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Singer D4vd Has Tattoo Matching Body of Girl Found in His Tesla · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Deep Dive. Our mission is simple.
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We take a mountain of sources, research articles, legal filings,
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and we distill it down into the crucial need to
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know insights, giving you the clarity you need to understand
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the big picture. Today, we are setting a really jarring scene.
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We're not in you know, the glittering confines of a
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recording studio or on some red carpet.
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Speaker 2: No, not at all.
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Speaker 1: Instead, we are focused on a profoundly mundane, almost forgettable
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location that well suddenly became the epicenter of a celebrity
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crime story that has pretty much consumed the world.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a local tow yard in Hollywood on Mansfield Avenue.
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Speaker 1: And the date September eight, twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: It really is the ultimate collision of like Hollywood artifice
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and just grim reality. You've got this industrial backdrop, an
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impound lot, you know, a place for parking tickets, minor stuff,
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and it just violently intersects with the kind of story
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you normally only see in fiction. And the initial catalyst
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for this whole global investigation was well, deeply prosaic.
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Speaker 1: It was a smell, a smell so overpowering that the
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tow yard workers, people dealing with oil dust exhaust every
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single day. They knew immediately something was fundamentally wrong.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can imagine it was.
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Speaker 1: Emanating from this sleek black Tesla Model three they had
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been sitting there in the lot. The odor. The workers
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described it as a putrid wave, like rotting meat mixed
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with chemicals.
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Speaker 2: Just awful, and that stench. That's what prompted the closer look,
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the investigation. And when they finally forced open the front
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trunk the funk, as Tesla calls it, right, the fronk,
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They made a discovery so horrific it instantly triggered a
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homicide classification. Right stuffed inside a black plastic bag, the
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severely decomposed remains of a female body.
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Speaker 1: And this is where the story just completely shifts gears
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because the LAPD they run the plates on that vehicle,
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black twenty twenty three model three Texas registration, and the
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car belonged to David Anthony Brook, better known, of course
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to his what thirty three million monthly listeners across the
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globe as D four.
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Speaker 2: VD, D four VD, the twenty year old viral music phenomenon,
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the guy behind that massive hit romantic homicide.
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Speaker 1: You really cannot overstate the shockwave this sent through the
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entire entertainment industry. I mean, the victim identified shortly after
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as fifteen year old Celeste Reevs. She'd been missing for
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over a year, over a year.
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Speaker 2: And the connection, the piece of evidence that truly ties
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the star and this tragedy together with such haunting specificity.
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Speaker 1: It's the ink, the ink, the crucial chilling link. Both
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Celeste Revs and D four ved share an identical delicate
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ITU written in matching red script, located prominently on the
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right index fingers. It's almost like something out of a movie,
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isn't it a physical, permanent symbol of secrecy exactly?
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Speaker 2: And now it sits right at the heart of a
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murder investigation.
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Speaker 1: So our mission today is really to move beyond those headlines,
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you know, and truly understand the complexities here.
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Speaker 2: There are so many layers.
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Speaker 1: We need to unpack. The timeline, how did that car
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even end up abandon there? What do we actually know
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about celestial turbulent months?
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Speaker 2: And the tech side too, the forensic potential of that
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tesla's telemetry data, what can it.
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Speaker 1: Tell us right? And finally you look at the legal
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and professional implications for a career that was, I mean
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literally ascending into the stratosphere right when this body was
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found just taking off. Okay, let's unpack this by starting
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right at the moment the car became a crime scene,
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which ironically began with just a mundane parking fine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the chain of events started really quietly. The vehicle
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that black twenty twenty three Model three, heavily tinted windows,
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Texas plates. It was parked illegally, just sitting there for
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over seventy two hours on a quiet residential street in
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the Hollywood Hills.
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Speaker 1: So someone reported it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it got flagged on September fifth, twenty twenty five,
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just a routine infraction leading to a routine toe. Nothing
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suspicious at that point.
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Speaker 1: The toe itself was totally uneventful. Then the car was
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brought to the Mansfield Avenue lot where just sat for
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three more days.
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Speaker 2: Right, And it wasn't until September eight that the heat,
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the stagnant air, and the sheer severity of decomposition just
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overwhelmed the towyard workers. That's when they were forced to
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investigate further.
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Speaker 1: So LAPD arrives and immediately the scene is secured. Forensics
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teams brought in wearing full Hasmac gear. That tells you
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something right there.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the remains were so severely decomposed, and the
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immediate finding that cemented this as a cold blooded homicide,
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not just a suspicious death. Yeah, it was the nature
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of the concealment and the state of the body. What
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do they find Specifically, sources reported dismemberment, specifically the head
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and torso having been separated before being placed in that
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plastic bag in the front.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow. That level of effort to conceal and dispose
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of the body, plus the decomposition, it tells investigators this
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crime likely happened a.
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Speaker 2: Long time ago exactly, and the concealment was desperate and thorough.
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Someone went to great lengths.
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Speaker 1: What's fascinating here, though, and it really speaks to the
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persistence of police work, is that the first major break
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in identification wasn't some expense.
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Speaker 2: Of DNA tech, right, No, not initially, It was that
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visible physical marker, despite the degradation of the remains, that
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delicate red script of the tattoo on her right index finger.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was visible enough, visible enough to be recorded
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in the initial exam.
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Speaker 2: And that one small tattoo allowed detectives to start searching
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missing persons databases looking for any teen reported missing with
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that specific, easily recognizable mark.
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Speaker 1: It was the crucial jumpstart they needed.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and by September seventeenth, just over a week after
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the body was discovered, DNA and dental records conclusively identified
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the remains as Celeste.
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Speaker 1: Rebus, officially closing that distressing seventeen month cold case loop
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for her family down at Riverside County. Such a long time,
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terrible wait for answers. Now we have to turn to
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the vehicle link analysis, because this is where D four
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vd's alby his defense, it starts running into some serious problems.
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Speaker 2: Big problems. The Tesla was registered to David Anthony Burke,
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and crucially, the car was not reported stolen.
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Speaker 1: That's the Q point, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: It's the critical, potentially damning detail, especially if dfortvid's team
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is insisting he knew nothing about it.
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Speaker 1: Right, Because if an expensive, high tech vehicle like a
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Tesla Model three, which let's remember is easily trackable and
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worth tens of thousands of dollars, if it goes missing
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you report it.
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Speaker 2: A conscientious owner files a police report pretty much immediately
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he didn't.
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Speaker 1: His team's claim is what that he was just focused
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on his world tour, simply unaware of its absence.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're suggesting perhaps the third party might have taken
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it without his knowledge.
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Speaker 1: But the sources noted that the last known sort of
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sporadic activity of the car based on initial GPS pings,
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was back in late August.
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Speaker 2: Right when D fourty had pre toured downtime in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: So if he was in LA and the car was
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potentially being used then yet he never reported it missing
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even after leaving town. It creates this enormous liability, doesn't
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it huge?
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Speaker 2: His failure ye to file a theft report links him
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directly to the vehicle's abandonment, regardless of who physically drove
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it there last. It undermines the whole I knew nothing defense.
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Speaker 1: It also raises the specter of well complicity. I mean,
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if he knew someone else was using his car, maybe
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someoney's trying to protect that silence around the missing vehicle.
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It speaks volumes louder than any official statement from his
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PR team.
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Speaker 2: That's the legal conundrum the LAPD is absolutely going to
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exploit if he willingly gave control of the vehicle to
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the perpetrator, that's a massive problem for him.
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Speaker 1: Or if he was the perpetrator and is now claiming ignorance,
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the lack of a theft report makes that claim look
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highly suspicious.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. It's the silence again that defines this entire initial
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phase of the investigation. The silence about the.
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Speaker 1: Car such a stark contrast between that cold, silent machine
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to Tesla and the frantic, tragic life of the victim.
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Let's pivot now from the technical crime scene analysis back
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to the young woman whose life was so brutally cut short.
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Speaker 2: Celeste Marie Revas Hernandez. She was just fifteen when her
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body was identified, but she had originally vanished when she was.
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Speaker 1: Only thirteen thirteen, so young.
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Speaker 2: She was from Lake Elsinore, down on Riverside County, and
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from what her friends and family have said, she really
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embodied the digital age, you know, a free spirit, kind
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of obsessed with social media. What she like descriptions say
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she was a five foot two Latina, slender build, wavy
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black hair, a young woman who spent her time watching
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makeup tutorials, practicing lip syncing for videos, posting selfies.
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Speaker 3: Aspiring to be an influencer, basically fiercely aspiring, chasing that
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dream of digital fame, which you know so often gets
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conflated with real opportunity, especially the idea of making it
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big in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: But that aspiration, it seems it clacked pretty violently with
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her reality at home.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sources indicate a difficult home life strict rules, which
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apparently led to a pattern of her running away.
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Speaker 1: Her mother, Maria Hernandez, gave a heartbreaking statement, didn't she.
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Speaker 2: She did to TMZ, explaining that Celeste was quote chasing
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dreams bigger than this town, and that she had this romanticized,
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maybe even dangerous view of life up in.
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Speaker 1: LA And this is where the direct connection to D
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four VD first emerges. Right long before the body was.
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Speaker 2: Found exactly, Maria Hernandez mentioned to reporters that Celeste frequently
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talked about someone named David.
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Speaker 1: Someone named David, which suggests.
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Speaker 2: Her running away wasn't just like a desperate escape from something,
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but maybe a targeted move toward a specific individual she
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believed could help her achieve those bigger dreams.
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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, let's get back to that ominous tattoo. We
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know she got the delicate red script ssh on her
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right index finger in early twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Right, and the timing is interesting. It was around the
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time she was briefly located and return home after an
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earlier runaway.
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Speaker 1: Episode, only to vanish again permanently shortly after getting it.
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Speaker 2: Now, Legally, experts are cautious. They point out this is
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a common fad ink, you know, popularized by celebrities like
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Rihanna Lindsay Lohan.
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Speaker 1: So it's not definitive proof of anything on its own.
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Speaker 2: Correct, It doesn't automatically prove a relationship, but the timing
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and the location incredibly suggestive in this context. Neighbors apparently
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noted her behavior became more secretive, more clandestine after she got.
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Speaker 1: The tattoo, suggesting it was acquired during a period of
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high secrecy, symbolizing maybe a hidden bond or a need
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to keep quiet about something or someone.
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Speaker 2: That's the implication it felt, as one source vividly put it,
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prophetically ominous given her ultimate fate, and.
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Speaker 1: We can sort of piece together her final known movements
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from digital breadcrumbs, can't we texts and things?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. In late summer twenty twenty four, she texted friends
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said she was finally in Los Angeles, hanging with someone special.
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Speaker 1: Someone special, likely that David, her mother mentioned.
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Speaker 2: It seems probable she shared these blurry kind of aspirational snaps,
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Hollywood signs, glimpses of luxury cars, that kind of images
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teenagers share when they feel like they've finally leveled up,
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you know, yeah, arrived, and then just digital silence. Her
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communication completely dropped off in late summer twenty twenty four.
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That's when the agonizing seventeen month stretch began, where she
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was just a name on a missing person's file.
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Speaker 1: Until September eighth, twenty twenty five. The forensic details from
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the medical examiner's report, they paint such a devastating picture
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of her final state.
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Speaker 2: Just tragic. She weighed only seventy one pounds.
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Speaker 1: Seventy one pounds, a.
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Speaker 2: Horrifying indication of severe malnourishment. It really underscores her vulnerability,
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her likely dependence on someone in the time leading up.
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Speaker 1: To her death. What was she wearing? Did they say?
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Speaker 2: She was found clad in simple clothing, a tube top,
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black leggings and importantly, a specific yellow metal bracelet and
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stud earrings, things that could be identified exactly. They were
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visible in some of her old social media photos helping
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confirm her identity. Alongside the DNA and.
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Speaker 1: Dental records, and the cause of death.
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Speaker 2: It remains officially deferred. That means they're waiting on toxicology results,
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more extensive analysis, but given the dismemberment and the concealment
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in the car, there's no doubt this is being treated
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as a calculated homicide.
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Speaker 1: Her story, even before it intersected with global fame, was
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clearly one of profound neglect and vulnerability.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely a life marked by instability, ending in the most
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brutal way.
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Speaker 1: That neglected life now stands in such stark, horrifying contrast
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to the subject of our next section, the star whose
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rapid ascent seems tragically intertwined with her desperate escape.
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Speaker 2: David Anthony Burke D four VD I mean he is
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the textbook definition of a gen Z musical prodigy of any.
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Speaker 1: Totally born two thousand and five Houston, not born into
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music industry connections.
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Speaker 2: At all, no entirely self taught using little more than
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garage band on like an iPhone right and lo fi
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beats to start posting music on TikTok back in twenty twenty,
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and his.
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Speaker 1: Rise was just meteoric, fueled entirely by those digital algorithms.
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His breakthrough track, Romantic Homicide, it became a genuine phenomenon.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't just a hit, It sort of defined a
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whole genre moment. It accumulated what was a number, a
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staggering one point five billion spot of five streams.
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Speaker 1: Billion with a B and atop the Billboard Hot one
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hundred by twenty twenty four. His debut album Withered just
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cemented his status as a major player.
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Speaker 2: His reach is immense, Just to give you the metrics,
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three point eight million TikTok followers, thirty three million monthly
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Spotify listeners. He represents the absolute pinnacle of modern viral success.
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Speaker 1: Which culminated in those high profile record deals, including with
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Interscope Records, leading him to move to Los Angeles in
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twenty twenty three, which seems critical here.
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Speaker 2: Very critical, because with that move came the inevitable exposure
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to the whole La lifestyle, the kind of life that
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attracts young aspirational people like Celestrevas.
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Speaker 1: And whispers started circulating right about a playboy lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the usual stuff. Paparazzi snaps at Coachella late night outings,
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frequent visits to tattoo parlors, just the kind of glamorous
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chaos that you know can sometimes mask darker behavior patterns.
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Speaker 1: Which brings us right back to the most critical physical
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detail linking him to the victim, that matching kattoo D
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four vid'sh tattoo. When did that first appear publicly?
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Speaker 2: It was first seen publicly in photos taken during a
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Miami inc session and the date was September twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: September twenty twenty four. Okay, that timeline, as you flagged earlier,
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is absolutely crucial.
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Speaker 2: It's everything. Because Celeste Reevas got her matching red script
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tattoo way back in early twenty twenty four, maybe around April,
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so dfer.
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Speaker 1: D's matching tattoo appeared publicly months later, and after Select
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had vanished completely in late summer twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Correct. That timing is highly suspicious, and it immediately fueled
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intense speculation across all the social media platforms.
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Speaker 1: What were people saying? What were the theories?
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Speaker 2: Was it some kind of grim tribute to a secret
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lover who had gone missing, or more sinisterly, was it
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a calculated piece of body art? Designed maybe to make
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a unique symbol look like just another common fad, thereby
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masking a deeper connection.
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Speaker 1: And the fact that is red script matching Celeste.
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Speaker 2: Exactly only added fuel to that fire. It suggested a
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shared ritual, something deliberate, so.
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Speaker 1: The romantic can and then the grooming accusations they followed swiftly,
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didn't they And they were deeply damaging, especially in the
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court of public opinion.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and Celeste's mother's testimony was really the clincher for
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the public. She confirmed her daughter had dated a David
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in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: And confirmed the matching tattoos were a couple's ritual exactly.
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Speaker 2: That hit hard, and then predictably, the digital receipts started
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leaking online.
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Speaker 1: What kind of things?
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Speaker 2: Discord chats surfaced, and maybe most disturbingly, an unreleased demo
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track allegedly titled Celeste.
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Speaker 1: Oh Wow.
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Speaker 2: And the lyrics when viewed through the lens of this tragedy,
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they are profoundly disturbing. Lines like whispers in the night,
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secrets we Can't fight. They took on this immediate, sinister
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new context for fans who were suddenly dissecting his entire
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back catalog chilling.
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Speaker 1: This is where we really need to address the grooming accusation.
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Yet on, isn't it we do?
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Speaker 2: Because you have this global star signed to interscope, huge wealth,
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massive influence versus a fifteen year old runaway with a
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documented history of instability.
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Speaker 1: The power differential is just immense colossal.
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Speaker 2: And then these grainy photos started circulating virallly allegedly showing
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defour vied with a girl who resembled Celeste. That sparked
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immediate fury online, and.
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Speaker 1: The public consensus seemed pretty damning.
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Speaker 2: From the Geggi overwhelmingly so. There was this one highly
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upvoted comment on Reddit that really articulated the sentiment. It
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said something like, Oh, make no mistake, he definitely killed her.
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I was just pointing out that even in the best
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case scenario, he's still a groomer.
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Speaker 1: Wow. That really summarizes the immense reputational damage, doesn't it.
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Even if you were somehow clear to the murder charge itself.
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Speaker 2: The allegations surrounding the nature of the relationship, given her
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age and vulnerability, could be career ending on their own.
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The Internet, for better or worse, had already rendered its
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judgment base largely on that age and power disparity.
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Speaker 1: So as that public frenzy just intensified, the LAPD had
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to focus on collecting tangible courted miss evidence because that
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sh tattoo, while it's incredibly powerful narratively.
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Speaker 2: It's still circumstantial. Experts keep reminding us it is a
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common fat inc legally, it proves a connection, sure, but
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not necessarily motive or guilt in the homicide.
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Speaker 1: Itself, which is why the investigation pivoted so hard toward
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hard data.
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Speaker 2: Ritically. On September eighteenth, right after the official identification of Celeste,
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search horns were swiftly executed, they went to that Hollywood
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Hills rental where D four V had stayed just before
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its tour started. What do they sees critical items electronics, phones, computers,
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any kind of storage devices and clothing. They're hoping to
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establish a clearer connection or pin down the chronology of events.
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Speaker 1: And they're also canvassing that quiet Hollywood Hills street where
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the tesla was actually abandoned, looking for doorbell cameras, things
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like that.
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Speaker 2: Right ring camera footage, other home security systems. They desperately
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need to establish the exact window of time when the
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car was abandoned and crucially, who stepped out of that car?
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Was it D four VD? Was it someone else?
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Speaker 1: But the real potential gold mine, the real battleground for
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this investigation, seems to be the Tesla itself.
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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, This isn't just a car. It's essentially a
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network to computer on wheels. It's a potential treasure trove
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of forensic evidence, far exceeding what you get from a
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traditional vehicle.
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Speaker 1: Let's break that down. Why is the data potentially so
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powerful here?
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Speaker 2: Well, we're talking about GPS tracking logs. These can potentially
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pinpoint the car's location down to inches, maybe over months.
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Speaker 1: Of history, incredible detail.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about detailed trip logs, potentially even voice commands
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captured by the car system. But maybe most importantly, Century
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mode cameras.
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Speaker 1: Explain Century Mode for people who might not know.
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Speaker 2: Centry Mode basically records any activity around the car when
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it's parked. It's designed as an anti theft, anti vandalism feature, so.
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Speaker 1: The footage is stored ware.
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Speaker 2: It's stored locally in the car. But the crucial question
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is whether the data was immediately wiped or if the
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LAPD has the technical capability to bypass Tesla's proprietary.
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Speaker 1: Encryption, because if they can access it, they.
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Speaker 2: Might have video evidence of the car being parked on
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that street, maybe even footage of the perpetrator interacting with
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the front or god forbid, the body itself. It could
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be absolutely damning.
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Speaker 1: Online speculation, especially among tech savvy observers, really focus on this,
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didn't it The sheer volume of data at.
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Speaker 2: Tesla collacx Yeah that one user's comment dfour vd is
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flecked if the data is still there really highlights the
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public awareness. This car might hold data covering say one
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thousand miles of driving after Celeste disappeared.
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Speaker 1: Which would directly challenge any claim that he was ignorant
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of the car's whereabouts for a long.
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Speaker 2: Period precisely, but this challenge is twofold. First, actually getting
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the data is complex Tesla's run on proprietary systems. Law
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enforcement often needs specific cooperation from Tesla or very specific
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warrants to access things like the full self driving computer
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logs or historical GPS data that might be stored on
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Tesla's servers, not just the car.
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Speaker 1: So the LAPD's ability to successfully extract and decrypt this
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data is potentially the lynchpin of the entire legal case.
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Speaker 2: It could very well be.
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Speaker 1: Now dfour vd's official defense and his alibi, they remain
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the biggest counterpoint to all this mounting physical and potential
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digital evidence.
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Speaker 2: Right his team insists he was fully engaged in his
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Withered World tour, which kicked off in August twenty twenty five.
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They're pointing to performance dates confirming he was physically elsewhere
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in Seattle on September seventeenth, later in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 1: His representatives have maintained a really hard line, haven't they,
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emphasizing full cooperation and ignorance, stating flatly that DFOURVD had
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no clue anything untoward was going on.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the argument is plausible on the surface.
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A busy internationally touring musician might not personally check on
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one specific car parked far away. Maybe it was under
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management control, something like that.
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Speaker 1: Plausible maybe, But that contradiction remains glaring, and people on
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x on social media, they were incredibly quick to hammer
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this point. He never reported the Tesla.
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Speaker 2: Missing, and that's the sticking point. This is his registered vehicle.
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The last known activity was in late August when he
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was still.
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Speaker 1: In La So for his legal team, this failure to
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report the theft is a massive liability, isn't it. How
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do they explain that away?
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Speaker 2: The likely argues simple negligence. You know, a young millionaire
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musician whirlwind schedule, too busy to track every single asset.
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Speaker 1: That's the likely angle the prosecutors will argue.
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Speaker 2: What prosecutors will argue that an owner who finds his expensive,
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high tech vehicle missing and then fails to file a
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police report is either lying about his ignorance or he's
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somehow connected to the vehicle's illicit use or disappearance. It
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reads like an implied admission of awareness, or at least suspicion.
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Speaker 1: We also have that extremely guarded statement from Defodi's own family.
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His brother confirmed to NBCLA that the family is quote
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grieving and aware that the girl knew dfour VD.
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Speaker 2: Aware that she knew him, but offered zero specifics about
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the nature or the timing of that relationship. That silence
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from the family, while maybe understandable in a crisis like this,
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it only heightened a public suspicion.
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Speaker 1: So the LAPD's immediate focus now is almost exclusively on
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retrieving and interpreting whatever digital data is locked within that
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Model three. That feels like the next major turning point.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely all eyes are on the tech forensics now.
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Speaker 1: The moment that celebrity connection and D four D in
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the Tesla was confirmed, the public reaction was just instantaneous
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and explosive. Social media basically turned into this huge, sprawling
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digital detective agency.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, fueled by outrage, grief, and incredibly intense scrutiny of
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defour med.
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Speaker 1: The sheer volume was staggering, wasn't it. X Trends like
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hashtag defour med tesla and hashtag justice forceless They've messed
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tens of millions of views within just the first few days.
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Speaker 2: It was global news instantly, amateur sleuthing went into absolute overdrive.
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You had users dissecting his every public move, every relationship hint,
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every social media post from the last year or more.
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Speaker 1: And this digital screw it naturally extended to his music,
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his art.
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Speaker 2: Oh, definitely, fans, critics, everyone started dissecting the lyrics of
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romantic homicide with this horrifying new lens, finding chilling new
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meanings and lines that were you once just considered moody poetry.
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Speaker 1: That title track itself suddenly seemed disturbingly prophetic. I don't
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love you, but I'll kill.
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Speaker 2: For you sends a shiver down your spine now.
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Speaker 1: It really does, and the professional consequences for DFOURVD were
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just as immediate and severe. It really illustrates the speed
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and frankly, the finality of modern brand accountability.
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Speaker 2: He canceled his Seattle performance right though his team tried
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some damage control by having him resume the tour in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, where he even bizarrely handed out collectible Labooboo toys
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to fans while there were protests happening right outside the venue.
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A very strange juxtaposition.
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Speaker 2: But the brands, they didn't wait for verdicts or even charges,
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did they not? At all? For a starlek dfour BD
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built on this clean, almost aspirational gen Z image. The
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mere association with a homicide investigation, especially one of these undertones,
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was completely toxic.
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Speaker 1: So who dropped him?
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Speaker 2: Both of his major partners, the footwear company Crocs and
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the clothing retailer Hollister, announced they were severing ties immediately.
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The stated reason reputational risk.
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Speaker 1: That's textbook PR crisis management, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely those companies rely entirely on dfour vd's ability to
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connect directly and positively with a very specific young audience.
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The second the word grooming was attached to his name,
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compounded by a potential murder allegation, the financial rationale for
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those partnerships just evaporated.
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Speaker 1: The losses are potentially catastrophic for his career long term.
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Then far beyond just the cost of few canceled tour.
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Speaker 2: Dates, oh easily. This could fundamentally alter his entire career trajectory,
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regardless of the legal outcome, and.
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Speaker 1: The fallout is also creating real world physical tension. D
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four vd's scheduled return to Los Angeles his concert on
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September twentieth, It's no longer just a concert date.
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Speaker 2: No, It's been identified by city officials as a potential
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flashpoint for public unrest, for massive protests. They're planning a
25:06
major police presence. It's become a public safety issue.
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Speaker 1: Moving beyond the celebrity drama. Though this case has immediately
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connected to some crucial larger societal discussions.
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Speaker 2: It really has. First, it throws this intense spotlight back
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onto the pervasive issue of potential grooming and predatory behavior
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within the music industry.
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Speaker 1: An issue that seems to periodically explode into public consciousness,
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doesn't it echoing previous, much darker scandals involving huge figures like.
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Speaker 2: R Kelly exactly. It forces that conversation again, and second,
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it starkly demonstrates the double edged sword of modern digital fame.
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D four vd's immense virality magnified this local tragedy exponentially.
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Speaker 1: That's a really important point. Celes Reevas had been a
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missing person for seventeen months, a cold case, basically attracting
25:53
only regional attention, if that right.
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Speaker 2: It was only when her body was tragically tied to
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a global superstar that her story became head line news
26:00
around the world.
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Speaker 1: And this highlights that painful reality. The invisibility of so
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many missing persons cases, particularly involving BPOC girls, doesn't it.
26:10
Speaker 2: It really does. Her caseers as this wrenching reminder of
26:13
whose stories actually receive media scrutiny and public attention. The
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initial lack of focus on her disappearance stands in such
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sharp contrast to the immediate global saturation the case received
26:25
the second D four vd's name was connected.
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Speaker 1: And through all of this, the legal wrangling, the social
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media frenzy, the career implications, the ultimate focus has to
26:34
remain on the family's grief.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely their statement to E News really cut through all
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the noise. It provided the most poignant quote of this
26:43
entire situation. She was our light if you knew her,
26:46
Why didn't he help find her?
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Speaker 1: That question just hangs there, doesn't it. It places the
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moral burdens squarely on the shoulders of the star who
26:53
is allegedly close to her, regardless of any criminal involvement.
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Why the silence?
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Speaker 2: Then, it's the question that resonates most deeply amidst all
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the chaos hashtag tag tag outro synthesis and final thought.
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Speaker 1: So as we conclude this deep dive, the sources paint
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this compelling, yet still deeply uncertain picture. The narrative threads
27:12
connecting Celestrivis and de four Va are just tragically tight.
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Speaker 2: Aren't they Incredibly tight? You have the identical sh tattoos,
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that chilling detail. You have the timeline where her final
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disappearance seems to coincide with his tattoo acquisition and his
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explosive rise to fight.
27:27
Speaker 1: You have the use of his missing tesla, specifically the Fronk,
27:31
as a makeshift grave. And you have the immense still
27:34
untapped potential of that car's telemetry data.
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Speaker 2: The entire investigation now really seems to balance precariously on
27:41
that digital evidence, doesn't it?
27:42
Speaker 1: It feels like it will. The complex date extraction from
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the Tessa's centry mode, its GPS logs. Will it finally
27:49
unravel a secret, perhaps volatile romance that spiraled tragically into homicide?
27:54
Speaker 2: Or alternatively, will that data perhaps show the car was
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controlled by a third party? Could it possibly exonerate a
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star who insists he was just an absentee owner, completely
28:03
unaware his property was used to conceal such a terrible crime.
28:06
Speaker 1: The evidence we have so far, both physical and digital,
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it speaks of such profound secrecy. This whole story rooted
28:14
in a runaway teen's desperate search for fame and a
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young star's incredibly rapid rise. It ultimately hinges on the
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silence surrounding the crime.
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Speaker 2: The silence of the tattoo, the silence about the missing car,
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the silence from the family.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if we connect this back to the bigger picture,
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it really raises an important, kind of provocative question for
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you the listener, to think about in this age. We
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live in this age of digital overshare and intense celebrity worship,
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where secrets seem almost impossible to keep.
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Speaker 2: What does that echoing silence, that specific whispered sh What
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does it truly signify when knowledge is finally agonizingly brought
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into the light.
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Speaker 1: Does it simplize complicity control or does it maybe tragically
28:56
represent the victim's own desperate plea for secrecy, maybe fort
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within a relationship that had become dangerous.
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Speaker 2: It's a question that really cuts to the very core
29:04
of this tragedy. I think there are so many potential
29:07
meanings behind that silence. We will, of course keep monitoring
29:10
the findings from the LAPED investigation and especially the results
29:13
of that crucial Tesla telemetry data analysis as the case
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moves forward. There's clearly more to come.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, that's all for this deep dive.