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C.O.D. Revealed: Teen Girl Found Dismembered in D4vd's Tesla Trunk STABBED | Crime Alert 04.23.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney
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  Speaker 1: Silvanni in Los Angeles. A chilling medical examiner's report has
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  Speaker 1: finally shed light on the brutal end of a young life.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen year old Celeste Revas Hernandez was found dismembered in
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  Speaker 1: the tesla belonging to the rising TikTok star and musician
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  Speaker 1: known as David last September. On Wednesday, the Chief medical Examiner,
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  Speaker 1: doctor ode Uppo, released findings that have left the community reeling.
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  Speaker 1: Celeste died from multiple penetrating injuries, possibly caused by multiple objects,
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  Speaker 1: with the manner of death officially ruled a homicide. Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Ukpo expressed the heavyweight of the investigation, stating it was
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  Speaker 1: unfathomable that the grieving family had to wait seven months
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  Speaker 1: to learn the specifics of their daughter's death. The report
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  Speaker 1: revealed she suffered two deep wounds to her torso, including
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  Speaker 1: an injury to her liver. Furthermore, toxicology report showed presumptive
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  Speaker 1: positives for benzo diazepines and methamphetamine in her system. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: less Celeste was killed on April twenty third, but not
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  Speaker 1: dismembered for more than a week. On May fifth. Her
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  Speaker 1: body was so badly decomposed the medical examiner could not
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  Speaker 1: even confirm her eye color. The man accused of this
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  Speaker 1: heinous act as twenty one year old David Anthony Burke,
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  Speaker 1: known professionally as David. He appeared in a downtown Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles courtroom on Monday, pleading not guilty to all charges.
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  Speaker 1: He is currently being held without bail. District Attorney Nathan
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  Speaker 1: Hodgman has laid out a motive that is as cold
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  Speaker 1: as the crime itself. Investigators believe Burke was in a
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  Speaker 1: long term sexual relationship with Celeste while she was a
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  Speaker 1: miner and he was an adult. When she allegedly threatened
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  Speaker 1: to expose the relationship and jeopardize his lucrative music career.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say he lured her to his Hollywood Hills home
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  Speaker 1: and killed her. D A hotchman detailed the severity of
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  Speaker 1: the case during a press conference on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: These charges include the most serious charges that a DA's
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  Speaker 2: office can bring, that his first degree murder with special circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: The special circumstances being lying in wait, committing this crime
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  Speaker 2: for financial gain, or murdering a witness in an investigation.
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  Speaker 1: The financial gain mentioned by the DA refers to Burke's
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  Speaker 1: desperate attempt to protect his entertainment empire.
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  Speaker 2: This murder was committed for financial gain, as the evidence
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  Speaker 2: will show in court. The financial gain was for mister
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  Speaker 2: Burke to maintain his very lucrative musical career that Celeste
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  Speaker 2: was threatening.
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  Speaker 1: Celeste, who was a reported runaway from Lake Elsinore, was
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  Speaker 1: last seen alive on April twenty third, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: the very day tickets for Burke's world tour went on presale.
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  Speaker 1: While the lapd IS faced criticism for the slow pace
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  Speaker 1: of the investigation, police Chief Jim MacDonald defended the timeline,
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  Speaker 1: noting that the delay in finding her body made the
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  Speaker 1: forensic work incredibly difficult.
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  Speaker 3: The condition of her remains delayed the medical examiner's ability
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  Speaker 3: to be able to determine cause of death.
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  Speaker 1: McDonald further confirmed the nature of the relationship that set
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  Speaker 1: this tragedy in motion.
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  Speaker 3: Detectives learned that she had been involved in a sexual
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  Speaker 3: relationship with mister Burke when she was a minor and
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  Speaker 3: he was an adult.
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  Speaker 1: Defense attorney Blair Burke has maintained Burke's innocence, stating in court,
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  Speaker 1: we believe the actual evidence will show David Burke did
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  Speaker 1: not murder Celeste Viavis Hernandez, nor was he the cause
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  Speaker 1: of her death. As this case moves forward, the District
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's office is weighing whether to seek the death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and Justice news after this in Whichita, Kansas,
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  Speaker 1: the veteran community is mourning one of their own. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: five year old Ivy Unra, a former US Marine sergeant,
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  Speaker 1: was shot outside her apartment on April seventeenth, dying from
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  Speaker 1: her injuries. Monday, police have charged your estranged husband, twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine year old Joshua Orlando, with premeditated first degree murderer.
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  Speaker 1: Ivy was a highly decorated Marine who served from twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty to twenty twenty four, earning the Good Conduct Medal
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  Speaker 1: and deploying to Australia. After her service, she worked as
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  Speaker 1: a broadcast engineer at PBS Kansas. Her colleagues and the
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  Speaker 1: station president, Victor Hogstrom, were devastated by the news. Hogstrom
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  Speaker 1: described her as a driven, reliable team member who was
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  Speaker 1: deeply missed. According to investigators, Ivy had done everything right.
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  Speaker 1: She filed for divorce in August twenty twenty five and
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  Speaker 1: moved into her own apartment to start a new life.
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  Speaker 1: Station President Victor Hogstrom spoke to KWCH News about the
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  Speaker 1: steps she took to protect herself.
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  Speaker 4: She filed a divorce, she moved out. She just did
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  Speaker 4: what the professionals advised her to do.
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  Speaker 1: He remembered her work ethic, fondly.
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  Speaker 4: Worked, hard, motivated, trustworthy, dependable, and very intelligent.
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  Speaker 1: Even in death, Ivy continued to serve as an organ donor.
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  Speaker 1: She saved six lives. Members of the American Legion held
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  Speaker 1: an honor walk for her as she was taken to surgery,
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  Speaker 1: a final salute to a marine who spent her life
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  Speaker 1: helping others. Joshua Orlando remains jailed on a one point
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  Speaker 1: five million dollar bond, with a hearing set for May fifth.
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  Speaker 1: In Alabama, a shocking betrayal of trust has rocked the
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  Speaker 1: Cold Springs High School community. Thirty five year old Page Adams,
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  Speaker 1: a former girls basketball coach once hailed as a great
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  Speaker 1: role model, has been arrested on a staggering thirty two
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  Speaker 1: count grand jury indictment. The charges include distributing obscene material
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  Speaker 1: to a student and engaging in deviant sexual intercourse with
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  Speaker 1: a student. Adams has led her team to the Final
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  Speaker 1: four just last season, but her career came to a
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  Speaker 1: screeching halt when a complaint was filed last month, leading
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  Speaker 1: to her immediate resignation. Coleman County District Attorney Champ Crocker
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  Speaker 1: says the indictment speaks for itself. Adam's husband, who coaches
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  Speaker 1: the boys' basketball team at the same school, filed for
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  Speaker 1: divorce shortly after the allegations surfaced. She is currently out
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  Speaker 1: on a two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars bond
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  Speaker 1: and is required to wear an electronic monitoring device. For
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  Speaker 1: the latest I'm Injustice breaking news, be sure to tune
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  Speaker 1: in tomorrow on your favorite podcast act with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sydney Silvani