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D4vd’s Home Raided by Police Looking for ‘Blood Evidence’ · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the deep dive. Today, we're looking at a
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story that has well completely gripped the Internet, and not
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for the usual reasons.
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Speaker 2: No, definitely not. It's this really shocking, almost unbelievable collision,
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isn't it. You've got the bright lights of TikTok pop
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stardom on one side.
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Speaker 1: And then this incredibly dark shadow of a major homicide
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investigation on the other.
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Speaker 2: It's jarring, it really is, and our sources today they
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force us to look right at that friction. We're talking
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about the rise of David Anthony Burke D four D
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as everyone knows it.
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Speaker 1: Right, the R and B sensation, and then tragically the
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story of Celeste Revas Hernandez, who is only fifteen years
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old exactly.
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Speaker 2: So our goal here for you listening is to really
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go beyond just the headlines. We want to unpack the evidence, forensic, digital, circumstantial.
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Speaker 1: We'll look at that intense twelve hour police rate on
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the Hollywood Hills mansion, the sad details of celeste disappearance,
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Deforvidi's career just well imploding.
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Speaker 2: And these really chilling connections, things like matching kattoos, leak
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song demos, threads that seem to weave these two lives
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together in a way that's deeply disturbing.
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Speaker 1: And let's just state the core fact upfront, because it
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frames everything. D forty D just twenty went from playing
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festivals to being directly linked to a decomposing, dismembered body
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found in the trunk of his own.
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Speaker 2: Car, his own tesla, founded an impound lot. It's a
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staggering situation.
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Speaker 1: It really is. From gen z Acon to the center
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of a homicide probe. It's almost whiplash. So let's start
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where the investigation really kicked off that grim discovery. Okay,
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let's try and piece together the sequence of events, because
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the timeline itself, it's just more than just a crime,
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maybe an attempt to hide it.
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Speaker 2: Right, absolutely, It all starts weirdly enough, with just an
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abandoned car D four vd's black Tesla model y Texas plates.
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And it wasn't just there for a day or two, no.
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Speaker 1: Sources say weeks. Some even suggest it had been sitting
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there on Bleeber Avenue near Hollywood since at least May
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of twenty twenty five May.
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Speaker 2: That's a long time a high end car like a
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Tesla to just sit on a street yeah, months potentially, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Which makes you wonder was it neglect or was it
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deliberate someone trying to distance themselves from that.
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Speaker 2: Vehicle exactly Eventually, you know, neighbors complained it was an iore. Yeah.
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So it finally got towed on September fifth, twenty twenty five,
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ended up at a local impound lot.
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Speaker 1: But even then the discovery wasn't immediate. It sat in
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the lot for what three days?
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Speaker 2: Three days? It was September eighth when the impound lot
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workers noticed something was seriously wrong. A really strong foul smell.
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Speaker 1: And flies, lots of flies around the car. That's never
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a good sign.
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Speaker 2: Never, And here's a detail that's particularly grim and maybe
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speaks to the concealment attempt. They didn't open the main
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trunk in the back first.
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Speaker 1: Right, They opened the front trunk, the fronk as Tesla
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owners call it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the frunk usually for like groceries or a small bag.
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Speaker 1: Not not what they found, which was human remains inside
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a black plastic bag. And the sources are very clear
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severely decomposed.
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Speaker 2: Severely, We're talking he torso, parts of limbs, and crucially dismembered.
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Speaker 1: That detail to this memberment along with the decomposition. Immediately
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told the LAPD this wasn't just the suspicious death, this
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was homicide, full stop.
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Speaker 2: Identifying the remains must have been difficult given the state
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they were.
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Speaker 1: In, for sure, not like just running fingerprints, but the
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La County Medical Examiner's office, using forensic methods, maybe dental records,
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other markers.
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Speaker 2: They managed to identify the victim as Celeste Revis Fernandez.
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Speaker 1: And that name immediately flags something for law enforcement because
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Celeste had been reported.
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Speaker 2: Missing missing since April fifteenth, twenty twenty four. Yeah, and
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not from Hollywood but from Lake Elsinore. That's a fair
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distance away.
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Speaker 1: So let's just grasp that timeline. Missing April twenty twenty four,
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carr possibly abandoned, May twenty twenty five. Body discovered September
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twenty twenty five. That's seventeen months from disappearance to discovery.
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Speaker 2: It's horrific. It strongly suggests the body might have been
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in that vehicle for a long long time, maybe much.
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Speaker 1: Of that period, and the dismember points to well an
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attempt to make identification harder, disposal maybe seem easier or
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more concealed in that smaller space.
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Speaker 2: Exactly trying to hide the remains make them less identifiable. Well,
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the official cause of death is still pending lab results.
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The way she was found just escalated everything. This became
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a top priority homicide investigation for the LAPD.
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Speaker 1: So the body found in the R and B Stars
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car that was the spark. What followed was pretty explosive.
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Speaker 2: Right, So the focus snaps immediately from the towyard discovery
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to this very targeted, very aggressive police action in like
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one of LA's fanciest.
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Speaker 1: Neighborhoods, the Hollywood Hills.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the so called midnight siege. The target this big,
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luxurious modern house in the Bird Streets area North Mansfield Avenue,
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very exclusive, very private.
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Speaker 1: But the police were just guessing they had a solid
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link to D four V, didn't.
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Speaker 2: They They did, and this is critical. The property was
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being leased by Josh Marshall, and Josh Marshall is dfour
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vd's manager records.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's the connection D four vd's manager's place.
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It links D four VD professionally and physically to that
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specific location, suggests he was there maybe often, or at
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least had access.
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Speaker 2: Unfettered access likely and look at the police presence. This
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wasn't just a couple of officers knocking on the door.
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Speaker 1: No, this was the LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division, their top
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detectives for the most serious cases, backed.
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Speaker 2: Up by SID, the Scientific Investigation Division. These are the
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forensic specialists, the crime scene investigators.
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Speaker 1: They came prepared and they were there for twelve hours.
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A twelve hour raid. That implies something really methodical, doesn't it,
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not just a quick search.
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Speaker 2: Definitely, twelve hours suggest they suspected a major crime occurred
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inside that house and potentially a major cleanup attempt had happened.
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Speaker 1: So what were they doing for all that time? What
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does that kind of forensic search involve?
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Speaker 2: Well, A key part of it, based on our sources,
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was the use of luminol ah luminol.
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Speaker 1: We hear about that in crime shows. What exactly were
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they looking for with that?
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Speaker 2: They were hunting for blood, but not just obvious stains.
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Luminol is a chemical that reacts with the iron in
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hemoglobin that's in blood, and it glows like this eerie
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blue color under UV light.
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Speaker 1: Even if someone tried to scrub it clean.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, even if it been diluted, washed away, bleached. Potentially
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they spread on walls, floors, countertops and really importantly down drains, sinks, showers,
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places where blood or tissue might have been washed away.
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Speaker 1: So if they saw that blue glow, does that prove
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blood was there? Prove the crime happen there?
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Speaker 2: Not definitively on its own. It's what they call a
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presumptive test. It means something chemically similar to blood is here.
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Other things like bleach itself or even rust can sometimes
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cause a reaction.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the glow is just the first step.
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Speaker 2: Right. If they get a positive reaction, they have to
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swab that specific area very carefully collected as evidence and
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send it to the lab for confirmatory DNA testing. That's
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what proves it was human blood and potentially whose blood
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it was.
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Speaker 1: So the twelve hours was spent doing that painstaking searching
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potential areas, collecting samples, hairs, fibers, fingerprints.
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Speaker 2: Everything, and maintaining that strict chain of custody so every
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piece of evidence is admissible in court later.
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Speaker 1: And when they finally left around, what did they take
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with them?
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Speaker 2: Sources, mention evidence bags obviously bulging bags containing hair samples, fingerprints,
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other unspecified items things that might hold DNA. But the
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big one, the computer they seized a computer from the
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house and will definitely come back to why that's potentially
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so incredibly important.
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Speaker 1: And just to underline the connection here, this mansion they raided,
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it was only about a block and a half away
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from Bluebird Avenue.
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Speaker 2: Where the tesla's abandoned for months.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it geographically ties the victim, the car, and this
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potential crime scene the manager's house into a really tight
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suspicious loop.
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Speaker 2: The LAPD is clearly operating on the theory that this
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house was either where the murder happened or at the
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very least where the dismemberment and the preparation for disposal
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took place. Those luminol test results, the DNA conf information
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that's going to be huge for them.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so we have the grim details of the crime scene.
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Now we need to kind of reconcile this with the
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person whose car it was, David Anthony Burke D four VD.
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Let's talk about his rise to fame and how his
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whole artistic vibe now looks well different.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important to understand just how fast and how
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big is fame got. He was born in Houston March
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twenty eight, two thousand and five, so he's still incredibly young, right.
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Speaker 1: Only twenty when this broke, and he's like the definition
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of a gen Z star, isn't He taught himself guitar piano,
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made music in his bedroom.
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Speaker 2: Totally using band lab on his phone, uploading the SoundCloud,
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getting big on TikTok. His breakthrough track in twenty twenty two,
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Romantic Hotel, just went completely viral.
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Speaker 1: And that led straight to a major label deal with
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Interscope Records. Pretty much overnight success.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. By twenty twenty three, he was huge. His first EP,
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Pedals to Thorns, got great reviews. He had this interesting
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mix like R and B indie folk, kind of melancholic.
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Speaker 1: And that massive hit here with me, billions of streams.
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He even did a remix with Hailey Williams from Paramore.
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He was a bonafide global star, a gen z.
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Speaker 2: Icon for sure, touring internationally, playing major festivals like Coachella.
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Speaker 1: But now looking back his whole esthetic, his artistic image,
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which was always kind of dark, gothic, maybe a bit macabre,
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it feels, as the sources put it, eerily prescient.
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Speaker 2: It really does. The dissonance is kind of shocking now,
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Like his Coachella performance in April twenty twenty five, just
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a few months before the discovery what about it? He
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performed wearing a shirt that was deliberately designed to look
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like it was splattered with blood.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Okay. At the time, maybe that just seemed like,
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you know, edgy artistic expression, part of his brand.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, moody, introspective, maybe a bit dark. But now, in
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the context of a homicide investigation involving a dismembered body
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bound in his car, that choice feels deeply unsettling.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't just a one off thing, right. His merchandise, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: His official merch line incl did crimson colored shirts playing
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on that same visual theme. Interscope pulled that merch immediately
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after the raid. News hit. That tells you.
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Speaker 1: Something, definitely, and his digital footprint, the thing that made
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him famous, is now kind of being used against him
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in a way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. People online quickly found in circulated photos confirming D
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four VD had been inside that specific Hollywood Hills mansion
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they raided, so ties him personally to that.
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Speaker 1: Location, and the professional fallout was instant, right, total collapse completely.
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Speaker 2: His US tour, which was about to start in Minneapolis,
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canceled September twentieth. The official reason was vague unforeseen circumstances.
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Speaker 1: Understatement of the year and his album.
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Speaker 2: Even more dramatic. He had a deluxe edition of his
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album coming out, ironically titled Withered. It was scheduled for
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release September nineteenth, scrubbed, pulled completely from the release schedule
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just hours before it was supposed to drop. Imagine the
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label meetings pulling a major release like that. It shows
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zero confidence, just immediate crisis management.
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Speaker 1: And the Internet which built him is now reinterpreting everything.
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There was that clip going around the coffin prop.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a fan video surface showing him wheeling a prop
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coffin onto the stage during a recent show, all part
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of his gothic stage setup.
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Speaker 1: Again, something that maybe seemed like just dark theatrics before.
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Speaker 2: Now people are asking was this just art or was
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it something else? A performance of violence, conscious or not.
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It's impossible not to see it differently. Now.
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Speaker 1: His whole artistic persona built on this kind of moody vulnerability.
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It's basically been shattered. Every lyric, every image is being
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re examined through this horrific lens. It's easy to get
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caught up in the celebrity angle the shock of it all,
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But we have to center the real tragedy here. Celestroevas
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Hernandez the victim.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we need to remember who she was, just fifteen
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years old, a high school student from Lake Elsinore. Her
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family described her as a beloved daughter, sister, cousin, and friend.
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Speaker 1: She sounds like a typical teenager, really into dance, dreaming
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about that, maybe obsessed with ca pop makeup tutorials online.
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Speaker 2: Just living her life until she vanished April fifteenth, twenty
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twenty four. And the sources note the specific clothes she
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was wearing when she left home, the tube top, black leggings,
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the yellow bracelet, study rings, and.
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Speaker 1: Those mundane details became incredibly important later, didn't.
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Speaker 2: They crucial because even with the severe decomposition, the medical
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examiner could potentially match those specific union items, the braveflet,
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the earrings, maybe remnants of the clothing to the remains
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found seventeen months later. It was part of how they
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confirmed it was Celeste, an agonizing confirmation for her family.
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Speaker 1: Of course, then came the detail that really sharpened the
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focus onto d four ved.
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Speaker 2: Celeste's mother, Yeah, she spoke to TMZ and she revealed
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that celestied mentioned having a boyfriend named David, just David.
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Speaker 1: But finding Celeste remains in David Anthony Brook's car, that
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connection is immediate and chilling.
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Speaker 2: Instantly changed everything for investigators. This wasn't a random link anymore.
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It suggested a known, acknowledged relationship, even if the full
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nature of it wasn't clear yet. It implied D four
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VD knew her well.
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Speaker 1: But then there's the tattoo. This piece of physical evidence
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seems to go beyond just knowing each other.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this is a really powerful, almost unbelievable detail. The
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medical examiner found a small distinct tattoo on celeste right
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index finger.
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Speaker 1: What did it say?
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Speaker 2: It read sh just that word okay.
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Speaker 1: And the significance.
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Speaker 2: The significance is that D four VD has the exact
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same cryptic phrase tattooed on his own hand, and it's
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not hidden. He's featured it prominently in music videos, in
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his album artwork. It's part of his public.
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Speaker 1: Persona wow, so matching tattoosh on both of them. That
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suggests what a shared secret, something deeply personal between.
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Speaker 2: Them, it has to write. It implies intimacy, exclusivity, a
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private world, or understanding. They shared something they chose to
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permanently mark on their bodies.
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Speaker 1: Legally, that must be huge. It moves way beyond just
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circumstantial evidence, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's powerful physical evidence suggesting a close personal connection.
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It makes any defense narrative about this being a random
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event like a setup or a carjacking gune wrong much
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much harder to sell. This wasn't a stranger. This was
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someone seemingly intimately connected to him physically and artistically.
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Speaker 1: Her poor family, they started to go fundme for burial costs,
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just asking for privacy. You can't even imagine their grief.
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Speaker 2: It's devastating, and her story has unfortunately become this awful
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example of the vulnerabilities young people face, today, especially online,
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especially online. She was into K pop dance online communities.
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In that world, sometimes the lines between fans and celebrities
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can blur. Access can seem easy, and a fifteen year
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old girl could be incredibly drawn to the attention of
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a rising star like D four VD.
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Speaker 1: It highlights the danger, doesn't it How easily those digital
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connections might lead to a potentially predatory real world relationship
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between an adult celebrity and a minor.
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Speaker 2: Tragically, Yes, it's like the physical manifestation of digital risk
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a really stark cautionary time.
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Speaker 1: So we have the physical side of the car, the body,
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the house, the tattoo. But then there's this whole other dimension,
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the digital world, the World D four VD basically mastered,
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which is now providing all these threads of suspicion.
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Speaker 2: Right, and let's start with maybe the most specific and
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frankly bizarre piece of digital evidence, that leaked demo track.
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Speaker 1: The SoundCloud track. Tell us about that again.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so this track surface reportedly uploaded way back in
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December twenty twenty three, that's months before Celeste even disappeared,
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and the title was Celested demo.
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Speaker 1: Unfinn Celeste spelled out.
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Speaker 2: Spelled out, and in the lyrics he apparently sends her
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name twice. Kruons it sorts to say amid lyrics about
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lost love or longing.
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Speaker 1: At the time, maybe fans just thought, oh, that's a
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cool name, or maybe it's just artistic license amuse exactly.
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Speaker 2: But now knowing the victim's name is Celeste, it's impossible
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to see it as coincidence. It suggests she was significant
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to him back then, part of his emotional or creative
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world before she went.
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Speaker 1: Missing, which again chips away at any narrative that he
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didn't know her well or only found out about the
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body when police called.
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Speaker 2: Precisely, it establishes a timeline of connection. And then there's
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other digital stuff that surfaced since this broke, like what
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well photos an infinite looking snapshot of the two of
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them together, apparently in a green booth somewhere. Another photo
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seems to place D four D D physically near her
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family's home in Lake elsinor.
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Speaker 1: So not just online, they met in person.
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Speaker 2: The photo suggests that, yeah, which counters any idea this
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was purely a digital relationship. And then there are these
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unverified we have to tress unverified screenshots floating around, supposedly
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from discord chats.
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Speaker 1: What do they show?
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Speaker 2: They appear to show flirty messages with someone named Celeste
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signing off with heart emojis, suggesting that digital intimacy as well.
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Speaker 1: And all of this, the demo, the photos, the alleged chat.
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It's just fueled the fire online. Hasn't it turned social
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media into well, you called it a colisseum.
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Speaker 2: It really has. The public reaction was immediate and intense.
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You had posts like that one from at Drischap posting
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going viral. Y'all defending D four VD like police didn't
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find human remains, getting like forty two thousand likes. It
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really captured the public anger and drove the hashtag justice
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forceless hashtag.
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Speaker 1: People were horrified. TMZ's post about the raid got nearly
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eighty thousand views. Almost instantly. Someone else posted a blurred
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photo of the Tesla trunk that got like one hundred
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and forty five thousand likes. Just massive engagement.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a mix of genuine horror people saying things like
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this is giving Dahmer vibes, but also calls for caution
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for letting the investigation play out, and of course the
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hardcore fans defending.
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Speaker 1: Him, which leads to the counter narratives, right, the theories
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trying to explain this away exactly.
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Speaker 2: You see D forty d's supporters and even some commentators
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like the podcaster Jason Thewen, pushing the idea that he
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was set up.
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Speaker 1: How does that argument go?
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Speaker 2: They point to the fact the car was abandoned for
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so long since May. They argue DA four VD was
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on tour, had an alibi for parts of the summer,
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so someone else must have put the body in the
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car after he left it there, maybe a carjacking that
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went wrong or someone framing him.
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Speaker 1: And D four vd's own team is saying he knew
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nothing until the police contacted him.
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Speaker 2: That's the official line. But does the leaked demo from
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twenty twenty three, and especially the matching sh tattoo make
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that set up theory easy for investigators to believe?
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Speaker 1: Seems like a stretch. The personal connection feels too strong.
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Speaker 2: It makes it highly improbable, though, please have to rule
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it out. They are looking for definitive proof about who
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drove that Tesla last. They're checking surveillance cameras from all
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around Bluebird Avenue, trying to trace the car's final movements
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before it was abandoned.
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Speaker 1: Which brings us back to that computer seized from the
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manager's house. Why is that potentially the key to everything?
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Speaker 2: Because digital forensics today is incredibly powerful. That computer could
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be like a Rosetta stone for the investigation. They aren't
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just looking at current files.
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Speaker 1: They can recover deleted stuff, Oh.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, deleted files, deleted chat logs, browser history, even potentially
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geolocation data from the computer or connected devices. They could
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potentially reconstruct his movements see if his digital activity matches
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up with Celeste's disappearance or with the time the car
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was likely dumped.
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Speaker 1: So they could find evidence of communication, planning, location, things
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he might think were.
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Speaker 2: Long gone exactly. They'll be looking for time stamps, file
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modification dates, server access logs, any communication with Celest that
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was deleted, any searches that look suspicious. The digital trail
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on that computer could provide the kind of ironclad evidence
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the testimonials often lack. It might be the thing that
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breaks the case open.
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Speaker 1: So the public artic seems pretty swift, but the legal
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system obviously works differently, slower, more methodical. Let's look at
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the fallout for dfour vd's career and why the police
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haven't actually made an arrest yet.
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Speaker 2: The career fallout was catastrophic, immediate in total. Within days,
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it was just gone. The US tour canceled, venues, empty,
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tickets refunded.
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Speaker 1: And fans were reacting pretty strongly too, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Some fans were posting videos burning his merchandise, just complete
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dis illusionment and anger for Interscope Records, his label. It's
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a pr nightmare of epic proportions. They're huge investment in
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this rising star, just vanished.
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Speaker 1: Sponsors pulled out. Playlists dropped his music instantly.
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Speaker 2: Sponsors want distance, and major streaming playlists have brand safety concerns.
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They purged his music fast. For an artist who built
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his career on billions of streams, getting white from playlists
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is a massive blow. It shows how quickly digital fan
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can evaporate when something this horrific surfaces.
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Speaker 1: The financial hit must be enormous, regardless of guilt or
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innocence at this stage.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely immeasurable, which leads to the big question everyone's asking.
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With all this circumstantial evidence, the car, the body inside it,
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the demo, the matching tattoo, why hasn't D four V
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been arrested? People online are demanding.
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Speaker 1: Justice now, But it's not that simple legally as it.
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Speaker 2: No legal experts point out that the LAPD is focused
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on building a rock solid case, not just making a
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quick arrest for the headlines. There's a difference between probable
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cause and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Speaker 1: Explain that difference.
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Speaker 2: Well. Probable cause is the standard needed for things like
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getting a search worn like the one for the twelve
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hour rate. It means police have a reasonable belief that
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a crime was committed and this person might be involved.
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They clearly have that for DFOURVD.
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Speaker 1: But that's not enough to convict someone of murder, not
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even close.
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Speaker 2: To get a conviction in court, the prosecution needs to
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prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That's a much much
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higher bar, especially in a case like this with decomposition dismemberment.
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They need definitive forensic links.
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Speaker 1: So they're waiting for those lab results, the luminal tests,
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the DNA.
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Speaker 2: Exactly they need to know with Celeste blood found inside
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that manager's house, is dfour vd's DNA directly linked to
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the crime scene or maybe to the bag the remains
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were in in a way that can't be easily explained
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away is their DNA from anyone else? They need irrefutable scientific.
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Speaker 1: Evidence, so they're prioritizing getting it right over getting it fast.
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They're chasing down every lead, like that surveillance footage from
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Bluebird Avenue to see who actually parked the tesla there.
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Speaker 2: Precisely, they can't afford for the case to fall apart
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in court because they rushed. So the official word is
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they're following multiple leads and there's no timeline for charges.
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They're waiting on forensics and.
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Speaker 1: This whole saga when you step back, it really does
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feel like this potent, very modern cautionary tale.
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Speaker 2: It really does. It highlights the dangers when that allure
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of celebrity, fame, the access, the perceived intimacy intersects with young,
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impressionable lives. Celeste was just fifteen. Her death is a
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brutal reminder of the risks in a world where digital
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connections can sometimes obscure a profound power, imbalances and potential danger.
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Speaker 1: It's an indictment of how easily those lines can be
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crossed between a powerful adult figure and a minor fan,
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especially online.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that quote you mentioned earlier from the ex
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user just cuts through all the noise. He has actual
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humor remains in his car. The sheer weight of that
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alleged reality contrasted with his light, catchy pop music. It's
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just horrifying.
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Speaker 1: Hollywood, the music industry, the public. Everyone's just watching, waiting
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for those forensic results. A young artist's career is silenced,
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maybe permanently, and a family is left with just unimaginable
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grief waiting for answers. Hashtag tag tag outro. So as
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we wrap up this deep dev let's quickly recap the
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most critical points we've covered. First, that intense police focus
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shown by the twelve hour raid and the hunt for
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hidden blood evidence using luminol in that Hollywood Hills house.
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Speaker 2: Second, that really disturbing connection of the matching tattoo, a
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shared secret now potentially a key piece of evidence suggesting
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a deep, intimate and ultimately tragic relationship.
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Speaker 1: And Third, the absolute significance of that seized computer, the
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potential it holds to unlock the digital timeline, the communications,
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the locations, potentially providing the objective pruth in a case
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clouded by speculation.
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Speaker 2: But beyond the evidence, we have to keep the focus
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on the human cost on Celestriefs Fernandez are stolen future
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and her family's devastating loss. They're the ones who need closure,
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and it.
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Speaker 1: Leaves us with this final kind of unsettling thought. You know,
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D forty D's biggest hit here with Me, has that line,
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if it's meant to be, it'll be Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But destiny was obviously horribly twisted for Celeste. And the
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big question now maybe for justice in our time, is
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how does that idea of fate or even artistic expression
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hold up against cold, hard science.
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Speaker 1: How will the forensic facts, the DNA, the digital trails
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recovered from that computer ultimately align with or completely contradict
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the narratives being spun. What happens when the artist's own tools,
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his digital mastery, might be used to uncover the truth
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about him.
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Speaker 2: That tension between the constructed image and the potential reality
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uncovered by evidence, That's what we're all waiting to see resolved.