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What Authorities Found in Home Allegedly Connected to D4vd During Celeste Rivas Hernandez Case · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Deep Dive. Today, we're tackling a
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  story that's just well exploded. It's this collision of massive
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  R and B, fame, DFOURVD, David Anthony Burke, and just
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  absolute tragedy involving fifteen year old celest Ruvas Hernandez.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's incredibly grim and our focus today for you
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  listening is to really sift through the sources. We have
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  the police reports, some leaked texts which are quite disturbing,
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  the legal takes, and this critical evidence list from the
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  raid exactly.
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  Speaker 1: We want to go beyond the headlines, you know, try
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  to piece together the timeline the LAPED is grappling with,
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  look at the huge forensic challenges, and understand what was
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  actually seized from that property linked to defordity.
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  Speaker 2: It's about analyzing the facts, not just the social media storm,
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  because this case it really sits at this intersection of technology,
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  celebrity culture and unfortunately extreme vulnerability.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's set the scene. The moment this all
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  broke was September eighth, twenty twenty five. A toe yard
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  in a Hollywood There's this unbearable.
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  Speaker 2: Smell, huh, and workers trace it to an impounded tessel
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  inside the front trunk the franc they find human remains
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  severely decomposed as membered, just.
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  Speaker 1: Horrific, and the car registered to David Anthony Fluock D
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  four VD, the twenty year old music star. Instantly, the
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  story goes supernova and.
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  Speaker 2: That discovery immediately kicks it up to the LAPD's Robbery
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  Homicide Division. It's not standard procedure for every death investigation. Right.
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  Speaker 1: That tells you something.
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  Speaker 2: It tells you they suspected foul play from the jump.
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  A decomposed, dismembered body found hidden in the celebrities car. Yeah,
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  the stakes are incredibly high. It flipped from a missing
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  person case which lists technically was, into a major homicide
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  investigation overnight, a.
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  Speaker 1: Case that now puts D four vd's entire image, his
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  whole carefully built career under the harshest possible light. So
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  to really grasp this, we need to understand who Celestrivus
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  Fernandez was. The sources they paint a really tragic picture.
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  Born twenty ten, Lake Elson, Or California.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, described as suite, had dreams like a lot of teenagers, modeling,
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  maybe being an influencer. You see traces that online her
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  trying to connect, looking for something.
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  Speaker 1: But beneath those dreams there was this undercurrent of well instability.
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  The sources mention it repeatedly, family issues, social difficulties.
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  Speaker 2: And that instability seems to have escalated dramatically by twenty
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  twenty four, when she's just fourteen. She's reported missing three
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  separate times in a few months. Valentine's Day March, than.
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  Speaker 1: Early April, and that April disappearance that was the last one.
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  She essentially became a runaway, drawn towards la.
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  Speaker 2: Her mother, Maria Hernandez, said something really heartbreaking. She acknowledged
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  Celeste was rebellious, sure, but then she added she was
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  just a kid looking for love.
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  Speaker 1: And that phrase looking for love, that just screams vulnerability,
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  doesn't it, especially for a young teen navigating the world alone.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it makes the prime targets for exploitation. Which brings
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  us to the digital side of this. The leaked messages.
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  Speaker 1: This is where it gets deeply disturbing. We're not just
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  talking about contact right before she vanished, No, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Leak messages from discord from Snapchat. They apparently show communication
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  between Celeste and a user handle linked to D four
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  VD going back to when she was twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve years old. That suggests the dynamic that was built
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  over a long period.
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  Speaker 2: A two year period before she finally disappeared at fourteen,
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  And the messages weren't just casual chat, especially later on.
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  Speaker 1: Right, there's that one specific message from twenty twenty three.
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  It's chilling Celeste telling a friend she felt trapped with
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  David and Gus.
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  Speaker 2: That mention of Gus as significant too, believed to be
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  an associate of d four BD. It potentially broadens the
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  scope beyond just one person, suggests maybe complicity or at
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  least awareness within his circle.
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  Speaker 1: And the word trapped, I mean that implies coercion, control,
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  feeling like she couldn't leave exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It paints this picture of a young, vulnerable girl drawn
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  into an adult world, maybe isolated from her old life and
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  manipulated by people she thought cared about her or could
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  offer her something. It suggests grooming long before the final events.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's shift to the forensics, because from the moment
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  she was found, this was, as you called it, a
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  nightmare for investigators.
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  Speaker 2: A huge understatement. September eighth, the state of the remains,
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  dismembered wrapped in black plastic heavily decomposed insect activity. It's
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  the worst case scenario for forensic.
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  Speaker 1: Analysis, so identification itself is a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: They managed it relatively quickly, thankfully confirmed via dental records
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  on September sixteenth, case number one four two five two.
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  But determining how she died, that's another story.
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  Speaker 1: They had to defer the cause of death.
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  Speaker 2: Right standard procedure. When decomposition is this advanced, it destroys
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  so much evidence, signs of trauma, ligature marks, things like that.
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  So now they're waiting on toxicology deep DNA analysis looking
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  at tissue samples under a microscope. It's slow, painstaking work, and.
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  Speaker 1: This deferral creates a massive problem at the timeline, specifically
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  the time of death.
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  Speaker 2: It really does. Experts cited in the sources look at
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  the LA temperatures back then, highs in the eighty fives
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  ninety five s fahrenheit. Inside a closed car, especially a
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  dark one, in that heat, it becomes an oven easily
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  one hundred and twenty maybe one hundred and forty degrees.
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  And at those temperatures, decomposition happens incredibly fast. We're talking
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  maybe four to seven days to reach the state she
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  was found.
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  Speaker 1: In Okay, so four to seven days. But here's the conflict,
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  right the traffic stops. This is the major headache for
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  the LAPD D four vd's tesla was reportedly stopped twice
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  August twenty six and twenty seventh, and the key detail
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  from the sources, no odor was reported during those stops. None,
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  but the car wasn't towed until September fifth. The smell
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  wasn't noticed until September eighth at the yard.
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  Speaker 2: So if she died and was put in the front
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  before August twenty sixth, why no smell during the stops
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  after days in that heat. It doesn't add up with
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  the four to seven day decomposition estimate.
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  Speaker 1: So what are the theories? Two main possibilities they have to explore.
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  One she was killed after the August twenty seventh stop,
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  maybe closer to when the car was abandoned around September fifth,
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  that fits the rapid decomposition timeline better. And the other
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  she was in the.
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  Speaker 2: Front earth earlier, but somehow the decomposition process or the
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  odor was initially contained or masked, maybe the way she
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  was wrapped, maybe something else, and then something changed, maybe movement,
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  maybe the conditions at the towyard causing the gases to
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  release intensely around September eighth.
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  Speaker 1: That seems less likely, but they have to consider it.
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  Speaker 2: They have to, and this is where entomology becomes critical.
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  The study of the insects found in the remains, that
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  types of flies, their life stages that can give a
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  much more precise post mortem interval, helping them narrow down
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  that crucial window of when she died or was placed
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  in the car.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond the science, though, there were these really symbolic, almost
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  visual links that just poured fuel on the public fire
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  demanding justice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, things that connected Celeste dfour V in ways that
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  felt undeniable to people online. The tattoos, for instance, the
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  sh tattoo red ink right index finger. Celeste had it,
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  dcor V has an identical one.
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  Speaker 1: And celeste mother specifically told the press she believed it
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  symbolized the secrecy of their relationship, that it was like
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  a mark of their private world.
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  Speaker 2: It transforms it from just ink into this a leed
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  symbol of shared secrets, maybe even control. Incredibly potent imagery.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was a Hello Kitty connection. It sounds
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  almost trivial, but.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't not online Celeste's last scene wearing these distinctive
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  Hello Kitty sandals. Then, just days before her body was found,
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  D four VD posts a video wearing Hello Kitty pants.
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  Speaker 1: Coincidence maybe, but online it became another piece of evidence
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  linking her last known appearance to his recent activity. It
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  just amplified that narrative of connection and suspicion.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's pivot to D four V himself, David Anthony Burke.
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  To understand the crash, you have to appreciate the peak
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  he was at. Absolutely, his rise was astonishingly fast. He
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  just appeared in twenty twenty two, basically a teenager seventeen,
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  making these moody R and B tracks on his phone
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  in Houston, self taught.
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  Speaker 1: And romantic homicide. I mean that song was everywhere, a.
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  Speaker 2: Genuine phenomena hit number thirty three on the Billboard Hot
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  one hundred, went multi platinum. Then Here with Me, followed
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  by twenty twenty five. He wasn't just viral, he was mainstream,
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  big endorsements, Crocs, Hollister Networth estimated around five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: He was the archetype of the new gen Z superstar
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  built online.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and The Withered World Tour was meant to solidify
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  that his big global.
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  Speaker 1: Statement, but it just stopped ground to a halt right
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  after September eighth. The reason given unforeseen circumstances, which is
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  code for catastrophe.
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  Speaker 2: And the fallout was immediate and brutal. The speed was incredible.
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  Crocs Hollister gone pulled, ads issued statements about monitoring the
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  developing story. Brands don't wait around these days, no kidding.
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  And the fans that was maybe even more damaging financially,
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  a forty percent drop in his streaming numbers almost instantly.
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  People were actively boycotting for an artist religaned on streams.
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  That's devastating. Add the lost tour revenue over a million
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  dollars easily. The public verdict came down way before any
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  legal one. Now there's a really complex issue here for
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  the investigators and potentially for dfour vd's defense. Age, or
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  rather the perception of her age. Sources like News Nations
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  spoke to people in D four vd's circle friends' associates,
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  and they apparently said they thought Celeste was older like
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  nineteen a usc student.
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  Speaker 1: Even which implies she was using a fake ID.
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  Speaker 2: Almost certainly the common thing for runaways trying to blend
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  into an adult scene. These associates claimed they were genuinely
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  shocked she was only fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: How does that play legally?
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  Speaker 2: It's complicated. If D four V's defense can argue convincingly
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  that he reasonably believed she was an adult based on
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  a convincing fake ID and her own presentation, it could
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  potentially muddy the waters on charges related specifically to her age,
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  like statutory offenses.
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  Speaker 1: But the prosecution.
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  Speaker 2: The prosecution will likely argue that the grooming evidence, the
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  contact starting when she was twelve, makes the fake ID irrelevant.
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  They'll argue he either knew her real age or was
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  willfully blind to it, exploiting her clear vulnerability. Regardless of
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  what an ID said. It shifts the focus back to
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  the manipulation and of course the homicide.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's the music that demo track, Celested Demo.
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  Speaker 2: In finn Yeah, that surfaced late twenty twenty three, and
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  listening to it now in light of everything, it's deeply unsettling.
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  Speaker 1: The lyrics specifically name her repeatedly.
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  Speaker 2: And the themes obsession, regret, secrecy, lines like Celestewyd, you
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  have to go ssh, it's our secret now.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like a confession almost.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators will definitely see it as potential evidence of fixation
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  of motive. They'll argue, it's not just art, it's a
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  reflection of his mindset towards her, maybe even foreshadowing. It
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  blurs that line between artistic expression and alleged reality in
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  a really uncomfortable way.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation also pulled in people around d four Ve,
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  didn't it His manager, Josh Marshall.
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  Speaker 2: He came under scrutiny primarily because he was the one
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  who leased that Hollywood Hills mansion, the one that became
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  central to the investigation, a twenty thousand dollars a month.
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  Speaker 1: Place, and his actions after the police raid raised eyebrows
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  big time.
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  Speaker 2: Shortly after the detective searched the place and seized evidence,
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  Marshall abruptly break the lease terminated it, which, just like online,
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  it immediately sparks flight of guilt theories. Why did the
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  lease on a potential crime scene unless you have something
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  to hide or know something was hidden there?
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  Speaker 1: What's his explanation?
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  Speaker 2: Through his lawyer, he claimed he knew nothing about defoor
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  Ved's private life or celess activities there, but prosecutors might
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  argue that vacating the property so quickly suggests at minimum
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  an attempt to distance himself or potentially even obstruct the
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  investigation by allowing the scene to be altered. It creates
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  suspicion definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Defoor veed himself complete silence in September seventh, the
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  day before the body was found yep, lawyered up, vanished
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  from public view. His last post was that cryptic line
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  in the Silence Truth's unravel which is ironic given the
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  silence that.
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  Speaker 2: Followed very But for the LAPD, his silence just means
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  they have to make the evidence speak instead, and that
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  leads us straight to the raid on that house.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this feels like the absolute turning point September eighteenth,
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  twenty twenty five to warn't executed on that Hollywood Hills rental.
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  Speaker 2: This was a massive step and the location itself is unnerving.
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  A modern mansion leaves by Marshall but used by Defour VD,
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  and it's just one block away from where his tesla
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  was found abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: The proximity is chilling, it really is, and.
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  Speaker 2: The unit leading the charge robbery homicide again signals the seriousness.
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  These are the detectives for complex, high profile murders, and.
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  Speaker 1: The warrant itself. The wording was very specific.
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  Speaker 2: Extremely specific. It authorized searches explicitly for blood evidence and
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  biological materials. That tells you everything about their thinking. They
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  weren't just fishing. They strongly suspected the death or at
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  least the dismemberment happened inside that house.
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  Speaker 1: And the search was intense. Sources described detectives in full
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  hasmat gear.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, gloves, suits, booties. Eyewitnesses saw them combing the place
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  for hours. They'd be using specialized techniques luminol tofind cleaned
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  up bloodstains. Alternate light sources define fibers, fluids, anything invisible
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  to the naked.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't leave until around midnight, suggests.
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  Speaker 2: A very thorough, methodical search. They weren't rushing it.
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  Speaker 1: So what did they actually take out of there? What
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  was the hall?
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  Speaker 2: This is where it shifts into a very modern investigation. Yes,
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  they took sealed bags with physical items. We don't know
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  exactly what yet, but the real focus The items listed
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  as priorities were electronic a desktop computer, multiple tablets, several
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  hard drives, So the.
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  Speaker 1: Digital footprint, that's the gold mine.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely as the legal analyst Matt Murphy put it, electronics
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  are the new smoking gun. Why because those devices potentially
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  hold the keys to motive opportunity and that crucial timeline
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  that the physical evidence due to decomposition can't fully provide.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly are they looking for on those devices?
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  Speaker 2: Everything deleted chats, even from encrypted apps. Forensic tools can
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  sometimes recover fragments browser history. Did someone search for how
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  to dispose of a body? How to clean bloodstains? Location data,
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  GPS logs from phones, tablets, maybe even the computer showing
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  who was where? Win metadata on files?
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  Speaker 1: So it's about reconstructing her last days and his movements digitally.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly did cloud backups suddenly stop? Were specific files accessed
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  or deleted around late I guess yearly September? Does the
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  tesla's own data logue show when it left the property
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  for the last time before being abandoned? And critically, can
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  they link any of this to that final text message Celeste.
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  Speaker 1: Sent and this digital evidence it works in tandem with
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  the physical traces found in the car, right they connect
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  the two locations.
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  Speaker 2: That's the crucial link. The lab found fibers in the
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  tesla near the body. Those fibers were quickly matched to
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  specific carpeting inside that Hollywood Hills house.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And there was also a partial fingerprint recovered from
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  the latch.
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  Speaker 1: Of the front who's print do we know?
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  Speaker 2: We don't know yet if they've matched it. But if
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  that print matches D four V or the associate gus,
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  it physically places them at the point of concealment handling
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  the trunk where Celeste's body was found.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got the fibers linking the car to the house,
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  the potential pre linking a person to the car's funk,
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  and then Celeste's own phone.
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  Speaker 2: Her phone's last known pings placed her near that Hollywood
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  Hills address in late August. It creates this convergence. The victim,
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  the main suspect, the likely crime scene, the house, and
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  the disposal method the car are all tied together by
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  both physical threads and digital signals.
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  Speaker 1: So based on all this, the pings, the fibers, the
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  warrant focus, what's the LAPD's suspected sequence of events? What
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  are they likely building? The working theory seems to be
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  celest arrives at the Mansions sometime in late August, possibly
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  around when her phone ping's there, an altercation occurs, leading
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  to her death, maybe around August twenty eighth, correlating with
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  her last message saying she was hurt and couldn't leave. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Then what then? A period of concealment, possibly involving the dismemberment,
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  which tragically suggests planning in an attempt to make disposal easier.
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  The warrants focus on blood evidence implies police suspect a
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  cleanup attempt inside the house.
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  Speaker 1: A hasty cleanup, as one source put it right.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, the abandonment of the tesla containing her remains
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  just a block away from the house, probably go around
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  September fifth, shortly before was towed.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in the legal perspective again. Matt Murphy, the
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  former prosecutor. He said charges could come even before the
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  final cause of death is known. How does that work
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  when the core physical evidence is so compromised.
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  Speaker 2: Murphy's point is that modern prosecutors can build incredibly strong
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  cases on circumstantial evidence, especially when it's reinforced by digital proof. Yes,
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  the cause of death is important, but it's not always
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  essential for filing charges if the other evidence is overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: So the song lyrics the alleged grooming history, the disposal
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  attempt that paints a picture of intent.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly intent is key. The active dismemberment itself strongly suggests planning,
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  specific intent, and consciousness of guilt trying to hide the crime.
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  That alone elevates the potential charges significantly, often towards premeditated murder.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'm the defense, I'm hitting back hard, runaway, teen,
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  unstable back. Maybe she owed deed, maybe someone else was involved.
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  The lyrics are just art. The manager panicked. Isn't this
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  all just circumstantial?
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  Speaker 2: That will absolutely be the defense strategy poke holes in
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  every circumstantial link. But the convergence is what makes the
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  prosecution's case potentially so strong. It's not just lyrics. It's
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  lyrics plus a text naming him, plus phone pings plus
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  matching fibers, plus his car, plus his house, plus his silence,
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  plus the manager's actions.
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  Speaker 1: It's the sheer volume of connections.
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  Speaker 2: Right, The defense has to explain away all those connections
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  as coincidence. Why were fibers from the carpet in daver
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  Vidi's house found with the body in his car abandoned
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  near that house. That's a very tough question. To answer credibly.
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  The digital evidence seized gives the prosecution the power to
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  lock down that timeline and demonstrate intent even while the
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  coroner is still working.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's just quickly recap those critical final timeline points
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  we have from the sources. Friends stopped getting replies from
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  Celeste after August twenty eighth. That date seems pivotal, and
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  it's anchored by her last known mess sent that same
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  day to a friend David and Gus hurt me. I
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  can't leave a direct accusation of harm and being held
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  against her will.
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  Speaker 2: Naming names huge potential evidence. Its admissibility in court will
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  be a fight. Is it hearsay or does it fall
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  under an exception like a statement about immediate fear or condition?
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  But for the investigation, it's dynamite. It points directly to
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  motive and suspects.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when the details like that started leaking, the public
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  reaction was just instantaneous and massive.
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  Speaker 2: An absolute inferno online dfour VDS fan base. Those five
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  million TikTok followers, they didn't just turn away, many turn
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  into detectives. They were scouring old posts, analyzing videos, demanding
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  answers in real time.
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  Speaker 1: It created this huge feedback loop, didn't it speculation feeding speculation.
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  Speaker 2: Totally hashtags like hashtag justice forceless, hashtag defourvd tesla, hundreds
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  of thousands of posts. People were grappling with the shock,
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  this whiplash between the sensitive artists persona and these horrific allegations.
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  Speaker 1: And then that old music video surfaced Body and.
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  Speaker 2: Trunk, Yeah, talk about pouring gasoline on the fire. A
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  video that was obscure suddenly looked incredibly sinister, prophetic. Even
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  the Internet drew immediate parallels, seeing it as some kind
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  of veiled confession.
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  Speaker 1: This whole case feels bigger than just one celebrity scandal,
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  though it touches on some really raw societal nerves.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. It throws a harsh spotlight on the dangerous face
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  by vulnerable young people, especially runaways. They get drawn into
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  these orbits celebrity influencer scenes looking for connection or opportunity,
• 19:28
  and they can be incredibly susceptible to exploitation and.
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  Speaker 1: The ledge grooming aspect, the long term contact starting at twelve,
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  the fake ideas, the secrecy implied by the tattoo and
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  the messages, It points to a potentially calculated pattern.
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  Speaker 2: It does, and it forces uncomfortable questions about the systems
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  around these stars, the music industry, the managers like Josh Marshall.
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  Are they enabling environments where this kind of thing can happen.
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  Is there enough accountability for protecting miners who get drawn
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  into these adult worlds?
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  Speaker 1: While the internet screams for an arrest. Is being very careful,
• 20:01
  very measured, they have to be. They confirmed they recovered
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  several items of evidence from the house and leads are active,
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  but they also explicitly warned against jumping to conclusions based
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  on social media chatter. Their quote was pointed, social media
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  is an evidence because a conviction needs to stand up
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  in court, not just on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, this case relies heavily on circumstantial and digital evidence.
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  Right now, the chain of custody has to be perfect,
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  and they really need that final report from the Medical
• 20:30
  Examiner's office.
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  Speaker 1: Celest's body was released for her funeral around September twenty fifth,
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  and her families go fundme raise a significant amount over
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  twenty four thousand dollars, some small measure of community support for.
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  Speaker 2: Them, a heartbreaking necessity, but legally everything still hangs on
• 20:45
  that deferred cause of death and the meticulous analysis of
• 20:48
  the physical and crucially the digital evidence recovered from that house.
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  That's where the case will likely be won or lost
• 20:56
  hashtag tag outro. You know, when we break it all down,
• 21:00
  what this case really highlights is this dramatic shift in
• 21:03
  how homicide investigations work now the seizure on September eighteenth,
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  focusing so heavily on those electronics. That's the key takeaway.
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  It's become a technology driven investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Because the traditional physical evidence was compromised.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly when time heat decomposition destroyed the classic clues. The
• 21:19
  battleground moves. It moves to the hard drives, the tablets,
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  the cloud accounts. Those are now the primary tools to
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  establish timeline motive intent, the things the body itself couldn't
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  tell them immediately.
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  Speaker 1: It leaves you with this really unsettling feeling, doesn't it.
• 21:33
  This duality D four VD writes romantic homicide, this huge
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  hit about dark, obsessive love, and now.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: He's implicated in the actual death of Celeste. The secrecy
• 21:42
  they allegedly shared, symbolized by that sh tattoo, just shattered
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  by the reality found in his car's front.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you question everything about manufactured fame about the
• 21:51
  carefully crafted image versus the hidden reality. What happens when
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  an artist's dark theme seem to bleed into real life,
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  engulfing someone vulnerable?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? How much truth was hiding in plain sight in
• 22:02
  the art and how much is still locked away waiting
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  to be found on those seized hard drives. That's the
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  question that hangs heavy as this investigation continues, Something for
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  all of us to think about.