Matt Gutman

Hey, good to be with you again, Natalie.

I mean, when we're talking about play by play, it's literally playing out right now as we are recording this.

We're in the midst of a preliminary hearing.

And so what does that actually mean?

OK, so.

A judge needs to determine whether there is enough evidence against David to move forward with the case.

And here's the basic crux of the charges.

First degree murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains.

Now, the medical examiner just released or we should say was allowed to release a report determining that this was a homicide, specifically noting that Celeste died by multiple penetrating injuries caused by an object.

It's believed that it was some sort of sharp object.

At David's arraignment, which happened on Monday, his defense team asked for this hearing to take place as soon as possible, despite the fact that the prosecution says that it had 40 terabytes of discovery to give them.

That's where we are right now.

I mean, is it believed then that Celeste ran away from her family to go meet him and to go live with him?

they noticed this really foul smell.

And eventually they found a car and inside was a severely decomposed and dismembered body.

And it was later identified as Celeste.

And I remember sitting in the bureau watching this unfold because there were helicopters over it, watching the work that they were doing.

We weren't quite sure what was going on.

but something was clearly found in this Tesla, in this tow yard, and lots of people in LA were seeing it unfold live.

It was pretty quick that we learned that it was his car.