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D4vd Abruptly Moves Out of LA Home That Cops Raided in 15-Year-Old Celeste Rivas’ Murder Probe · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Depth Dive today. We're really taking you
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past those big headlines you've probably seen everywhere.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, way beyond them.
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Speaker 3: We're looking at this tragedy really that unfolded right there
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in Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills exactly.
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Speaker 1: It's a story about well fame, youth and this really
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chilling discovery. It's shocked the whole music world, hasn't it.
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Speaker 2: It really has.
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Speaker 3: We're digging into the high profile scandal around R and
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B artist D four VD that's David Anthony Burke and
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the well the gruesome evidence connected directly.
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Speaker 1: Back to him Hollywood Hills. Usually it's about success, glamour.
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Now it's just this heavy cloud of sorrow and this
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really complex homicide investigation. And that's why we're here. We've
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gathered a whole stack of sources. We're looking at the
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police investigation timeline, the victim's background, D four vds, explosive
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rise to fame, and then all the fallout, legal, social everything.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And our mission really for you listening is to
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synthesize all of that, the dates, the connections, the legal questions,
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give you a thorough, unbiased look.
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Speaker 1: At it right factual, trying to cut through the noise,
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you know, the social media speculation, the sensationalism. Just stick
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to what the sources report is crucial and we.
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Speaker 3: Should probably establish who the main figures are right away.
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Speaker 1: Good idea.
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Speaker 3: So on one side you have D four VD, David
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Anthony Burke, he's twenty years old, came up huge through
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social media, right known for those introspective hits here with me,
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romantic homicide.
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Speaker 1: Big tracks. And then at the absolute center of this
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tragedy is the victim, Celeste Rebus Hernandez, just fifteen years
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old from Lake Elsinor.
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Speaker 3: Her disappearance and then the discovery of her body. That's
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what kicked off this huge, very meticulous investigation.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to stick strictly to the chronology, the
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documented evidence in our sources. It's obviously a very sensitive case,
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emotionally heavy.
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Speaker 3: Extremely Okay, let's dive right in section one, the gruesome
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discovery and identification.
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Speaker 2: This is where it all broke open.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the first clue it wasn't it what you'd expect,
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not a tip off, not directly from the missing person
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report being connected.
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Speaker 3: Yet it started with a smell, a smell, right, The
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sources say, September eighth, twenty twenty five, And that date
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is significant. It was just one day after what would
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have been Celeste's fifteenth birthday. Oh wow, Yeah, workers at
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a tow yard in Hollywood. They noticed this, this awful stench, unmistakable,
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apparently coming from where from an impounded car, a Tesla
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Model three. But the detail that really stands out is
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where inside the car. Not the main trunk, No, no,
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The remains were found hidden in the front trunk. You
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know what people call the frunk, the fronk.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's smaller, right, less obvious.
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Speaker 3: Exactly, Smaller or less obvious may be easier to seal quickly.
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And they were inside a black plastic bag. God, and
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the condition severely decomposed. That told investigators right away the
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body had been there for some time, which made immediate
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visual ide impossible.
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Speaker 2: They needed dental records.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So the smell leads them to the fronk, the remains,
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and then the car itself. That's the next big piece.
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Who's Tesla was it?
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Speaker 3: And this is where the investigation immediately zeroed in. The
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Tesla Model three was registered to d four VD David
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Anthony Burke, registered to him directly to him and making
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things worse for him. Contextually, Yeah, the car wasn't towed
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from some random place. It was towed from a street
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just blocks away from his residence.
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Speaker 1: This Hollywood Hills place, the Dahaney Place address, that's.
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Speaker 3: The one blocks away. So right off the bat, you
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have this direct, circumstantial link his car, his name, near
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his house containing the body.
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Speaker 1: It's incredibly damning, circumstantially absolutely, and the identification process the
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dental records confirmed it was Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
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Speaker 3: Yes, the sources describe her five foot two, wavy black hair,
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only fifteen from Lake Elsinore, which is a bit outside
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the immediate LA bubble.
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Speaker 1: Right, So the LAPD gets involved. Which division, Robbery.
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Speaker 3: Homicide division took the lead, and this is important. They
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classified it as a homicide immediately.
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Speaker 1: Okay, immediately before they knew the exact cause of death.
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How does that work?
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Speaker 3: Well, that often confuses people. They didn't need to wait
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for the full medical examiner's report on say toxicology or
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precise mechanism of death.
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Speaker 1: So what did they have right then to call it homicide?
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Speaker 3: Two things, according to the LAPED sources. First, just the
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state of decomposition suggests concealment, neglect. But the big one,
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the remains were dismembered.
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Speaker 1: Dismembered, Okay, that is a.
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Speaker 3: Clear, unambiguous sign of foul play. There's no other explanation, right,
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And we looked at some legal analysis. Former DA Matt
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Murphy pointed this out. He said, charges can absolutely proceed
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based on strong circumstantial evidence like this, the car ownership,
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the proximity to house, the condition of the body. Even
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while theme is still working on the exact cause, whether
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it was poisoning, strangulation, or whatever, the fact of the
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homicide itself, the foul play was evident from the scene.
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Speaker 1: So the dismemberment itself is enough proof of foul play
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for that initial classification.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: The physical evidence of concealment and dismemberment triggers the homicide classification,
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and the full investigation got it.
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Speaker 1: So the emme's work is ongoing. But the scene, the
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car that was the starting point you called the Tesla
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forensic treasure trove. Why what can they get from it?
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's huge, far more than just like a container. Yeah,
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detectives would have gone over that car inch by inch,
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the interior, the frontlining, especially looking for what DNA DNA yes,
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fingerprints of course, but also trace evidence. Microscopic fibers, Yeah.
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Could fibers from the black plastic bag or from celeste
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clothing match fibers found inside defour VID's house. That's a
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crucial link, Okay. And biological traces too, things that could
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potentially indicate where the dismemberment might have happened, if traces
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in the car match traces in the house, for.
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Speaker 1: Example, right linking the locations. What about the car's tech
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teslas have a lot of data.
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Speaker 3: Right, immense amounts, and that's potentially critical for reconstructing events.
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The GPS data store it in the car system that
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can map its movements for weeks, maybe months before it was.
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Speaker 1: Impounded, so they could track its journey potentially.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Could it show a route from Lake Elsinore, where Celeste lived,
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to the Dohini placehouse. Could it show the car's location
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around the time she went missing? Could it show where
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it was parked before being towed? This data provides objective
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sort of third party confirmation of the car's movements and
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by extension, likely D four VDS movements during that critical window.
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It helps turn that circumstantial link. His name on the
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registration into documented physical movement. That's powerful for a prosecution.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the forensics, the GPS data, it all starts
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to build a bridge between the victim, the car, and
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the suspects life, which I guess brings us to section
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two D four VDS Meteoric rise and abrupt exodus. The
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contrast between his fame and this is just charring.
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Speaker 2: It really is.
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Speaker 3: The irony is thick D four VD. David Anthony Burke
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born in Houston, two thousand and five. He had that classic,
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almost archetypal gen Z breakout.
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Speaker 1: Story right totally self made, it seemed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, self taught using basic software FLS studio, uploading these
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low fi kind of introspective tracks, building this minimalist, slightly
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mysterious persona online. It was all organic until.
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Speaker 1: It exploded Here Are with Me in twenty twenty two,
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that song was everywhere, Well was it? Two hundred and
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forty four million YouTube views?
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Speaker 2: That's the number?
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Speaker 3: Sided Yeah, massive, and then Romantic Homicide followed quickly charted
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on the Billboard Hot one hundred. So he went from
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online buzz to a major label deal with Innerscope, became
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a legitimate industry player.
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Speaker 2: Very fast.
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Speaker 1: So by twenty twenty four he's basically a gen z Icon, young, rich.
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Speaker 3: And managing this sort of reclusive image, nomadic, almost crashing
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at different high end rentals, the Doheny Place villa being
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the main one.
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Speaker 1: Relevant here and knowing that context, that level of sudden
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success just makes the scandal and the potential fall from
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grace even more dramatic.
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Speaker 3: It absolutely underscores what he stood to lose and maybe
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why certain actions were taken.
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Speaker 1: Later, let's talk about that residence, the Doheany Place Villa
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scene of the later search warrant. What do we know
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about it?
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Speaker 3: It's in the thirteen hundred block of Dowheeny Place, Prime,
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Hollywood Hills, described as a luxurious modern villa, and the
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lease sources confirm it was a twenty thousand dollars a
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month lease, a serious commitment. It was signed back in
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February twenty twenty four, but interestingly signed by his manager
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Josh Marshall, not dfor himself.
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Speaker 1: Okay, And what did the neighbors say? Was it a
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party house?
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Speaker 3: Surprisingly no, despite having a young famous artist living there.
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Neighbors described the household as pretty quiet. No reports of
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big parties, major disturbances. It suggests maybe an effort to
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keep things under.
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Speaker 1: Wraps, maintaining a low profile, maybe masking what was really
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going on.
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Speaker 2: That's certainly the implication.
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Speaker 1: Now, Okay, So that relative quiet is shattered on September seventeenth,
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that's when the LAPD executes the search warrant we talked about, yes,
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and then just days later there's this very sudden move
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by d Forty's team regarding the house tell us about
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the lease termination. The timing seems highly suspicious.
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Speaker 3: The timing is well impossible to ignore. Frankly, the police
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raid looking for blood evidence happened September seventeenth. Then on
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September twenty third, just six days later, the lease is
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abruptly terminated.
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Speaker 1: Confirmed by the owner.
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Speaker 3: Yes, the owner, Laden Trafunovich, confirmed it. He said the
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request came from de Forty's manager, Josh Marshall, to end
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the twenty thousand dollars a month lease early.
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Speaker 1: What did people see?
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Speaker 3: Witnesses reported seeing moving crews there quickly hauling out furniture,
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personal belongings, getting everything out fast.
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Speaker 1: The owner called it seven.
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Speaker 3: He did, which strongly hints at, you know, urgency, maybe
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fear on the tenants side.
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Speaker 1: So this raises that big question about optics, especially in Hollywood.
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Is this him fleeing, trying to escape legal trouble, or
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is it like a calculated management move get the artist
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and his stuff away from a place that's now legally toxic.
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Speaker 3: It's probably a bit of both, right, and that's why
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I create so much speculation. Legally, the management team could
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argue they're just protecting his privacy or maybe mitigating liability
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associated with a property that's been rated in a homicide
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case makes sense maybe, But publicly publicly moving out just
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days after the homicide unit was searching your home for blood,
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it screams flight.
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Speaker 1: It looks terrible, and d four himself stayed silent.
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Speaker 3: Completely silent publicly. Meanwhile, his team puts out these terse
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statements saying he's fully cooperating with authorities.
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Speaker 1: That contrast the artists silent, the moving trucks going. It
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creates a really damaging picture, doesn't It suggests guilt, whether
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it's legally true or not.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, the house became synonymous with the crime scene. Essentially,
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management likely felt they had to physically extract him and
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his belongings immediately, regardless of the optics. It was damage
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control but it looked like evasion.
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Speaker 1: That tension, that suspicion leads us right into the evidence
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connecting him ages directly to Celeste. Section three, the blurring
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lines and digital trail. Before all this, Celeste was known
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to authorities, but as a missing person right.
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Speaker 3: And her background is really important context. It highlights her vulnerability.
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Sources say she had a history of instability at home.
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She was first reported missing back in April twenty twenty four.
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She was only thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Then thirteen.
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Speaker 3: She came back, but then vanished again in May, and
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it was during that second disappearance that her family reported
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she had left, supposedly to see a movie with a
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boyfriend she called David.
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Speaker 1: David and the evidence gathered later from the neighbors at
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Dahini Place suggested this wasn't just a casual thing.
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Speaker 3: Far from it. The neighbor accounts seemed pretty consistent. They
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told investigators and later reporters that Daffini Ware was and
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I quote with the girl regularly all the time, living together.
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They said they lived there as a couple since early
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twenty twenty four, And significantly, the neighbors all thought she
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was older, they guessed eighteen or nineteen, so.
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Speaker 1: The environment D four ved created or allowed successfully hid
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her true age just fifteen from people right next door.
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Speaker 2: It seems that way successful concealment.
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Speaker 1: And then there's the physical evidence link them, something very specific,
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almost symbolic.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the matching tattoo. This is one of the most
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chilling details. Celeste had a small tattoo on her right
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index finger. It read sh like be quiet exactly and
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it perfectly matched a tattoo that D four ved frequently sported,
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often visible in photos.
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Speaker 1: And how old was Celeste when she got this tattoo?
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Speaker 3: Sources confirmed she got it when she was only fourteen
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years old. Her team, Wow, so it's not just a
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matching symbol. It feels like an emblem of secrecy, doesn't
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it a shared secret designed to be hidden. That kind
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of thing is often seen as a red flag in predatory.
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Speaker 1: Dynamics, a very literal keep quiet symbol. And her family
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knew about David, even if they didn't know the full extent.
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Speaker 3: Correct her mother and her brother, Matthew Reavis, they confirmed
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the connection later. They knew she often left Lake elsinor
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sometimes in D fourty's distinctive tesla for what she called
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movie dates.
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Speaker 1: With David so they knew of him and the car.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and visual proof also surfaced later photos for from
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some LA event back in twenty twenty three, apparently showing
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them together. And then there was a resurfaced live stream
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video you could apparently hear Celeste giggling off camera while
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D four y E was talking to fans.
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Speaker 1: So these piece and together they established this wasn't new.
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It was a relationship of some kind going back at
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least a couple of years before her death. Undeniable connection, undeniable,
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long standing. Okay, now we have to tread carefully into
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the digital trail. There are a lot of allegations circulating online,
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much of it unmarified, but it's become a huge part
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of the public story and presumably the investigation.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this needs careful handling. The police are focused on
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getting verifiable digital evidence from his devices, but a lot
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of the public anchor has been fueled by screenshots things
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circulating on platforms like x formerly Twitter, What kind of
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screenshow alleged discord messages, conversations supposedly between D four VD
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and a profile link to Celest And crucially, the profile
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bio allegedly listed her age as eighteen plus bizer she wasn't.
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No reports suggests she might have been as young as
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twelve when some of these alleged interactions.
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Speaker 1: Started twelve, and the allegations go beyond just talking right,
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They suggest active manipulation precisely.
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Speaker 3: There are online claims, again unverified, the D four VD
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paid acquaintances to help hide her real age, and there
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was even a geotagged photo that seemed to place him
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near her home in Lake Elsinore, suggesting he was willing
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to cross physical boundaries to maintain this connection secretly.
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Speaker 1: And then there were even darker claims.
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Speaker 3: Yes, an X threat emerged claiming Celesti had confided in
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a friend. The claim was that she alleged being sexually assaulted.
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The thread use the term great likely a typo for
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rape by D four VD and an associates.
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Speaker 1: Of the name gus Okay. These are incredibly serious allegations, unverified,
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as he said, but out there.
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Speaker 3: It's extremely serious, and while unverified publicly, they generated such
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a massive online reaction that they undoubtedly intensified the police
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focus on D four vd's digital communications. The LAPD now
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has to sift through the c's data to see if
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any these claims can be substantiated. That's a huge task.
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Speaker 1: And the line between his art and this alleged reality,
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it seems to blur in a really disturbing way with
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that leaked demo track.
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Speaker 3: That detail is deeply unsettling. A track surfaced on SoundCloud
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titled Celesta Demo unfin reportedly dated December twenty twenty three,
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with lyrics about her directly.
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Speaker 2: Mentioning her name.
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Speaker 3: The reported lyrics are, oh, Celestia fred you'll only love
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me when undressed, but you look so damn gorgeous in
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that dress. Missing you so much makes me depressed.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Listening to that now in this context.
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Speaker 3: It's horrifying. What might have been dismissed before is just
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you know, generic angsty lyrics. Suddenly it sounds like potential
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self documentation, directly tying his art to her, their private
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relationship and his feelings about it.
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Speaker 1: And you can imagine fans and internet saluts are now
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going back through everything he's ever released, every video, every post.
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Speaker 3: Oh, obsessively, that's what happens in these digital fallouts. People
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are looking for patterns, connections everywhere. There are theories unconfirmed,
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of course, about his romantic calm side video dropping on
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her birthday or matching clothing motifs between her last known
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photos and his tour outfits.
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Speaker 1: Probably a lot of reaching, but likely a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of hyper speculation. Yes, but it shows the profound
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sense of betrayal. His fan base feels they're reinterpreting his
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entire artistic output through the lens of this tragedy. The
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art that made him is now potentially evidence against him,
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at least in the public eye.
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Speaker 1: It really sets the stage for the official investigation trying
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to catch up Section four, the surgical investigation and legal limbo.
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Let's go back to that September seventeenth search warrant at
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the Duhini Villa. Sources suggest it was intense.
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Speaker 3: Incredibly detailed. Yes, the goal was clear linked at the
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body found in the tesla just blocks away back to
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that house proved the crime or part of it happened there.
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Speaker 1: So the robbery homicide detectives they weren't just looking for
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drugs or something minor.
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Speaker 3: They were looking for blood evidence specifically, that was the
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term used. Evidence they could prove the crime itself or
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the dismemberment occurred or was managed on those premises.
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Speaker 1: What kind of techniques do they use in a place
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like that a luxury home.
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Speaker 3: Probably cleaned sources indicate they went to great links using
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things like luminol chemicals that react to tiny trace amounts
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of blood, even if someone tried to scrub it away.
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Speaker 1: So checking drains, floors exactly.
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Speaker 3: Scouring drains, plumbing fixtures, any tiled surfaces where tissue traces
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or biological matter might remain, looking for DNA, blood particulates,
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anything that survived, cleaning attempts, and photographing everything for scene reconstruction,
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every inch.
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Speaker 1: And then the electronics seizure laptops, tablets, computers. You said
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earlier this might be the key to stronger evidence.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely crucial witnesses saw them carting away multiple evidence bags
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filled with electronics because, as legal analys Brian Buckmeyer pointed out,
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arrests in cases like this can stall without something more
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concrete than just the circumstantial links.
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Speaker 1: So what are the digital forensic teams hoping to find
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on those devices? What constitutes that stronger evidence.
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Speaker 3: They're doing a deep forensic dive, that means we're covering
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deleted messages, looking at metadata, tracking search histories. They want
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to establish several.
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Speaker 1: Key things like the timeline.
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Speaker 3: Yes, first, the timeline was Celeste communicating with dfour VD
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right before she disappeared or died. Second location, can phone data,
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app data, vehicle logs, anything like that definitively place both
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of them together at the Delheiny house.
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Speaker 2: Or near where the car was left. And Third third.
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Speaker 3: Intent did D four VD or maybe associates search online
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for things related to say, body disposal, sealman techniques legal
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consequences for dating a minor. That kind of digital footprint
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is the bridge. It connects the circumstantial evidence owning the
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car to direct evidence of potential planning, knowledge or intent.
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Speaker 1: So, as of now September twenty fifth, where does the
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case stand legally? Has he been arrested charged?
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Speaker 3: No, It's still in this very tense legal limbo basically
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defined by waiting. DFOURVD remains uncharged, no arrests.
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Speaker 1: Of made public and the lap.
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Speaker 3: Their official statement is very brief, very standard, ongoing investigation,
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no suspect information, But that public silence hides intense work
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going on behind the scenes.
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Speaker 1: What kind of work?
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Speaker 3: Sources suggest Investigators are pouring over financial records, tracking phone pings,
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using cell tower data for both D four VD and Celeste,
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trying to map their locations and conducting extensive detailed interviews witnesses, friends, family,
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anyone connected.
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Speaker 1: Let's loop back to that lease break again. The owner
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called it sudden. How do lawyers typically see a move
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like that right after a police raid.
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Speaker 3: Well, the public might scream flight, right, but legal teams
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often frame it as risk mitigation, trying to protect the
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client limit liability. However, it definitely complicates things for the
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police if they need to go back to the scene later,
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maybe after the coroner's report gives them new leads and
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the owner's testimony about the suddenness, it suggests fear, maybe
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fear of having the property tied up legally from months
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or years. Whatever the reason, it raises suspicion. It's something
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prosecutors would definitely bring up a trial, even if it
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doesn't directly prove guilt. It certainly didn't help his team's
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claim of full cooperation.
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Speaker 1: So digital forensics are key for intent, But what about
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the physical side. What single piece of evidence are they
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really waiting on before maybe making an arrest.
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Speaker 3: It has to be the coroner's report, the full autopsy findings.
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Legal analyst Alison Trials emphasize this, it's the ultimate.
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Speaker 1: Key right now, Why is it so crucial because.
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Speaker 3: The medical examiner needs to determine the conclusive cause of
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death given the state of the remains. That's challenging. It
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involves complex toxicology pathology. But if they can find definitive
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evidence signs of specific trauma, a clear method like strangulation
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or poisoning, presence of certain toxins, that evidence could dramatically
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narrow the focus. It provides that essential piece proof of
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a specific lethal action. Until they have that, the circumstantial case,
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while very strong, still lacks that final direct clink proving
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deeper vd's actions caused her death.
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Speaker 1: The wheels of justice turned slowly, as they say, But
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the fallout in the real world that was instantaneous, which
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takes us to section five. The fallout and broader shadows.
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His career didn't just hit pause. It seems like it
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completely imploded.
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Speaker 3: Catastrophic is the word, almost immediate collapse. The body was
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discovered around September eighth, identified shortly after by September twentie
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it's just days later d four. He'd officially canceled the
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rest of his Withered World tour.
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Speaker 1: That was a big tour, right international.
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Speaker 3: Day, huge European leg Australian leg all canceled. The reason
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given just unforeseen circumstances that they phrase set off alarm
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bells everywhere.
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Speaker 1: And the industry reaction.
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Speaker 3: Labels sponsors complete isolation endorsements, which are vital for young
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artists like him, just evaporated overnight, gone. There was apparently
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a follow up album he'd been teasing, highly anticipated, shelved indefinitely,
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and the label Interscope they publicly distanced themselves, put out
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statements making it clear they were stepping back. That's a
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huge signal in the industry, basic cutting ties seeing him
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as too toxic, too much of a liability.
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Speaker 1: And the fans his audience massive backlash.
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Speaker 3: Hashtags like hashtag justice forceless started trending immediately. You saw
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comments everywhere expressing grief, betrayal. Someone summed it up perfectly.
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I saw quoted from viral to Villain that captures the
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speed of the fall.
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Speaker 1: While all eyes are on Hollywood and d four ved,
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the real unbearable weight of this is felt in Lake
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elsinore Celeste's family, her community.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the contrast is just heartbreaking. You have the luxury
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Hollywood Hills villa where the investigation is focused, and then
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you have Lake Elsinor where her family and friends.
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Speaker 2: Are just shattered. There was a vigil, a huge community gathering,
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Yeah hell.
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Speaker 3: On September twenty first, hundreds of people came out, balloons,
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teddy bears, signs demanding justice for Celest. It showed a
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massive outpouring of local support and a GoFundMe set up
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for her funeral costs repatriation. It raised over twenty four
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thousand dollars very quickly.
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Speaker 1: That's significant support. Has the fan only spoken much.
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Speaker 3: Publicly, understandably not extensively. But Celeste's mother did speak briefly
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to the press. Her words were simple but powerful.
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Speaker 2: She was just a kid.
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Speaker 3: Her brother, Matthew Reeves, also spoke about their desperate search
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for her and their determination to see accountability and Celeste's remains.
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They were finally released to the family on September twenty third,
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after the initial autopsy work was done, so they could
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begin the process of planning her funeral.
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Speaker 2: Just devastating.
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Speaker 1: Stepping back from the specifics of this case, it feels
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like it taps into a larger, depressingly familiar pattern, doesn't it.
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This issue of fame, power, dynamics, predation within the entertainment world.
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Speaker 2: It absolutely does.
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Speaker 3: That's maybe the most crucial takeaway beyond the individual tragedy.
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Celeste's death isn't happening in a vacuum. It echoes patterns
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we've seen highlighted again and again recently. You think of
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cases like r Kelly, the allegations against Shan diddy Comb's
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fame creates this bubble. It grants incredible access, an aura
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of untouchability sometimes times, and it allows powerful figures to
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potentially exploit massive imbalances, especially when dealing with very young,
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vulnerable fans who might be starstruck or easily manipulated.
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Speaker 1: And technology seems to play a huge role now accelerating it,
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hiding it, like the alleged Discord messages exactly.
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Speaker 3: This isn't just about backstage access or social media is
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a huge factor. Platforms like Discord, where those alleged D
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four VD celess communications supposedly happened. They offer anonymity, direct access.
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It bypasses parents, managers, any traditional gatekeepers. Secret relationships can
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develop completely hidden from.
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Speaker 1: View, which leads to calls for change.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you're hearing louder calls now from experts advocates for
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real reforms things like stricter age verification, online better protections
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for young fans interacting with celebrities digitally. The argument is
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this is bigger than just dfour VD. It's systemic. The
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speed in secrecy offered by the digital world allowed this
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gragedy to unfold before anyone could step in.
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Speaker 1: A devastating combination of modern fame and digital vulnerability. And
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those calls for hashtag justice for Celest they're a reminder
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that we need to look hard at the culture and
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the platforms that enable these situations.
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Speaker 3: Her story really forces us to examine how power works
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in this online, celebrity driven world. The contrast between the
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silent from the Dohini Villa and the grief in Lake
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Elsinore is stark.
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Speaker 1: So as we wrap up this deep dive, let's just
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bring the key points back into focus. It's a tragedy
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defined by that chilling contrast the rising star David Anthony
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Burke and the vulnerable teenager Celeste Revus Hernandez, connected by
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hitting tattoos, digital threads, ending with that gruesome discovery in.
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Speaker 3: The Tesla, and the investigation grinds on driven by the
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need for hard scientific proof. We're still waiting as are
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the police and prosecutors for those key pieces, the full
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digital forensics from the sea's devices, recovering messages, tracking locations,
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and crucially, the final conclusive cause of death from the corner.
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Until those pieces fall into place, D FOURVD remains uncharged,
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but obviously under the most intense scrutiny imaginable, it's a
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legal limbo.
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Speaker 1: This whole case is just a terrible reminder of the
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cost when boundaries aren't just blurred but deliberately hidden. We've
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seen how fast the internet can build someone up, make
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them a star.
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Speaker 3: And how fast it can expose the darkest secrets exactly.
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Speaker 1: And thinking about that tattoo again, that shared symbol of
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secrecy between someone with immense power and a child. It
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forces a really difficult question on all of us, doesn't it.
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What responsibility do we have as people who consume the music,
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follow the artists, participate in this culture that often idolizes
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these young, powerful figures. What's our role when the lines
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between adoration and vulnerability get crossed so devastatingly.
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Speaker 2: It's a question without easy answers.
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Speaker 1: No, this is a tragedy that really demands we listen,
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listen closely to the voices like Celestes that have been
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silenced by this culture of secrecy and exploitation.