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MUSIC STAR D4VD SICK COVERUP IN MURDER DISMEMBERMENT CELESTE, 13? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace music star David Anthony Burke
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  Speaker 1: aka D four VD sick cover up of a brutal
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  Speaker 1: murder and dismemberment of a little girl, Celeste, just thirteen
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  Speaker 1: years old when the two started dating, alleged motive to
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  Speaker 1: cover up sex molestation while she threatening to go public
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  Speaker 1: with their relationship. Good evening, I'm Nancy Grace. This is
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: I am announcing the charges against David Anthony Burke, the
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  Speaker 2: musician known as David spelled D four VD, in connection
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  Speaker 2: with the brutal and horrific murder of Celeste, a fourteen
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  Speaker 2: year old at that time. These charges include the most
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  Speaker 2: serious charges that a DA's office can bring, that his
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  Speaker 2: first degree murder with special circumstances. The special circumstances being
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  Speaker 2: lying in wait, committing this crime for financial gain, or
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  Speaker 2: murdering a witness in an investigation.
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  Speaker 1: We learned a lot in that court of law. Win
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  Speaker 1: D four vdaka David Anthony Burke was brought in for
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  Speaker 1: the very first time after all these months have passed,
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  Speaker 1: and we learned a lot straight out to Dave Mack
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  Speaker 1: joining US Crime Stories investigative reporter Wow Bobshell in the courtroom,
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  Speaker 1: we learned that there was a motive for celeste murder,
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  Speaker 1: that there was no accidental overdose or for Pete's sake
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  Speaker 1: of fourteen year old girl dying of natural cause? Is
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  Speaker 1: what a stroke? A heart attack? Cancer? No? Their claim,
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  Speaker 1: the state's claim is that apparently little Celeste threatened to
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  Speaker 1: go public with their sex relationship and he he killed
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  Speaker 1: her with a sharp tool. I mean that's bad. Dave
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  Speaker 1: matt Any Goodwill d four VD aka David aka David
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Burke had it's over and then to dismember a
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  Speaker 1: child's body. Her head found in one plastic bag, her
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  Speaker 1: body dismembered found in a second plastic bag called body bags.
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  Speaker 1: Were they actually body bags? Where they trash bags? Does
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  Speaker 1: it matter? Don't know, don't care. This is a death
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  Speaker 1: penalty qualified case. And don't start up with me. Troy Slayton,
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  Speaker 1: he is twenty one years old. Go ahead and google
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  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court rulings. Troy eighteen and above are fit
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  Speaker 1: for the death penalty in the United States. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know there's a moratorium in California for now. But
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  Speaker 1: to Dave matt what happened in the courtroom hit me.
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  Speaker 3: It was shocking.
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  Speaker 4: Nancy.
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  Speaker 3: The Deep aka David Anthony Burke is charged with first
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  Speaker 3: degree murder, including special circumstances you mentioned a minute ago, Nancy,
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  Speaker 3: any goodwill is now gone. The allegation is that he
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  Speaker 3: was lying, that David Anthony Burke was lying in wait.
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  Speaker 3: He committed the murder for financial gain. He murdered the
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  Speaker 3: witness and an investigation he mutilated human remains, and they
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  Speaker 3: also accused him of lude and lascivious acts with an
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  Speaker 3: individual under the age of fourteen. But Nancy, in the allegation,
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  Speaker 3: we have hardcore dates.
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  Speaker 4: Of when this happened.
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  Speaker 3: April twenty third, twenty twenty five, David Anthony Burke invited
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  Speaker 3: Celeste to his home in the Hollywood Hills. She showed
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  Speaker 3: up and that's the last time she was ever seen alive.
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  Speaker 3: The DA claims that she was murdered that night, that
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  Speaker 3: Dave Anthony Burke was lying in wait inside that home
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  Speaker 3: and he killed her with that sharp instrument. Then another date, Nancy,
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  Speaker 3: May five, twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Dave mac
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  Speaker 1: let's just digest what you just said straight out to
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  Speaker 1: Troy Slayton. He is a veteran criminal defense attorney joining
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  Speaker 1: us out of this jurisdiction of LA. WHOA, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: you're a candidate for the LA Superior Court. Is that true?
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  Speaker 5: I am, I am. I'll be on the pack.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, dear Lord in heaven, you on the bench. The
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors are going to cry if you win. The defense
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  Speaker 1: attorneys will dance in the halls. But that means you
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  Speaker 1: can't join us. So okay, that's out, Troy Slayton. Can
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  Speaker 1: we talk about this lying in wait? Did you hear
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  Speaker 1: what Dave mac just said? Lying in wait? That is
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  Speaker 1: an aggravating circumstance cause it tails a jury. The person
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  Speaker 1: had plenty of time to cool down and not do
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  Speaker 1: the act. They were that intent on the murder, they
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  Speaker 1: lie and wait, that's creepy.
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  Speaker 5: Well it's not just creepy, but in the California jurisdiction, Nancy,
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  Speaker 5: it's a special circumstance, and it's one of the reasons
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  Speaker 5: why UH District Attorney Nathan Hawkman has decided to UH
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  Speaker 5: potentially seek life in prison without possibility of parole or
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  Speaker 5: even the death penalty. Now, I know that you mentioned
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  Speaker 5: in the warm up that there is a moratorium on
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  Speaker 5: the death penalty, but that can change when the governor changes.
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  Speaker 5: We're having an election here in November. In June is
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  Speaker 5: the primary, Troy Cliber. We can decides t impose a
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  Speaker 5: death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't care about politics. I could not
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  Speaker 1: give a flying fig about politics. It's like swimming through
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  Speaker 1: exactly a person. I guarantee you whoever is running may
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  Speaker 1: have a good shot. Since it's now coming out that
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  Speaker 1: the California governor got somebody to pay one point something
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  Speaker 1: million dollars to buy his own books, no comment, don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I care what it means for this. You're saying that
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  Speaker 1: a new governor could try to get into office by
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  Speaker 1: claiming they're going to get rid of the moratorium on
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  Speaker 1: the death penalty.
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  Speaker 5: They could Nancy, And that's why the District Attorney's office here,
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  Speaker 5: a very experienced prosecutor has been assigned by Nathan Hawkman
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  Speaker 5: Beth Silverman, and she could very well decide to seek
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  Speaker 5: the death penalty in this case. This case is death
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  Speaker 5: penalty eligible. And even if they decided not to seek
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  Speaker 5: the death penalty, I can tell you that the District
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  Speaker 5: Attorney's office is going to seek life without possibility of parole.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, back to you, Dave Matt, Can you pick it
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  Speaker 1: back up on lie in wait? Oh? Hold on, just
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  Speaker 1: a moment, joining me, Doctor Bethany Marshall, because you know
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  Speaker 1: what I noticed, Dave Matt is no matter how much
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  Speaker 1: I put it to Troy Slayton, he ignored the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I was asking about lying in wait and instead
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  Speaker 1: went off down the garden path about the law surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the death penalty in politics. Doctor Bethany Marshall, renown psycho analyst,
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  Speaker 1: joining us out of this jurisdiction LA. She is the
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  Speaker 1: author of deal Breakers. You can see her now on
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  Speaker 1: Peacock and Bravo and find her at doctor Bethany Marshall
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Doctor Bethany Marshall, Why is it so chilling
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  Speaker 1: to think he according to prosecutors D FOURVD. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: D FOURVD and some of his photos and his blood
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  Speaker 1: drenched outfits. Now, these blood drenched outfits were all marketing tools. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, and there's a lot more, Doctor Bethany.
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  Speaker 1: That's a whole nother canon worms. Oh good gravy. This
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  Speaker 1: takes on a whole new meaning. When I got to
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  Speaker 1: think about a fourteen year old little girl getting dismembered
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  Speaker 1: by freak azoid. I wonder if there's any way I
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  Speaker 1: could get this in and aggravating circumstances. But that said,
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  Speaker 1: what he Troy Slayton, doesn't want to talk about is
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  Speaker 1: the act Bethany of lying in wait. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Bethany. Every time the twins come home, I have
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  Speaker 1: a hiding spot and it never gets old. I jump
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  Speaker 1: out right as they turn the corner, and it scares them.
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  Speaker 1: And the lying in wait I can hear. I hear
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  Speaker 1: them come in the back door. I hear their footsteps.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell by the way their footsteps sound who
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  Speaker 1: it is, and I jump out at the right moment.
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  Speaker 1: It always scares them. That said, the lying in wait,
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  Speaker 1: you know the victim is coming, you know you're going
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  Speaker 1: to kill her, and you wait for the moment to
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  Speaker 1: jump out and murder a fourteen year old little girl that,
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  Speaker 1: according to prosecutors, you have been having with. And you
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  Speaker 1: don't want your music career down the crapper because people
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  Speaker 1: find out about statutory bam.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, Nancy, it also suggests that there's something
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  Speaker 6: perverse and creepy about why he killed her. That's beyond
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  Speaker 6: trying to protect his music career, and that is that
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  Speaker 6: he has all those shirts with the blood spatters all
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  Speaker 6: over them. That tells me that perhaps he was also sadistic.
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  Speaker 6: We already know that there was a power differential between
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  Speaker 6: the two of them, not just because of age, but
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  Speaker 6: in a way that follows the pattern of domestic violence.
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  Speaker 6: He isolated her from her friends, isolated her from her families.
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  Speaker 6: There's that one picture where she's holding the Louis Vuitton
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  Speaker 6: person in front of her face, so she's already, you know,
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  Speaker 6: hiding from the people around her who could rescue her
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  Speaker 6: from the situation. We know that victims of domestic violence.
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  Speaker 1: There it is Bethany and almost every picture they took
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  Speaker 1: together her hiding her face.
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  Speaker 6: He has her hiding. This is domestic violence right in
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  Speaker 6: that picture. And Nancy, women are more likely to get
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  Speaker 6: killed when they're about to leave the violent relationship. Always, always, always,
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  Speaker 6: But you know, Nancy, those blood spattered shirts. That tells
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  Speaker 6: me that there is a bit of a glorification of
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  Speaker 6: the eventual slaughter. I don't see homicide, I see slaughter.
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  Speaker 6: That words are very important in my field, and when
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  Speaker 6: you look at that, it means that he was going
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  Speaker 6: this was the final glory act. I think it's easy,
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  Speaker 6: in the eyes of the law to say, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 6: he's witnessed hampering. That's a very safe phrase. We all
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  Speaker 6: know what that means. Why don't we use the word
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  Speaker 6: slaughter the victim because it's sexually and emotionally exciting. I
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  Speaker 6: think that's what we're really talking.
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  Speaker 1: About here, crimest with Nancy Grace. Sexually and emotionally exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany, you just took me off course, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually glad you did, because I hadn't thought of a
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  Speaker 1: sexual excitement from murdering a little girl. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to explain to me the frame of mind of someone
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  Speaker 1: that lies in wait now for me, that's a technical
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  Speaker 1: legal term that I use as an aggravating circumstances to
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  Speaker 1: circumstance to either seek the death penalty or show intent
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  Speaker 1: to a jury. Intent, of course, only takes the flash
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  Speaker 1: of a moment, the blink of an eye to form
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  Speaker 1: under the law. There's no required time for intent. But
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  Speaker 1: the lying in weight aspect as an entire, cold and
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  Speaker 1: calculating nature to the murder.
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  Speaker 6: But not only that, Nancy, it is wanting to terrify
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  Speaker 6: the victim and also wanting to render the victim unaware.
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  Speaker 6: So you think with pedophilia there's this broad age difference
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  Speaker 6: between the two. She was not aware initially that she
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  Speaker 6: was being groomed. We think of serial killers, you know,
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  Speaker 6: cutting off the head of the victim. They don't want
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  Speaker 6: the victim to be aware of what they're about to do.
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  Speaker 6: That's a part of the perverse nature of this type
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  Speaker 6: of homicide is that there's a stalking component, Nancy like
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  Speaker 6: a cold hearted a cold blooded stalking component. But also
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  Speaker 6: in all perversions, you do not want the victim to
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  Speaker 6: be completely aware of what you are about to do.
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  Speaker 6: So I wonder what their sex play was like throughout
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  Speaker 6: this relationship. I wonder what he did to her. Did
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  Speaker 6: he tort Why.
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  Speaker 1: Are you even saying that, doctor Bethany Marshall their sex play.
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  Speaker 1: A child cannot consent two sex play. That is certainly
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  Speaker 1: putting perfume on the pig. I'm gonna let you think
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  Speaker 1: about what you just said for just a moment. Dave
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  Speaker 1: Mack with me, crime Story's investigative reporter. What can you
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  Speaker 1: tell me about allegations a sharp object or a sharp
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  Speaker 1: instrument was used to murder celest that's what we're being
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  Speaker 1: told by the.
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  Speaker 3: Complaint that was filed. They're just saying sharp instrument. There
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  Speaker 3: has not been a coroner's report yet. We haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 3: Hoping it comes out to you know, in the near future,
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  Speaker 3: but right now, that's all we have. Sharp instrument was
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  Speaker 3: used in the homicide of the last.
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  Speaker 1: There is a medical exander's report, but it's been under
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  Speaker 1: seal for some time pursuant to request by the police.
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  Speaker 1: That's got to be lifted, Okay. Joe Scott Morgan joining me,
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  Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University. He is the author of
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  Speaker 1: Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. He is a star
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  Speaker 1: of a hit podcast, Body Bags with Joe Scott Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: but for my purposes. He is a death investigator with
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  Speaker 1: over ten thousand death scenes of all sorts under his belt.
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  Speaker 1: If she's been dismembered in the most brutal way in
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  Speaker 1: two body bags, head in one of them. This little girl,
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  Speaker 1: let me see, Celeste, this little girl's head was severed
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  Speaker 1: from her body her thirteen thirteen, when she started quote
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  Speaker 1: dating d fort v D aka David Anthony Burke, her
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  Speaker 1: head was severed from her body. Think about it. Think
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  Speaker 1: about the effort, the effort of severing her head and
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  Speaker 1: what ghoules were around when it was done. Okay, that
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  Speaker 1: the rest of her body dismembered, It's not like her
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  Speaker 1: the rest of her body was intact and put in
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  Speaker 1: a bag. It was dismembered too. So with all of
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  Speaker 1: that disc membering going on, how in the world do
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  Speaker 1: they know at the medical examiners that she was murdered
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  Speaker 1: with a sharp object. For those of you just joining
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  Speaker 1: us D four VD, David Anthony Burke has played not
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  Speaker 1: guilty in a court of law. We'll see about that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Scott hit it.
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  Speaker 4: One word, Nancy, hemorrhage. That's what they're going to be
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  Speaker 4: looking for. So they've talked about this sharp instrument, all right,
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  Speaker 4: When you have an attack that occurs, you know in life,
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  Speaker 4: blood is coursing through our veins. If he stabbed her,
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  Speaker 4: for instance, first off, stab wounds are going to look
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  Speaker 4: very specific, say on her torso, her chest, even her face, Nancy.
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  Speaker 4: And yet even in an advanced decompositional state, microscopically with
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  Speaker 4: tissue sections, we can actually appreciate if there is indwelling
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  Speaker 4: hemorrhage hemorrhage is indicative of an injury.
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  Speaker 1: Dear man, Wait, I'm sorry, I did not ask you
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  Speaker 1: to read of Britannica speak English, regular people talk straight
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  Speaker 1: talk vernacular as I like to say, regular commonplace vernacular.
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  Speaker 1: Hemorrhages you mean bruises. But can you go in depth
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  Speaker 1: on that? Because her whole body has been dismembered. How
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  Speaker 1: in all of that it's like put it together a
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  Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle? Uh? How do you find a hemorrhage and
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  Speaker 1: differentiate between a bruise which is a hemorrhage and her
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  Speaker 1: body getting cut apart? Joe Scott?
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  Speaker 4: Because the dead don't bleed, is what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 4: So when a body is dismembered, you're not going to
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  Speaker 4: have hemorrhaging. You're saying bruising, but you're not gonna have
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  Speaker 4: hemorrhaging in that area. Let's say an arm you mean bleeding. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so you're not gonna if you have an arm removed
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  Speaker 4: from the torso that area when you look at that
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  Speaker 4: tissue microscopically, Nancy is not going to show. It's not
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  Speaker 4: going to show bleeding into the surrounding tissue. All right. However, However,
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  Speaker 4: if you have a sharp force injury. That is that
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  Speaker 4: tracks back to the fatal event. You will have specific
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  Speaker 4: signs of hemorrhage in there. That's because blood at that
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  Speaker 4: point in time was still coursing through her body. Nancy,
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  Speaker 4: and this is in listen. It's not easy to do
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  Speaker 4: this because she is in such an advanced stage state
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  Speaker 4: of decomposition. Because we're talking months and months and months
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  Speaker 4: in that la heat in the front of that car.
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  Speaker 4: You think about that, and that's going to compromise. I
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  Speaker 4: think that's probably one of the reasons it's taken so
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  Speaker 4: long for them to make a specific diagnosis here. I've
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  Speaker 4: been involved in cases like this in the past, and
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  Speaker 4: you have to go over every jot entittle to try
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  Speaker 4: to disseminate between what happened in the anti mortem or
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  Speaker 4: prior to death state as opposed to the post mortem state. Nancy.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, my name is David pronounced David D four VD.
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  Speaker 7: I'm from Queens, New York. I'm in Houston now. I
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  Speaker 7: am a gamer. I love video games. I want to
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  Speaker 7: be a professional gamer before music. That's actually what pushed
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  Speaker 7: me into music was getting copyright strikes on YouTube and
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  Speaker 7: I kind of just use my own music and my
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  Speaker 7: montages after my mom told me to I was crying
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  Speaker 7: her about it.
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  Speaker 1: That from our friends at Genius, and he is very
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  Speaker 1: concerned that I might call him D four VD. His
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  Speaker 1: name is David Anthony Burke and he has been charged
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  Speaker 1: with murder one which is a whole another can of worms,
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  Speaker 1: murder one continuous, the child under under fourteen, which means
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  Speaker 1: the sex abuse started when she was thirteen, when they
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  Speaker 1: first started quote dating, mutilation of human remains. Wow, we've
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  Speaker 1: been waiting. We've been waiting justice for Celeste. Justice for Celeste.
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  Speaker 1: Now do we have it? H el noo, No justice
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  Speaker 1: until there is a sentence. This is a death penalty case.
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  Speaker 1: But will the prosecution seek the death penalty or go
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  Speaker 1: high in under their desk the way the prosecutor did
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  Speaker 1: in the Brian Coburger case. We'll see what happens. That said,
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  Speaker 1: much is being made of how this case will be proved.
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  Speaker 1: Because the killer, allegedly David Anthony Burke, dismembered the body,
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  Speaker 1: time passed, her body decomposed, witnesses disappeared, their memories faded
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  Speaker 1: straight out. To Brian Fitzgibbons joining US Director Operations USP,
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  Speaker 1: a nationwide security he leads a team of investigators around
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  Speaker 1: the world. He is a former marine, he is an
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  Speaker 1: Iraqi war that which I believe says it all fitz Gibbons.
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  Speaker 1: When you are looking for missing people, when you are
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  Speaker 1: putting together a case, see I love forensics. Joe Scott
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  Speaker 1: and I to talk about forensics all night long, Never
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  Speaker 1: get tired of it. Fingerprints for a fair hair, fiber,
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  Speaker 1: mitochondrial DNA mix the DNA. Nothing could make me happier
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  Speaker 1: than to delve into those intricacies. But practical matter, A
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  Speaker 1: jury likes to hear from witnesses. I've been thinking about
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  Speaker 1: the dfour VD case a long time and knew in
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  Speaker 1: my heart once her body was found dismembered that we
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  Speaker 1: would need witnesses to say I saw them fill in
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  Speaker 1: the blank. How do you find the witnesses and how
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  Speaker 1: do you gently insist convince them to testify.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so something that we've been saying right from the
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  Speaker 8: beginning of this case. Nancy and the DA in the
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  Speaker 8: press conference alluded to it. There was a tremendous surveillance
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  Speaker 8: effort on D four VD David and his associates for
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  Speaker 8: them to have this.
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  Speaker 1: Part of them. There's neo see him, remember him, Brian Fusgibbons, Neo.
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  Speaker 1: Neo Langston went and hit out under his mommy's bed
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  Speaker 1: in another state, and we had to get a material
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  Speaker 1: witness warrant to drag him back in by his toenails.
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  Speaker 1: He did not want to testify, but he did. Speaking
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of witnesses, I sorry to interrupt. I just wanted you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to see Neo. They were former best friends. Okay, go ahead, Brian,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I just wanted you to see Neo one of those witnesses.
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and you at least had Neo who was refusing
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: to cooperate at the beginning. So now the d and
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: the Chief of Police present a hard timeline. April twenty third,
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: Celestreevus was murdered. May fifth, her body was dismembered. What
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: does that tell us? There's some evidence, be it from
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: a witness or digital evidence from witnesses talking about this
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: case that point to this timeline. That didn't come just
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: from the forensic evidence. This comes from somebody associated to
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: the murder of Celeste Reevus that has either cracked or
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: been found out through a digital investigation or a surveillance effort.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Today, I am announcing the charges against David Anthony Burke,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: the musician known as David spelled D four v D,
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  Speaker 2: in connection with the brutal and horrific murder of Celeste,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a fourteen year old. These charges include the most serious
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: charges that a DA's office can bring that his first
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  Speaker 2: degree murder with special circumstances. The special circumstances being lying
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: in wait, committing this crime for financial gain, or murdering
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a witness in an investigation. These special circumstances carry with it,
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  Speaker 2: along with the first degree murder charge, a maximum sentence
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: of life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: The determination on whether or not the District Attorney's office
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: will seek the death penalty will be made at a
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: later time.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: The elect to District Attorney in LA announcing the charges
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and special circumstances. There's more.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Their additional charges against mister Burke, including continuous sexual acts,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: s lude in lascivious sexual acts but with an individual
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: under fourteen years old, and mutilating a human remains of
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a body. An April twenty third, twenty twenty five, has
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: been alleged by the complaint. Celeste, a fourteen year old
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: at that time, went to mister Burke's house in the
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Hollywood Hills. She was never heard from again. On September eighth,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, as alleged in the complaint, mister Burke,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: excuse me, miss Celeste remains, Her dismembered and decomposed remains
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: were found in two bags inside of a front truck
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: trunk of a car registered to mister Burke.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: What were they thinking?
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  Speaker 9: Now?
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  Speaker 1: We have learned through a witness, through a friend of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: our program, that he observed the car being moved multiple
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: times through door cam in the neighborhood, and I pressed
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: him to get him to admit it was a neo.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: He never would admit it on air. There's more regarding
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the special circumstances from the elected DA Listen.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Those special circumstances are lying in wait. That Celeste went
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to mister Burke's home on the night of April twenty third,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, as alleged in the complaint, at his invitation,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: and again was not heard from again. The second is
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: a special circumstance, being that this murder was committed for
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: financial gain. As the evidence will show in court, the
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: financial gain was for mister Burke to maintain his very
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: lucrative musical career, that Celeste was threatening.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace And in addition to Brian
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Fitzgibbons USPA Nationwide Security, Scott Iker is joining us. He
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: is at Precision Cellular Analysis. He is a founding member
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of the FBI Cast Cellular Analysis Survey Team. Homicide detective
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: twelve years, Norfolk, Virginia and has worked countless cases. Scott,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. You heard Brian Fitzgibbons
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: discussing getting witnesses. There had to be a witness that
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: saw what happened, because they've got it down to a
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: t that this all went down April twenty three. April
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: twenty three, was that the day her cell phone was
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: turned off and it was never turned back on. Was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: it turned on at a certain juncture? And text messages
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: sent to her family and parlance or vernacular that was
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: not hers? Just tell me what we can learn. We
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: know from a source inside the police station, inside LAPD
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: that there was a huge wall of cellular digital analysis
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: putting various parties together at the same time where they traveled.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Explain how they're going to prove this digitally, Scott Iiker.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: Well as you know, every case has just a ton
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: of digital evidence, and in this case, we're looking at
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: not only Burke's phone, but celeste phone, but all the
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: phones of people that they communicate with on a daily basis.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: So we're going to get the records from the cellular
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: records to determine where they were on the day of
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: April twenty third when Celest went over to the house.
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: So then we can start looking at, you know, not
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: only who was there at the time that she was murdered,
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: but the communications prior to that, the lying in wait,
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: the plan of the event. Then we look at the
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: events that happened after her death. You mentioned the car
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: being moved, so every time that's a furtherance of the
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: event that we can add to the digital evidence aspect.
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: And it's not just the content of the communications, the
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: location of the devices, but all the social media. We're
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: looking at pictures right now of all the social media
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: that these two have been putting out, and we know
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: Burke has put out a lot more because he's a magician,
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: he's got to be on social media. All those are
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: tracked and give us some locational information when we go
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: to the applications where they were posted.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: So we know Scott Iiker precision cellular analysis, that phone
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: records had been subpainted for everyone that lived in that
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: home and everyone that frequented that home, and there was
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: in and out all the time those phones were try
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to see when they were traveling. Most likely with David
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Anthony Burke, We're probably going to look for Neo's phone
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: if he was moving the car allegedly. We know he
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: has turned state's witness. He has not been charged. No
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: one else has been charged. If they have not been charged.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Troy Slayton, veteran defense attorney, then they have no grounds
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to plead the Fifth Amendment and remain silent if they're
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: not going to be charged, or if they've been given immunity.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Well, that's true, you can't claim a Fifth Amendment right
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: not to incriminate yourself if you've been given immunity. But
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: just because you haven't been charged doesn't mean that you
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: don't have the right to remain silent. So I think
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: if anybody feels that they have any criminal culpability in
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: this case as an accessory after the fact or as
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: part of a conspiracy to commit murder, then absolutely they
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: don't want to talk. Any experienced attorney worth their salt
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: is going to make sure that any person that's in
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: David's orbit is going to seek a deal to seek
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: immunity so that way they're not they don't have criminal
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: exposure in this case as well.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Dave mac where are the parents in all of this?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: They reported celest as a runaway once and then went
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: radio silent.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: And Nancy, they stayed fairly silent until yesterday and they
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: were at court. They were there and we were told
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: the media was told that they would be talking making
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: a statement to the press, but that did not happen.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: So Ever, since this case exploded last September, the family
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: has remained silent since the first week and we still
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: have not heard from them right now.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Question Dave Matt were they ever spotted out looking for
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: their daughter?
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: No, Nancy, they reported or missing and then and here's
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: the kick, they reported her missing and she was then
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Celeste was then seen back at the home in the
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: complex area in the weeks and months following the initial
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: report of her being missing, but she was never reported
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: as having come back home. The family never alerted authorities.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she's not missing anymore. We know where she is.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: A lot of questions around the family, what they knew
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: and what they didn't know. But bottom line is they
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: did report her missing first week of April twenty twenty four,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: and Celeste was seen back in their home area after
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: she was reported missing.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Not another word. Well, the parents have not been charged
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: with anything as of right now. Troy Slayton, veteran defense
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: attorney out of La Troy. In many jurisdictions, failure to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: report your child missing is a crime.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: It very well could be, and it doesn't seem like
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: the family was too concerned. It seems to me that
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: they knew. Now, look, a parent can't consent to have
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: their child engage in sexual activity at age thirteen or fourteen.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: But there is no evidence that they were coming around
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: the house and that they were out, you know, searching
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: for their daughter. Doesn't appear that they were being very vigilant.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not blaming them. I'm not saying that it's the
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: parent's fault. I'm just saying that we.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Don't have any you would never well you know what
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I will, I will, and what we also don't have.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Where were they in all of this? Celesti's dead.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Now, we don't have anyone, We don't have anyone publicly, Nancy,
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: who has come out and said that they saw a
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: murder or that they knew about a murder. All we
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: know is that a person was found dead at David's
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: house or in his car, that was register to him,
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: that she last went to his house, and that she
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: was found in a car. There's a whole lot in
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: the middle of this chain, Nancy, that the prosecutor is
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: going to have to prove in order to get a
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: murder conviction here.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you're saying we don't know because
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: we haven't had a trial yet. That's why we don't know.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: But the LA District Attorney did say this is there
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: physical evidence.
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: That ties David to this murder.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: There is physical evidence, and there is forensic and digital
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: evidence that we intend to present in court to prove
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: these charges beyond a reasonable.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Dell David Anthony Burke aka D four VD pleads not guilty.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: And interesting, this was not a grand jury indictment. There
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: was a grand jury that investigated called witnesses in the case.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Now there will be a preliminary hearing and Dave madd
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: B that's called like a mini trial, where we will
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: hear state's witnesses, probably just states witnesses. Isn't that set
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: for April twenty three?
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Is Nancy By law the UH, this preliminary hearing has
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: to be held within ten days, and so right now
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: we're looking at a possible preliminary hearing as early as
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: April twenty third.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: murder of this beautiful teen girl, Celeste Rivas, please dial
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: two one three four eight six six eight nine zero
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  Speaker 1: repeat two one three four eight six six eight nine zero.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: The State and the defense both building their case now.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Tonight we remember an American hero, Deputy Sheriff Thomas LeMay
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: of Lafore County, Oklahoma, just thirty shot in the line
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: of duty, leaving behind a five year old daughter. American
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: hero Deputyshiff Thomas LeMay, good night, friend,