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Is D4vd a Suspect? PI Reveals Massive Clue About Tesla in Celeste Rivas Death Case · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's dive in. We're opening the file today on
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a story that is, well, it's just become this absolute
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masterclass in juxtaposition. You have the dizzying heights of Hollywood
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celebrity and then it just crashes headlong into this dark,
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really grim, unresolved tragedy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. We're talking, of course, about the disappearance and
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ultimately the death of fifteen year old Celeste Revas Fernandez.
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Speaker 1: And the connection, the really chilling, undeniable link to the
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rising R and B Star D four VD.
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Speaker 2: And what's immediately clear when you look at the sources
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all the reporting is that this just isn't your typical
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missing person's case. No, not at all. No, it exploded,
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It became a celebrity scandal that then morphed really quickly
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into this high stakes criminal investigation, and it's all being
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fueled by social media forensic ambiguity. Yeah, it's complex.
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Speaker 1: And the core mystery it really ignites on September eighth,
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twenty twenty five. That's the date of the horrific discovery
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at a Los Angeles two yard.
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Speaker 2: Right, that's when workers found the severely decomposed membered remains of.
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Speaker 1: Celest found inside a black plastic bag zipped shut with
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zip ties, which is just.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and stowed away in the front trunk the front
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of a dusty twenty twenty three Tesla Model Y.
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Speaker 1: And that tesla, let's be absolutely clear here was registered
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to David Anthony Burke, better known.
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Speaker 2: Of course to his what billion plus streaming fans, is
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East four VED.
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Speaker 1: So our mission today for this deep dive is really
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to guide you through this pretty dense stack of sources.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to get past the headlines, you know,
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we need to try and understand the victims. Celest her
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really troubled pass that somehow led her seventy six miles
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from her home all the way to the Hollywood Hills.
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We've got to meticulously examine the well the circumstantial links
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to the artist D four VD. We need to analyze
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the huge challenges facing the LAPD's investigation.
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Speaker 1: And then there's that recent bombshell, right, the evidence from
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the private.
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Speaker 2: Investigator exactly that PI evidence really threatens to destabilize the
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whole timeline the police had been working with. They could
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rewrite everything.
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Speaker 1: The initial shock when they found her. It was visceral,
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isn't it. Tow Yard workers just alerted by a foul
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odor coming from this car.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And this wasn't a car hidden somewhere remote. This
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was a vehicle that had been sitting out in the open,
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abandoned on a residential street. It even been ticketed for weeks,
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for weeks. Yeah. So the fact that this grim secret
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was inside a car owned by a chart topping artist, Yeah,
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that immediately turned public curiosity into well outrage, understandably, and
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it's important to grasp the immediate challenge for investigators. The
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condition of the remains, you said, severely decomposed, dismembered. That
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automatically kicked the case up to the Robbery Homicide Division RhD.
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Speaker 1: Because it signals complexity right off the bat.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, they processed the vehicle and then began the long,
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painstaking effort to figure out what happened and crucially who
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was responsible. But they started in this cloud of forensic uncertainty.
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Speaker 1: So let's start where we have to with select the
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person right at the center of this celestiev Us Hernandez.
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She was just fifteen, a seventh grader at Elsinor Valley
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Middle School in Lake Elsinor, Riverside County.
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Speaker 2: In that location, Lake Elsinor, It gives you immediate context,
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doesn't it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not Hollywood.
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Speaker 2: No, it's a distant suburban community seventy six miles southeast
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of that whole sleek urban frenzy of the Hollywood Hills
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where D forty had his rental. World's apart totally Celest.
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She had wavy black hair. Teachers described her as having dreams,
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you know, dreams beyond her suburban life. But the reality,
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it seems, was pretty fraught with turmoil. Yeah, and that
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set the stage for her heading towards the city.
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Speaker 1: And if you dig into the records, the Riverside County
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Sheriff's Department logs, I mean, it paints a truly heartbreaking
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picture of just instability.
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Speaker 2: How many visits.
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Speaker 1: Between February twenty twenty four and April twenty twenty five,
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deputies went to Celest's home eleven times.
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Speaker 2: Eleven times.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's almost once a month for over a year,
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dealing with disputes, welfare checks, and this is key. Three
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official missing persons reports filed by her family.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so those repeated visits, they suggest this ongoing cycle
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of family stress maybe volatility seems likely. And the sources
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they seem to indicate that a major trigger, or at
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least something happening concurrently with these flights was her growing
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online presence.
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Speaker 1: Right TikTok and Discord mentioned specifically, Yeah, she.
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Speaker 2: Was reportedly really active on those platforms. And you know,
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for a vulnerable team, the pull of connection attention online
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it can sometimes just outweigh any safety concerns.
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Speaker 1: We even have a specific detail from that first missing
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person's report March nineteenth, twenty twenty four. There's surveillance footage.
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Speaker 2: What does it show.
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Speaker 1: It's grainy outside a local liquor store. It shows her
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just this small figure in a black hoodie, white pants,
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jogging away early in the morning, purposefully leaving home.
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Speaker 2: So it wasn't impulsive. It suggests a pattern.
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Speaker 1: A pattern of seeking escape.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that need for escape, it seems like it
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might have shifted from just online attention to seeking actual physical.
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Speaker 1: Connection, which brings us to that really chilling anecdote from
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one of her teachers.
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Speaker 2: The boyfriend named David comments exactly.
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Speaker 1: The teacher remembered Celeste bragging about meeting an online boyfriend
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named David. Now we can't definitively say that was David.
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Anthony Burke D four med back then.
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Speaker 2: No, we absolutely can't assume that.
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Speaker 1: But the name, the resonance with what happened later, it's
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deeply unsettling. It suggests she might have been actively seeking
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out older people she met online.
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Speaker 2: Right, and by April twenty twenty four, after that third disappearance,
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her trail did lead definitively towards Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: But the state she was found in it suggests that
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year between disappearing and being found was incredibly hard.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the medical examiner noted she weighed only seventy one
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pounds when discovered. That points to prolonged malnutrition maybe extreme
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hardship before her death.
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Speaker 1: The report also confirmed she wasn't pregnant, which shut down
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one early rumor.
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Speaker 2: Her clothing was simple two top black life diggings, a
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yellow metal stud, ear ring, matting, chain bracelet, pretty standard stuff.
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Speaker 1: But then there's the one piece of physical evidence that
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now ties her at least circumstantially directly to D four VD.
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The tattoo, a small tattoo found on her finger.
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Speaker 2: And that tattoo, that tiny detail, It leads us straight
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into the biggest hurdle for the LAPD investigation, which the
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massive forensic ambiguity the cause of death, the manner of death.
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They remain officially listed as deferred. That's the status as
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of the latest reports October nineteenth, twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Okay, deferred. What does that actually mean? In practical terms
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for the case.
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Speaker 2: It's critical for people listening to understand this deferred means
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the corner cannot yet say how she died. Was it
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a homicide, an accident, natural causes? They don't know for sure?
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Speaker 1: Why not?
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Speaker 2: Well, forensic pathologists consulted in the source materials. They emphasize
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that the conditions inside that sealed metal trunk the fronk
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during a hot LA summer, it basically acts like a
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pressure cooker. It accelerates decomposition dramatically.
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Speaker 1: So what does that acceleration do to the evidence itself?
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Speaker 2: Practically speaking, it means the heat likely destroyed or degraded
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crucial soft tissues. Think about trying to test for volatile
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substances like alcohol or common recreational drugs.
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Speaker 1: Almost impossible after that kind of heat exposure.
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Speaker 2: Pretty much or at least incredibly difficult DNA evidence, other
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trace evidence. It all suffers degradation too, So you end
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up in a scenario where maybe she died from a
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drug overdose, maybe even from exhaustion and malnutrition.
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Speaker 1: But proving it becomes exponentially harder.
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Speaker 2: Exactly without a clear cause of death like a visible
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bullet wound or signs of blunt trauma or toxicology results
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that are irrefutable, prosecutors just can't move forward with a
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murder charge. The case gets fundamentally stalled right there.
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Speaker 1: And this ambiguity, this sort of forensic shield, that's exactly
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what D four V is relying on legally speaking, even
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as the circumstantial evidence just keeps piling up against him
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in the court of public opinion.
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Speaker 2: Which takes us to him. David Anthony Burke, the twenty
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year old artist caught in the middle of this scorm.
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Speaker 1: His rise was incredibly fast, wasn't it.
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Speaker 2: Meteorc is the word used. He's from Houston, broke through
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around twenty twenty two. His sound just perfectly captured that
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kind of low fi gen.
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Speaker 1: Z angst and romantic homicide. That song was huge, huge.
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Speaker 2: Over a billion Spotify streams. Then he drops his debut album,
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Withered in April twenty twenty five and immediately launches this
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massive world tour. He was riding an incredible wave of success.
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Speaker 1: And then September eighth happens, and that wave crash is hard.
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The vehicle, that white Tesla, It wasn't his permanent car,
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was it. It was tied to the rental property right the.
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Speaker 2: Twenty thousand dollars a month mansion he was renting in
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the Hollywood Hills. The car was parked right near there
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on Bluebird Avenue, just gathering dust for a week.
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Speaker 1: The neighbors noticed.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, They confirmed to investigators the car had become
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an eyesore as early as August twenty sixth. It was
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so obviously abandoned it got a parking ticket.
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Speaker 1: On September three, violating the seventy two hour parking rule.
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Speaker 2: Which is deeply concerning when you think about the timing.
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The car containing human remains was visibly there, known to
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authorities via that ticket for at least a week before
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the tow yard discovery and D.
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Speaker 1: Four vd's reaction. When police finally reached him, he was on.
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Speaker 2: Tour in Seattle. He claimed total ignorance, said he hadn't
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used the car in months.
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Speaker 1: But the timeline and these linked between him and Celeste,
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they're just too stark for the public and likely investigators
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to ignore. Let's start with the tattoo again, the sh
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tattoo match.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's disturbing. Both D four VD and Celeste had
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that specific tattoo on their fingers. His was apparently inked
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at a Big Grammy's after party back in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: To the public, that feels like way more than just coincidence,
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doesn't it. It suggest some kind of shared bond or reference.
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Speaker 2: It certainly fuels speculation. Then you have the digital breadcrumb.
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Speaker 1: Trail, the alleged social media stuff.
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Speaker 2: Exactly sources mention, alleged deleted discord chats, things like come
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to La Babe, supposedly sent from him to Celest. And
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then there are these unverified photos floating rounds, supposedly showing
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Celeste in his passenger seat or at a house party
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he threw in July twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Authenticating all that digital evidence must be a huge focus
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for RhD the Robbery Homicide Division.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely critical, because right now it's mostly circumstantial but highly suggestive.
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Speaker 1: And then there's the music itself. The irony is just horrifying.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the lyrics from romantic homicide m lines like I
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said my heart is only for you, but you stabbed
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me in the back.
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Speaker 1: It takes on this really macar almost autobiographical feel for
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listeners there.
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Speaker 2: It definitely shapes the public narrative, making people assume he's
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the culprit, even if the concrete legal proof isn't there yet.
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Speaker 1: And his actions after the discovery haven't helped his image
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munch have they The legal and financial moves.
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Speaker 2: Not at all. After the discovery, RhD executed that very
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public raid on his rental mansion September.
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Speaker 1: Seventeenth, seizing phones, computers.
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Speaker 2: Vrs, and critically a key card for the Tesla. That
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key card becomes important later.
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Speaker 1: Then just days later, he breaks his lease.
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Speaker 2: Yep, multi year lease broken, vacates the Hollywood property, cancels
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the rest of his tour, and basically retriets back to
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Texas out of the public eye.
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Speaker 1: But the move that really raised eyebrows was the property transfer.
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Speaker 2: That's the one. Property records show that on October ninth,
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he transferred ownership of two significant homes to his mother
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to homes two homes now. His lawyer, Benjamin Braffman, who
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was very high profile, he quickly came out and called
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it precautionary estate planning, said it was to shield assets
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just in case of civil lawsuits down the line.
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Speaker 1: Okay, But is transferring to multimillion dollar properties to your
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mom just a state planning when you're the focus of
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a major death investigation.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's the question, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: To the public, it looks like trying to protect assets
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from potential criminal finds or restitution, regardless of the legal justification.
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It doesn't look good, and.
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Speaker 1: The public reaction was sweat.
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Speaker 2: Immediate and harsh. Streaming numbers dropped like fifteen percent. Hashtag
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justice force less started trending.
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Speaker 1: Globally, and the sponsors, big.
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Speaker 2: Ones like Fortnite pulled their endorsements very quickly. So he's
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bleeding financially and he's pretty much canceled in the court
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of public opinion. But officially, legally, he's still in this kind.
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Speaker 1: Of limbo, and that limbo is defined by the LAPD's
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official stance, which, let's be honest, the public finds really confusing.
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Speaker 2: Utterly, bewildering. Too many. Yeah. LAPD Captain Scott Williams has
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said repeatedly that d Fortyd isn't the suspect, not a suspect,
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not a suspect, and that they lack evidence for culpability
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beyond possible concealment. That's the key.
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Speaker 1: Phrase, concealment of a body that's still a crime.
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Speaker 2: Right, Oh, absolutely, yeah, usually a felony, but it's not murder.
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And that's a crucial legal distinction.
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Speaker 1: So if the circumstantial stuff seems so strong to everyone else,
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why the cautious language from the police, Because the.
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Speaker 2: Legal system needs more, It demands that cause of death.
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Legal analyst Nioma Romani pointed out, in some reports, until
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the coroner gives a definitive ruling on how she died,
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it's strictly classified as a death.
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Speaker 1: Investigation, not a homicide investigation.
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Speaker 2: Not officially. To charge dfour VD with homicide, prosecutors need
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something concrete, irrefutable DNA placing him at a murder scene,
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perhaps a definitive cause of death that clearly points to
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foul play or a direct witness.
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Speaker 1: And right now RhD doesn't seem to have that smoking gun,
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partly because of the condition of the remains exactly.
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Speaker 2: They're struggling with the limitations the decomposition is placed on them.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's look at how the official investigation tried
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to work around those limitations. They focused heavily on the
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car and the timeline initially right they did.
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Speaker 2: They noted the condition of the Tesla itself. It was dented, had.
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Speaker 1: Tape scars, and that air freshener Yeah, the.
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Speaker 2: Christmas tree air freshener dangling inside, maybe a feudal attempt
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to mask the odor that eventually gave the secret away.
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Urhd's first big task figuring out when Celeste died and
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who was using that car when she was placed inside it.
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Speaker 1: And Captain Williams gave an estimate.
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Speaker 2: He estimated Celeste may have been deceased for several weeks,
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which pointed towards late July or early August as the
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critical timeframe.
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Speaker 1: And they used digital evidence to narrow that down heavily.
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Speaker 2: License plate readers were crucial. They logged the Tesla's last
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confirmed drive on the evening of July twenty.
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Speaker 1: Ninth, Okay, July twenty ninth.
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Speaker 2: That's specific, very specific. And furthermore, phone pings placed Celeste
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herself in Hollywood in July, specifically near D four vd's
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Bluebird Avenue address around that same time.
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Speaker 1: So the digital footprints put the victim and the car
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in the same immediate area just hours before the car
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was apparently douched for good.
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Speaker 2: Correct, And this brings us to that really sinister detail,
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the noise complaint.
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Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, the nine to one one call.
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Speaker 2: There's intrigue around a nine to one one call logged
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July thirtieth, very early morning, four point three two am
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reporting screams coming from D four vd's rental property.
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Speaker 1: So if the car's last drive was late on the
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twenty ninth.
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Speaker 2: Then that four to three to two am incident on
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the thirtieth it could potentially line up not just with
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Celest's final hours, but maybe with the act of moving
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or concealing her body, which would be highly stressful, possibly noisy.
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Speaker 1: But wait, didn't D four VD claim he was on tour.
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Speaker 2: Then he did, which raises the immediate conflict. If he
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wasn't ceiasically at the rental on July twenty ninth or thirtieth,
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then who was.
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Okay, this is likely why the LAPD is working on
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the premise that maybe one of his associates was involved,
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perhaps in the concealment or the disposal. Even if dfour
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V himself might be the focus for the death itself.
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Speaker 1: They must be desperate for trace.
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Speaker 2: Evidence, hunting for anything. Forensic teams search for fibers maybe
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matching Celeste's clothes. They analyzed what the initially thought might
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be a bloody towel.
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Speaker 1: But that turned out to be something else.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, later tests showed it was menstrual blood, so that
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wasn't direct crime evidence. They also seized a journal entry
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from the mansion. Reports described the content as chilling, something
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about eternal silence once. One source called it scary sadistic.
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Speaker 1: But legally the official stance is still stuck correc pretty much.
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Speaker 2: Fixed until those toxicology results come back. Can they find
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definitive traces of fentanyl meth or will bone analysis show
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blunt force trauma. Until then, LAPD can't really move beyond
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investigating possible concealment.
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Speaker 1: Which makes that DVR footage they seized on October eighteenth
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potentially crucial.
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Speaker 2: Hugely important. They need visual proof who was coming and
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going from that mansion in those critical hours July twenty
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ninth into July thirtieth exactly.
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Speaker 1: The whole case feels locked behind the doors of the
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forensics lab right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if those labs can somehow pull out a clear
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cause of death despite the challenges, the whole investigation pivots instantly,
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it goes from a desk probe to a potential capital
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homicide case. But the clock's ticking and decomposition is a
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major enemy here.
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Speaker 1: And this frustration, this slow pace, and the official ambiguity
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it created a vacuum, didn't it.
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Speaker 2: It did, And into that vacuum stepped a real wildcard.
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Speaker 1: Private investigator, Steve Fisher. This is where the story takes
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another sharp turn.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Fisher's a PI decades of experience, and he wasn't
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hired by D four ved's team or by Celeste's family
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who hired him D four vd's former landlord, Malayden truth.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So late on the twenty ninth, what does the
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footage show?
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Speaker 2: It allegedly shows the tesla's final moments before it was abandoned.
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You see the shadowy figure wearing a black hoodie and
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importantly distinctive red sneakers.
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Speaker 1: Red sneakers. Okay.
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Speaker 2: This figure slides into the driver's seat, drives the car
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just a short distance to where it was found on
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Bluebird Avenue, parks it, and then flees the scene on foot.
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And critically, the figure never comes back to the car.
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Speaker 1: So Fisher is saying, this is the moment the car
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with the body presumably inside was dumped.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, and this hooded phantom immediately changes the calculus on culpability.
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Speaker 1: Right, because it might not be Defour Bead driving precisely.
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Speaker 2: Fisher claimed he cross referenced the driver's build, the clothing,
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especially those red sneakers, with photos taken inside D four
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vd's mansion just twelve hours earlier, photos showing a man
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matching that description lounging by the pool a D four VID.
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Speaker 1: So suggesting the driver was an associate, not Defourvita.
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Speaker 2: Himself strongly suggesting it, and speculation immediately focused on this
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guy known only as Neo or Neothesian.
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Speaker 1: Someone known to be in D four VID's circle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently a known associate, also a Houston transplant like
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D four VD, with a minor criminal record for petty theft.
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Speaker 1: So if Neo or someone like him park the car,
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D four VID's potential role shifts, doesn't it it shifts dramatically?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe from primary killer to accessory after the fact, or,
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perhaps more likely, in the public's mind, the person who
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ordered the body dumped. Fisher's been pretty aggressive, hinting publicly
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that the LAPD know this guy, but are maybe sitting
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on it for a reason.
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Speaker 1: And Fisher didn't stop with just the video, did he.
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He made some serious accusations against the LAPD themselves.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, severe accusations of misconduct oversight, claiming they missed
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crucial evidence during that September seventeenth raid on the mansion,
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like what he claimed police overlooked a locked closet inside
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the house so that it contained scary, sadistic items, things
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like restraints. Maybe that journal entry source mentioned stuff. He
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says LAPD should have seized immediately.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's a big claim, huge.
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Speaker 2: And maybe even more damaging legally. He claimed our HD
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overlooked the Tesla key card, so they found it later
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in plain sight.
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Speaker 1: Why is finding a key card later such a big deal,
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even if they did eventually.
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Speaker 2: Get it chain of custody, it's everything for forensic evidence.
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If that key card wasn't properly logged, sealed, documented the
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moment it was found during the initial.
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Speaker 1: Seizure, the defense can argue it was tainted exactly.
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Speaker 2: They can argue it could have been tampered with, contaminated,
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something happened between the police search and when Fisher or
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someone else supposedly found it later. It creates reasonable doubt
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about the integrity of anything found on that key card. Wow,
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and Fisher also claimed his own drone flights over the
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towyard found overlooked tire tracks, again painting a picture of
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maybe incompetence or at least a failure to process the
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scene thoroughly.
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Speaker 1: This completely reframes the narrative, doesn't it. If an associate
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park the car, the big question shifts from who killed
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Celeste to who ordered the concealment.
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Speaker 2: And why was this neo guy acting rogue, maybe trying
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to protect his boss or was Deforvite himself actively managing
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the discosal remotely while he was on tour.
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Speaker 1: And the laped's response to Fisher's leaks predictable really.
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Speaker 2: They dismissed his public revelations, called his actions vigil anti
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probes complicate justice. They argue, probably rightly, that his unauthorized
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entries and lucky info could taint their own investigation give
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defense attorney's ammunition later on, but.
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Speaker 1: They can't ignore the footage itself.
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Speaker 2: No, regardless of the official pushback, Fisher's footage forces RhD
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to look extremely hard at Neo or whoever that driver
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was and at defour vd's digital communications around July twenty ninth.
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Speaker 1: And thirtieth, so as we had towards the end of
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October two. This case is just locked in this awful
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tug of war, high profile celebrity privilege maybe versus the
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coal hard realities and limitations of forensic science.
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Speaker 2: You have Celeste Reeves Hernandez, this vulnerable kid who, as
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her mother Maria Hernandez pleaded, just deserved better than a
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trunk is heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: You have D four Vida whose career is effectively torched,
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charge or no charge. And you have this shadowy figure
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in the hoodie, the phantom from the ring camera.
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Speaker 2: And the resolution, if one ever comes, it really has
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to come from the lab. Now, despite all the decomposition challenges,
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forensic teams are still pushing looking for any definitive sign
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of fetanyl meth, any clear evidence of blunt trauma on
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the bones that remain.
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Speaker 1: A positive drug finding could point to accidental overdose followed
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by panic and concealment.
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Speaker 2: Right while definitive trauma evidence would instantly pivot the whole
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thing back to homicide. But until then, that sh tattoo. Yeah,
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it just remains this silent, incredibly poignant symbol of whatever
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the hidden truth is.
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Speaker 1: The public wants a neat answer, closure, but the sheer
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complexity here, the celebrity angle messing with access, the forensic
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decay blocking a clear ca the pi's controversial intervention. It's
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making justice feel agonizingly elusive, and.
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Speaker 2: That enduring elusiveness, that lack of clarity. It leads us
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to our final provocative thought, something for you, the listener,
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to really chew on. We know from license plate readers
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in the piz footage that the Tesla was abandoned on
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Bluebird Avenue late on July twenty ninth, if the body
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was already inside, and if the driver really was defour
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Bed's known associate, what does it actually say about the
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level of privilege, cold calculation? What allowed a car containing
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decomposing human remains to sit there, publicly visible, getting ticketed,
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gathering dust for over a month before the smell finally
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forced to discover that length of time, that duration of
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just calculated, cold hearted inaction, that might be the most
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damming and deeply unsettling piece of this entire tragic puzzle.