement that it is aware of the arrest and its Major Crimes
- 13:26Division will review the case to determine whether there's enough
- 13:29evidence to file charges. How interesting the way this is
- 13:35couched. OK, look, I don't know, it's my
- 13:42mood. Let me just cut through the bull
- 13:45crap here, OK? The LAPD works in tandem with
- 13:50the DA's office. They would not have made an
- 13:52arrest without the without the district attorney's office.
- 13:57OK, So this whole thing of like, hey, we're going to send this to
- 14:00the DA on Monday and the Monday saying we'll, we'll definitely
- 14:03take a look. We'll we'll give it the old
- 14:05gandaroo. We'll give it the college try.
- 14:09It's so stupid. Why do we have to go?
- 14:12Wanda, I need help. I need help.
- 14:17Just just something just. Yeah.
- 14:20OK. Calm it down, Kevin.
- 14:27Yeah. Oh, that's calmly.
- 14:29That is calmly. I just don't know why we need to
- 14:32go through this, this kabuki theater.
- 14:34OK. Quote, There has been no
- 14:38indictment returned by any grand jury in this case and no
- 14:41criminal complaint filed. David has only been detained
- 14:44under suspicion. Oh, oh, these are defense
- 14:48lawyers talking. We will vigorously defend
- 14:51David's innocence, the defense lawyers added.
- 14:55OK, again, OK, this is this is a truth that deceives, right?
- 15:02No indictment returned by any grand jury, true.
- 15:05No criminal complaint filed, true.
- 15:08He has only been detained under suspicion.
- 15:12I mean, detention I guess is true, but LAPD saying he's
- 15:16arrested, I mean, this may be a semantic difference, but to the
- 15:22common reader, which would include me, there's a difference
- 15:27between the police detaining somebody and police arresting
- 15:32somebody. A detention is typically done
- 15:35because there is there is some some probable cause or what do
- 15:48they call it? Justifiable suspicion,
- 15:50articulable suspicion that that there was a crime being
- 15:54committed and there has to be an investigation.
- 15:56An arrest has to hurdle the probable cause hurdle, right?
- 16:02So he's only been detained under suspicion.
- 16:07OK, OK. Continuing the article.
- 16:11It was their first public statement on the case.
- 16:14Authorities did not publicly name Burke as a suspect until
- 16:17his arrest. He was being held in jail
- 16:21without bail. The singer had been I'm I'm
- 16:30curious about the whole without bail thing.
- 16:31Is it because of the seriousness of the charge?
- 16:35Because they're, they're saying no charges have been filed.
- 16:39But a judge would have to rule on the no bail thing, right?
- 16:43Man, if you are an expert on this, if you live in Los Angeles
- 16:47County, you're a lawyer, former lawyer, practicing lawyer,
- 16:50repentant lawyer, you know, recovering lawyer, however you
- 16:55want to put it. I, I would love your commentary
- 16:59on this about wait a minute, it's held without bail.
- 17:02It's a judge that sets or denies bail but charges haven't been
- 17:07filed. How?
- 17:10I don't OK continuing the article, man.
- 17:14I am belaboring this, am I not? The singer had been under
- 17:17investigation by an LA County grand jury looking into the
- 17:20death of Rivas Hernandez. The probe was officially secret,
- 17:24but its existence and the designation of David as its
- 17:28target was revealed on February 25th when his mother, father and
- 17:32brother filed an objection in a Texas court to subpoenas
- 17:35demanding they testify. We're going to read one of
- 17:38those, well, a couple pages of the of documents that came out
- 17:42of that lawsuit. The long dead body of Rivas
- 17:47Hernandez. Let's bring her up, was found in
- 17:50a Tesla toad from the Hollywood Hill, Hollywood Hills on
- 17:55September 8th, a day after she would have turned 15.
- 17:59She was a 13 year old 7th grader when her family reported her
- 18:03missing in 2024 from her hometown of Lake Elsnor, about
- 18:0870 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
- 18:13Authorities gave her ages 14 when she was killed.
- 18:16In court documents, the Tesla Model Y was registered in the
- 18:23singer's name at the Texas address of his subpoenaed family
- 18:27members. I thought it was a Tesla Model
- 18:29X. Does it this matter?
- 18:32Probably not, but let me just Model X and then Tesla Model Y
- 18:43OK, OK, maybe it is. Maybe it was.
- 18:47AY, OK. I just need to just need to get
- 18:49over that. It's OK.
- 18:50Gavin. The Tesla was registered in the
- 18:56singer's name at the Texas address of his subpoenaed family
- 18:59members, according to court filings from prosecutors.
- 19:02It had been towed from an upscale neighborhood in the
- 19:05Hollywood Hills where it had been sitting, seemingly
- 19:08abandoned. Police investigators searching
- 19:11the Tesla in a tow yard found a cadaver bag.
- 19:15We're going to get into this. It wasn't.
- 19:17It wasn't just like plastic garbage bags because they
- 19:21described the zipping. OK Found a cadaver bag.
- 19:26Quote. Covered with insects and a
- 19:29strong odor of decay. Close quote Court documents said
- 19:33and quote detectives partially unzipped the bag and observed A
- 19:37decomposed head and torso. close quote Investigators from the Los
- 19:43Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office removed the
- 19:46bag and discovered the arms and legs had been severed from the
- 19:50body, according to court documents.
- 19:52We're going to look at this document.
- 19:54A second bag was found under the 1st and dismembered body parts
- 19:58were inside it. No cause of death has been
- 20:01publicly revealed, and I'm curious if that's going to be
- 20:04unsealed soon. David spelled D4, VD pronounced.
- 20:09David gained popularity among Generation Z fans for his blend
- 20:13of indie rock, R&B and lofi pop. He went viral on Tiktok in 2022
- 20:19with a hit Romantic Homicide. Which peaked at #4 on
- 20:23Billboard's Hot Rock and Alternative Songs chart.
- 20:26He then signed with Darkroom and Interscope Records and released
- 20:30his debut EP Pedals to Thorns and a follow up The Lost Pedals
- 20:35in 2023. When the body was discovered,
- 20:38David had been on tour in support of his first full length
- 20:41album, Withered. Later, the last two North
- 20:44American shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles, along with the
- 20:47scheduled performance at L as Grammy Museum, were cancelled,
- 20:52as was the European Tour that was to have begun in Norway.
- 20:56You know what just occurred to me?
- 20:59First, let's bring up Celeste. I haven't checked in to see
- 21:05where you guys are joining me from.
- 21:09I thought for a minute that Sharky was in Sweden, but Nope,
- 21:12she's just got Swedish candy. Glad you are here, Sharky.
- 21:16I just refreshed. Let me get back up here.
- 21:19Toe is in the sand is coming to us from sunny Florida.
- 21:24I am What I create is watching from Newcastle, Australia.
- 21:27We got Tracy from Prague. Good to see you again.
- 21:31Detroit is in the house, Colorado in the house.
- 21:34Jacksonville, FL is here. Erie, PA is here.
- 21:41Erie, PA Nashville. Country Music City USA is with
- 21:45us. Sunny Ohio is checking in.
- 21:49Thank you very much. Yeah.
- 21:53Jules and me. 11 years old. So he was 17.
- 21:56It's wrong. Just typing it makes me feel
- 21:58icky. Yeah, it is.
- 21:59It's it's icky. Ohio in the house.
- 22:07Scotch's mom says. Gavin, let me be perfectly
- 22:09clear. That quote goes all the way back
- 22:11to 1 Richard M Nixon. I bet it.
- 22:13I bet it went. It goes further back than that,
- 22:17but it definitely makes it at least there.
- 22:21Tracy Burns says, I teach English and I do not see
- 22:24anything wrong with I apologize. I don't see anything wrong with
- 22:26I apologize either. What I see something wrong with
- 22:29is people saying I do apologize. It's a, it's a customer service
- 22:34way of saying, hey, I'm not really sorry, but I'm supposed
- 22:37to apologize. So, Sir, I do apologize for the
- 22:41inconvenience. Madam, I do apologize that that
- 22:46whatever, we wrecked your car or we won't repair your car.
- 22:50I do apologize for that. Drives me crazy, Jules and me.
- 22:55Or let me be clear, I did not have sexual relations with that
- 22:58woman. Not one time.
- 22:59Yep, exactly. You guys get it.
- 23:02You guys get it. Think court dots, say XI.
- 23:09Think it is a Tesla Model X. We shall see.
- 23:18Let's see. OK.
- 23:19Barry Cox, Laurie Val's dad, although he didn't believe we
- 23:23should have to pay taxes and he didn't, Wrote a book and sued
- 23:26the IRS. Yeah, I I don't go that far.
- 23:29I I just pay the taxes and I file them.
- 23:31I just hate it. I just I, I I hate the
- 23:34rigmarole. Why do we have to go through all
- 23:36that? Let's see.
- 23:39Scotch's mom, Gavin, please go back and watch last night's dual
- 23:42stream with Joel from Surviving the Survivor and Josh Ritter
- 23:45from Courtroom Confidential. 2 friends of mine when they broke
- 23:47the news. It will answer a lot of your
- 23:50questions regarding no bail. OK, well, OK.
- 23:54Put it. Put it in here so I don't have
- 23:56to do the work. You do the work.
- 24:00I'm just playing with you. Scotch's mom.
- 24:02Wyoming here. West Point, UT's here.
- 24:08Let's see what else we got. I think, I think we got
- 24:10everybody OK. Thanks so much for checking in
- 24:12guys. I appreciate it.
- 24:14All right, let us go, shall we, to this here document.
- 24:21I want to give credit where credit is due.
- 24:23Steve Fisher released this on his on his ex account months ago
- 24:32and well, not month of February, in February, so I guess months
- 24:35ago. And it was part of 151 pages of
- 24:42filing in Texas courts. And it is a petition for one of
- 24:49the witnesses. And there were like 4 copies of
- 24:56this in that in that file. But it gives us some information
- 24:59here that that the AP reported on.
- 25:01OK, when was this filed? Give me a second.
- 25:05I think it should be here. So January 15th of 2026 is when
- 25:09this was filed. All right.
- 25:11To the honorable, and this is from Nathan Hochman, District
- 25:16Attorney, at least from his office.
- 25:19OK. To the Honorable Craig Richmond,
- 25:22Judge of the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, State
- 25:24of California, the undersigned Deputy District Attorney of the
- 25:28County of Los Angeles, State of California, pursuant to the
- 25:31provisions of the Uniform Act to secure the attendance of
- 25:34witnesses from without the state in criminal cases, California
- 25:38Penal Code sections 1334 at Sequitous.
- 25:44I think Yeah. Hereby reports and certifies
- 25:49based on the information and belief as follows.
- 25:51One that there is no pending in the Superior Court of the County
- 25:55of Los Angeles. The above entitled grand jury
- 25:58investigation by the State of California against Target David
- 26:02Burke. The Target wherein Target may be
- 26:05involved in having committed the following criminal offenses
- 26:08against the laws of the State of California, to wit, one count of
- 26:12murder in violation of Penal Code section 187.
- 26:18A. A grand jury investigation is
- 26:22currently pending at the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
- 26:28The grand jury investigation will resume on February 4th.
- 26:33I don't know how to pronounce his dad's name.
- 26:35Is it Dawood? Dawood Burks.
- 26:40That looks like. That looks like how?
- 26:45And I don't want to besmirch a man.
- 26:48He got his name. It was given to him like mine
- 26:51was given to me. But you know, the impressive
- 26:55clergyman and The Princess Bride, The guy who goes mauage
- 27:00marriage is what brings us together today.
- 27:02That guy. This looks like how he would say
- 27:07David Dawed. Dawed is the witness we want at
- 27:13the grand jewelry today. That that's kind of what it
- 27:17sounds like. But anyway, or looks like Dowed
- 27:19Burke's attendance would only be required on February 11th, 2026
- 27:25and for as long thereafter until he is no longer needed, but for
- 27:29no more than three days. It is alleged in this case that
- 27:33the target, David Burke, may be involved in the death of 14 year
- 27:38old victim Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who may have been a
- 27:42victim of foul play. Her severely decomposed
- 27:46dismembered body was found in the front trunk of of Target's
- 27:51Tesla on September 8th, 2025. On September 28th, 2025, at
- 27:58approximately 10:30 AM, Los Angeles Police Department
- 28:01detectives received a phone call from the manager of Hollywood
- 28:05Area Official Police Garage. The manager stated a black Tesla
- 28:10Model X. It is an X.
- 28:14I'm going to take the word of the District Attorney over the
- 28:19AP. It's an, it's an axe had been
- 28:22impounded as an abandoned vehicle, abandoned vehicle by
- 28:27the Department of Transportation on September 5th, 2005.
- 28:32The manager told police there was the strong, a strong smell
- 28:36of decay coming from the vehicle which was attracting flies.
- 28:43LAPD detectives responded to the Hollywood Tow Yard to
- 28:47investigate. Detectives approached the
- 28:50vehicle, which was parked on the upper deck of the impound lot,
- 28:53and immediately noticed the smell of decaying biological
- 28:57material consistent with the decomposing corpse coming from
- 29:01the front storage compartment of the vehicle.
- 29:05Detectives obtained a search warrant for the vehicle and when
- 29:10the front storage compartment was opened, detectives observed
- 29:14a black cadaver bag covered with insects and a strong odor of
- 29:21decay. So a cadaver bag that's very
- 29:25specific. Can you order those on Amazon or
- 29:28something? Please hold, please hold.
- 29:32If I go to Amazon right now and I and I just search a cadaver
- 29:39bag, sure enough I for $25 I can buy a 90 inch by 36 inch black
- 29:53cadaver body bag, stretcher combo with eight side handles
- 29:57and center zipper for 25 bucks. The world we live in for 14
- 30:03bucks I can get a white one without handles.
- 30:05For 22 bucks I can get a blue one.
- 30:10For 42 bucks I can get a two piece set, I can save 8 bucks.
- 30:14Holy cow, who knew? That makes me wonder.
- 30:19I remember Steve Fisher talking about things that they had
- 30:23purchased that like when he went into the house, he was hired by
- 30:27the owner of the house that David Burke was leasing or was
- 30:31being leased for him. And he said, hey, there are
- 30:37things that are suspicious here, like receipts of things that had
- 30:43been purchased. 1 was like like an incinerator, you know, stuff
- 30:50like that. I wonder if a cadaver bag was
- 30:53full on just ordered from Amazon.
- 30:57I I never in my life have I ever considered purchasing A cadaver
- 31:01bag, but OK. Utilizing black latex gloves,
- 31:05detectives partially unzipped the bag and observed A
- 31:08decomposed head and torso. Investigators and criminalists
- 31:14from the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner.
- 31:18Excuse me? Oh, oh, oh.
- 31:20What am I supposed to be doing? Yeah, OK.
- 31:27From the medical examiner responded to the tow yard to
- 31:31process the decomposed body. Upon removing the cadaver bag
- 31:35from the front storage compartment, it was discovered
- 31:38the arms and legs have been severed from the body.
- 31:42A second black bag was discovered underneath the
- 31:45cadaver bag. This may have been just a
- 31:48garbage bag or something. Upon opening the second bag, the
- 31:52dismembered body parts were discovered.
- 31:56Detectives were advised that on August 26th, 2025, a citizen
- 32:01reported the above mentioned Tesla as an abandoned vehicle
- 32:05parked across from somewhere on the 1400 block of Bluebird St.
- 32:11On August 27th. The Department of Transportation
- 32:15officers responded to Bluebird and marked the vehicle.
- 32:17On September 3rd, dot returned to the vehicle and issue a
- 32:22citation. On September 5th, dot impounded
- 32:25the vehicle to Hollywood Area Tow as was noted that the Tesla
- 32:30was registered to target David Anthony Burke in Hempstead, TX.
- 32:36David, who is a singer and performing artist, was on tour
- 32:40at the time his vehicle was impounded.
- 32:43Detectives learned that Dawood Burke is the father of Target
- 32:47David Burke and has a close relationship with him.
- 32:51That witness Dawood Burke date of birth September 5th 1979
- 32:56resides in Hempstead, TX. And then redacted, redacted,
- 32:59redacted, redacted, redacted. This who I'm curious about.
- 33:06But then it continues that if the Elderberg comes to the State
- 33:13of California in obedience to a summons directing him to attend
- 33:16and testify and send grand jury investigation, the laws of the
- 33:20State of California and of any other State through which he may
- 33:24be required to pass by the ordinary course of travel to
- 33:27attend said proceeding shall give him protection from arrest
- 33:31and the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection
- 33:35with matters which arose before his entrance into the State
- 33:39pursuant to such stump summons. Interesting.
- 33:42That makes me wonder if there is an arrestable defense here or an
- 33:48arrestable offense here. But they're offering him
- 33:53immunity. Interesting.
- 33:57Or if maybe there's a there's a civil matter.
- 34:00I don't know. Or maybe this is just
- 34:03boilerplate, who knows? The elder Mr. Burke is an adult.
- 34:07That the prosecution will provide the witness a round trip
- 34:10airplane ticket and transportation to and from the
- 34:12airport. WHEREFORE, it is requested for
- 34:15and in behalf of the State of California.
- 34:18That Your Honor certified to the above and foregoing by the
- 34:20issuance of a certificate thereto under the seal of the
- 34:23Superior Court of record in the State of California, to compel
- 34:27the attendance of the elder Mr. Burke as a witness at the grand
- 34:30jury investigation on the date and time set forth and pursuant
- 34:35to law. So I, I think that as it has
- 34:39been filed with the court, that is, that is what happened right
- 34:47there. There's there had been some
- 34:48speculation. It's, it's of course been weeks
- 34:51since we've been able to even think about this covering this
- 34:53case. This is another document that
- 34:56was provided by Mr. Fisher. This is a search warrant for the
- 35:00car. There's not much to it.
- 35:04It's pretty standard boilerplate.
- 35:08It's from the 8th of September. Let's see if there's a oh, OK
- 35:18vehicle described as a 2023 Tesla Model Y son of a gun.
- 35:24Which is it Now I've now we've got the court, the court and the
- 35:30AP to, to, to deal with I guess, I guess majority rules here.
- 35:37It is a model Y4 door black in color bearing Texas model or
- 35:42Texas license plate, yadda yadda then yadda yadda.
- 35:45Department resources revealed the registered owner as David
- 35:48Anthony Burke, Hempstead, TX vehicle is currently under
- 35:53storage at the official police garage Hollywood Tow for the
- 35:58following property thing. Our persons discover cause of
- 36:02the foul odor emanating from the trunk area of the vehicle.
- 36:08There's a statement of expertise then there's a statement of
- 36:11probable cause. Let's see what the PCA says on
- 36:14September 8th, 2025. Detective 3 Core.
- 36:22How do you how do you say that name?
- 36:24Is it I'll IE Detective Clore. Oh, Detective Third class Clore.
- 36:37I thought it was his first name. Dang it.
- 36:40Gavin boy, are you on one today? OK Detective Third Class
- 36:45Detective 3 Clore with the serial number was advised by
- 36:48official police Garage Hollywood Tow that they have a vehicle on
- 36:53their lot which is emanating the foul order odor and attracting
- 36:56flies. The vehicle was reported as
- 36:57abandoned to the LADOT in the area of 14 O 6 Bluebird Ave. in
- 37:03Hollywood. Los Angeles Department of
- 37:05Transportation responded to the location at towed the vehicle
- 37:10September 25th and vehicle's current registration comes back
- 37:14to Texas. Currently unable to contact
- 37:16registered owner of vehicle. Detective Cler responded to the
- 37:20location and verify the vehicle is emanating A foul odor from
- 37:23the trunk area. That is my probable cause.
- 37:27Let's see what the return says. Human remains located.
- 37:34That's that's the return. So let's see what you guys are
- 37:39saying over here and let's bring up happier pictures.
- 37:43Here we go See what you guys are saying over on the live chat.
- 37:52Oh, we got a thank you very much.
- 37:54Just Ducky is taking care of me. Thanks Ducky for your super
- 38:02chat. I'll kick off today.
- 38:03Cheer up Gavin, think happy thoughts.
- 38:07I'm in a mood, man. I'm in a mood.
- 38:11Robin says. Gavin, stop.
- 38:12My husband is taking a nap and I'm roaring with laughter.
- 38:14Yeah, I'm. I'm sorry.
- 38:15I'm just, I'm just in a mood, OK?
- 38:21Emmy. Emmy says I need to go watch it,
- 38:24OK. And Robin says I'm on a tear.
- 38:26I am. I'm having a day, that is for
- 38:29sure. Mooney says the DA doesn't want
- 38:34to call it a frunk either. Oh, it's just so kitschy.
- 38:36It's just so dumb. So dumb.
- 38:39Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
- 38:42My search history. Listen, if I ever die
- 38:46suspiciously, investigators are going to have a field day on my
- 38:50computer with my search history. When you combine what I have to
- 38:55do for my day job with what I have to do for YouTube, oh, my
- 38:59goodness. It is ugly.
- 39:01Let let me guys. OK, yeah, it's a tangent.
- 39:08It definitely is. OK, so a few years back, I was
- 39:17investigating this case out of New York State and the, the case
- 39:24involved a victim who was a dancer at a gentlemen's club in
- 39:33the Buffalo in Buffalo, NY or the Buffalo area.
- 39:37And, and the, well, I mean, this is all, this is all public
- 39:43record. I mean, he's he, he was
- 39:46convicted of it. I think he took a guilty plea.
- 39:49So the man who is currently in prison to my knowledge, lured
- 39:57this young woman from the club to his home, where he then did
- 40:03all manner of terrible things. Well, as I was investigating the
- 40:07case and I was going through like I was requesting documents
- 40:11and then I was, I was like going through the process, OK, I need
- 40:15to know where this club is. And then I like I went there to
- 40:20talk to the owner and like, you know, I was like trying to get
- 40:24in there off hours. So I don't want to go to don't
- 40:28want to go to a club like that. And anyway, so you know, and all
- 40:33the text back and forth with my wife, I'm telling you, if I
- 40:37would have died in that moment, there would have been a deep,
- 40:40deep investigation. Yeah, got to be got to be
- 40:44careful as true crimeers, right. Debbie asking why is it
- 40:48redacted? I think probably because it is
- 40:54information that the court deems needing to be sealed that I
- 40:59think it's just something that easy, Elizabeth says the car has
- 41:05since been sold prior to auction for Steve Fisher.
- 41:08Who'd want to buy that car? Oh my God, Ness, Jules and me.
- 41:18Romantic homicide. He has a coffin on stage.
- 41:20His team is dressed like pallbearers.
- 41:22That that is pretty creepy. That is pretty creepy.
- 41:25Glitters for forever, says Oh my Gavin.
- 41:28Yes, indeed. What is it?
- 41:31I lean into it says the Pi did an interview with Ashley
- 41:35Banfield recently. He stated the Tesla purchased
- 41:38before going to auction and was sitting at a dealership.
- 41:42Wow. Oh, goodness sake.
- 41:48I mean, who would buy that car? Have you guys have seen
- 41:52Mythbusters? Right?
- 41:53The whole Corvette with the with the dead body in it?
- 41:55Who would buy? Yeah, that's gross.
- 41:58So that's that's pretty much where we are in the case on I
- 42:04think on Monday we're going to have a good update.
- 42:09So yeah, I guess, I guess we'll find out more on Monday.
- 42:18I just I is there anything else that we can add here?
- 42:22Probably not, right? Yeah, it's probably time, but
- 42:27let's do some questions, shall we?
- 42:28It's three questions, guys. I've decided.
- 42:37I've decided it's a day where I need to be happier, I need to be
- 42:42less grumpy, less grouchy, less in a mood.
- 42:47So in the three question segment, I answer 3 questions.
- 42:53I answer 3 questions that you send to my e-mail address,
- 42:56threequestions@gavinfish.com and I'm going to do that today.
- 42:59Three questions at gavinfish.com.
- 43:01It's spelled out OK, but in a rare move of breaking rules, I'm
- 43:12going to allow more questions in the in the live chat.
- 43:15If you have questions, put a GF on it.
- 43:19I will answer it. We're not going to do a full
- 43:21Ascot me anything we're going to, we're going to cut you off
- 43:24if it gets too long. But I don't know.
- 43:27I've got to have a reason to be a little bit happier.
- 43:29Just you know, you know what has happened today.
- 43:33I am a person who requires lots of space between activities,
- 43:40lots of space. And you know, I'm the opposite
- 43:44of a Ted's optimist. My wife is a Ted's optimist and
- 43:47she always underestimates how long something is going to to
- 43:52take and is constantly busy running, running, running from
- 43:57the moment she gets up to the moment moment she lays down.
- 43:59And when she lays down she's exhausted.
- 44:02That has been kind of my day today.
- 44:04I am normally a give my give myself a padding, give myself
- 44:09lots of padding. That way I can just kind of
- 44:13casually saunter from one activity to the other.
- 44:16Plus for like the last week, I've been up till 1-2 in the
- 44:20morning coding and and I'm just exhausted.
- 44:23That's that's really what it boils down to.
- 44:25So vibe coding is fun to do, but the older you get, the, the
- 44:30more, the more of a toll it takes, right?
- 44:35So anyway, we need to get happier.
- 44:38We're going to do some extra questions today if you guys have
- 44:42any. But let's start off with the
- 44:45three questions that came in officially question number one
- 44:49from Christina. Wrong button, Gavin, this button
- 44:54man, this I'm look at this, look at this.
- 44:58So unprofessional. OK from Christina, if you knew
- 45:05you would be stranded on a deserted island, what 3 items
- 45:09would you take with you? I love this kind of question.
- 45:12This. This puts a smile on my face.
- 45:13I love this kind of question. You guys can answer this
- 45:16question too, OK. And I hope you do in the
- 45:20comments. If you knew you would be
- 45:22stranded on a deserted island, what 3 items would you take with
- 45:25you? Well, as a Boy Scout, I want to
- 45:29answer shelter, fire starter, and a communication device of
- 45:37some sort. I don't know, but the snarky guy
- 45:42inside of me says a professor, a movie star, and like a hot
- 45:48Midwesterner. That's horrible.
- 45:54No shelter. A way to start a fire, An easy
- 46:02way to start a fire. Because I'm old.
- 46:03I don't want to go to the old ways.
- 46:05Right. And maybe instead of a
- 46:08communication device, if I was going to be stranded there,
- 46:10first of all, that would feel like a vacation, wouldn't it?
- 46:14Maybe something to hunt with or something, some type of tool to
- 46:19create a tool to hunt with. Yeah, I think that's what I
- 46:24would do. I prefer the professor and the
- 46:30and the two beautiful lady companions, though.
- 46:33This is assuming, of course, I'm a young man.
- 46:37I'm I'm an undevoted and unattached man, right?
- 46:45Are professors able to to oversee any kind of ceremony?
- 46:52I'm it because because I have ethics and I have a certain
- 46:56moral standard. So maybe a, a, a, a reverend or
- 47:01a rabbi of some sort. I don't know.
- 47:04No, no, no, I I think shelter fire starting and tool making
- 47:10tools would be good. I think that's what I would do.
- 47:15I don't think I don't think it would be a, a a Pew Pew because
- 47:20I mean, unless I had lots of ammunition, but then does that
- 47:23count as one thing? I don't know.
- 47:25I don't know. I like that question.
- 47:27Thanks, Zoe. Zoe or thanks, Christina.
- 47:31Sorry. Zoe says if you knew you could
- 47:34pick up a new hobby, what would it be and why?
- 47:37I recently learned how to crochet.
- 47:40You know what, Zoe, this is? We have a daughter who is so
- 47:49very much like this where she will just, she would just not
- 47:54say anything about what she's been doing in her free time.
- 47:58And then she will like show up with a crocheted stuffed animal
- 48:04or chainmail or, you know, like she just, she picks up these
- 48:09little hobbies and I think that's pretty cool.
- 48:15I, I am working on well, they're not hobbies.
- 48:21I'm, I'm working on well, and that's not new.
- 48:26Oh yeah, it is new. I'm working on painting.
- 48:29I'm working on painting right now.
- 48:31Please hold, please hold. I'm not good at it yet, but I've
- 48:44been in a very nostalgic mood and so I have been painting my
- 48:50old late friends. And so this was my first go at
- 48:58it. This was my friend Ingrid.
- 49:03That was my first go at it. And I stopped halfway through.
- 49:06If you're listening on a podcast, you're like, I don't
- 49:08see anything, Gavin, but you'll have to go to Spotify or
- 49:11YouTube. And then this was attempt #2 but
- 49:15I, as an untrained budding artist, I didn't know that you
- 49:20shouldn't use like marker for your grid lines.
- 49:23I should use pencil or something like that.
- 49:25And so I do like the way that it turned out, except it's got the
- 49:30grid lines on it. And I've been doing it in
- 49:32acrylic because I think it's an easier medium.
- 49:39I don't know. I don't know why it dries
- 49:40quickly. So it feels like it's going to
- 49:42be easier, but my plan is like, neither of these are finished
- 49:47products, right? I'm going to, I'm going to have
- 49:48to start over and do it again, hopefully get better and then
- 49:54I'm going to move on. I've, I've got a couple of late
- 49:56friends whose portraits I want to do based on some photography
- 50:03I have of them and some memories that I have of them.
- 50:06That's, so that's the new hobby that I am picking up now.
- 50:11I'm also working on picking up a new language.
- 50:14To me, it's still in the category of languages that I
- 50:20already speak. It's a, it's a Romance language.
- 50:22So it's not that big of a leap, but I'm, I'm constantly working
- 50:29on something in the meantime, like other things that I'm doing
- 50:32it. I, I'm really kind of into doing
- 50:36history. And last time I was in
- 50:40California, I picked up, I picked up so many old negatives
- 50:53from my dad. These are just the ones that
- 50:55aren't organized or scanned yet, but they're old negatives from,
- 51:01from my dad that I am working to digitize.
- 51:07And I, I do that when I, my mind requires me to, to move from
- 51:13project to project. It, it just, it's the way I'm
- 51:17built it. There has been some criticism of
- 51:20me from people going, oh, you know, you got so many different
- 51:25careers getting, but it is kind of the way my mind works.
- 51:27I have to go from thing to thing to thing, and I like to discover
- 51:32new things and I and try out new things.
- 51:34And I typically don't get too deep into those things before my
- 51:40mind wants to go to the next thing.
- 51:42It's like shiny keys, right? Got a whoo.
- 51:44What is that squirrel? But yeah, those are some of the
- 51:50new hobbies that I am working on.
- 51:52Thank you, Zoe. And then question #3 from Diane
- 51:57G, who sent in a whole bunch of photo of questions.
- 52:02Who has been the biggest influence on your life what a
- 52:07great what a great question. I don't think there is one
- 52:12person who's been the biggest influence on my life though it
- 52:16depends on what facet of my life like the The person who has made
- 52:21me better the most is that I don't know who who has
- 52:28influenced me for the better the most is definitely Kimberly, my
- 52:33wife. She has made me better, but I
- 52:39also my parents are awesome, like awesome.
- 52:46So and they raised me and continue to influence me.
- 52:51And I'm actually looking forward to seeing them here in a couple
- 52:55weeks at the beginning of May guys, they're going to be a
- 52:58couple days where we won't be doing live streams, but it's
- 53:02just like just a couple days because I will be back in
- 53:05California. There are a couple of teachers
- 53:09that had huge outsized influences on me and I've talked
- 53:13about this before. My 6th grade teacher, I don't
- 53:20know, is it OK to say his name? I'm, I'm going to call Mr. B,
- 53:24Mr. B, my 6th grade teacher. That was, that was a
- 53:28transformative year for me. It's a transformative age for
- 53:32most people, but terrific, terrific teacher who really
- 53:37helped me become who I am. When I got into high school, I
- 53:41had a teacher named Mr. I'll call him Mr. T.
- 53:45We actually mostly called him Mr. T, but that wasn't his, his
- 53:48name, who was my photography teacher, and he's one that I
- 53:54actually, I'm actually in touch with both.
- 53:58Last time I was in California, I met up with Mr. T and it spent a
- 54:04couple hours with him and that was awesome.
- 54:06Actually just texted him today. Anyway, I tend to, I, I'm such a
- 54:11sentimental, nostalgic guy. I tend to collect and keep
- 54:15friends. But yeah, I saw Mr. T just a
- 54:20just a couple months ago and Mr. B, he and I have plans in June.
- 54:26So, you know, my sister and I are going to are going to go and
- 54:32visit him in June. So yeah, just there's so many
- 54:36people that influence have influenced me.
- 54:38I'm trying to think like even a few years back, this has got to
- 54:46be 6 or 7 or 8 years ago now, a girlfriend from high school's
- 54:54dad died and I had not seen her in decades.
- 54:59But we moved out here to Pennsylvania and it turned out
- 55:03that they lived within just a few hours.
- 55:06And I thought I will go and pay my respects to him and, you
- 55:12know, kind of represent my family by by going out there and
- 55:16visiting. And I got to see her, which I
- 55:20hadn't seen her in so long, got to got to give her a big hug
- 55:23and, and it was good to see her the, the circumstances, it
- 55:27weren't good, but it was really, really, really good to see her
- 55:32anyway, her dad, we were probably freshman in high school
- 55:39and her parents had divorced. And so her dad, well, they've
- 55:46been divorced a while. I, I guess it hadn't recently
- 55:49happened when she and I got together, but anyway, Diane, she
- 55:56would be sometimes at her mom's place, which was close to my
- 55:59parents place, and sometimes at her dad's place, which was still
- 56:01reasonably close, but not not as close.
- 56:05I liked the dad's house place because nobody was ever there.
- 56:11And so, you know, teenagers will be teenagers.
- 56:15And not that I was a bad kid, but one day we were being
- 56:24teenagers desperately in love in their living room on a couch.
- 56:33No, on a seat made for one, but occupied by two and and the
- 56:39front door just opened. We didn't hear the car.
- 56:42We didn't hear the garage door open.
- 56:44I think he had parked on the street because he was just going
- 56:47to jet into the house and grab something as though we, we had
- 56:50no, we had no warning. And the front door opened and it
- 56:59was, it was him. And I launched out of that chair
- 57:03like a cartoon. I, I, I feel like I was 8 feet
- 57:07above that chair just from the panicky twitch of my body seeing
- 57:12him. And that taught me.
- 57:16Tell me a deep lesson, man. It's like one, OK, Don't be
- 57:21doing things that you wouldn't be doing in front of other
- 57:25people. Like, it sounds so stupid, but
- 57:32it was. It changed me, man.
- 57:33It changed me. Now, that's not to say that I
- 57:35didn't and it slipped from time to time, but wow.
- 57:39Yeah. So, yeah, there are people that
- 57:41have influence on you just in so many ways, so many ways.
- 57:49So yeah, I hope that answers your question.
- 57:52Diane. Thank you for that question.
- 57:54We are going to do more questions.
- 57:58But before we do that, let's get into headlines.
- 58:00True crime headlines Ow okey dokey headlines for tonight.
- 58:12A quick reminder Amy Hilliard still is missing.
- 58:17This written by Jillian money or money in San Francisco gate.
- 58:22Amy Hilliard family desperate For more information offers a
- 58:25$10,000 reward. This is, this is something that
- 58:31I mean, they, I think they did their award, the reward a couple
- 58:35days ago, but it's still worth repeating because Amy is still
- 58:39missing. The family of Amy Hilliard has
- 58:41issued a $10,000 reward for information as the search for
- 58:45the missing Barrio Bay Area woman enters a fourth week.
- 58:49Hilliard, the co-owner of the popular Farley's Coffee Shops in
- 58:52San Francisco and Oakland, has not been seen since March 25th.
- 58:56On Monday, the family announced a $10,000 reward for information
- 58:59that leads to her safe return home.
- 59:02Hilliard's sister Alexander said in a video posted Wednesday to
- 59:05the website Bringing Amy Home that the family is desperate for
- 59:09information. Quote, I believe that you are
- 59:11out there somewhere and I pray that wherever you are, you are
- 59:13safe, she said. Hilliard was last seen in
- 59:19surveillance footage near Diamond Park in Oakland around
- 59:214:30 PM on March 25th. In an interview with the San
- 59:27Francisco Chronicle last week, her husband, Chris Hilliard said
- 59:30she was recovering from depression and anxiety at the
- 59:33time of her disappearance and was doing all the right things
- 59:36to heal. He told the outlet her he found
- 59:39her phone, keys, wallet and handbag in the kitchen on the
- 59:41day she disappeared. So yeah, she's 5 foot 420 lbs,
- 59:48blonde hair, Hazel eyes, 52 years old.
- 59:51If you see her call 510-238-3641.
- 59:57That is a picture of her and her husband Chris.
- 1:00:00Quick little update on the Anna Kepner situation.
- 1:00:04The 16 year old brother of Anna Kepner is set to appear in
- 1:00:08federal court and next week in Miami for his arraignment on
- 1:00:12formal formal charges in the death of his step sister.
- 1:00:14During the family cruise, the teen TH.
- 1:00:20We'll go before Magistrate Judge 10 AM on Wednesday the 22nd on
- 1:00:24charges of murder and aggravated essay in connection with the
- 1:00:27November 6th death of the 18 year old Titusville, FL
- 1:00:31cheerleader aboard a Carnival cruise ship, court records show.
- 1:00:36So next Wednesday is when Mr. Hudson is going to be arraigned.
- 1:00:44Today there was a preliminary or there was a hearing for Tyler
- 1:00:48Robinson. This reported in KSL by Pat
- 1:00:52Reevey, Dateline Provo Whether Tyler Robinson's preliminary
- 1:00:57hearing should be delayed and his efforts to keep cameras out
- 1:00:59of the courtroom are being debated Friday in court today.
- 1:01:03Robinson, who turned 23 on Thursday, is accused of shooting
- 1:01:06and killing political activist Charlie Kirk on the campus of
- 1:01:09Utah Valley University on September 10th, 2025.
- 1:01:15He is charged with capital murder and faces a potential
- 1:01:18death sentence if convicted. During the first part of
- 1:01:21Friday's hearing, Judge Tony Graf listened to arguments from
- 1:01:24both sides about whether his preliminary hearing, scheduled
- 1:01:27to begin May 18th, should be postponed.
- 1:01:29Robinson and his defense team say they have not yet received
- 1:01:33the appropriate discovery needed to prepare for the preliminary
- 1:01:36hearing, specifically DNA reports from the FBI and ATF.
- 1:01:39Quote, we have a right at a preliminary hearing to both
- 1:01:42examine and cross examine witnesses, defense attorney
- 1:01:45Richard Novak argued in court. We can't do that when the ATF
- 1:01:49and FBI have not provided us with appropriate discovery.
- 1:01:53We can't present any expert testimony on DNA without having
- 1:01:57the underlining underlying data, he continued.
- 1:02:01So that is the argument or those are the arguments that are
- 1:02:05happening in the Tyler Robinson case.
- 1:02:10There was a court date today for Mr. McKee in the murder of
- 1:02:15Monique and Spencer Tepi. Here, the beautiful Tepi family.
- 1:02:21Here the alleged, the accused murderer of the parents of this
- 1:02:27beautiful family. Here's what happened at today's
- 1:02:30court date for Michael McKee, charged in Tepi killings.
- 1:02:33This is in The Columbus Dispatch, written by Bethany
- 1:02:36Brunner. A vascular surgeon accused of
- 1:02:39sneaking into a Weinland Park home and killing his ex-wife and
- 1:02:43her new husband had an April 16th court appearance, but he
- 1:02:46wasn't seen. Michael McKee, 39, did not
- 1:02:50appear in person when his attorney and prosecutors met
- 1:02:52with Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Kim Brown.
- 1:02:56McKee is charged with aggravated murder and aggravated burglary
- 1:02:59in connection with the shooting. The April 16th court hearing, a
- 1:03:02status conference took place behind closed doors.
- 1:03:06The attorneys we're expected to discuss with Brown the status of
- 1:03:09the process of exchanging information and evidence and
- 1:03:12potential timelines for the case moving forward.
- 1:03:15McKee was brought from the Franklin County Jail where he is
- 1:03:18being held without bond to Common Pleas Court but kept in a
- 1:03:21non public area where he could meet privately with his
- 1:03:24attorney, Diane Minash. The attorneys did not put
- 1:03:28anything formally on the record in open court during the April
- 1:03:3116th court date, meaning McKee was not brought into the
- 1:03:34courtroom. A future court date has not been
- 1:03:38set yet, but is expected to be another status conference type
- 1:03:43hearing behind closed doors in the months ahead.
- 1:03:46All right. And then in stupid criminal
- 1:03:50news, and this just tickles me. This just tickles me from crime
- 1:03:57COD. What from crime COD?
- 1:04:00What is crime COD, you ask? Crime COD is a website by me.
- 1:04:04It's a crimecloud.com. There's always a link down in
- 1:04:07the description below. It is a true crime news website.
- 1:04:09It is also a newsletter that goes out weekly.
- 1:04:13We just started that back up comes out on Tuesdays on a
- 1:04:17Tuesday in it on a Tuesday. That's right.
- 1:04:21Anyway, this written by Jacob Charles think our dateline is
- 1:04:28Miami-Dade County, Florida man accused of kidnapping girlfriend
- 1:04:35claims she wanted to be in the trunk.
- 1:04:37OK now listen, we're just going to pause for a moment.
- 1:04:40We take victims of crime very seriously, take crime seriously,
- 1:04:45but Dill whole defendants we do not take seriously.
- 1:04:51We're going to allow ourselves a laugh at this one.
- 1:04:54Though Jake did did write this the way he should have.
- 1:04:58But just check this, OK? Just check it A 25 year old man
- 1:05:03Miami-Dade man allegedly claimed his girlfriend wanted to be in a
- 1:05:06car trunk before he put her there and drove off, authorities
- 1:05:11said. Deputies with the Miami-Dade
- 1:05:14Sheriff's Office arrested Travis Tillman Junior Dill whole of the
- 1:05:17year up here Junior after the incident, which authorities said
- 1:05:22began just before 1:00 AM. Wednesday at a residence in the
- 1:05:267000 block of NW 177th St. in the county's Palm Springs North
- 1:05:31area. According to an arrest report
- 1:05:33cited by NBC6 South Florida, Tillman and the victim, who are
- 1:05:38in a relationship and previously lived together, got into an
- 1:05:41argument over personal matters that escalated into violence.
- 1:05:45This is not funny. The couple does not share any
- 1:05:48children. Investigators said Tillman
- 1:05:50grabbed the woman, forced her into the trunk of the vehicle,
- 1:05:54secured it and drove away with her inside.
- 1:05:58According to authorities, he later stopped the car and opened
- 1:06:01the trunk, at which point the woman tried to escape.
- 1:06:05Yeah. Deputies said Tillman then
- 1:06:08struck her multiple times in the face and body near the trunk.
- 1:06:12I think they're talking about the trunk area of the car, not
- 1:06:14the trunk of the of the person and along the passenger side of
- 1:06:18the vehicle. Surveillance video obtained by
- 1:06:21investigators appears to show the victim getting out of the
- 1:06:23trunk and being beaten, according to WPLG.
- 1:06:27The pair later got back into the vehicle and drove off eastbound
- 1:06:32before deputies conducted a traffic stop where Tillman was
- 1:06:35taken into custody after being read his Miranda rights.
- 1:06:39Here we go, here we go. Tillman told investigators the
- 1:06:43woman. Oh my goodness, guys, people are
- 1:06:45so dumb. Listen, thank you for being a
- 1:06:53stupid criminal. For the for the rest of us, we
- 1:06:56don't, we, we don't talk to police when they arrest us or
- 1:06:59detain us. We just say now that, OK, so
- 1:07:06after being read his Miranda rights, which specifically tell
- 1:07:10you you have the right to remain silent, that you haven't a right
- 1:07:13to an attorney to be present while you're questioned, avail
- 1:07:16yourselves of those rights, accepts this stupid guy, which
- 1:07:19I'm glad you didn't. Tillman, after being read his
- 1:07:22Miranda rights, told investigators the woman had
- 1:07:25struck him first, according to the report.
- 1:07:27He also claims she said she did not want to be around him and
- 1:07:31would rather be inside of the trunk and not in his vicinity.
- 1:07:36Investigators said Tillman admitted to placing her in the
- 1:07:39trunk, driving the vehicle with her inside and striking her.
- 1:07:43Despite the allegations, authority said the victim did
- 1:07:46not have visible injuries and declined medical treatment.
- 1:07:50Sweetheart, fortunately they have that video.
- 1:07:56Tillman is facing charges of kidnapping and battery and was
- 1:07:59being held without bond Wednesday morning at the Turner
- 1:08:03Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to jail
- 1:08:06records. Records also show Tillman was
- 1:08:09previously arrested in an unrelated case on charges
- 1:08:12including aggravated assault with a firearm and proper
- 1:08:16exhibition of a firearm or weapon and resisting an officer
- 1:08:19without violence. So this guy winner man, just a
- 1:08:23real winner and I hope that his victim gets gets help.
- 1:08:32Stupid dill hole criminal. OK, last thing.
- 1:08:36Some good news. Some good news.
- 1:08:37Wanda. Wanda, let's let's get some
- 1:08:42happy music again. OK, Here we go.
- 1:08:46Is that happy enough? No.
- 1:08:48Let's make it jazzy. Can we Can we try something
- 1:08:50jazzy? That's better.
- 1:08:56Wanda, we're going to have to prepare some happier music for
- 1:08:58for happy headlines. OK check this out Connecticut
- 1:09:03team not team take two hobby Connecticut team accepted to
- 1:09:08brown, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, Yale and upenn. 123456
- 1:09:13Ivy League Colleges Date Written by Caitlin Keen at Connecticut
- 1:09:19Insider Dateline, Fairfield, CT With each acceptance letter
- 1:09:24Vicki Lynn opened in her Fairfield home, the shot grew as
- 1:09:27she realized she was accepted into 6 Ivy League schools.
- 1:09:32Quote I was obviously very surprised that Lynn, a senior at
- 1:09:35Fairfield Ludlow High School. Quote As I was opening them, the
- 1:09:38acceptances just kept coming in and I felt like I was on one of
- 1:09:42those shows where there are print cameras.
- 1:09:44Lynn, 18, said she had been eating dinner at home when she
- 1:09:47got the news about her acceptances.
- 1:09:49She said she applied to 25 schools, including six Ivy
- 1:09:53League schools. So she got into all six that she
- 1:09:57applied to Duke University and MIT.
- 1:10:00Only 0.3% of students are accepted to any of the 8 Ivy
- 1:10:05League schools, according to the Ivy Institute.
- 1:10:08Lynn defied these odds with her acceptances into Brown, Cornell,
- 1:10:12Princeton, Upenn, Harvard, and Yale.
- 1:10:15She was also accepted to MIT and Duke.
- 1:10:18This is funny. Out of the 25 schools, Lynn said
- 1:10:22she was wait listed at 4 schools, rejected at 4 schools,
- 1:10:25and accepted into nine other schools.
- 1:10:28Well, you know what? You know what, Vicki?
- 1:10:32It's the ones that accepted you that are the smart ones.
- 1:10:36That's right. Look at you with your Harvard
- 1:10:39little sweatshirt. Yeah, that makes me happy.
- 1:10:45That's good news, guys. That is very, very, very good
- 1:10:49news. I love it.
- 1:10:50Love it. Love it, love it, love it.
- 1:10:51Those are your headlines. True crime headlines.
- 1:11:01Okie, Dokie. Let's see if you guys asked any
- 1:11:04questions, if you had anything that you wanted to add.
- 1:11:10Robin, Gavin, can you tell us what it was like when you held
- 1:11:14your newborn babies? How did it evolve as you had
- 1:11:18your youngest? It was magical every single
- 1:11:22time. I was the stereotypical dad that
- 1:11:30after the baby is born and everything's OK and Kimberly was
- 1:11:35OK and the baby is well cared for and is warm and cuddled up
- 1:11:42and fed and all those things. I just passed out Zonk.
- 1:11:47Just I was so, so tired, so tired.
- 1:11:51You guys, you know, we can take the teasing, but it is not fun
- 1:11:56being a dad watching your wife go through that.
- 1:11:59It's beautiful. It is something that is
- 1:12:03unforgettable and lovely, but it is not fun because at least for
- 1:12:08me, you know, my job is to be protective and, and to be a
- 1:12:12provider to my wife, a protection against everything,
- 1:12:16including pain. And I just couldn't in that and
- 1:12:20that moment. And my wife had decided on
- 1:12:23natural childbirth. So, yeah, holding those babies
- 1:12:27for the first time, it did change over time, right?
- 1:12:31Because the first time you hold that baby and you're instantly
- 1:12:36in love and instantly hit with the realization that, Oh my
- 1:12:44goodness, I'm now responsible for this, for the well-being of
- 1:12:48this child for the rest of my life.
- 1:12:52And and it's like hitting a brick wall, right?
- 1:12:57By the time the second one comes, that part of it you're
- 1:13:01you're used to. By the time the fifth one comes,
- 1:13:05that doesn't even even faze you, but the actual holding, the
- 1:13:10smelling, the getting to know, the falling in love, it all
- 1:13:15happens the exact same way and is beautiful.
- 1:13:19And all of our children were born differently.
- 1:13:24Our oldest was born naturally. Our second was born with a an
- 1:13:31epidural because I got to choose the birth plan.
- 1:13:36And it was a horrible experience for Kimberly.
- 1:13:38She hated it. So our third child was born
- 1:13:40without an epidural, our fourth child was born at home in a
- 1:13:44swimming pool, and our fifth child was delivered caesarean
- 1:13:49section after a real emergency. So yeah, each experience was
- 1:13:54slightly different. Well, was very different.
- 1:13:59Children one and three were were pretty similar, except child #3
- 1:14:05was giant. So yeah, that that first time
- 1:14:09holding your child, whether it's your first or your 5th is a, is
- 1:14:15a beautiful, beautiful moment of it's like it's, it's a love
- 1:14:20story that it doesn't culminate it it's the beginning of a love
- 1:14:25story where you just paternally are so in love.
- 1:14:31I was thinking about this today because I'm 50 years old and I
- 1:14:39am convinced that if I need anything, if I were in need of
- 1:14:46anything, my parents would move heaven and earth to make sure
- 1:14:52that it happened if I was in need, right?
- 1:14:56And the way that I know that is because I know that I would do
- 1:15:01that for our children. I was just thinking about this
- 1:15:05today, like, yeah, one, one of our sons had some body work done
- 1:15:13on his car today and I knew that he was going to need help
- 1:15:16picking up the car and I was already having a day.
- 1:15:20But oh, I was happy as could be to offer that, be happy to do it
- 1:15:25because I would do anything, as I think most parents are like
- 1:15:31Valerie says, asks What is your favorite activity to just veg
- 1:15:37out and unwind? Oh, my favorite activity to veg
- 1:15:42out is just vegging out. That's it.
- 1:15:47Probably, probably just watching a movie.
- 1:15:49I like movies to just veg. I like to do that.
- 1:15:55All right, let's see. I lean into it, Gavin.
- 1:16:04OK, well I have to understand the question real quick.
- 1:16:08Let me Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are a type
- 1:16:21of antidepressant medication used to treat depression,
- 1:16:24anxiety disorders and other health mental health conditions.
- 1:16:28OK, So what I consider a deep dive into how SSRI medicine
- 1:16:33changes the brain. Asking because it's used as a
- 1:16:36defense sometimes. I yeah, I consider it.
- 1:16:44I I would need an expert on that.
- 1:16:51Debbie asked. Since you lived in Argentina,
- 1:16:53have you eaten creadigias? Kiss locus creadigias.
- 1:16:58It's been so long. Oh, yeah, yes, I have.
- 1:17:04I've forgotten that's what it was called.
- 1:17:08Yes, in Argentina, I, I have eaten every bit of cows, horses,
- 1:17:18goats, armadillos, cats, sheep. I, I've, I've eaten them all and
- 1:17:26every bit of them. Yes, indeed.
- 1:17:31Let's see. Of course, of course I'd answer
- 1:17:35that question. Yes of course I had I had
- 1:17:40forgotten what they were called but in fact I had had those
- 1:17:43before I went to Argentina. I grew up in in a very rural
- 1:17:51upbringing and well at least until I was 8 and then the
- 1:17:54summers and winters too. Right moved moved to Sacramento,
- 1:17:58CA when I was 8. But Emmy says try Slavic
- 1:18:01language. Emmy I don't think I have it in
- 1:18:03me, man. What I love about the Romance
- 1:18:06languages is that their construction is the same.
- 1:18:08I don't have to go through the process of trying to figure out,
- 1:18:13number one, what the construction is and #2 why is it
- 1:18:16that way? I already got it.
- 1:18:18So, so, so I'm, I'm sticking there.
- 1:18:25Plus Slavic languages, I don't know that I have an actual use
- 1:18:31for like in my life. I don't, I, I don't have
- 1:18:34ancestry from that part of the world.
- 1:18:36I don't, I don't have, I don't go to church with anybody like
- 1:18:40an old family from that part of the world where I could say,
- 1:18:44hey, this would be fun to get to know them and understand their
- 1:18:46language. So I'm just sticking with the
- 1:18:52romances, the Latin languages. Scotch's mom says my dad.
- 1:19:01Is that something that you would take with you on a deserted
- 1:19:03island, Debbie? Asking your kids to have my
- 1:19:09kids? Asking about the Creadigius?
- 1:19:13No, I doubt it. I doubt it.
- 1:19:15They're picky. Picky eaters.
- 1:19:19Let's see. Yeah, Bree, in order for me to
- 1:19:24see your comments, you got to put AGF in front of them and
- 1:19:28highlights it on my end. Going down, Barb says apparently
- 1:19:33this is the first murder trial for this judge.
- 1:19:37I guess there's got to be a first for everybody, Glitter
- 1:19:44says. Gavin, that accent was amazing.
- 1:19:47What? What accent did I do?
- 1:19:50I don't even remember. What accent did I do?
- 1:19:55That's funny. What accent did did I do?
- 1:19:58Was it the the impressive clergyman?
- 1:20:02I don't know. I don't know.
- 1:20:05Let's see. Jules, says Gavin.
- 1:20:08How does Wanda play jazz drums and jazz piano and stand up bass
- 1:20:13and jazz guitar at the same time?
- 1:20:15Wanda's a cool cat. We'll see.
- 1:20:17Wanda. Wanda Wanda's like the Hydra,
- 1:20:20man. She just got arms.
- 1:20:21She's just got arms. She can play it all at same
- 1:20:24time. Sometimes she uses her feet.
- 1:20:27I actually think that she was on a first name basis with the
- 1:20:31drummer from leads from Def Leppard.
- 1:20:35I think they were buddies. Is that one?
- 1:20:37Am I speaking out of school? No.
- 1:20:39Yeah. You babysat him.
- 1:20:42She babysat the drummer from Def Leppard and and learned some
- 1:20:47things from him. I guess that's pretty great.
- 1:20:49So yeah, she can she can play at all.
- 1:20:51She is amazing. She is amazing.
- 1:20:59Coffee time for D says What about Doctor Patrice?
- 1:21:01She could help you with a deep dive.
- 1:21:02Indeed, indeed, Seashore CJ says, how long will you stay in
- 1:21:09Pennsylvania? We had originally thought that
- 1:21:13this was the place that we would probably, this would be the last
- 1:21:18place we buy. But I, I feel called back to
- 1:21:25California a little bit as the parents are aging, as my in laws
- 1:21:28are aging as well. So I don't know.
- 1:21:32We, we also have roots here in this little town.
- 1:21:35Our daughter married a kid from this little town and we have
- 1:21:38friends here. And if, if we were ever to move
- 1:21:44back to California to be closer to family, I think our goal
- 1:21:50would be to keep this place in order to be able to come back
- 1:21:54here, you know, to vacation back here.
- 1:21:59Oh. Scotch's mom says no.
- 1:22:00My dad was the most influential, influential person in my life.
- 1:22:05That's awesome. But not you wouldn't take him
- 1:22:08with you to the deserted island. Scotch's mom.
- 1:22:14When do you get your haircut? As soon as it hits 14 inches.
- 1:22:17Soon as it hits 14 inches, I am cutting it.
- 1:22:20Do we want to do something? Do we want to do something
- 1:22:25special like some sort of special live stream activity or
- 1:22:31I don't know, raising money or something like that for the
- 1:22:36haircut? I think I am.
- 1:22:42I think I am at about 12 inches right now.
- 1:22:45So I've I've got another two inches to go.
- 1:22:47It has been growing at about 1/2 an inch a month, but I've been
- 1:22:54recently taken taking supplements to try to.
- 1:22:59I don't know if it'll work, but I've been taking supplements to
- 1:23:02try to make it go faster. I I don't know if it'll work. 3
- 1:23:09doxies, one print. Same.
- 1:23:10Gavin just so wrong. Barbara Olson, Where's your wife
- 1:23:15originally from? She is Northern California girl.
- 1:23:18Yeah. We grew up about 20 minutes from
- 1:23:22one another in different suburbs of Sacramento.
- 1:23:26We have like tons of friends in common.
- 1:23:32We are the same age. We went to different high
- 1:23:35schools, but we would have gone to like, you know, like
- 1:23:38activities of football games or whatever at at each other's high
- 1:23:42school. We are in the same school
- 1:23:45district, same religion. Like we would have been at
- 1:23:50dances together probably from the time we were 14 years old on
- 1:23:55up. We would have been at the same
- 1:23:57dances together from time to time.
- 1:24:01Never met, never met. So yeah, her, her folks live
- 1:24:07about 20 minutes from my folks. And which is it's only really a
- 1:24:12couple miles because you're driving, it's Surface St.
- 1:24:14driving, right? They're only a couple miles
- 1:24:16away. I think it's something like, I
- 1:24:18don't know, four, 4 1/2 miles away, maybe 5 miles.
- 1:24:22Never really looked, but yeah, that's where that's where she
- 1:24:27grew up. Robin says I should get some
- 1:24:29sweet braids. Well, listen, Speaking of my
- 1:24:32lovely wife, every once in a while she will, I will sit down
- 1:24:35on the floor. She will sit on the couch behind
- 1:24:37me while we're watching a movie or something like that.
- 1:24:40And she'll put in like a French braid or a Dutch braid or
- 1:24:42whatever. It's, it feels good.
- 1:24:45Feels good. Maybe I should do Coolio style
- 1:24:48braids. I haven't done that coffee time
- 1:24:53for Dee. How about a live of you cutting
- 1:24:55it and then us making donations to the charity that you're
- 1:24:58giving this to because they're going to do they're you're doing
- 1:25:01this to give somebody a wig, right, yes, that's exactly
- 1:25:04right. Maybe we do that.
- 1:25:05That would be fun. Glitter is forever.
- 1:25:08Is it biotin that I'm taking? It is I'm taking biotin and I'm
- 1:25:12also taking keratin. That's that's more for my nails
- 1:25:17because I have this thumbnail that keeps splitting.
- 1:25:22So yeah, that is black widowers thinks that I should do pigtails
- 1:25:28and I think that's it guys. I think we got all of our all of
- 1:25:31our comments and all of our questions in Thank you very much
- 1:25:35for spending this Friday, April 17th with me.
- 1:25:38Deeply appreciate you. Thanks for hanging in there with
- 1:25:42me through my moodiness today and and for missing yesterday.
- 1:25:49Yesterday just got away from me. The day just got away from me
- 1:25:53and I, I didn't have the time. So you guys are awesome.
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