Latest / True Crime with Gavin Fish / D4vd's 'Friends' Lived a Fantasy as Celeste Decomposed Nearby | Murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
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- 0:01Do you ever feel like you're in a in like a Twilight Zone
- 0:05episode? That's the way today has been
- 0:08for me. It started out with me being
- 0:11like awakened early and going. You need to get to the scene
- 0:16where this fire is and and it just has not slowed down since.
- 0:21And Speaking of kind of Twilight Zone tonight we're talking about
- 0:26the case of of the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who's a
- 0:3014 year old Lake Elsinore girl who who's dismembered body and
- 0:35badly decomposing body was found in the trunk of the Tesla
- 0:40registered to David Burke who goes by Deformada singer.
- 0:45He's been arrested for a murder. We're talking about that today,
- 0:50but we're going to get into this is this is different for my
- 0:55channel. We don't do this very often
- 0:57because I like to say we like to get into the nitty gritty.
- 1:00We like to cut past the fluff and sensationalism and we're not
- 1:06doing that tonight. We're going straight for the
- 1:11fluff. We are are our sights are set.
- 1:16They are targeted right on the fluff.
- 1:19We're like, we're like the X wing fighter going down the a, a
- 1:23tunnel of fluff looking for a vent about the size of a womp
- 1:31rat. A a fluffy, fluffy event.
- 1:34And that's what we're going to do.
- 1:35We're going to do that today. It it feels OK.
- 1:38I mean, it feels Twilight Zony for sure, but it feels OK.
- 1:41It's a Friday. It's a Friday.
- 1:44There's not a lot going on in the news like, well, we've got
- 1:47some headlines for sure that we're definitely going to get
- 1:49to. What else are we going to get
- 1:51to, Gavin? Let's see.
- 1:52We've got OK, we're going to talk about Celeste's case.
- 1:55We're going to get into some video clips that have been
- 1:58talked about online. We've got 3 terrific questions
- 2:02that we're going to get to. We've got headlines in the Nancy
- 2:05Guthrie case, the Alex Murdoch case, the Suzanne Simpson case,
- 2:09the Luigi Mangioni case. And yes, we have some good news
- 2:14to get to as well. Though Wanda, I don't think that
- 2:17you had time for your composition to get us like a
- 2:20good news composition, right? Is that something that maybe
- 2:22you'll do over the weekend? OK, Wanda is going to do that
- 2:27over the weekend, everybody. But nevertheless, even without
- 2:30the Jingle, we're we're going to get into some good news.
- 2:34So what do we have? We got 10 gallons of show, 10
- 2:38gallons of content we need to put into a 5 gallon show.
- 2:41That's what we need to do. Stick with
- 2:55This video contains mature themes and discussions intended
- 2:58only for adult audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
- 3:04Hello there, my friend. Welcome back to another true
- 3:07crime conversation with me, Gavin Fish.
- 3:10I feel like, what should I say? I I normally have this line
- 3:17where I'm like, if you're under true crime, like to cut past the
- 3:19fluff sensationalism. You found the right place.
- 3:22And and that is true most of the time.
- 3:24OK, it's true most of the time. But here is the other thing that
- 3:27I was thinking about. Sometimes you do have to kind of
- 3:32get into the weeds to find the clues.
- 3:37And of course, we're let's bring up Celeste's photo here.
- 3:41We're talking about such a sad story.
- 3:46This girl was lured away, according to prosecutors, lured
- 3:54away from the safety of her home where she was essayed for a year
- 4:03at least, say prosecutors, by this guy, man named David Burke,
- 4:13who goes by the stage name David, spelled D4 VD de Forvida.
- 4:20I like to call him. Shout out to Pascal for that.
- 4:26For over a year, she was in what prosecutors call, but we know
- 4:32it's not a sexual relationship with this guy started when she
- 4:38was 13 years old, according to prosecutors.
- 4:41OK. And then unceremoniously,
- 4:45unlovingly, she was stabbed to death, cut up into pieces and
- 4:54put into a body bag that was ordered on Amazon.
- 4:59And then another bag, another black, probably plastic bag
- 5:04where she decomposed badly and finally was found because of the
- 5:10stench coming out of the car after it had been towed by the
- 5:14LAPD. Listen, if this is your first
- 5:18time here, actually, if this is your umpteenth time here, I like
- 5:23to know where you're tuning in from.
- 5:25So put GF in your comment. Anytime you want me to see a
- 5:28comment, put GF in it highlights it on my end.
- 5:30It's, it makes it way easier on me.
- 5:32So thank you for that. And tell me where you're tuning
- 5:35in from. I, I want to know.
- 5:37And while we're kind of, we're sidetracked right now,
- 5:41sidetracked on something important, there's something
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- 6:39Enter to win and best of luck. I hope, I hope you win.
- 6:47I wish that I would win, but I hope you win.
- 6:50And then one of the thing that I do want to bring up, OK,
- 6:53whenever we talk about this case because we're talking about
- 6:57terrible, terrible crime against a young girl, YouTube tends to
- 7:03demonetize. So I have put a goal in in this
- 7:07live stream. If you're on YouTube and shout
- 7:10out to those of you who are on the rewatch crew, those of you
- 7:13who are watching on Spotify or listening wherever you get
- 7:16podcasts on the on the live stream.
- 7:19I have put a goal of 10 super chats because I know that this
- 7:25is going to be demonetized and I think I see Mooney.
- 7:29I think I see Mooney leading the way with a with a super chat
- 7:36where she says fluff away, fluff away, dear Gavin, fluff away.
- 7:40I shall Mooney with your permission.
- 7:43Oh, I see that you have changed your handle to the only Mooney.
- 7:48There is just one. There's only one Mooney and
- 7:52Mooney, I feel your love bomb from from all the way in
- 7:56Virginia. Thank you very very much for
- 7:59that. I appreciate it.
- 8:00We got AD at a van in the 216. We've got Ohio, we've got Bronx,
- 8:07NY here, we've got Clarksville, TN where one takes the last
- 8:12train. Land of the Baseball Hall of
- 8:15Fame is here. Cooperstown.
- 8:17I have visited your fair town with my father, my mother, my
- 8:21wife, my sister, my brother-in-law.
- 8:24We did that just a few years ago.
- 8:26It was a dream of my dad's and it was terrific to be there.
- 8:29Charlotte, NC in the house. Oh, the city in Utah with two
- 8:34national parks and two state parks.
- 8:37Are you down in the Moab area? I don't know.
- 8:40Greenville, SC is here. Northwest Kentucky, Montana,
- 8:44North Dakota, Michigan, Massachusetts.
- 8:47Goodness, so many people here. Ontario, Ormond Beach, FL,
- 8:52northwest Georgia. Let's see.
- 8:57And it's a Co SC2. It is OK Northern Kentucky is
- 9:04here, capital of the Free State of Florida.
- 9:07You guys are awesome and Angela host 2858 with the Super chat
- 9:13coming in. Thank you for all you guys do
- 9:16from Kokomo IN. Glad you are here and thank you
- 9:19so much for your support. OK, this is what we are going to
- 9:27do. OK, I have this video.
- 9:31I am lifting it thanks to thanks to the laws that allow me to do
- 9:39that. Why am I, why am I blank?
- 9:42I do that sometimes. I just completely blank a fair
- 9:46use laws because we are going to comment on it and maybe critique
- 9:52it a little bit and I'm not going to critique Nancy.
- 9:54Nancy, somebody I like. I've been on her show a couple
- 9:59times, been on her podcast. I think she's terrific.
- 10:02She does some good work on behalf of victims.
- 10:07So I'm not going to critique Nancy, but we have this video.
- 10:12I have lowered the sound down to six DB down to try to match the
- 10:17audio that I speak at when I'm not yelling because I get all
- 10:22excited. But just fair warning, if you
- 10:26got earbuds on or something, you might want to just be very
- 10:30careful because this this is kind of a hot, hot audio.
- 10:34Though I did bring it back. Anyway, there there are two
- 10:40different clips we're going to talk about.
- 10:42OK. The first clip is what some
- 10:46people online are calling a confession.
- 10:50It is. I'm going to set this up.
- 10:52OK, A bunch of people hanging out at Deforevida's house seems
- 10:57like I don't know, the kids get together these days.
- 11:00It's very different from when I was a kid, right when we would
- 11:03get together to jump on a trampoline or swim in a swimming
- 11:06pool or let's be honest, the Nintendo right.
- 11:11We we played a bit of Nintendo, some computer games on the old
- 11:15Commodore 64. Yes, I am that old.
- 11:18Actually, before that, the Commodore Vic 20.
- 11:20I remember any who it seems that young kids these days get
- 11:26together and live stream. They Twitch, they live stream.
- 11:30And what is happening in this clip is a couple of young
- 11:38females. I don't know how old they are
- 11:40that they could be 18, they could be 28.
- 11:42I'm a bad judge. I have no idea are live
- 11:46streaming like make up or or something in the bathroom at
- 11:50Deforevatus house and you can hear what's going on in the
- 11:54background. Now Nancy Grace's team put up
- 11:59some some you know what am I am I just having a hard day?
- 12:06Am I just having a hard day? My mind is not working some
- 12:10subtitles. Dang it, I'm just having, I'm
- 12:13having language issues today. You know what the problem is.
- 12:17And, and this is a terrible excuse and, and it's a bit of a
- 12:20tangent, but you know, my problem is I've been chatting
- 12:23with my friends in Argentina and I like my mind right now is
- 12:28working in Spanish and hasn't quite made the flip back to
- 12:32regular English mode. Back in the day when I was a
- 12:36young man and I was, and I was traveling and, you know, I was
- 12:39working down there, my mind could flip back and forth so
- 12:42easily. But I'm not so elastic these
- 12:44days. So maybe that's my issue.
- 12:47I'm I just need to, I need to get into the groove, get into
- 12:52the groove. OK, so subtitles are going to be
- 12:56up on here and she's going to show us what she thinks is said
- 13:01in the background. You're going to have to she's
- 13:03going to play it multiple times. You're going to have to listen
- 13:06closely. I think I do agree with what the
- 13:10subtitles say, but it's tough. OK, so let's without further ado
- 13:16Gavin, you're just chit chatting away.
- 13:19Let me bring up the right spot here.
- 13:24OK, we write. Oh, and the second clip.
- 13:26Actually, we'll get to the second clip.
- 13:28When we get to the second clip, here we go.
- 13:31It's. Kind of giving Harley Quinn.
- 13:36OK. I like it.
- 13:41And then? OK, I want to, I want to back
- 13:46that up. Basically, in the background
- 13:49you're hearing, tell me about Celeste, you hear an OS bomb,
- 13:55something about you killed her then.
- 13:59Yeah, me and David, something like that.
- 14:03So we're going to listen one more time and I will do my best
- 14:05not to start it over multiple times because Nancy Grace is
- 14:08going to do that for us. OK, here we go again.
- 14:12Have a quick listen. It's.
- 14:16Kind of giving Harley Quinn. OK, I like it.
- 14:24And then wait. We did this.
- 14:26Stalkers. OK, So what happened there,
- 14:45according to the subtitles that Nancy Grace's team did, was
- 14:49they're, they're live streaming with their fancy little, I don't
- 14:55know, little stickers they're putting on their face, whatever
- 14:58the kids do these days. And in the other room, they're
- 15:02going, hey, tell me about Celeste.
- 15:04You killed her. Yeah, me and David.
- 15:07Oh, hey, they're in the bathroom.
- 15:08They can hear this all. Oh, my goodness gracious me.
- 15:12This is not good. Right.
- 15:14So they're live streaming on Twitch and in another room where
- 15:17you can hear him, they're talking about, I guess
- 15:21allegedly. I I'm not sure that I, I'm not
- 15:23sure I think that the subtitles are probably pretty accurate,
- 15:27but here we go. I'll continue the video.
- 15:33Where's the body glitter we want to be?
- 15:35USA. Now where's the body glitter
- 15:37from Claire? So for those of you listening,
- 15:40that body glitter stuff is the people who are actually
- 15:43streaming on Twitch from. Body glitter.
- 15:59I'm going. To show you guys my.
- 16:05Just got Morgan. Maybe that is some of the
- 16:07evidence. I mean, if I can find it, the
- 16:10prosecutor can find it. Did you hear what was said?
- 16:13Now it's in the background. You have to listen very
- 16:16carefully. I'm going to play for you the
- 16:18pertinent part. Listen.
- 16:21And by the way, Joseph Scott Morgan's rad, is he not?
- 16:24He's been on the channel here a couple times.
- 16:26He's a frequent guest of Nancy Grace.
- 16:27It's. Kind of giving.
- 16:31Tell me more about Celeste. You hear in the background, OS
- 16:37you hear in the background and then, yeah, you killed her.
- 16:44They say. You hear in the background, I
- 16:46think. I think that is what you hear.
- 16:50Yeah, me and David, you hear in the background.
- 16:53And then Wait wait did this. You want to tell me those girls
- 16:57cannot hear what's being said through that open door just on
- 17:00the other side of that very thin wall?
- 17:03And you see the one girl in front of the mirror pause and
- 17:06listen. What was just said by witness
- 17:10One, which is a female. I think I know who she is.
- 17:13The female says, tell me more about Celeste.
- 17:16Oh. Then you hear the woman say,
- 17:19yeah, you killed her. And then you hear witness to
- 17:23stay. Yeah, me and David, they're so
- 17:27casual. And the other girls are just
- 17:30talking about finding their body glitter.
- 17:33Yeah, so I'm going to pause this here for just one second.
- 17:36We'll we'll listen to what Joseph says.
- 17:38But if if they're talking nonchalantly about a girl that
- 17:45was killed by David and another person, the first thing we
- 17:52learned there is that another person was involved.
- 17:55But secondly, they all knew. And, and if they all knew that
- 18:01Celeste was killed by David and another sounded like another
- 18:05man, why are they not running out of the Hollywood Hills?
- 18:13I was going to say running for the hills, but they're in the
- 18:15hills. Maybe running out of the hills.
- 18:17Do not stick around. Danger, Danger, danger, danger.
- 18:26All right, let's. Let's continue to see what?
- 18:28See what Nancy and Joseph have to say.
- 18:31To listen to the long form one more time because a speaker is
- 18:35identified by name Joe Scott Morgan, listen.
- 18:38OK, before before we listen to that part guys, this is a fluffy
- 18:43live stream. I admit it.
- 18:44Total, total, total fluff. But Mooney gave me permission to
- 18:48moon away or to fluff away, not moon away.
- 18:50We don't want that to fluff away.
- 18:53So actually I'm not sure that we want fluffing either.
- 18:59I'm I'm such a naive guy. I didn't even think about that
- 19:02Any who the Dang it now. Oh what I'm really hoping that
- 19:09you guys do is tell me what you think they're actually talking
- 19:12about in the live chat. Maybe you agree with Nancy
- 19:16Grace. Maybe you agree with me because
- 19:18I agree with Nancy Grace, but maybe it's something completely
- 19:23just having nothing to do with it.
- 19:27All right, here we go. It's.
- 19:30Kind of giving Harley Quinn. Tell me more about Scolettes OS.
- 19:33OK? Yeah, they're
- 19:58realizing now that they're realizing now that, oh, they're
- 20:01in the bathroom. Hey, don't look at me, right?
- 20:05And then they're asking what does she look like?
- 20:08I'm very close to her. Just just give him a second,
- 20:11says another witness. Where's the body glitter we're?
- 20:15Going to be USA. Now where's the body glitter
- 20:17from Claire? 'S body glitter from.
- 20:20Claire's OK clear glitter. OK, OK chat, I'm going to show
- 20:32you guys my. It actually makes me Do we know
- 20:38that this is in David's house? This is the way that's the way
- 20:42it's described. But do we know that?
- 20:43I'd love to hear your comments on that.
- 20:45Anybody who's been down the Reddit rabbit hole on this one,
- 20:48let me know. I feel sick.
- 20:51I feel sick because I believe the prosecutors will be able to
- 20:54show that is David Anthony Berg de Forbidi's home.
- 20:58And in that home, Celeste was murdered.
- 21:02And they're all talking about body glitter, and they can hear
- 21:06what's being said. Just got analyze.
- 21:08You hear the female state. Tell me more about Celeste.
- 21:12Oh, the woman. Yeah, You killed her.
- 21:16And then someone says, yeah, me and David.
- 21:20And then listen, listen, you hear?
- 21:23You hear who? They're all in the bathroom.
- 21:26In other words, they can hear us.
- 21:28Idiot. And the girl says don't look at
- 21:31me. Then they go on and the woman is
- 21:35saying well what does she look like?
- 21:37Am I close to her? Talking about Celeste?
- 21:41What did Celeste look like? I'm very close to her.
- 21:45In other words, do I look like her?
- 21:48And you hear the other male say give him a second.
- 21:51And the woman says you don't know what she looked like.
- 21:55It's past tense, what she looked like.
- 22:01What are they that arrogant? They think I can't find that.
- 22:05I don't know that they're that arrogant.
- 22:06I think they're that stupid. I'm much less the prosecutors.
- 22:10I want you, Joe Scott Morgan. You're the death investigator.
- 22:15While they're all laughing and looking for their body glitter.
- 22:19Where's Celeste? Decomposing there at that
- 22:24residence, I can tell you what she looked like.
- 22:27I can tell you what she looked like relative to their current,
- 22:32their their present at that moment in time.
- 22:35And yeah, they did use past tense.
- 22:36But let's understand, her mortal remains are just on the other
- 22:40side of those walls. Nancy, let that sink in just for
- 22:44a second. He's in an advanced state of
- 22:46decomposition. He's been packaged.
- 22:49The child has been packaged after having been rendered down.
- 22:55He's in multiple elements Nancy and not all of them are solid.
- 23:00The the Emmy actually talked about liquification of remains.
- 23:05That's what she looked like and. You know what I love about
- 23:09Joseph? I love a lot about Joseph.
- 23:11Number 1, he married up. His wife is awesome.
- 23:14OK? We both married Kimberly's,
- 23:16which is kind of fun, and they're both amazing women.
- 23:20But what I love about Joseph Scott Morgan is his empathy, his
- 23:25sympathy. He's like, yeah, I can tell you
- 23:29exactly what she looked like. And, and they were right there.
- 23:32And you can't tell me they didn't smell that.
- 23:33You can't tell me they didn't see flies, stuff like that.
- 23:36Right. He's just so empathetic and so
- 23:39sympathetic. He's so good.
- 23:41Think that people need to get need to strap in and understand
- 23:45that it's not just the principle that's been named that's been
- 23:48charged in this case, it's all the circle that surrounds that
- 23:54surrounds this individual that is inside of that domicile.
- 23:58You're going to tell me that no one smelled anything.
- 24:01You're going to tell me that no one saw flies, that they're just
- 24:05going on about they're business as if it's another day?
- 24:09It is absolutely, positively disgusting.
- 24:11Nancy. Yeah, I can tell you what she
- 24:13look like. You mentioned once it's like
- 24:15they are dancing on her grave and her coffin, so to speak.
- 24:21From our friends at FOX 11 is David Anthony Burke AKAD 4 VD's
- 24:28Tesla. We just showed you the video.
- 24:32It's Nancy. It's not D4 VD, it's Deformada
- 24:36OK. Shot where her body had been
- 24:38discovered due to the stench of human decomposition.
- 24:44Nancy when? So this is this is the second
- 24:47part of the video that I wanted to get into, which we will get
- 24:51into here in just a second. But before we do, I want to see
- 24:53what you guys are saying over in the over in the chat.
- 24:57Let me let me get it all refresh fad here.
- 25:02Let's see. I want to make sure that I don't
- 25:06miss anybody. Ah, we've got somebody from in
- 25:10Indianapolis. Glad that you are here.
- 25:12Thank you very much for being here.
- 25:14Anaheim is in the house. Old Orchard Beach.
- 25:18ME is here. Oh, we got somebody from Taiwan.
- 25:22I spent plenty of time there in. Well, I've only spent time in
- 25:27Taipei. Pretty cool.
- 25:29Oregon Trail. Yeah, that's right.
- 25:31We played Oregon Trail Folks show.
- 25:33Let's see. Boston.
- 25:35Georgia's here. And Kelly Alexander saying thank
- 25:39you for speaking slowly. Well, I speak at my, my pace.
- 25:42It probably is pretty slow and I'm happy to do it.
- 25:47Scott's mom, is your mind on the weekend?
- 25:49Yeah. My, my weekend's going to be
- 25:50awesome. I'm looking forward.
- 25:52I've got plans, not just I've got photography plans with my
- 25:59son, which I'm really looking forward to.
- 26:03Let me keep on going here, Italia says.
- 26:07I don't hear killed her. I hear together.
- 26:12You hear together is did you together?
- 26:19We're going to go back and and listen one more time.
- 26:21OK, Let's go back and listen just real quick.
- 26:24Let's see. I need to remember we're at
- 26:26about 6:21. We're going to go back.
- 26:30It's kind of giving Harley Quinn.
- 26:34OK. I.
- 26:38Like. It.
- 26:39I don't know. I have to, I have to not look at
- 26:43the look at this. Queen.
- 26:45It's kind of giving Harley Quinn.
- 26:53Killed her, I hear. Killed her That's that's what I
- 26:57hear but you know what if you hear together that that's
- 27:01totally cool as well. I'm goddess 1950 says lively
- 27:06here in Erie today over 75 OK Good Hope ate fear.
- 27:14I agree Gavin, let's see and Debbie says don't forget there's
- 27:202 girls named Celeste. The minor Celeste is going to
- 27:23get a tattoo like the other older ones so the matched more
- 27:28from behind. OK, all right, let's see what
- 27:35else we got. Debbie saying these young people
- 27:37don't care. They have no respect for life.
- 27:39That's that's what it feels like to me.
- 27:41Plantation FL's here. Debbie says wasn't the blue pool
- 27:46found in the garage too? It was according to the document
- 27:51that was filed in court by the prosecution.
- 27:53Robin says sometimes people act nonchalant in the moment where
- 27:57it's most dangerous and later fall apart.
- 27:59That I think that's fair. That's fair.
- 28:01Let's bring up a photo of Celeste while we're having it.
- 28:04This one, Glitter is Forever says can we slow it down a tiny
- 28:08bit to see if we understand better?
- 28:10What a great idea. Let's see.
- 28:12I've got it in QuickTime, so I think that I can go to, let's
- 28:22see, playback speed half. All right, we're going to hold
- 28:35on. It's kind of giving Harley
- 28:40Quinn. Yeah, you, David.
- 28:56I wish I could slow down just a little bit there.
- 29:01The way I've got it set up for today, it's I can only do it at
- 29:05half speed or regular speed or faster.
- 29:08Sorry, glitter is forever. I wish, I wish I could do that
- 29:11better, Lulu Marie says. I believe the girl they are
- 29:17talking to is named Celeste also, I think.
- 29:19I think you're right. And then I did see a a couple of
- 29:24comments though I've lost them now that happened in the moment
- 29:29that yeah, they are, they are definitely in David's house,
- 29:32right? Definitely in David's house.
- 29:35So I don't know, I don't know guys, is it is it something that
- 29:40I love what just Scott Morgan was saying, right, that I know
- 29:45exactly what she looks like. She's decomposed, right?
- 29:49And she's in the house and you can't tell me that they couldn't
- 29:54smell anything, that they didn't see flies.
- 29:57And that whole thing where the video shows David going, Hey,
- 30:00sorry about the smell, guys. I knocked a Duke a couple hours
- 30:03ago. Yeah, that that's a different
- 30:09smell. We don't need to really get into
- 30:12the details of what is is in each bouquet, but that's a
- 30:16different smell. OK, let's go to the second clip
- 30:20here. This is from the same show, same
- 30:24Nancy Grace. Let's see.
- 30:26I need to bring that. There we go.
- 30:28Make it a little bit more like that. close anyway.
- 30:33OK, here we go. Nancy when we looked at this
- 30:37story and and wondered when is this going to come out that
- 30:41Celeste Riva's best friend said that in January about 12 weeks
- 30:47before Celeste was murdered, Celeste was at her parents home
- 30:52and her best friend is sitting there trying to talk her out of
- 30:56running away because Celeste wanted to run away to David.
- 31:01Now the friend thought she was talking about a classmate.
- 31:04She wasn't but Celeste gave her the reason thought she was
- 31:08pregnant. Celeste tells her best friend.
- 31:13Now remember, the medical examiner originally said no to
- 31:18the pregnancy and then updated the death certificate to say
- 31:23undetermined, right? And I know that there has been
- 31:28discussion for months about whether or not Celeste was
- 31:33pregnant. I've seen it all over Reddit.
- 31:37I have not really jumped down that rabbit hole.
- 31:40But this is a Mr. Mack. Here is a reporter.
- 31:44I'm going to go back. Let's go to the very beginning
- 31:46of what he was saying. Is Dave Mack an investigator of
- 31:49reporter that works for Crime Online, which is Nancy's
- 31:54company? OK, let's listen from the
- 31:57beginning. See when we looked at this story
- 32:00and and wondered when is this going to come out that Celeste
- 32:04Riva's best friend said that in January about 12 weeks before
- 32:10Celeste was murdered, Celeste was at her parents home and her
- 32:15best friend is sitting there trying to talk her out of
- 32:18running away because Celeste wanted to run away to David.
- 32:23Now the friend thought she was talking about a classmate.
- 32:27She wasn't but Celeste gave her the reason thought she was
- 32:31pregnant. Celeste tells her best friend.
- 32:34I'm pregnant and I'm going to run away to David's.
- 32:38I love these little pictures of her by the way, the little like
- 32:41school pictures from when she was younger.
- 32:43It just kind of shows her sassiness and her spunk.
- 32:46It is the shocking motive we've been waiting for.
- 32:49OK, right there. Of course, Randolph Rice, you're
- 32:54the veteran trial lawyer. The state doesn't have to prove
- 32:57motive at all. But practically speaking, we
- 33:02know the jury will want a motive.
- 33:04I want to hear, OK, how you're going to spend that out in court
- 33:09because first there are claims the video.
- 33:12I should set this up a little bit.
- 33:13This guy is a defense attorney who apparently changed his story
- 33:19between the time that they booked him and the time that he
- 33:23came on. And so Nancy's going at him
- 33:26hard, kind of like a prosecutor going, I, I want to know how
- 33:29you're going to spend this one as a defense attorney.
- 33:31That's, that's why she kind of has that attitude.
- 33:33Plus, Nancy's shtick is kind of one like, tough attitude anyway,
- 33:37right? It showed was artificial
- 33:39intelligence. It wasn't real.
- 33:41Then when you rethought it, you came up with a much better idea.
- 33:44Now it is real and you can fabricate, create, argue that
- 33:49some other dude did at defense based on that video, but what
- 33:53are you going to do with Celeste pregnant?
- 33:57OK, so yeah, I cut this part out.
- 34:00But when he came on, she goes. Now I know you're going to have
- 34:04some sort of argument as to, you know, whether this is real or
- 34:08not. And he's like, no, this is this
- 34:10is perfect for a defense attorney.
- 34:13Some other guy just admitted to killing Celeste, right?
- 34:17So, I mean, I'm sure the Deformita's defense attorneys
- 34:22would do the same thing if, if this comes up in in discovery
- 34:27and in trial and everything. Like this guy just said he did
- 34:30it. My client wasn't anywhere near
- 34:33it, but he said he did it. He said he did it with my
- 34:36client. That part's a lie, but the first
- 34:38part is the truth. So that's what Nancy's talking
- 34:40about. He was going to come on to talk
- 34:42about AI and then change this story.
- 34:44And she's like, OK, So what else can you come up with to to
- 34:49defend this guy if you're the lawyer?
- 34:52I still think we need to get the DNA back.
- 34:54And we need to match that up to see who exactly is the baby, Who
- 34:58is the father? Because Nancy, the father may be
- 35:01this alternative killer. This person voice, person's
- 35:04voice we hear in the background. Who says I did it?
- 35:07Maybe he's the father. OK, you really are amazing.
- 35:13See, you threw a curveball at me right there, Randolph Rice,
- 35:15because I thought you were going to say what, baby?
- 35:18Nobody can prove she was pregnant.
- 35:19But instead you're like a dog with a bone and you're running
- 35:23with it. Yes, she is pregnant, but it's
- 35:25somebody else's baby and they killed her.
- 35:28OK, I don't believe any of it, but I have to admire your
- 35:33thinking. Kind of like a fox.
- 35:36I actually really like, I like that part of the discussion,
- 35:41right. I thought you were going to say
- 35:43there is no pregnancy, the Emmy said no pregnancy.
- 35:45But you threw a curveball at me, man.
- 35:48You are totally leaned into. And this is actually the way a
- 35:52defense attorney should work, right?
- 35:54That how many filings have we seen where they, you know, an
- 35:59attorney will say, OK, arguing about whatever, right?
- 36:05The first part of our argument is this.
- 36:07But if this part fails, then we've got this argument too.
- 36:10And if that part fails, then I want you to consider this,
- 36:13right? It's a very trained attorney
- 36:18behavior, right? So she's like, I got to admire
- 36:22it. I don't believe any of it, but I
- 36:25got to admire it. It's pretty funny.
- 36:27So he's like, yeah, if there's a baby, we got to get the DNA on
- 36:30that and see who the father is because the father is likely the
- 36:33killer. Joe Scott Morgan, help me out
- 36:36here. Joseph Scott Morgan is a
- 36:39professor of forensics at Jacksonville State University.
- 36:42He is the author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon.
- 36:46He's the star of a hit podcast, Body Bags with Joseph Scott
- 36:49Morgan. But for our purposes, he is a
- 36:51death investigator. In fact, that's how I first met
- 36:53him and the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.
- 36:56He was working with the medical Examiner's office.
- 36:59With 10,000 plus death scenes under his belt, why don't I know
- 37:06whether Celeste was pregnant or not?
- 37:10Well, because the ME actually in their report stated that there
- 37:14was no evidence of pregnancy and then they had to go back and
- 37:18amend it and at which point in time they said it's
- 37:22undetermined. Essentially it's or
- 37:24indeterminate is what it comes down to.
- 37:26I can tell you this according to the findings that they had an
- 37:30autopsy, they didn't show, and I'm talking about the physical
- 37:34findings, they didn't show any evidence that she was in fact
- 37:37pregnant. We cannot exclude though.
- 37:41However, if she had had a pregnancy that had some point,
- 37:45Tom had been terminated at at some point.
- 37:49Tom either through, I don't know, morning after pill or
- 37:53we're talking about some kind of terminal event where she goes
- 37:56and has child aborted. So that's difficult to
- 38:00understand. And what even complicates
- 38:03matters even more Nancy, is the fact that she is in such an
- 38:06advanced state of decomposition. This this is a very difficult
- 38:11road to go. Now we do know, however, that
- 38:15they didn't find anything that would indicate she was pregnant
- 38:18at the time. I think that's where I stopped
- 38:22it. So I, I, I want to know your
- 38:24opinion on this as well. Do we think that Celeste was
- 38:27pregnant? I personally think that the the
- 38:32prosecution's office is going to argue that she was pregnant.
- 38:38There was no need, in my opinion, there was no need to
- 38:43include that in the document that they filed stating what
- 38:47what it was that they were going to show during the probable
- 38:49cause hearing, during the preliminary hearing, right?
- 38:52There was no reason in order to get over the hurdle of probable
- 38:56cause to state that they had talked about pregnancy.
- 39:02I don't, I don't think that was necessary because they put it
- 39:07into that document. I think that's something that
- 39:10they intend to prove that Celeste was pregnant, that or at
- 39:18least she thought she was pregnant and that went to
- 39:21Deforevida's motive. And remember Nancy Grace, she
- 39:26is, she is absolutely correct. And of course she's correct.
- 39:28She's a, she's a talented lawyer, right?
- 39:33Prosecution does not ever have to prove a motive.
- 39:36Ever. It's never part of the deal.
- 39:40Any, any of the components of murder or none of the components
- 39:44of of murder include motive. However, juries love motive.
- 39:52They want to know why. Why do juries want to know why?
- 39:55Because we're human. We all want to know why and if
- 39:58you can explain why and you can prove why, that goes a long way
- 40:03to getting a, a conviction. So I think that's what they're
- 40:07up to. And and if the prosecution can
- 40:11can prove that because listen, if if Celeste Rivas was in and
- 40:17and I'm sorry to talk about it in such like in such a.
- 40:22Course way because this is a 1314 year old girl who suffered
- 40:27abuse over the course of at least a year by a grown adult
- 40:31man and we need to remember that right?
- 40:34We need to temper our speculation with humanity with
- 40:36compassion. We want to be compassionate not
- 40:39only toward Celeste and her memory but also to her family
- 40:44that includes her parents, her grandparents, her cousins, all
- 40:47of her little friends. Listen, I I remember what it
- 40:52felt like to lose a friend to death at the age of 14.
- 40:58And in my case it wasn't murder. It was, it was something that
- 41:02was more expected, right? But at the age of 14, it is very
- 41:08difficult to cope and process, cope with and process the
- 41:14permanent loss of somebody that you love.
- 41:17And so every time I think about this case and I think about
- 41:21Celeste, I think about all of her little friends.
- 41:26That is, that is a heartbreaking, heartbreaking
- 41:30thing that they're all going through.
- 41:31And I felt the same way about like Madeline Soto's little
- 41:34friends. Oh, my goodness.
- 41:36And I think something that Robin said in the comment is right.
- 41:39Often times we will put up a facade, but inside we're a
- 41:47Tempest, right? We put up this facade of calm,
- 41:51of of, you know, control. But inside we're a Tempest.
- 41:57We're a hurricane. We don't know how to deal with
- 42:00these emotions. And I know that I know from
- 42:03experience. So I guess I should say, I
- 42:05believe through my own experience that her that all of
- 42:09her little family members, all of her school friends,
- 42:14neighborhood friends, they're all dying inside because of
- 42:17this. So we got to be very, very
- 42:18careful. Having said that, I think that
- 42:21they're that this is an important component of the case.
- 42:25I think that Celeste was likely pregnant that that will go to
- 42:33motive. Now, will they be able to tell
- 42:37who will they be able to tell one that she was pregnant?
- 42:40Will they be able to prove that to a jury?
- 42:44Number one, can they prove to a jury that Celeste was pregnant?
- 42:48If they can, can they prove to a jury through forensic evidence
- 42:54who the father is? And I think that becomes way
- 42:59more difficult. However, the next the 2 1/2
- 43:05right, we'll, we'll do it like this 2 1/2 is all of the
- 43:09conversations that prosecutors say that they had, right.
- 43:15Let's bring up where they paused it here, say that they had about
- 43:20pregnancy, abortion, Plan B, things like that.
- 43:27So will they be able to prove, maybe not beyond a reasonable
- 43:32doubt, but they'll be able to plant a seed strong enough that
- 43:35it will grow in the minds of jurors that yes, indeed, she was
- 43:38pregnant and, and the four of it, it was the father.
- 43:42I think. I I think that's what
- 43:45prosecutors plan on doing with bits and pieces of their 40
- 43:49terabytes of evidence against this guy.
- 43:58Yeah, that's what I think. What do you think?
- 44:00Let's bring Celeste back up here.
- 44:02Let's see what you guys are thinking over here.
- 44:04Got to refresh my screen. See how many comments there are
- 44:08here. Clarinet girl says this is the
- 44:13same bathroom where the four of it is talking about him using
- 44:16the bathroom, and he says it's still smelly.
- 44:19Yeah, I autumn did give me that video and and I have seen that.
- 44:26So yeah, it's it's definitely his house.
- 44:27Thanks for confirming that for me.
- 44:33Kay Bling says I heard there's no way to tell if she was
- 44:35pregnant, but she could have been I I wonder if she how far
- 44:39along might she have been Right. And even in that decomposition
- 44:46fluid, the soup. And again, I'm sorry, but was,
- 44:53was there forensic evidence? I think if there were, if there
- 44:57was, like if there were remains that could be identified as a
- 45:02child that it never would have been marked as know that she was
- 45:10not pregnant on her on her birth certificate.
- 45:12Just just reasoning this out, right.
- 45:15So yeah, cabling, I like this comment.
- 45:21It makes me think, so will the prosecution, I guess, will they
- 45:28lean on the communication as part of their part of their
- 45:33proof? Let's see.
- 45:37Let me keep on going down, Debbie saying, won't all their
- 45:44electronics, phones and such be taken into custody and all the
- 45:46text messages between them will count in court?
- 45:50Yeah. And and they have all of it.
- 45:52Like, I don't know. I don't know how they got into
- 45:57it. I well, the iCloud part is a
- 46:00little bit easier, but the his phone must have been unlocked.
- 46:07IPhone security is actually pretty darn impressive.
- 46:10I I can't imagine that they were able to break in in such a short
- 46:14amount of time. So he must have had it unlocked.
- 46:17It's crazy. I mean, it's like Stephen
- 46:21Sterns. That idiot just was like, here,
- 46:23yeah, you can look at my phone, right?
- 46:25So maybe, maybe to forbid it was like that, Renee says.
- 46:30I'm wondering why they the prosecution could release that
- 46:34Celeste was pregnant, but in the case of Madeline Soto, he kept
- 46:36it quiet saying it was because she was a minor.
- 46:40Any thoughts? That's a good question.
- 46:46I mean, it might possibly be, it might, it might possibly be that
- 46:54well, the prosecution did something weird here.
- 46:57They, they filed a, a public filing with the court saying,
- 47:04hey, this is what we intend to prove in the preliminary
- 47:09hearing. I can't think of the last time
- 47:12that that happened. I've never seen it in my
- 47:14reporting. If I have, I don't remember it.
- 47:17So I, I'm not sure why the prosecution did that.
- 47:24It might just be personal preference where the, you know,
- 47:29in in Stephen Sterns case, those prosecutors were like, let's
- 47:35just keep Madeleine's dignity intact.
- 47:38And in this case, they're like, let's go after this SOB who who
- 47:44took advantage of this girl and essayed her for over.
- 47:47You know, it might just be a personal personal preference.
- 47:51I don't know, because I don't think that well.
- 47:57And also, I don't think that we know that Madeleine was
- 48:00pregnant. I'm trying to remember Maddie.
- 48:05I think I'm trying to remember. Somebody help me out on that.
- 48:13Let's see. Cabling, correct?
- 48:18Her emotions were over the top for many reasons, pregnancy and
- 48:21his having other affairs. This was too much for this
- 48:25child, and it would have been too much for a grown woman.
- 48:28Right. Italia says she may have thought
- 48:32she was pregnant and told him she was via text.
- 48:34She actually may not not have been, though.
- 48:36If he believed it, it's still motive enough.
- 48:38Yeah. I Yeah, I think so.
- 48:43Yeah. Great point.
- 48:44Great point. Let's see.
- 48:49And Barb Olson also repeat. Celeste might have texted
- 48:52Deformida that she was pregnant. So.
- 48:54Yeah. And if if he thought it the
- 48:59difference between if he thought it was true and it was true,
- 49:04that is not a wide chasm. They're they're so close.
- 49:06I think a jury would go, I see what's going on here.
- 49:12Kelly says. David thought she was way too
- 49:14clingy and a real problem for him, a threat.
- 49:18Yeah. And that is what the prosecution
- 49:20is saying, right? That she was threatening his
- 49:22career, his, his future earnings and she had to go.
- 49:28And that's why he was lying in wait.
- 49:29That's why he stabbed her to death.
- 49:32Autumn Doyle, Maddie was not pregnant.
- 49:35I was trying to remember if there was kind of, was she
- 49:38talking about it though? Or was it possible that Jen
- 49:41thought that she was pregnant or something?
- 49:43I can't remember those those details.
- 49:46But thanks Autumn. I appreciate it, Clarinet girl
- 49:49says. Is it possible he drove her to
- 49:52Santa Barbara to bury her, bought the shovel, then panicked
- 49:54and changed his mind there for the Tesla?
- 49:56I think that's not only possible, I think it's probable.
- 50:01Listen, I have worked as my grandfather would say, on the
- 50:07handle end of a shovel when when I was a young man.
- 50:11So I was 1819 years old. I worked for a company in
- 50:14Sacramento. Wow.
- 50:16Gavin, this is a bit of a tangent.
- 50:19Let let we we got to get this. Yeah.
- 50:28I mean, yeah, it's a tangent. It's tangentially connected.
- 50:33When I was a young man, 1819 years old.
- 50:36Oh, my goodness. Do I have, like, hair falling
- 50:38out? Is it?
- 50:39I do. Guys, this hair has got to go.
- 50:44I worked for a company in Sacramento called Filner
- 50:48Construction, and Filner specialized in building gas
- 50:54stations. And as the young general
- 50:57laborer, I was the guy that did all the crap work, all the stuff
- 51:03that everybody else had done at one point too.
- 51:06But now it was my turn. And when, you know, we would big
- 51:11excavators and so forth, backhoes would would do, would
- 51:16do most of the work. But then there was me in the
- 51:18trenches or in the holes doing the work of, you know, clearing
- 51:24holes. So I know my way around a shovel
- 51:26is all I'm saying. OK, Most people don't realize
- 51:30digging a hole that is big enough for a body and deep
- 51:34enough for it to be to contain the body is hard work.
- 51:42And it takes a long, long time. You look in the movies, they're
- 51:44like, OK, well, we better dig a grave.
- 51:47And before you know it, they're lowering that poor soul into the
- 51:50grave. That is not the way it is in
- 51:52real life. It is hard work, hard work.
- 51:57So, yeah, I, I think not only is it possible that he went up to
- 52:02Santa Barbara, I think it's probable that he went up there
- 52:06to dig a grave and put her in it.
- 52:08And it was like, I, I, I can't, this is going to take me 3
- 52:13nights of work. I will just bury her passport
- 52:16card, her ID, and I'll get rid of it that way and then we'll
- 52:20figure something else out. I think that's probably what
- 52:22happened, Renee says. I'm sorry, I should have worded
- 52:27that better. I meant that they were more
- 52:29guarded with Madeline's info in general because she was a minor
- 52:34guess. If this goes to trial, they'd
- 52:35need to make it. Yeah, I, Stephen Stearns waived
- 52:40his right to a preliminary hearing, if I remember
- 52:42correctly, and then he pleaded guilty.
- 52:45So none of that stuff happened. But had it gone to trial, we
- 52:49would have found out all those gory details, especially in
- 52:51Florida. But I still think it's probably
- 52:54just personal preference. Also, they're different states.
- 53:00They're going to have different laws.
- 53:03Thank you, Renee. Let's see.
- 53:08Oh, that's right. They did find pregnancy tests in
- 53:11her bathroom with Madeleine. That's right.
- 53:13You're right. And Stefan was searching online
- 53:16for a parent coin. Oh, I remember that too.
- 53:20Yeah, I forgot about that. Yep.
- 53:22Thanks, Krogu. And then cabling says she was
- 53:26threatening him for a reason. Either pregnancy or jealousy.
- 53:31Either way, a motive for him getting rid of her.
- 53:37Yeah. And, and keep in mind, I mean,
- 53:38we we have to remember this is a 14 year old child, right?
- 53:43She like it would be, it would be completely understandable for
- 53:49a grown person to have feelings of envy and jealousy and rage
- 53:55and want to, you know, take their pound of flesh.
- 53:59But multiply that by just being a child and not really having
- 54:02the experience to understand these emotions.
- 54:05I think that goes to motive for sure.
- 54:07I think you're right. Gabling.
- 54:08Thank you very much for that comment.
- 54:11Clarinet girl says that shovel work is hard, especially for a
- 54:15small man like Deform Vida. Yeah.
- 54:17I mean, yeah, yeah, he's, he's not a big guy.
- 54:24And and you're right, it's hard work.
- 54:27It's really, really hard work. So was Celeste pregnant?
- 54:32I think probably, or at least she felt that she she thought
- 54:35she was. And that goes to motive.
- 54:38And did everybody know what was going on that were there
- 54:44multiple people that were like, yeah, I know that David killed
- 54:48Celeste. I think probably that is true as
- 54:51well. And I mean, remember the whole
- 54:55metaphor. David is a shark swimming in an
- 54:57ocean, chomping at at delicious, delicious vittles.
- 55:03And as he's eating it, he there's just, there's just meat
- 55:07and carnage spewing out of his mouth.
- 55:10And then there are millions of little scavenger fish swimming
- 55:17around, eating U all the leftovers.
- 55:20And that is the life of a rock star man.
- 55:23And that's what all these people are doing.
- 55:25They're they're live streaming from his house.
- 55:28They're hanging out with them. They're, they're, they're
- 55:31absorbing cool coolness by osmosis, right?
- 55:35They're feeling they're, they're and, and they're just chomping
- 55:39up all of the leftovers from this rising star.
- 55:42And that goes to incentive for them to shut the mouth, right,
- 55:48'cause you gotta say the Boca. Don't, don't say anything
- 55:53because if, if, if he fails, if he falls, we all fall.
- 56:00And everybody has that motive. Now.
- 56:03Do I think that? Yeah, I do.
- 56:05I think that Nancy Grace's team had that subtitled correctly.
- 56:09I think that I think somebody said, yeah, me and David killed
- 56:12him. I think somebody did.
- 56:15And, and I think that somebody talented enough to unecho and to
- 56:21isolate, it's not exactly like the way it is in the movies, but
- 56:25I think that somebody with real talent could probably isolate
- 56:29that and make it so that it's a little bit more understandable.
- 56:33I think that there's going to be so many, there are going to be
- 56:36so many witnesses to this. I think Neil Langston's one of
- 56:39them. I think, I think all of them,
- 56:43all those voices we heard will be witnesses either for the
- 56:46prosecution or the defense, or they will invoke the 5th.
- 56:51I think there will be a lot of invocation of rights guaranteed
- 56:57by the 5th Amendment. I really do.
- 57:00And that is what we have for this case.
- 57:03But fear not, my friends, we are not despair not, despair not.
- 57:09We still have another like 3 gallons of content to put into
- 57:13the show. And why don't we move on to
- 57:17three questions? How?
- 57:26Guys, in this segment I answer 3 questions that are sent in by
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- 57:44I tend to get questions from the same people and I, I think
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- 58:16Let's see. Question number one comes from
- 58:19CM Warren 58. I prepared for this one, y'all.
- 58:24The question is, what was your favorite Christmas present as a
- 58:28child? Well, guys, this is not this is
- 58:33not a question that I made-up. This just came in.
- 58:36OK and I was just back in Sacramento where I discovered in
- 58:42my parents attic in like the rafters in the garage a few more
- 58:48boxes of mine. I thought I had cleared out
- 58:50everything. I had not.
- 58:51There were still a couple boxes in there.
- 58:53So I opened a box and I beheld one of my favorite Christmas
- 59:01presents. Now maybe my favorite Christmas
- 59:04present of all time was like my first CD player.
- 59:08I got an any CCD player, but in the winter of 1984, when the
- 59:15nation was a frenzied A frenzied, I say in the what was
- 59:25his name in the the world of Xavier Roberts?
- 59:29Everybody wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid.
- 59:33They had, I think they actually hit the market in 83, but they
- 59:37they reached their crescendo in 84.
- 59:42And I am the fourth of five children.
- 59:45In 1984 I was nine years old and that would have made my oldest
- 59:52sister 16 years old. I would have had a 14 year old
- 59:57brother, 12 year old brother and then a a five year old little
- 1:00:03sister. OK.
- 1:00:04And we were all given by. That jolly old elf T Nicholas.
- 1:00:11Each one of us a cabbage patch kid.
- 1:00:18And this was mine. This was my little cabbage patch
- 1:00:20kid. I found this.
- 1:00:22Let me let me bring this U here so you guys can see him a little
- 1:00:24bit better. I can't remember his name.
- 1:00:27He has a name but I can't remember his name.
- 1:00:30Anyway, I found this in a box in my parents attic and I brought
- 1:00:37him home and gave him to our youngest daughter.
- 1:00:41So for that question, yeah, this is, I mean, at the time I was
- 1:00:48over the moon for this guy. Over the moon.
- 1:00:52Does the zipper still work? Let's see, let's see.
- 1:00:55Oh yeah, he's still got his. He's still got his Cabbage Patch
- 1:00:58Kids little little onesie T-shirt on under there.
- 1:01:02He's got his diaper on still. He's a he's an original 1984,
- 1:01:08not not one of the 1970s before. What was it?
- 1:01:13Coleco or whatever licensed it. He's not a soft face.
- 1:01:18He is he is one of the hard faced ones, but that is probably
- 1:01:23at the time definitely my favorite Christmas present of
- 1:01:27all time. Meal Cabbage Patch Kid and now
- 1:01:30our daughter gets to play with them.
- 1:01:35Thank you for that question. I want to know what your
- 1:01:37favorite Christmas present of all time was.
- 1:01:40That was that was pretty fun that you asked that Anonymous
- 1:01:45asks when solving true crime cases, what resources are most
- 1:01:49needed? Really, it depends on the case.
- 1:01:54Often times it's I need somebody to take it seriously.
- 1:01:59I need the police, I need an investigator, I need the FBII
- 1:02:03need a prosecutor's office to take this seriously.
- 1:02:09There are way too many families that are just fighting against
- 1:02:14that. The Greenbergs, the Winkowskis,
- 1:02:19the Elmquests, right? Take this seriously.
- 1:02:23My child was murdered. Often times these families don't
- 1:02:29fight because they run out of money.
- 1:02:32They, they, they can't fight. Often times these families will
- 1:02:36mortgage their homes with second mortgages.
- 1:02:39Sometimes they will lose their homes in the fight to, to get
- 1:02:43justice for their family. So when, when you come across a
- 1:02:48family like, like the Winkowskis, the Greenbergs, the
- 1:02:52Elmquists, one of the things they might ask for is money.
- 1:02:57Money to pay for a private investigator, money to pay for a
- 1:03:01publisher, money to pay for, you know, a billboards or something
- 1:03:07to get somebody's attention. As long as they are a legitimate
- 1:03:13family in need, I, I hope that we all will help.
- 1:03:18That's now also, there are people like Tom Brennan, for
- 1:03:23example, man with over 800 murder investigations under his
- 1:03:28belt who will do it pro bono. So we need more Tom Brennan's of
- 1:03:33the world. We need more of those.
- 1:03:36Thanks for that question and question #3 tonight from Kelly.
- 1:03:41Kevin, are you a thoughtful gift giver?
- 1:03:44Kelly, when I answer this, I want you to believe me, OK?
- 1:03:50You got to believe this. I am the world's worst giver of
- 1:03:56gifts. I suck at it.
- 1:03:58I'm. I just don't pay close enough
- 1:04:00attention. You know, on my birthday, on my
- 1:04:04birthday, which was the big 5 O, which I just I wasn't happy
- 1:04:09about. I've really, I really had a hard
- 1:04:10time turning 50. I went back to California and as
- 1:04:14part of my search for happiness in the in the wake of turning
- 1:04:2450, I got back in touch with an old friend and I happened to be
- 1:04:28there on my birthday. And I said, let's go out to
- 1:04:31dinner. We go out to dinner.
- 1:04:33That dude hadn't, we hadn't seen each other in two decades, maybe
- 1:04:372 1/2 decades. And and I, and he and he, first,
- 1:04:42he remembered it was my birthday, right?
- 1:04:45He remembered. And I was like, please don't
- 1:04:48make a big deal out of it. I'm having a hard time.
- 1:04:51Let's just not do the birthday thing, right?
- 1:04:54So true to form, he was awesome about it.
- 1:04:57He's like, yeah, I got you, Gavin, don't worry about it.
- 1:05:00But then he brought two of my favorite edible things in the
- 1:05:06world. The first being the humble Rice
- 1:05:09Krispie treat, which I love, and second being lemon squares,
- 1:05:15which I love. And he had remembered from the
- 1:05:20time we were like 16-17 years old.
- 1:05:22Gavin loves Rice Krispies, Gavin loves lemon squares.
- 1:05:26And he just brought them as like, I know that you said no
- 1:05:29gifts. This isn't really a gift here.
- 1:05:32I thought of you so freaking thoughtful, right?
- 1:05:39I, I, no, I'm a terrible gift giver.
- 1:05:43I'll tell you what I'm good at though.
- 1:05:44I'm good at expressing my actual heartfelt affection for
- 1:05:50somebody. I do it verbally.
- 1:05:53I do it with eye contact and, and I was taught well by my
- 1:05:58parents, but I'm not a good gift giver.
- 1:06:02If you have any like tips on how to improve, not improve, improve
- 1:06:09hobby, you're going to have to edit that out.
- 1:06:11I hope you don't mind. Thank you.
- 1:06:14My ability to give gifts. Is there some kind of tool, like
- 1:06:18if somebody says something, you know, like, oh, I should jot
- 1:06:23that down. You know, she likes this, he
- 1:06:26likes this. I could have a list.
- 1:06:28I don't know if you have any suggestions on how I could
- 1:06:31improve that about myself because I'm so bad at it.
- 1:06:34Like if you asked me right now what my wife, the most important
- 1:06:42person in my life, wants right now as a gift for her, for our
- 1:06:49anniversary, for her birthday, for just because I love her so
- 1:06:54much, I I cannot answer that question for you.
- 1:06:59She's the most important person in my life.
- 1:07:02I have no idea. I have no idea.
- 1:07:05And in typical fashion, when our kids have special days, their
- 1:07:10birthdays, we have keister days for a couple of our kids.
- 1:07:14We have one child who has an anniversary.
- 1:07:19I will go to Kimberly and go, what are we going to get the
- 1:07:22kids for their anniversary? And she's like, it's already
- 1:07:25done, it's in the mail, it's already there.
- 1:07:29Good. I married a thoughtful and
- 1:07:32terrific woman. I just don't have that.
- 1:07:35I don't have that in me. So if you have any, if you have
- 1:07:38any thoughts on what I can do to improve that about myself,
- 1:07:42please put them in the comments. And while you guys are working,
- 1:07:46please put GF in your comments. Anything that you want me to see
- 1:07:49while you're working on that, let's move on to headlines,
- 1:07:51shall we? True.
- 1:07:57Crime headlines. Hey, and before we really hop
- 1:08:02into headlines, let me just do one last reminder that for today
- 1:08:09that you can go to fanofthem.com/gavin Fish, buy
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- 1:08:33of lust after this thing, Omega Speedmaster.
- 1:08:36It's about a $5000 watch. And by doing so, you support my
- 1:08:40channel. And I've just been trying to
- 1:08:45come up with a way to be able to give back to people who are,
- 1:08:50are, are supporting me so generously.
- 1:08:53And I thought a giveaway, this is something that we could do.
- 1:08:56So go over to fanofthem.com/gavinfish or click
- 1:09:00the link in the description below.
- 1:09:02Purchase that limited edition collectible or digital download
- 1:09:06and enter to win this Omega Speedmaster.
- 1:09:09It's going to look good on your wrist.
- 1:09:11Look at that tachometer. Oh, look, just just look at it
- 1:09:18chronograph. It's just beautiful.
- 1:09:20Anyway, OK, headlines. Do you remember that yesterday
- 1:09:26we talked a little bit about which it was a Kardashian that
- 1:09:32weighed in on the Nancy Guthrie case.
- 1:09:35And I was like, you know what? We're going to talk about it
- 1:09:38because it keeps the case top of mind, keeps it in front of
- 1:09:42people. Well, we're continuing that.
- 1:09:44All right, We're going to continue.
- 1:09:45Wrong button, Gavin, that we're going over here.
- 1:09:49Reported in.yahoo.com by Sengupta Srimanti or Srimanti
- 1:09:55Sheriff Chris Nanos verifies he's keeping secrets in Nancy
- 1:09:58Guthrie case after Khloe Kardashian clock's weird
- 1:10:02investigation. I know, I know, that was painful
- 1:10:06to hear. It wasn't nearly as painful to
- 1:10:08hear as it was for me to speak aloud.
- 1:10:10But let's read a couple of paragraphs, shall we?
- 1:10:13Reality star Khloe Kardashian said that the Nancy Guthrie
- 1:10:16investigation is weird, indirectly raising doubts about
- 1:10:20Sheriff Kris Nanos's handling of the disappearance of NBC anchor
- 1:10:24Savannah Guthrie's mother. Kardashian appeared on an
- 1:10:28episode of Khloe in Wonderland. I think I just died a little bit
- 1:10:33reading OK, keep going Gavin. And said that the death, that
- 1:10:38the dearth of information was mind blowing.
- 1:10:41Kardashian reportedly said that Guthrie's case was
- 1:10:44heartbreaking, adding. I don't know, I'm just like,
- 1:10:46this is 2026. There's nothing that is mind
- 1:10:50blowing. Kardashian claims to be obsessed
- 1:10:53with the case when she finds vital unknown details.
- 1:10:57According to OK Magazine, Nanos has confirmed that their team is
- 1:11:02deliberately keeping secrets from the public in the case.
- 1:11:05Well, duh. When asked about the alleged
- 1:11:09secrets, Nano said yeah, yes, absolutely there are.
- 1:11:12But it's not done because we got to keep secret.
- 1:11:14It's done because we got to protect our case.
- 1:11:17OK, I'm going to stop there. I've, I'm, I died too much
- 1:11:20inside. And I've worked so hard over the
- 1:11:23last 8 1/2 months to get more healthy.
- 1:11:27I don't want years taken off my life by reading this.
- 1:11:31But Nancy Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie, Nancy
- 1:11:34Guthrie, we got to keep that one top of mind.
- 1:11:38OK, Turning to the Alex Murdoch case, Murdoch's lawyers to
- 1:11:43introduce shocking DNA findings that could upend murder cases at
- 1:11:48retrial. According to Georgia Worrell,
- 1:11:51New York post.com, Alex Murdoch's lawyers revealed the
- 1:11:54new evidence they'll introduce at retrial to argue the
- 1:11:58disgraced legal scion's innocence in his wife and son's
- 1:12:02murders, including never before heard DNA findings.
- 1:12:05Quote, there was DNA under Maggie's fingernails, male DNA
- 1:12:09that was not DNA of Alex or any other family members, Murdoch's
- 1:12:14lead attorney Jim Griffin told News Nation anchor Chris Cuomo
- 1:12:18on Thursday, one day after the South Carolina Supreme Court
- 1:12:21shockingly overturned Murdoch's double murder conviction.
- 1:12:27They were never put into CODIS, Griffin said, referring to a
- 1:12:30database utilized by law enforcement to compare DNA
- 1:12:33profiles that has never been followed up on.
- 1:12:37Murdoch, 57, had been serving 2 consecutive life 7 take 2 Javi 2
- 1:12:43consecutive life sentences without parole for the grisly
- 1:12:46executions of his wife Maggie and their 22 year old son Paul,
- 1:12:50after a jury unanimously found him guilty of the slayings
- 1:12:53following a dramatic 6 week trial in 2023.
- 1:12:56And then as we read in the decision yesterday, because of
- 1:13:01miss, what was her name? Rebecca Hill, this woman right
- 1:13:06here. I do solemnly swear to tell the
- 1:13:10truth. If I'm otherwise, I should be
- 1:13:14clutching the pearls that I'd be wearing.
- 1:13:16Yeah, she tipped the scales. She has pleaded guilty to
- 1:13:22several things. And now we have to go through
- 1:13:26another Murdoch trial. Rebecca, you dirty rat.
- 1:13:31OK from news for San Antonio No trial date set in Brad Simpson
- 1:13:38murder case amid sensitive evidence, review written by
- 1:13:42Christopher Hoffman Dateline San Antonio Hobby You're going to
- 1:13:47have to earn your keep on this one.
- 1:13:49Sorry buddy. A judge declined to set a trial
- 1:13:52date Thursday in the murder case against Brad Simpson, citing an
- 1:13:55ongoing review of sensitive evidence connected to the
- 1:13:59investigation into the disappearance and presumed death
- 1:14:02of his wife, Suzanne Simpson. Oh, oh, oh, oh, guys.
- 1:14:08Ah, Dang. It didn't do it in time.
- 1:14:13I didn't do it in time. I, I got the yachts.
- 1:14:16I don't anyone. Yeah.
- 1:14:19Suzanne Simpson's body still hasn't been found during a
- 1:14:22status hearing. Judge Joel Perez said no trial
- 1:14:26date can be scheduled at this time because 81st District Judge
- 1:14:29Lynn Ellison is still conducting an in camera review of a large
- 1:14:34amount of sensitive case material.
- 1:14:36An in camera review is a private examination of confidential or
- 1:14:40sensitive evidence by a judge outside the presence of the
- 1:14:43public and jury. The process is used to determine
- 1:14:46whether certain materials should be released to prosecutors or
- 1:14:49the defense. So no, no trial date yet for Mr.
- 1:14:56Simpson. And then turning to Luigi
- 1:14:59Mangioni. Prosecutors say his defense
- 1:15:03team's juror questions are too intrusive.
- 1:15:08In federal case. This written by Adam Sabis or
- 1:15:13Saves and Maria Peronich on foxnews.com Prosecutors in
- 1:15:17Luigian Gavin slow down Gavin, slow down Javi and work hard,
- 1:15:25buddy. Prosecutors in the Luigi
- 1:15:27Mangioni case are arguing that his defense team's plan to dig
- 1:15:31into jurors private lives is too intrusive.
- 1:15:34In court documents filed Monday, federal prosecutors responded to
- 1:15:38questions to jurors proposed by Mangioni's defense team, which
- 1:15:42haven't yet been made public. Deputy US Attorney Sean Buckley
- 1:15:46wrote that some of the questions are unnecessarily intrusive.
- 1:15:51Mangione, of course, is accused of assassinating the United
- 1:15:54Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and his filing.
- 1:15:57Buckley argued that a question proposed by Mangione's team
- 1:16:00asking jurors about some aspects of their personal lives goes too
- 1:16:04far. Quote disputed Question 14 a,
- 1:16:07which asks jurors to list, among other personal details, the
- 1:16:11ages, genders, occupations and education histories of their
- 1:16:15children, is unnecessarily intrusive, he wrote.
- 1:16:19Another question disputed by federal prosecutors asks
- 1:16:22potential jurors how often they attend religious services.
- 1:16:26This question is inappropriate because a jurors religious
- 1:16:29practices have no bearing on the jurors fitness to serve, Buckley
- 1:16:32wrote. So they continue to fight over
- 1:16:36there. Now that's that's it for the
- 1:16:39crime news. OK.
- 1:16:41And Wanda, I know that you didn't have time to write a
- 1:16:45Jingle, though you are a talent and I don't know why it would
- 1:16:48take you any time at all. But if you could give us maybe
- 1:16:51some transition music to go into good news.
- 1:16:55Can you do that for us? It's nice Wanda, getting all the
- 1:17:08shedding, shedding all the bad vibes, shedding them away so
- 1:17:15that we can read this piece of good news.
- 1:17:17Thank you Wanda, this piece of good news brought to you by Good
- 1:17:21News Network written by Andy Corbley With Mills shuttered,
- 1:17:25grassroots effort hopes to give Welsh Valley new purpose with
- 1:17:29gorgeous 83 mile hiking trail. Guys, I love this so much.
- 1:17:33Do you want to know why? Because there is there are
- 1:17:36hiking trails all over Great Britain, all over the United
- 1:17:39Kingdom where you can just walk. You can walk all the way around
- 1:17:44the island. I have availed myself of walking
- 1:17:48on said trail multiple times, once with my son and it was
- 1:17:53amazing. And I also happen to live in an
- 1:17:56area that is economically depressed because the oil
- 1:17:59industry left. So what do you do?
- 1:18:03Well in Wales they are looking to hiking trails.
- 1:18:07A new three day hiking trail is breathing life and money back
- 1:18:10into a historic, I should say an historic valley in the Welsh
- 1:18:15countryside. Famous for its valleys and its
- 1:18:18countryside, Wales is no stranger to hiking routes.
- 1:18:21The region has a robust rambling community and an existing famous
- 1:18:26trail that traces the Welsh coastline, now meandering along
- 1:18:31the is the Taifi River. The Taifi Valley Trail allows
- 1:18:36hikers to experience 850 years of history, from the days of
- 1:18:40monastic hermitages to the industrial mill towns of the
- 1:18:4419th century quote. One of the main reasons for the
- 1:18:47trail is to get people with backpacks and boots down here to
- 1:18:50spend money, trail organizer James Williams told the
- 1:18:53Guardian, whose correspondent walked the trail recently.
- 1:18:56Quote, we've seen the economic effect the coastal paths have.
- 1:19:01We thought we could have a bit of that as well.
- 1:19:04Coastal paths are amazing. The Taifi Taifi River used to be
- 1:19:11a substantial economic artery through the Welsh nation.
- 1:19:14It was crucial for materials, transportation and a robust
- 1:19:17fishing industry, while the surrounding countryside was the
- 1:19:20heart of Welsh wool production. Anyway, they've built a trail 85
- 1:19:27miles long. For those of you who are in the
- 1:19:30United Kingdom, maybe go down there, maybe walk that area and
- 1:19:34see some amazing things. The last time I was on the
- 1:19:36Coastal Trail in Great Britain, it was in the South, and I was
- 1:19:41walking along with my son and we came across a church that had
- 1:19:48been in continuous use since 1100.
- 1:19:52I just thought that as an American, that is so freaking
- 1:19:54old, and I loved it so much to share that time walking the
- 1:19:59Coastal path with my son. So that made me feel happy.
- 1:20:04And those guys, those, what are they?
- 1:20:06They're your headlines. True crime.
- 1:20:13Headlines. All righty, let's finish out our
- 1:20:18day with some of your comments. Let's see, it's refreshed.
- 1:20:25I think I'm going to miss some of them, Mooney says, talking
- 1:20:30about her favorite Christmas gift.
- 1:20:33Mine was a snow cone maker. I was in the hospital really
- 1:20:37sick and Santa came. I was so surprised he found me
- 1:20:39in the hospital. I was four or five.
- 1:20:41Well, Santa's magical old elf. That's awesome.
- 1:20:48Yes. I have not checked, but this is
- 1:20:51true. There is a little Xavier Roberts
- 1:20:54signature on the bottom. Yes, indeed.
- 1:20:59What else have you got, Kelly? Is Kelly's trying to Kelly,
- 1:21:05you're trying to break the rules.
- 1:21:07Got to send that if you got to send the question in, Debbie
- 1:21:10says, is Tom the private investigator helping the
- 1:21:13Greenbergs free of charge all these years?
- 1:21:15Yes, he is. Tom Brennan is the best.
- 1:21:19Glitter is forever, says Gavin. I call BSI would believe you to
- 1:21:23be a great gift giver because you are empathetic, observant
- 1:21:26and thoughtful. A sentimentalist or a connector
- 1:21:31gaining joy from making others feel seen and special.
- 1:21:34Yeah. I just don't know how to do it
- 1:21:35through gifting. I can do it through language,
- 1:21:39but I don't know how to do it through gifting.
- 1:21:42You, you can call BS all you want.
- 1:21:45The truth remains true, K Bling says.
- 1:21:49Ha, ha, Gavin. Gift givers are usually women.
- 1:21:51Women tune into what people want.
- 1:21:53Sorry, but it's true. That's amazing for a guy.
- 1:21:55Yeah, Matt. Matt's the best.
- 1:21:57Kelly. Trying to get just trying to get
- 1:22:00me to answer a question during three questions.
- 1:22:02Got to got to send it in. Got to send it in.
- 1:22:06Freda says I'm a good gift giver as long as it's not under the
- 1:22:10precious or the pressure of a holiday.
- 1:22:14Let's start over. I'm a good gift giver as long as
- 1:22:17it's not under the pressure of a holiday.
- 1:22:20IEI should just save the gift until it's time.
- 1:22:25Clarinet girl says 1. Christmas in my toys was one of
- 1:22:28the really, really good metal slinkies.
- 1:22:32This was in the 1960s. I played with it up and down our
- 1:22:36front steps for hours and hours. Oh yeah, the metal ones, that
- 1:22:40classic good stuff, Robin says. I feel like the white gloved
- 1:22:46hand holding the watch has a British accent.
- 1:22:48Well, I mean, Omega is a British company.
- 1:22:51No, it's not Swiss, Swiss company.
- 1:22:53It's just I, I always, let's bring it up here.
- 1:23:00Anytime I think Omega, I think James Bond.
- 1:23:03Look at that, just look at that. That is glorious.
- 1:23:07OK, just Ducky, do we get peanut butter with that fluff?
- 1:23:12Thank you very much Ducky for the Super chat.
- 1:23:14Appreciate that. Debbie, gift cards to your wife,
- 1:23:18favorite place or prepaid visa card for anywhere or just ask
- 1:23:22her what she wants from you. Easy peasy.
- 1:23:24I feel like I feel like part of being a good gift getter giver
- 1:23:28is being a guy or person who can, who can just sense it.
- 1:23:35And for my wife, it doesn't work.
- 1:23:37Money, gift cards does not work. She that doesn't work.
- 1:23:42But thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 1:23:47Diane Faris, could your hair be falling out due to the change in
- 1:23:50your diet? My hair is falling out
- 1:23:53everywhere. It my diet is healthy and I am
- 1:23:57taking the supplements for my hair and I've been looking at
- 1:24:01pictures from like 10 years ago. My hairline is the same from
- 1:24:04back then. I don't think I'm losing hair.
- 1:24:06I'm just like, it's just hey, wait a minute, Diane, did you
- 1:24:11get in a question? You got in a question during
- 1:24:15three questions. I can't believe I fell for it.
- 1:24:20Thank you for saying Alex, not Alec Murdoch.
- 1:24:22Nobody on TV says it, right? Please take note.
- 1:24:25This is not an endorsement for the man.
- 1:24:26Thank you clarinet girl. Kelly Alexander.
- 1:24:30Mine was the Kissy doll. Very very popular in the early
- 1:24:3460s. Oh, now Debbie's now Debbie's
- 1:24:38hopping in. Have I ever regifted a gift?
- 1:24:41I will. I will not answer that unless it
- 1:24:43is emailed to three questions at gavinfish.com.
- 1:24:47Guys, this has been a great week.
- 1:24:48Thank you so much for joining me on YouTube on Spotify.
- 1:24:52Hey, if you are in the re watch crew and you have a Spotify
- 1:24:56membership, please go watch over there it it is a free and easy
- 1:25:00way to help the channel. The channel has been growing.
- 1:25:04I think I surpassed the 800 subscribers mark over on
- 1:25:11Spotify, which doesn't sound like much, but I love it.
- 1:25:15I love that it is growing. All I do is at the end of this
- 1:25:19here live stream on YouTube. I uploaded to Spotify and I
- 1:25:22deeply, deeply appreciate those who watch over there.
- 1:25:25I'm working on coming up with ideas for giving more value to
- 1:25:33those of you who are members of the channel and also are on
- 1:25:38Patreon. I think I'm going to do a weekly
- 1:25:42after show. I think that's probably going to
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- 1:25:56do. And but I want your, your input
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- 1:26:05to, I don't know. It's the same thing with the
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