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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace the singer David Anthony Burke
- 0:10Speaker 1: known as David. It looks like D four VD has
- 0:16Speaker 1: fled his twenty thousand dollars a month home, breaking a
- 0:22Speaker 1: very expensive lease. Why why run out and flee your
- 0:27Speaker 1: home in the middle of the night. Are you concerned
- 0:31Speaker 1: about what forensic evidence is found in the home or
- 0:35Speaker 1: does it hold bad memories? This as a blood soaked
- 0:41Speaker 1: video emerges after a teen girl just thirteen years old,
- 0:47Speaker 1: when she goes missing, Celeste, is found dead in the
- 0:51Speaker 1: trunk of his Tesla LAPD. Why no arrest? I needs
- 0:59Speaker 1: he This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you
- 1:02Speaker 1: for being with us. You can smell the truck as
- 1:07Speaker 1: you approached the tesla. How can somebody put a then
- 1:12Speaker 1: thirteen year old little girl in a truck and leave
- 1:15Speaker 1: the car there for weeks on? And an integral part
- 1:22Speaker 1: of any homicide investigation is a time line. It's critical
- 1:29Speaker 1: based on a timeline, you can alibi people, you can
- 1:34Speaker 1: unalibi other people that you're looking at as a suspect.
- 1:39Speaker 1: It changes everything. And in the last hours, a video
- 1:44Speaker 1: has emerged potentially placing this little girl just thirteen years
- 1:49Speaker 1: old when she goes missing at a David d four
- 1:54Speaker 1: VD concert in Maryland on August twenty four. Significance very quickly.
- 2:02Speaker 1: Dave mack joining me Crime Stories investigative reporter Dave mac win.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Was Celeste's body found in David Burke's Tesla Trump. She
- 2:13Speaker 1: was found on September the eighth, and it had been
- 2:16Speaker 1: sitting out on the street in posh Hollywood Hills for
- 2:21Speaker 1: weeks that we know of. So that gives me a timeline.
- 2:25Speaker 1: That's what I'm getting at. And this will be very
- 2:29Speaker 1: significant when we have doctor Kendall Crown's right now medical
- 2:32Speaker 1: examiner explain the degree of dcomp in this little girl's body.
- 2:37Speaker 1: So if she is alive, if this is in fact
- 2:40Speaker 1: her in the video August twenty four, and then we've
- 2:44Speaker 1: got September seven, that gives me a timeline. Let's take
- 2:48Speaker 1: a look at the video right now. This video has
- 2:51Speaker 1: been circulating video from at clips of David on TikTok. Now,
- 2:57Speaker 1: isn't it true? Melissa McCarty joining me, I investigative reporter,
- 3:01Speaker 1: host of the Killer Jeans podcast, author of the Making
- 3:05Speaker 1: of a Crime Reporter. Melissa, Thank you for being with us.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Isn't it true that Celeste's body was found in a
- 3:12Speaker 1: black tube top and ripped jeans. Isn't that true, Melissa?
- 3:15Speaker 2: She was about seventy five miles away from where she
- 3:18Speaker 2: was living with her family in Lake Elsinoor in the
- 3:20Speaker 2: Hollywood Hills.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Now, I'm going to come back to you on that, Melissa,
- 3:23Speaker 1: because I don't think she was living with her family anymore.
- 3:25Speaker 1: She wasn't one time, and then she goes missing. And
- 3:29Speaker 1: according to neighbors that we have heard about tonight, she
- 3:33Speaker 1: had been living with this grown man, David Anthony Burke
- 3:38Speaker 1: aka David for a long time. Some sources date her
- 3:45Speaker 1: relationship back to her age eleven. Did you see that
- 3:49Speaker 1: picture of her as a little girl, Yeah, age eleven,
- 3:54Speaker 1: We could establish age thirteen. You are seeing video from
- 4:00Speaker 1: at clips of David on TikTok. I want to see
- 4:04Speaker 1: that again because now we are learning. We are learning.
- 4:08Speaker 1: Moses Castillo joining me, former supervisor detective at LAPD, private
- 4:14Speaker 1: investigator for the Dordellian Law Group. Castillo. Look at this.
- 4:19Speaker 1: People are saying, no, that's not her. So it's a
- 4:21Speaker 1: woman that a young girl that looks just like her,
- 4:25Speaker 1: that is wearing her clothes, that is in a balcony
- 4:28Speaker 1: reserved for special guests and family and Moses Castillo. Uh oh,
- 4:34Speaker 1: by the way, this is from atclips of David on
- 4:36Speaker 1: TikTok Moses same clothes. People are saying, oh, wait, I
- 4:41Speaker 1: don't think that's her, Sure looks like her. Who should
- 4:44Speaker 1: I believe them? Are my lying eyes?
- 4:46Speaker 3: Yes, I believe it is her, and I believe many
- 4:49Speaker 3: people also believe it's her, beginning in several dms on
- 4:52Speaker 3: my social media with that same video saying oh my gosh,
- 4:56Speaker 3: he killed her in August.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Guys, this is from a over Springs, Maryland concert August
- 5:02Speaker 1: twenty four, and if true, these photos create a timeline
- 5:06Speaker 1: from August twenty four until her decomposing body is found
- 5:11Speaker 1: in Burke artists known as David Tesla in an m
- 5:16Speaker 1: pound lot on September eight. Is reported the Tesla was
- 5:21Speaker 1: parked on the street for about a month before being
- 5:24Speaker 1: reported abandoned. There is I assume that is the front
- 5:30Speaker 1: of the to lot. It was reported abandoned September three.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Now we now have a timeline from August twenty four
- 5:41Speaker 1: to September three, not when the body was discovered in
- 5:47Speaker 1: the parking in the toe lot, but when it was abandoned.
- 5:51Speaker 1: The body was already in there. We have now narrowed
- 5:54Speaker 1: the timeline down from August twenty four to September three.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Me right now is a renowned medical examiner. And when
- 6:04Speaker 1: I say that, I mean it. I go to doctor
- 6:07Speaker 1: Kendall Crown's repeatedly on and off air with questions why.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Because he has performed over ten thousand autopsies. I'm talking accident,
- 6:19Speaker 1: natural causes, suicide, homicide, and of course undetermined deaths. He
- 6:25Speaker 1: has autopsied infants, the elderly, bizarre deaths and found the
- 6:33Speaker 1: answer from inside his morgue. He is the host a
- 6:38Speaker 1: hit podcast, Mayhem in the Morgue, and he is a
- 6:41Speaker 1: chief medical examiner in Terran County that's Fort Worth, and
- 6:44Speaker 1: esteemed lecturer at the Brenet School of Medicine at TCU.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Doctor Crowns, what does this mean to you? The fact
- 6:52Speaker 1: that we have a narrow timeline August twenty fourth to
- 6:55Speaker 1: September three. Her body was an advanced eight of decomposure.
- 7:01Speaker 1: I don't even know if we're going to get a
- 7:02Speaker 1: cod cause of death.
- 7:03Speaker 4: Well with individuals that have been placed in trunks or
- 7:08Speaker 4: have been murdered and then not found for a period
- 7:10Speaker 4: of time, especially in a warm environment, you can have
- 7:13Speaker 4: a significant amount of decomposition and cur where the body
- 7:16Speaker 4: begins to blow or fill up with gases. It turns
- 7:20Speaker 4: the discoloration of a green discoloration. It almost gets a
- 7:23Speaker 4: black color. At some points the skin starts to slip off,
- 7:26Speaker 4: and this can obscure injuries, but it won't completely obscure
- 7:30Speaker 4: gunshot wounds and knife wounds. It can actually make strangulations
- 7:34Speaker 4: hard to detect. But all in all, you can still
- 7:38Speaker 4: can you.
- 7:38Speaker 1: See your monitor as you're just tripping is the word
- 7:43Speaker 1: just tripping off your tongue? You see who we're talking about,
- 7:46Speaker 1: that little girl. You're talking about our body turning green
- 7:49Speaker 1: and then black, And how I don't know how you
- 7:55Speaker 1: do that? How you just look at this gorgeous little
- 7:58Speaker 1: girl just thirteen at the time she goes missing and
- 8:02Speaker 1: talk about her skin turning green. Okay, that's for you
- 8:07Speaker 1: and your strength to figure out how we're going to
- 8:10Speaker 1: get a CEOD on this little girl.
- 8:12Speaker 4: By doing a complete autopsy, they'll be able to evaluate
- 8:15Speaker 4: the body for injuries and any fractures or anything of
- 8:19Speaker 4: that nature. You can look at the neck structures, looking
- 8:21Speaker 4: at the hyoid bone, which is a bone in the
- 8:23Speaker 4: neck looking for fractures things of that nature. You can
- 8:27Speaker 4: look at the skeletal system looking for fractures of the bone.
- 8:30Speaker 4: You can still see the skin surface even though they're decomposing,
- 8:34Speaker 4: and you can see injuries that look like gunshot wounds
- 8:37Speaker 4: or stabbings. The only problem is when the body is decomposing,
- 8:42Speaker 4: if you get insect activity. Insects can alter how injuries
- 8:46Speaker 4: will look, and they can also create their own burrowing
- 8:50Speaker 4: into the body that can look like injuries themselves. So
- 8:53Speaker 4: you're going to want to look for blood.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Okay, stop right there.
- 8:56Speaker 5: Place.
- 8:56Speaker 1: You are now talking about a very very advanced technolog
- 9:00Speaker 1: and it is for entomology, where the age of for instance,
- 9:08Speaker 1: a blowfly, a maggot, the age of the maggot can
- 9:15Speaker 1: determine how long the body has been dead because maggots
- 9:22Speaker 1: or blowflies appear at a certain point in decomposition. So
- 9:28Speaker 1: if they're one day old, two days old, three days old,
- 9:31Speaker 1: if they have already laid their own eggs, that can
- 9:35Speaker 1: give you a date of death. Did I enunciate that correctly? Yes, The.
- 9:44Speaker 4: Life cycle of a blowfly can be helpful in trying
- 9:48Speaker 4: to help pinpoint the time frame in which this individual died,
- 9:52Speaker 4: although the life cycle can be altered by things like cocaine,
- 9:56Speaker 4: which can speed up the life cycle, So you have
- 9:58Speaker 4: to take into effect environmental conditions around it when you're
- 10:02Speaker 4: making those determinations on how long that individual's been dead.
- 10:06Speaker 1: Many listeners and viewers have asked, how can a blowfly
- 10:11Speaker 1: get into a sealed trunk? And, as you know with
- 10:15Speaker 1: the Tesla, it's a fronk. The trunk is in the front,
- 10:20Speaker 1: but they somehow managed to get in spaces that seem
- 10:26Speaker 1: to be hermetically sealed. I don't know how they do it,
- 10:28Speaker 1: but they do get in, and their existence can help
- 10:33Speaker 1: you pinpoint a time of death. Now, I'd like to
- 10:37Speaker 1: draw the attention of our veterans trial lawyer Troy Slayton
- 10:41Speaker 1: to a video. I'm about to play Slayton out of
- 10:43Speaker 1: this jurisdiction LA criminal defense attorney at Slayton Lawyers. Let's
- 10:51Speaker 1: roll the video. Please take a look, Troy Slayton. Oh,
- 10:56Speaker 1: who's that? Oh it's the artist known as what's he doing? Oh?
- 11:02Speaker 1: He's putting a dead, bloody body into a car trunk.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Let's just let that soak in for a moment, Okay,
- 11:14Speaker 1: Chroyce Layton joining me. Guys, this is from David YouTube.
- 11:19Speaker 1: That's not helping any potential defense.
- 11:21Speaker 6: So we're going to prosecute people now because of their art.
- 11:24Speaker 6: We're going to prosecute people because of music videos that
- 11:29Speaker 6: were heavily produced and edited and created by a team
- 11:34Speaker 6: of creative experts.
- 11:36Speaker 7: I don't think so, Nancy.
- 11:37Speaker 6: He also had a casket on stage sometimes what he
- 11:41Speaker 6: would perform. So just because he was obsessed with these
- 11:47Speaker 6: morbid themes, that doesn't mean that he's a murderer.
- 11:52Speaker 1: I don't think that's really helping anything.
- 11:54Speaker 6: That you bring up a task which shows the perfect
- 11:58Speaker 6: thing for somebody who wants to frame him.
- 12:01Speaker 1: I'm totally not hiring you anymore when I when I
- 12:04Speaker 1: murder someone, If you're going to bring up that I've
- 12:07Speaker 1: been obsessing on a casket and then I commit a murder,
- 12:11Speaker 1: no no, no no no, uh no, Slaton, he's obsessed
- 12:17Speaker 1: with this the video Again, it's not just that he
- 12:21Speaker 1: may be obsessed with death. Here's an mo O. You
- 12:24Speaker 1: know what that is, right, modus operadi method of debt,
- 12:27Speaker 1: method of operation. Can I see the video? This is
- 12:30Speaker 1: not a casket. This is him dragging a body. As
- 12:35Speaker 1: you say, for art sake and putting it in a trunk,
- 12:40Speaker 1: a dead alsody, a bloody dead a trunk. That's the
- 12:45Speaker 1: method of operation here.
- 12:46Speaker 6: There's all sorts of other imagery that's going on here.
- 12:51Speaker 6: And this is a a person, an artist who's obsessed
- 12:56Speaker 6: with Japanese anime which glorifies certain death and alter egos.
- 13:04Speaker 6: He talked about having an alter ego that was obsessed
- 13:08Speaker 6: with death.
- 13:10Speaker 7: And so I don't think that some music video.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Well, what's really interesting that you would say that because
- 13:16Speaker 1: you remember the name Orenthal J. Simpson, right a J. Simpson.
- 13:20Speaker 1: He talked about sports on TV, but he also had
- 13:23Speaker 1: a premonition that he murdered his wife, Nicole.
- 13:25Speaker 7: And he did you mean the book if I did it.
- 13:28Speaker 1: Trust me, if you did it. I am not making
- 13:33Speaker 1: a cameo appearance as a defense attorney. Just know that.
- 13:36Speaker 1: And while you chalk this up to freedom of expression
- 13:39Speaker 1: in First Amendment, you know what, Just stop that. Doctor
- 13:42Speaker 1: Angela Arnold is a psychiatrist who has been voted to
- 13:48Speaker 1: the top of all sorts of accolades. She's an Angela Arnold,
- 13:52Speaker 1: MD and former Professor Psychiatry at Emma University, former medical
- 13:59Speaker 1: director its Psychiatric clinic at Grady Memorial, which is known
- 14:04Speaker 1: for its high traffic. Dodriangie, thank you for being with us. Yes,
- 14:08Speaker 1: Chroice late and I knew who's going to fall back
- 14:10Speaker 1: on the first Amendment there, But I want you to
- 14:12Speaker 1: look again at your monitor and tell me who creates
- 14:17Speaker 1: that who I mean think about because so remember how
- 14:20Speaker 1: he treated women in his life like crap And I'm
- 14:24Speaker 1: putting that very mildly. And his art showed them dissected
- 14:28Speaker 1: and in cubes, and their bodies all ripped apart and
- 14:32Speaker 1: very ugly, like their tongues hanging out and their eyes
- 14:37Speaker 1: one over here and one over here. Yes, that was
- 14:40Speaker 1: freedom of expression too, and he also hated women. So
- 14:44Speaker 1: help me out with this video. I'm not saying this
- 14:46Speaker 1: is state's exhibit number one. I think we're going to
- 14:49Speaker 1: have hard evidence if this ever goes to trial as
- 14:52Speaker 1: to who murdered this little girl. But I want you
- 14:56Speaker 1: to analyze this video.
- 14:58Speaker 8: SoC The control and domination that can be shown in
- 15:02Speaker 8: this are signs for the musician of hyper masculinity. So
- 15:08Speaker 8: that is what we're seeing in his in his performance.
- 15:13Speaker 8: That is what is what he is in acting. He
- 15:15Speaker 8: is in acting the thoughts in his head that give
- 15:19Speaker 8: him hyper masculinity.
- 15:21Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how you're equating depicting murder and
- 15:24Speaker 1: hiding the body in a car trunk with masculinity. But again,
- 15:30Speaker 1: that's figure out.
- 15:32Speaker 8: What it's for, because these are signs of control and dominance.
- 15:38Speaker 1: What more control could you have or someone than.
- 15:40Speaker 8: Wrapping a body up and putting it in the trunk
- 15:43Speaker 8: of a car. To me, that is the sign of
- 15:46Speaker 8: ultimate control.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Actually, Troy Slayton does have a good point. The video
- 15:51Speaker 1: in itself proves nothing, and it can be argued it's
- 15:55Speaker 1: just his art. So let's talk about hard evidence. I
- 16:00Speaker 1: want to see the picture that some say is not Celeste,
- 16:05Speaker 1: who happens to be according to Melissa McCarty joining us,
- 16:09Speaker 1: star of Killer and Jeans podcast. Some are saying that's
- 16:14Speaker 1: not her, So I guess it's somebody wearing her tube
- 16:20Speaker 1: top and her jenes with similar hair. Can I say
- 16:25Speaker 1: the video? I don't know how to act it out
- 16:27Speaker 1: for you, with the same hairstyle, the same mannerisms and
- 16:35Speaker 1: sitting in the box reserved for friends and family. This
- 16:41Speaker 1: clip from David on TikTok.
- 16:43Speaker 9: Photo circulating alleging Celeste was with David at his concert
- 16:47Speaker 9: in Silver Springs, Maryland, on August twenty fourth. If true,
- 16:51Speaker 9: these photos create a timeline from August twenty fourth until
- 16:54Speaker 9: her dismembered, decomposing body is found in David's Tesla in
- 16:58Speaker 9: an impound lot on September. It's reported that tesla was
- 17:02Speaker 9: parked on the street for a month before it was
- 17:04Speaker 9: reported abandoned on September third, in toad on September fifth.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Way, wait, well, look answer that one. That still mean
- 17:11Speaker 1: if you don't have thirteen year old girlfriend is found
- 17:16Speaker 1: dismembered and decomposing in your tesla.
- 17:21Speaker 3: Neighbors complained about a foul order coming from the tesla.
- 17:26Speaker 1: Neighbors now reporting that Celeste Rivas had been living with
- 17:31Speaker 1: the artist known as David. It looks like d four
- 17:33Speaker 1: VD for a long time. So how old was she
- 17:39Speaker 1: when she moved in with him? And what interest would
- 17:41Speaker 1: he have in a little girl? Curious? That video we
- 17:45Speaker 1: just showed you is him with her. That's her in life.
- 17:51Speaker 1: She's dead, found decomposing in his Tesla trunk. I want
- 17:56Speaker 1: to show you another video that we dug up. Take
- 18:00Speaker 1: a look at this. The words I got time to
- 18:03Speaker 1: kill you got time to fill. We got blood to
- 18:07Speaker 1: spill all over the new car seats that I'm sleeping on. Okay,
- 18:14Speaker 1: let that sink in just for a moment. You got
- 18:16Speaker 1: time to feel. We got blood to spill all over
- 18:20Speaker 1: the new car seats that I'm sleeping on. She's dead.
- 18:27Speaker 1: I'm curious. Straight out to Tammy Ballard joining US DNA
- 18:33Speaker 1: crime scene consultant, crime scene Investigation and Reconstruction, former DNA
- 18:37Speaker 1: criminalist in the San Diego p D crime lab. Never
- 18:42Speaker 1: a lack of business there, Tammy Ballard, thank you for
- 18:45Speaker 1: being with us. Explain to me, I know all the
- 18:48Speaker 1: focus is on the trunk of that car, where her
- 18:53Speaker 1: body was not only decomposing, but dismembered. Tell me there's
- 18:58Speaker 1: not going to be a tertiary crime saying such as
- 19:00Speaker 1: where her body was dismembered. That said, all the focus
- 19:05Speaker 1: is on the trunk. What about the rest of the car.
- 19:08Speaker 1: What about the seats of the car? He sings about
- 19:10Speaker 1: blood on the car seats? How do you process a
- 19:14Speaker 1: sail like this? How long will it take? Tammy Ballard?
- 19:17Speaker 5: The rest of the vehicle is fair game. You are
- 19:21Speaker 5: going to need to be looking up and you're going
- 19:24Speaker 5: to need to be looking under You always want to
- 19:27Speaker 5: see what's.
- 19:28Speaker 1: On the ceiling of the vehicle.
- 19:30Speaker 5: You want to see has whipped through possible seats because
- 19:35Speaker 5: a lot of the cleaning that gets done doesn't actually
- 19:40Speaker 5: get rid of any of the blood if this truly
- 19:43Speaker 5: is the crime scene. So a lot of the issues
- 19:46Speaker 5: are going to be where do we find the blood
- 19:49Speaker 5: and making sure you don't miss the blood, so literally
- 19:53Speaker 5: pulling those seats out, cutting through that material and making
- 19:57Speaker 5: sure that there is not blood stature through onto that film,
- 20:02Speaker 5: which is definitely some of my.
- 20:04Speaker 1: Cases crime stories with Nancy Grace, Timmy Ballard, you just
- 20:17Speaker 1: brought up a really interesting point and I hope LAPD
- 20:21Speaker 1: criminologists are hearing what you're saying. It's reminding me of
- 20:26Speaker 1: the murder of a little boy and when you look
- 20:29Speaker 1: in his room, you don't see anything. You see no
- 20:33Speaker 1: evidence of a crime at all. When criminologists ripped up
- 20:37Speaker 1: the carpet, on that carpet liner that goes under your
- 20:42Speaker 1: carpet between the cement or the hardwood floor and the
- 20:45Speaker 1: actual carpet, there's a map, there's like a filler right there.
- 20:49Speaker 1: It was soaked, soaked with the little boy's blood. But
- 20:54Speaker 1: you couldn't see it. So you're saying, Timmy Ballard, which
- 20:59Speaker 1: mini people have not discussed this, You're saying the seats
- 21:03Speaker 1: have to be ripped open to see if blood has
- 21:07Speaker 1: soaked down into the foam under the car seat cover.
- 21:11Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying exactly?
- 21:13Speaker 5: And I have worked those carpets from residents as well.
- 21:16Speaker 5: That Liz A. Sullivan case in San Diego is a
- 21:18Speaker 5: big one. It actually had saturation stains all the way
- 21:23Speaker 5: through to the wood subfloor. And that's because you have
- 21:28Speaker 5: that wicking material just like you would have in the
- 21:31Speaker 5: foam seating of a vehicle, and if you try to
- 21:34Speaker 5: clean that stay with a carpet cleaner or some sort
- 21:36Speaker 5: of cleaning agent on top of a car seat, that
- 21:40Speaker 5: doesn't necessarily get rid of that blood. And usually bad
- 21:44Speaker 5: today with a case like this, there's probably going to
- 21:47Speaker 5: be a lot of blood. They're going to assume that
- 21:50Speaker 5: they've been able to clean that up if they were
- 21:52Speaker 5: still using the vehicle or the residence, and it's but
- 21:56Speaker 5: you can't get rid of it once it.
- 21:57Speaker 1: Gets through that surface.
- 22:00Speaker 5: So hoping that they do a very thorough job and
- 22:04Speaker 5: just absolutely tear that vehicle apart and tear his residents apart.
- 22:09Speaker 1: Tammy Ballard, I assume that you send your car and
- 22:11Speaker 1: get its oil change right at an oil change station,
- 22:16Speaker 1: not you sliding under it in your garage, but where
- 22:19Speaker 1: they jack it up and then they go under it
- 22:23Speaker 1: and work or repairing. That's what has to be done here.
- 22:30Speaker 1: We just investigated the case of missing mom Nikki Cheng
- 22:34Speaker 1: and her bloody sheets were found in the trunk of
- 22:39Speaker 1: her truck. But when the car was jacked up and
- 22:43Speaker 1: they looked under it, blood in mass quantity had leaked
- 22:47Speaker 1: down into the underworkings of the car. Changing all not
- 22:53Speaker 1: a good example. You don't need to necessarily get under
- 22:55Speaker 1: the car for that car repair. They're going to have
- 22:58Speaker 1: to jack this car up to say if blood has
- 23:01Speaker 1: soaked down, how does that work?
- 23:03Speaker 5: They're going to have to put it up on They
- 23:07Speaker 5: have should have the equipment available, especially with LA, to
- 23:11Speaker 5: put those up on jacks where you can actually get
- 23:13Speaker 5: a very thorough nowsip under the vehicle. But I would
- 23:18Speaker 5: say the undercar vehicle. But I would also stress that
- 23:22Speaker 5: this is probably if it's the crime scene.
- 23:25Speaker 1: The primary crime scene, it's going to be.
- 23:28Speaker 5: Most likely contained within that vehicle with all of those
- 23:31Speaker 5: materials that can actually soak up blood. I've had a
- 23:36Speaker 5: case where a woman would stabbed ninety one times in
- 23:39Speaker 5: the passenger seat, very very thorough cleaning by the perpetrator.
- 23:45Speaker 5: But you're obviously going to miss something. There's good thing
- 23:52Speaker 5: is that most people can't effectively clean up a crime
- 23:55Speaker 5: scene to absolutely get rid of everything. So I would
- 23:58Speaker 5: be willing to bet there's some decent evidence within that.
- 24:02Speaker 1: In this one. Tammy Ballard, I think that's quite the understatement.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Because the killer left the body in the trunk. I
- 24:09Speaker 1: don't think there was an extensive cleanup at all, And
- 24:13Speaker 1: curious before I move on to the next topic, tammy
- 24:16Speaker 1: Ballard just said you have to look up and down.
- 24:18Speaker 1: Dan would be cutting open the seats and looking at
- 24:21Speaker 1: the foam under the seat cover and the undercarriage of
- 24:24Speaker 1: the car. But up you said, you have to look
- 24:27Speaker 1: at the top of the car and the dome. Explain why,
- 24:32Speaker 1: and you're right, of course.
- 24:33Speaker 5: I think most people forget. I shouldn't say most people forget.
- 24:38Speaker 5: I would hope that most people would be in this
- 24:41Speaker 5: field would remember to always look up. You need to
- 24:45Speaker 5: look at the feeling of that vehicle. If that's where
- 24:48Speaker 5: that crime scene occurs, you need to look behind the
- 24:51Speaker 5: you know, the mirrors, everything, just to see if there's
- 24:55Speaker 5: any potential blood spatter evidence that's present that could easily
- 25:00Speaker 5: get overlooked if you're not very, very thorough and looking
- 25:04Speaker 5: at the entirety of the inside of that vehicle.
- 25:07Speaker 1: We learned that overnight the musician known as David flees
- 25:12Speaker 1: his three plus million dollar mansi and he was paying
- 25:17Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars a month and breaks a lease, so
- 25:23Speaker 1: getting out of that mansion was more important to him
- 25:26Speaker 1: than losing a lot of money.
- 25:28Speaker 10: Burke was living in a home leased by his manager,
- 25:31Speaker 10: Josh Marshall, but since police served a search warrant looking
- 25:34Speaker 10: for blood at the residence, the singer decided not to
- 25:37Speaker 10: live in the twenty thousand dollars a month home. The owner,
- 25:40Speaker 10: Laden Tryfuonoevic says Marshall signed the lease in February and
- 25:43Speaker 10: he didn't know Burke was living in the house. After
- 25:46Speaker 10: the raid, Tryffuonevick says, they didn't want to live there
- 25:48Speaker 10: anymore and are breaking the lease. The home was previously
- 25:51Speaker 10: owned by halle Berry.
- 25:52Speaker 1: You're not seeing really good shot of it. At the
- 25:55Speaker 1: beautiful side of the front. Oh, by the way, these
- 25:58Speaker 1: shots are from our friend Harvey Levin over at TMZ.
- 26:03Speaker 1: Take a look at this. So he leaves and breaks
- 26:08Speaker 1: a lease. Coincidentally, Melissa McCarty joining US investigative reporter and
- 26:13Speaker 1: host of Killer Jean's podcast. He breaks the lease to
- 26:17Speaker 1: the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. He may
- 26:20Speaker 1: have had to pay out the lease. I don't know
- 26:22Speaker 1: how many years it went, twenty thousand a month for
- 26:26Speaker 1: how long, how many months? How many years? He breaks
- 26:29Speaker 1: the lease and flees in the middle of the night.
- 26:33Speaker 1: Tell me about the search of that mansion that just
- 26:36Speaker 1: went down, the mansion that once belonged to halle Berry.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Well, police officers are looking for anything to help build
- 26:41Speaker 2: a case at this point. So they're looking for traces
- 26:44Speaker 2: of blood throughout the property. They're also collecting all kinds
- 26:47Speaker 2: of electronics because they also.
- 26:50Speaker 7: A huge issue here.
- 26:51Speaker 2: They need to prove the extent of this relationship that
- 26:55Speaker 2: he had with this child, you know, So they're looking
- 26:57Speaker 2: at communications, so when the met, what age was she
- 27:01Speaker 2: when they connected, So anything that could help them build
- 27:05Speaker 2: a physical and digital forensic pathway.
- 27:08Speaker 1: You know, very curious to Moses Castillo joining us former
- 27:11Speaker 1: LAPD detective supervising detective. How do you go about placing
- 27:18Speaker 1: the time she started living there? According to neighbors, it
- 27:21Speaker 1: was a long time ago. She went missing at age thirteen.
- 27:25Speaker 1: Some allegations the relationship started much longer than before she
- 27:30Speaker 1: was thirteen, much longer before now.
- 27:32Speaker 3: One of the things they'll do is they're going to
- 27:34Speaker 3: analyze all the digital evidence, cell phone records of south
- 27:37Speaker 3: Side locations, any interviews with people close to the family,
- 27:42Speaker 3: close to her friends, interviewing students from her classroom. All
- 27:46Speaker 3: those are going to be very important to conduct in
- 27:48Speaker 3: a very thorough manner.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Troy Slayton joining US, a veteran defense attorney out of
- 27:52Speaker 1: this jurisdiction, La Troy, I guess you're going to tell
- 27:55Speaker 1: me that it means nothing that he fled the home
- 28:00Speaker 1: they shared, So I guess he never thought she was
- 28:04Speaker 1: going to walk back in the front door.
- 28:06Speaker 7: Well, you said that he broke his lease.
- 28:08Speaker 6: I think that the reporting is that his manager actually
- 28:12Speaker 6: is the one who signed the lease, is the one
- 28:15Speaker 6: who is legally responsible for the twenty thousand dollars a
- 28:19Speaker 6: month lease payment. It was not the artist known as David,
- 28:24Speaker 6: And I would think that after the police conduct a
- 28:28Speaker 6: raid at a home and remove all types of evidence.
- 28:33Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to be there either, So I think
- 28:35Speaker 6: that seems perfectly reasonable.
- 28:37Speaker 1: So you don't think there's any chance that celest was
- 28:41Speaker 1: actually killed there by the way this video from our
- 28:43Speaker 1: friends at Fox eleven.
- 28:45Speaker 6: Oh, she certainly could have been. And I think that
- 28:48Speaker 6: there's a lot of video. We live in the digital
- 28:52Speaker 6: age where everyone has a ring camera, everyone in that
- 28:55Speaker 6: neighborhood has advanced security systems and CCTV. The police are
- 29:00Speaker 6: going to be coming through everything. If a body was
- 29:04Speaker 6: dragged out of that house, we're going to eventually have
- 29:08Speaker 6: video event, either video from the house security footage itself,
- 29:13Speaker 6: or by a neighbor, or by the tesla which also
- 29:17Speaker 6: has about six cameras all around.
- 29:20Speaker 7: It that are recording at various times.
- 29:23Speaker 1: In the night. The musician known as David it looks
- 29:26Speaker 1: like d four VD flees his home, his mansion in
- 29:31Speaker 1: upscale Hollywood heels after it was searched and processed for
- 29:37Speaker 1: fingerprints and blood. His little girlfriend who took up with
- 29:43Speaker 1: him that we know of around thirteen years old, has
- 29:47Speaker 1: been found dead in his Tesla trunk tonight. No arrest
- 29:53Speaker 1: This brings to mind another little girl whose caseign investigator
- 29:57Speaker 1: Her name was Miranda Corsette. Now here is home video.
- 30:02Speaker 1: It's surveillance video of Miranda. There, she's to the right,
- 30:07Speaker 1: She's walking around in the alleged killer's front yard, and
- 30:13Speaker 1: then we see her walking back into the home. This
- 30:19Speaker 1: little teen girl was tortured, brutalized and murdered. She was
- 30:24Speaker 1: seen by neighbors in the home completely naked, crying in
- 30:28Speaker 1: the corner. Now, Miranda Corsette is seen walking into the home,
- 30:35Speaker 1: but not much after that, she is seen being carried
- 30:40Speaker 1: out of the home and placed in the killer's car trunk.
- 30:47Speaker 1: Keep watching. It's like he doesn't even care if the
- 30:51Speaker 1: neighbors are watching, much less their security cams going the
- 30:55Speaker 1: whole time. Yeah, he puts little more in the trunk,
- 31:02Speaker 1: slams it shut, and then wipes his hand like okay,
- 31:09Speaker 1: task accomplished. My only question is is video going to
- 31:15Speaker 1: emerge in the current case of a little teen girl
- 31:20Speaker 1: found dead in a trunk. I'm referring, of course, to
- 31:22Speaker 1: Celeste Rivas joining me in Alstar Pound to make sense
- 31:27Speaker 1: of what we are learning, and I'd like to see
- 31:28Speaker 1: now the photos taken by TMZ our friend Harvey Levin
- 31:35Speaker 1: that show the outside of the home. As you see
- 31:40Speaker 1: the red errors arrows are pointing at what we believe
- 31:44Speaker 1: to see home video. Take a listen to this.
- 31:48Speaker 9: Police are scouring the area around the home where the
- 31:51Speaker 9: tesla with the dismembered and decomposing body in the trunk
- 31:54Speaker 9: was parked before being told, and they are looking for video.
- 31:58Speaker 9: The rental home has security camera's position at all entry
- 32:01Speaker 9: points in the backyard and on the street, so people
- 32:04Speaker 9: can't go in or out of the house without being recorded.
- 32:07Speaker 1: Straight out to Moses Caristillo joining us former supervising Detective Lapd,
- 32:13Speaker 1: I want to hear your take on that. What you
- 32:16Speaker 1: would make of it if any of that video had
- 32:18Speaker 1: been deleted, if that's true, and how that video, especially
- 32:25Speaker 1: if it's up in the cloud, how is that video
- 32:27Speaker 1: recaptured and used?
- 32:29Speaker 3: Yes, Ntsie, what they're going to do is a very
- 32:31Speaker 3: thorough search of this location from top to bottom. Head
- 32:37Speaker 3: information I have is that the prosecution teams are already
- 32:40Speaker 3: on board with the elite team of detectives at Robert
- 32:43Speaker 3: Homeside Division, So that tells me that they're being very down.
- 32:46Speaker 1: Slow down, slow down. The train because my follow up
- 32:51Speaker 1: question to you is going to be why is this
- 32:54Speaker 1: being investigated by robbery at LAPD. This is not about
- 33:00Speaker 1: a robbery, this is about a homicide. But you're telling
- 33:04Speaker 1: me an assistant district attorney has already been assigned to
- 33:07Speaker 1: the case.
- 33:08Speaker 3: Yes, So, Robbery Homside Division is the elite team of
- 33:11Speaker 3: detectives that investigate not only robberies, but homicides as well,
- 33:14Speaker 3: especially those complex murder investigations. And I have information that
- 33:20Speaker 3: a signed prosecutor is already on board with this team
- 33:24Speaker 3: of detectives. And that's awesome because it get to see
- 33:27Speaker 3: things real time now playing catch up at a later time.
- 33:30Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about the fact that
- 33:32Speaker 1: you're saying LAPD robbery homicide. Much has been made online
- 33:37Speaker 1: that LAPD Robbery is investigating the case, but you're saying
- 33:41Speaker 1: it's one of the same robbery homicide.
- 33:43Speaker 3: Yes, it's actually a named Robbery Homside Division is the
- 33:46Speaker 3: name of the division. It's a specialized unit that the
- 33:49Speaker 3: best of the best of detectives are assigned to this
- 33:51Speaker 3: unit and the investiation get to know.
- 33:54Speaker 1: Because Castillo, I want to just put out that fire
- 33:57Speaker 1: right now for our online sluice don't stop sleuthing, keep sleuthing,
- 34:03Speaker 1: but let me take you off that particular avenue of inquiry. So, Moses,
- 34:08Speaker 1: you're saying that all of this cam video is being amassed,
- 34:14Speaker 1: and if this girl was carried out or walked out
- 34:18Speaker 1: of that mansion at any time leading up to the
- 34:21Speaker 1: discovery of her in the musician known as Davids Tesla trunk,
- 34:26Speaker 1: We're going to get it. And that includes next door neighbors, neighbors,
- 34:29Speaker 1: across the street, you name it. And think about this, Castillo,
- 34:33Speaker 1: what about cam video of who is moving that car
- 34:37Speaker 1: from place to place to place in Hollywood Hills and
- 34:39Speaker 1: who put it there to start with, because whoever did
- 34:42Speaker 1: that is somebody I want to talk to.
- 34:44Speaker 3: Castillo absolutely, And you know what, the Teslas recorded video
- 34:48Speaker 3: all the time, so I'm sure they're going to look
- 34:51Speaker 3: at that as well. And yes, every bit of digital
- 34:53Speaker 3: evidence will be examined. I'm thoroughly investigated by these detectives
- 34:57Speaker 3: who are dedicated to uncover the truth ultimately getting justice.
- 35:01Speaker 1: For Celesti crime stories with Nancy Grace another issue on
- 35:15Speaker 1: Missus Cristillo. Our online sleuths had been working twenty four
- 35:19Speaker 1: to seven on this and they were concerned this had
- 35:23Speaker 1: not been set in homicide because there was not a
- 35:26Speaker 1: CD or any evidence that Celeste had been murdered. Let
- 35:31Speaker 1: me throw that to doctor Kendall Crown. So what would
- 35:33Speaker 1: be the alternative that she crawls into the trunk and
- 35:36Speaker 1: has a heart attack? Of course she was murdered.
- 35:38Speaker 4: H yes, I mean, nobody's going to go into a
- 35:41Speaker 4: trunk and then shut themselves in willingly that it's obviously
- 35:45Speaker 4: a homicide. We just have to figure out what. And
- 35:48Speaker 4: I think there is some mention that I've seen that
- 35:50Speaker 4: she was possibly dismembered, which is obviously not something that
- 35:55Speaker 4: would occur naturally.
- 35:56Speaker 1: And another thing, Doctor Kendle Crown, speaking of partial dismemberment
- 35:59Speaker 1: of this little girl. I got to follow up with
- 36:01Speaker 1: a shrink on that. But doctor Kendall crowns, you can
- 36:04Speaker 1: tell so much from the tool markings on the body
- 36:07Speaker 1: when someone has been dismembered. And since a body is
- 36:12Speaker 1: dismembered with of course some sort of cutting utensil like
- 36:15Speaker 1: a knife, does that lead you to believe her cood
- 36:18Speaker 1: may have been stabbing or statistically it would be some
- 36:23Speaker 1: sort of a strangulation or asphyxiation. Explain that's correct.
- 36:27Speaker 4: More likely than not, it's a strangulation that followed up
- 36:31Speaker 4: by them cutting her up.
- 36:32Speaker 1: Is there any way that normal decomp which of course
- 36:36Speaker 1: is not normal to decompose in a car trunk, So
- 36:39Speaker 1: right off the bat, that question as a non sequatory
- 36:41Speaker 1: does not follow. But can normal decomposition in any way
- 36:47Speaker 1: resemble partial dismemberment?
- 36:49Speaker 4: Well, if you get like animals scavenging involved, yes, the
- 36:53Speaker 4: limbs can be pulled away from the body by animals,
- 36:56Speaker 4: but usually in normal decomposition, which individuals and.
- 37:00Speaker 1: We always have nothing to do with this. Can we
- 37:02Speaker 1: stick to the facts, please, doctor Crowns.
- 37:04Speaker 4: Certainly so. She's laying in a trunk where animals can't
- 37:07Speaker 4: get to her. Your limbs are not going to look
- 37:10Speaker 4: like they've been dismembered. If you get to the point
- 37:12Speaker 4: of skeletonization, yes your bones will fall apart, but you
- 37:17Speaker 4: won't look like you've been dismembered.
- 37:19Speaker 1: There is a clear difference when a body decomposes naturally
- 37:26Speaker 1: as opposed to when the body has been dismembered. You
- 37:30Speaker 1: see tool marks, or you see bones out of place,
- 37:35Speaker 1: there's nothing close to they don't fit together. One will
- 37:40Speaker 1: not be mistaken for the other. Is that fair to say?
- 37:43Speaker 4: Yes, that is fair to say.
- 37:44Speaker 1: Now comes the story of two Celeste.
- 37:47Speaker 10: A video called two Celeste is gaining attention after being
- 37:50Speaker 10: shared on Eggs by Josh our Post with a caption
- 37:54Speaker 10: that reads, quote David, why are there two Celeste?
- 37:58Speaker 1: The clip features the user.
- 38:00Speaker 10: Claiming Celeste has two faces, one being a Celeste Revas
- 38:04Speaker 10: Hernandez and another Celeste Herrera, who interacts with Burke on
- 38:08Speaker 10: social media. The claim is that Burke was obsessed with
- 38:11Speaker 10: Celeste and something terrible happened and he can't be with her,
- 38:15Speaker 10: so he's trying to replace her with a look alike.
- 38:18Speaker 1: To Melissa McCarty, investciad reporter has Stop Killer Jeans podcast
- 38:22Speaker 1: and author of the Making of a Crime Reporter. Again, Melissa,
- 38:25Speaker 1: thanks for being with us tonight. What can you tell
- 38:27Speaker 1: me about the existence of two Celestes?
- 38:30Speaker 2: This is fascinating and again one of those Internet sleuthing
- 38:34Speaker 2: phenomenons that have researched that the LAPD I'm sure is
- 38:37Speaker 2: trying to track down.
- 38:38Speaker 1: You have an older.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Adult version Celeste, and then you have the minor Celeste Fernandez.
- 38:43Speaker 2: But the most important information is we have one that
- 38:46Speaker 2: was found dead in the trunk of his vehicle and another.
- 38:49Speaker 2: You really have to investigate the extent of the relationship.
- 38:53Speaker 2: Did he actually know both of them, was he intimate
- 38:56Speaker 2: with either of them? How did he know these two?
- 38:59Speaker 2: And who is this other person? What does she have
- 39:02Speaker 2: to do with the other.
- 39:03Speaker 1: Well, from what we've been told, Celeste Herrera, the twenty
- 39:07Speaker 1: three year old, interacts extensively with David on social media.
- 39:14Speaker 1: I'm referring to David Anthony Burke. The claim is that
- 39:21Speaker 1: and this would have to go to doctor Angela Arnold,
- 39:24Speaker 1: renowned psychiatrists joining us. The claim is that Burke was
- 39:29Speaker 1: obsessed with ten girls, Celeste and that as soon as
- 39:34Speaker 1: she was gone, he's trying to replace her with a lookalike.
- 39:38Speaker 1: Now is that hard evidence? No, it's not. I'm sure
- 39:41Speaker 1: Slayton's doing a backflip right now. But what does what
- 39:46Speaker 1: do you make of that that a Celeste look alike
- 39:50Speaker 1: is his online protege.
- 39:52Speaker 8: As you can see with these two young girls, there's
- 39:55Speaker 8: a pattern in how they in how they appear. Feeling
- 40:00Speaker 8: that the younger girl, the younger Celeste, was much easier
- 40:04Speaker 8: for him to control. Jiefs now found someone that appears
- 40:09Speaker 8: to look much like her, and we.
- 40:12Speaker 7: Don't know what his motives are.
- 40:14Speaker 8: His motives are, His motives could be directly what we're
- 40:17Speaker 8: doing here. When did these two you.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Know another issue? Doctra Angie. Yeah, we don't even know
- 40:24Speaker 1: the extent of their relationship. For all I know, it's
- 40:26Speaker 1: just an online relationship where she interacts online. But we're
- 40:31Speaker 1: finding out. I want to look at the leaked lyrics
- 40:37Speaker 1: of Burke's song Celeste, Oh Celeste, the girl with my
- 40:45Speaker 1: name tattooed on her chest, smell her on my clothes
- 40:49Speaker 1: like cigarettes. I hear her voice each time I take
- 40:51Speaker 1: in breath. I'm obsessed, Oh Celeste. Now remember thirteen at
- 40:58Speaker 1: the time they started their relationship. Oh Celeste, afraid you'll
- 41:03Speaker 1: only love me when undressed, But you look so damn
- 41:07Speaker 1: gorgeous in that dress. Missing you so much makes me depressed,
- 41:11Speaker 1: But I digress because I love you so much. Okay,
- 41:17Speaker 1: Chroice Layton, Yeah, he's not obsessed, is he? Again?
- 41:21Speaker 6: This is art, Nancy. You can't convict somebody based on art,
- 41:26Speaker 6: and we keep mentioning that she was thirteen. Now, I
- 41:29Speaker 6: know that this is not a legal defense, and it
- 41:33Speaker 6: wouldn't provide a legal defense in court, But how do
- 41:38Speaker 6: we know what age she said that she was. Uh,
- 41:43Speaker 6: there's been some reporting that she had some fake IDs.
- 41:47Speaker 6: I don't know of anyone that's ever dated somebody.
- 41:49Speaker 1: It was her fair ID. I'm not saying that's all
- 41:53Speaker 1: those fake IDs. So she was murdering and putting that trunk.
- 41:56Speaker 7: Not saying that at all.
- 41:57Speaker 1: Well, if it's not a little defense, why are you
- 41:59Speaker 1: just saying it because we're talking about to blame her
- 42:04Speaker 1: with the claim that you think she might have had
- 42:06Speaker 1: a fake IDA?
- 42:07Speaker 7: Absolutely not, Nancy.
- 42:08Speaker 6: But what I am saying is he didn't necessarily know
- 42:12Speaker 6: that she was underage this whole time she was a runaway.
- 42:17Speaker 6: He didn't necessarily know she was living with their family,
- 42:20Speaker 6: or that she was missing. We don't know that he
- 42:23Speaker 6: knew any of this. You were bringing up modus apparandi,
- 42:28Speaker 6: what you do knowledge? That doesn't matter.
- 42:31Speaker 1: Every statutory rapist I've ever met said I thought she
- 42:35Speaker 1: was a How is this any different?
- 42:39Speaker 6: We've all heard that, Nancy, of course. But what I'm
- 42:42Speaker 6: saying is this just goes to his potential state of mind.
- 42:47Speaker 6: And that's why it's important.
- 42:49Speaker 1: Okay, okay, important to you, not to me. She's dead
- 42:54Speaker 1: and I want to know who did it, and I
- 42:56Speaker 1: want to remind everyone that the music known as David,
- 43:01Speaker 1: his real name is David Anthony Burke's innocent. He stands
- 43:08Speaker 1: innocent tonight. He will not be guilty unless he has
- 43:13Speaker 1: been charged and proven guilty in a court of law
- 43:16Speaker 1: by a jury of his peers. If you know or
- 43:22Speaker 1: think you know anything about the disappearance and death of
- 43:26Speaker 1: this little girl, Celeste, please dial two one three four
- 43:31Speaker 1: eight six six' eight nine. Zero you can remain anonymous
- 43:36Speaker 1: two one three four eight six six' eight. Nine zero
- 43:41Speaker 1: and now we Remember an American Hero, Firefighter Paramedic Stephen,
- 43:46Speaker 1: scott HOUSTON. P d killed in the line, of duty
- 43:50Speaker 1: served l e, Thirty years survived by grieving wife and.
- 43:56Speaker 1: Three Children american Hero Firefe Fighter Paramedic Stephen Scott nancy
- 44:03Speaker 1: grace signing off goodbye FRIEND.
- 44:10Speaker 4: M hm