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Prosecutors: 'Troves' of CSAM on D4vd's Phone | Crime Alert 04.24.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvani. A procedural hearing has pulled back the
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  Speaker 2: curtain on a case that combines the dark side of
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  Speaker 2: Internet fame with truly gruesome acts of violence. We're learning
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  Speaker 2: more details about what happened to Celest Revus Hernandez, allegedly
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  Speaker 2: at the hands of singer David. A prosecutor alleged in
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  Speaker 2: court Thursday that twenty one year old David Anthony Burke
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  Speaker 2: had a massive trove of child sex abuse material on
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  Speaker 2: his phone. Burke is currently facing charges of murder, continuous
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  Speaker 2: sexual abuse of a child under the age of fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: and the unlawful mutilation of human remains in connection with
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  Speaker 2: the death of fourteen year old Celeste Revus Hernandez. Burke
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  Speaker 2: appeared before Judge Charlene Olnado wearing an orange jumpsuit. Witnesses
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  Speaker 2: in the court room say he appeared strangely detached, intermittently
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  Speaker 2: nodding and bobbing his head as the proceedings began. The
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  Speaker 2: scale of this investigation is staggering. Deputy District Attorney Beth
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  Speaker 2: Silverman revealed that the prost ancution is currently processing roughly
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  Speaker 2: forty terabytes of evidence. It was during this discussion of
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  Speaker 2: discovery that Silverman dropped the bombshell allegation Burke's phone contained
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  Speaker 2: what she described as a significant amount of child pornography.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the weight of the accusation, Burke reportedly showed no
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  Speaker 2: visible reaction, staring straight ahead as the words echoed through
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  Speaker 2: the court room. The timing of this hearing is particularly somber,
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  Speaker 2: as yesterday marked exactly one year since the date prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: believed Burke killed the young girl. Celeste. Dismembered remains were
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  Speaker 2: eventually discovered in September twenty twenty five, hidden in the
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  Speaker 2: trunk of Burke's impounded Tesla in the Hollywood Hills. This week,
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  Speaker 2: her autopsy findings were finally unsealed, painting a horrific picture
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  Speaker 2: of her final moments. The medical examiner ruled the death
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  Speaker 2: a homicide caused by multiple penetrating injuries, specifically noting two
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  Speaker 2: wounds to the torso, one that damaged her liver and
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  Speaker 2: another that fractured her ribs. The motive, according to District
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Nathan Hodgman, was silence. Hochman alleges that Celeste was
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  Speaker 2: actually a witness to a separate investigation into Burke's alleged
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  Speaker 2: sexual misconduct.
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  Speaker 3: In this particular case, as the evidence will come out
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  Speaker 3: in court, the witness to the investigation was Celeste, and
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  Speaker 3: the investigation was into the lude and lascivious sexual acts
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  Speaker 3: committed by mister Burke that is the subject of count
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  Speaker 3: two of this complaint with Celeste while she was under
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  Speaker 3: fourteen years old.
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  Speaker 2: According to the DA, burg feared his lucrative music career
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  Speaker 2: would vanish if Celeste went to the authorities.
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  Speaker 3: This murder was committed for financial gain. As the evidence
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  Speaker 3: will show in court, the financial gain was for mister
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  Speaker 3: Burke to maintain his very lucrative musical career that Celeste
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  Speaker 3: was threatening.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators believe Burke kept Celeste's body for over a week
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  Speaker 2: before dismembering her and placing her in the tesla. Following
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  Speaker 2: his arrest, celeste Parentsjzeus Revas and Mercedes Martinez revealed a
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  Speaker 2: heartbreaking statement through their attorney, Patrick Steinfeld. They described Celeste
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  Speaker 2: as a beautiful girl who loved to sing and dance,
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  Speaker 2: noting that every Friday night was family movie night. Quote.
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  Speaker 2: All we want is justice for Celeste. Burke is pleaded
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  Speaker 2: not guilty and remains held without bail. Because of the
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  Speaker 2: special circumstances surrounding the murder, he faces a maximum sentence
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  Speaker 2: of life without parole or even the death penalty, though
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  Speaker 2: the DA's office has not yet decided that they will
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  Speaker 2: seek the latter. An evidence hearing is set for April
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  Speaker 2: twenty ninth, followed by a preliminary hearing on May first.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this. In Chicago, the
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  Speaker 2: parents of eighteen year old Sheridan Gorman are breaking their
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  Speaker 2: silence after their daughter, a Loyola University freshman, was gunned
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  Speaker 2: down last month. Sheridan was a bright student with her
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  Speaker 2: whole life ahead of her until a walk to see
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  Speaker 2: the Northern lights turned into a nightmare. Her parents recently
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  Speaker 2: appeared on CBS More and the raw pain of their
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  Speaker 2: loss was palpable.
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  Speaker 1: No one should have to deal with the police coming
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  Speaker 1: to your door at six am, falling to your knees
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  Speaker 1: when you hear the news that no parent should ever hear.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing that prepares you for going to the medical
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  Speaker 4: examiner's office and filling out the paperwork. Your hand is trembling,
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  Speaker 4: and then you have to go identify your daughter's body
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  Speaker 4: and they ask you if you're ready, and nothing makes
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  Speaker 4: you ready for that.
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  Speaker 2: It was around one thirty am on March nineteenth when
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  Speaker 2: Sheridan and her friends were walking along the Lake Michigan Pier.
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  Speaker 2: They were only a block and a half from campus
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  Speaker 2: when they were approached by a masked gunman. Sheridan's quick
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  Speaker 2: thinking likely saved her friend's lives, but it cost her
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  Speaker 2: her own.
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  Speaker 1: He moved towards her threateningly. She turned around, and she
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  Speaker 1: warned her friends that there was a man of the
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  Speaker 1: guy and you need to run, and they ran.
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  Speaker 4: She ran.
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  Speaker 1: She made it la forty feet, but she made it
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  Speaker 1: like forty feet and he shot her in the back,
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  Speaker 1: came out her neck.
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  Speaker 2: Police arrested twenty six year old Jose Medina for the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Medina is a Venezuelan national who entered the country illegally
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. His defense attorney, Julie Kohler, claims
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  Speaker 2: Medina suffered a brain injury in twenty eighteen that left
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  Speaker 2: him with the mental capacity of a child. Sheridan's parents, however,
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  Speaker 2: flatly reject that excuse.
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  Speaker 1: He had the mental capacity and the wherewithal to buy
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  Speaker 1: a gun, to have a mask on and to be waiting.
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  Speaker 1: The mask was on and he had a gun pointed
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  Speaker 1: at my daughter.
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  Speaker 4: A child does not do that. A man does not
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  Speaker 4: shoot a retreating child in the back.
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  Speaker 2: Record show. Medina was apprehended and released by Border Patrol
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  Speaker 2: in May twenty twenty three, then arrested for shoplifting a
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  Speaker 2: month later and released again. He was a fugitive at
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  Speaker 2: the time of the shooting after skipping a cord hearing
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  Speaker 2: Sheridan's mother, Jessica, says she will never rest until there
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  Speaker 2: is accountability for the policies that allowed her daughter's killer
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  Speaker 2: to remain on the streets. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 2: justice breaking news, be sure to tune in tomorrow on
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  Speaker 2: your favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm Sidney
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  Speaker 2: Solvanie