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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, im Grace Breaking crime News now straight out
- 0:03Speaker 1: to Nicole Parton for the latest Nancy.
- 0:06Speaker 2: More than two months after the body of fourteen year
- 0:08Speaker 2: old Celeste Revas Hernandez were discovered partially dismembered inside a vehicle,
- 0:14Speaker 2: shocking new details have emerged. Investigators now say her remains
- 0:19Speaker 2: were partially frozen when they were found. On September eighth,
- 0:23Speaker 2: Employees at a Hollywood toe reported a foul odor coming
- 0:27Speaker 2: from a Tesla SUV that had been sitting on the
- 0:30Speaker 2: lot for five days. The car had been abandoned in
- 0:33Speaker 2: the Hollywood Hills area. That Tesla, with Texas plates, was
- 0:38Speaker 2: registered to twenty year old David Anthony Burke, better known
- 0:42Speaker 2: as David, a rising R and B musician with millions
- 0:45Speaker 2: of fans.
- 0:46Speaker 3: According to a report from.
- 0:48Speaker 2: TMZ, Celeste decomposing body parts, including her head and torso,
- 0:53Speaker 2: worth thawing inside the front trunk when the grizzly discovery
- 0:57Speaker 2: was made. Her body in horrific condition, decapitated torso intact,
- 1:03Speaker 2: but her limbs had been removed and cut into tiny pieces.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Police say that Tesla was parked near a Hollywood Hills
- 1:10Speaker 2: rental home where Burke had been living before it was
- 1:13Speaker 2: TOWD detectives later served a search warrant at the home
- 1:17Speaker 2: and seized evidence. On November eighteenth, LAPD sources told KTLA
- 1:22Speaker 2: that Burke is considered a suspect in Celeste's death. The
- 1:26Speaker 2: teen had been missing from the Lake Eleanor area since
- 1:29Speaker 2: April twenty twenty four, when she was just thirteen. Investigators
- 1:33Speaker 2: are looking closely at her possible relationship with Burke. Images
- 1:38Speaker 2: online appear to show the two together, and the girl's
- 1:41Speaker 2: mother told police her daughter had a boyfriend named David.
- 1:45Speaker 2: The pair reportedly shared matching tattoos on their right index
- 1:48Speaker 2: finger with the word sh. Friends in Burke circle believes
- 1:52Speaker 2: Celeste was nineteen, when in fact she was fourteen. Following
- 1:56Speaker 2: the discovery, Burke canceled his US and European tour dates
- 2:00Speaker 2: and shelved an album release. Sources say he is not
- 2:04Speaker 2: cooperating with investigators and has not commented publicly. Detectives are
- 2:09Speaker 2: also investigating whether the suspect had help dismembering and disposing
- 2:13Speaker 2: of the body. TMZ reports investigators believe the manner of
- 2:17Speaker 2: dismemberment suggests more than one person was involved. They're also
- 2:21Speaker 2: looking into a trip Burke allegedly made to a remote
- 2:25Speaker 2: area of Santa Barbara County in the middle of the
- 2:27Speaker 2: night last spring. Celest's body was found the day after
- 2:31Speaker 2: her fifteenth birthday, but officials believe she died weeks earlier.
- 2:35Speaker 2: The frozen state of her remains may make it difficult
- 2:39Speaker 2: to determine a cause of death. Her funeral was held
- 2:42Speaker 2: in October at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Roland Heights.
- 2:46Speaker 2: So far, no arrest have been made, and any decision
- 2:49Speaker 2: to prosecute will likely come after the official autopsy report
- 2:53Speaker 2: is released.
- 2:55Speaker 1: More private justice news after this, a New York Jets
- 3:01Speaker 1: player Chris Boyd in critical condition after being involved and
- 3:05Speaker 1: injured in a shooting New York City. The NFL Star
- 3:09Speaker 1: twenty nine shot outside a fine dining restaurant the early
- 3:13Speaker 1: morning hours. A spokesperson from NYPD says authorities responded to
- 3:17Speaker 1: a nine one one of a male with a gunshot
- 3:20Speaker 1: wound to the abdomen in front of one fifty six
- 3:22Speaker 1: US thirty eight.
- 3:23Speaker 2: During a press conference, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kinney
- 3:28Speaker 2: detailed what led up to the chaos early Sunday morning,
- 3:31Speaker 2: November sixteenth. It started around two am whin. Twenty nine
- 3:35Speaker 2: year old cornerback Boyd, along with his teammate Jermaine Sherwood,
- 3:39Speaker 2: wide receiver Irvin Charles, and a friend visiting from Texas,
- 3:43Speaker 2: pulled up to the say Less, a midtown Asian fusion
- 3:46Speaker 2: speakeasy known as a celebrity hotspot. As the group approached,
- 3:51Speaker 2: four or five men outside allegedly began heckling them, walking
- 3:55Speaker 2: their outfits and throwing out lines like what.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Do you think you're better than us?
- 4:00Speaker 2: Boyd's group ignored the taunts and went inside, but didn't
- 4:03Speaker 2: stay long. According to Kenny quote, they're not feeling it
- 4:07Speaker 2: and they decide to leave. That's when things turned ugly. Outside,
- 4:11Speaker 2: the same group confronted them again. This time Boyd and
- 4:14Speaker 2: his friends fired back verbally. The exchange escalated into what
- 4:19Speaker 2: Kenny called a pretty chaotic melee involving up to sixty people.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Then gunfire. A shooter opened fire twice with a nine
- 4:28Speaker 2: millimeter handgun. One bullet struck Boyd in the chest, pierced
- 4:32Speaker 2: his lung and is now lodged in his pulmonary artery.
- 4:36Speaker 2: The gunman fled, jumping into a white BMW. Police say.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Surveillance video shows two vehicles of interest speeding out of
- 4:43Speaker 2: the parking garage across from the restaurant, ramming through the
- 4:47Speaker 2: gate before racing onto Broadway. Detectives have identified a person
- 4:52Speaker 2: of interest thanks to a crime stopper's tip and social
- 4:55Speaker 2: media post, but no arrest yet. Investigators also recovered a
- 4:59Speaker 2: one one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars watch at
- 5:02Speaker 2: the scene.
- 5:03Speaker 3: So far, no one's claiming it.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Nancy Boyd remains hospitalized as police work to track down
- 5:10Speaker 2: the shooter.
- 5:11Speaker 1: Nicole, thank you. Nothing good happens after midnight. Tensions high
- 5:15Speaker 1: between Chantelle Hudson and her mom after they moved from Bishop,
- 5:18Speaker 1: California to Dayton, Nevada. Just after Chantelle starts her junior
- 5:23Speaker 1: year of high school, Chantelle's mom thinks her teen girl
- 5:27Speaker 1: has fallen in with the wrong crowd at her new school.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Seven thirty Monday morning, Chantelle leaves home on foot after
- 5:34Speaker 1: an argument. Her mom reports Chantelle missing when she's marked
- 5:38Speaker 1: absent from school. Searches of Chantelle's route to school turn
- 5:42Speaker 1: up nothing. Several reported sightings turn out to be misidentifications.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Chantelle's social Security number no activity, and extensive driver's license
- 5:53Speaker 1: searches don't provide any leads Chantale Hudson, now missing thirty
- 5:58Speaker 1: six years. Chantale Native American, five five, brown hair, brown eyes, glasses,
- 6:06Speaker 1: has a scar on her left ring finger a birthmark
- 6:10Speaker 1: on her lower back. If you have info on Chantale Hudson,
- 6:15Speaker 1: call Lion County, Nevada Sheriffs seven seven five five seven
- 6:20Speaker 1: seven five zero two three. For the latest crime injustice news,
- 6:24Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com and please join us
- 6:27Speaker 1: for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our
- 6:30Speaker 1: best to find missing people, especially children, and help solve
- 6:34Speaker 1: unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.