PLEA DEAL? D4VD 'COOKED' ARREST IN DEATH OF CELESTE, 13
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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A plea deal? And tonight, D4VD, aka David Anthony Burke, aka murder suspect, is cooked as an arrest goes down in the death of Celeste, a 13-year-old little girl found dead, allegedly dismembered, in Burke's Tesla trunk. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. A home incinerator. Was it purchased at the time of Celeste's death?
Where burn pages have, in fact, been used to render down human remains.
This is something you would typically find on a farm.
What led to Neo Langston's arrest in the Celeste Rivas case?
And you've got to wonder what the man ultimately did. Maybe get rid of her permanently.
Tonight is a plea deal in the works. This as an arrest goes down connected to the death of a 13-year-old little girl, Celeste Rivas. Her body found in the trunk of highly popular D4VD, a.k.a. David Anthony Burke, a.k.a. suspect. Joining me, an all-star panel to make sense of what we know right now.
What sparked news of a potential plea deal? Burke's close friend, Neo Langston, arrested at his mother's home in Montana on an unspecified warrant issued by the LAPD. Booked for dodging a mandated appearance as a material witness in the homicide investigation, Langston is held without bail at the Lewis and Clark County Jail in Helena.
Could somebody just surprise me just one time? Can a defendant not be found hiding under his mother's bed? Day one, straight out to private investigator who has become enmeshed, embroiled in the D4VD David Anthony Burke case. It's Steve Fisher, now high-profile private investigator, missing person private investigator, search and rescue expert. Steve Fisher. Steve Fisher. THIS ALL STARTED WHEN LANGSTON, AKA NEO, AKA NEO THE ASIAN, refuse to come to grand jury, and they have to go look for him. And, of course, he's hiding under Mommy's bed in Helena, far, far away from that grand jury proceeding. So they drag him back. That sparked discussion of a plea deal. And I think they're right. Now, some outlets misquoted you, stating that you thought D4VD, Burke, is going to get indicted.
But I think that's bass-ackwards. What do you think, Fisher?
Well, you said about D4 being indicted. What they quoted me saying is that he may be getting a plea deal. And I did not say that. What I said was the fact that they were bringing Langston in on that failure to appear worried me. And I think he might be getting an immunity deal because QUITE FRANKLY, I WOULD EXPECT HIM TO POSSIBLY BE A TARGET AND THEN YOU WOULD TYPICALLY EXPECT THEM TO BRING A TARGET IN FRONT OF THE GRAND JURY LIKE THAT.
HOLD THAT THOUGHT, STEVE FISHER. I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. LET ME GO TO HIGH PROFILE DEFENSE ATTORNEY JOINING US FROM THIS JURISDICTION. IT'S JOANNA NIEVES, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, FOUNDER OF THE NIEVES LAW FIRM. Here's the deal. Let me just break it down. He has a choice. He can either be a co-defendant or he can be a witness. That's how I'm seeing it from here. Because I guarantee you, Joanna, LAPD, and I've heard this from an inside source, has this huge, huge wall, and they have digital tracking of phone calls, GPS locators. NAV system of all of D4VD's friends, including him. Which means they've got it down to the minute. If Langston, a.k.a. Neo, was traveling along in a car, and I think I've identified one thing they're looking at, Joanna, it's the night that D4VD goes out into a densely wooded forest area late in the night, 2, 3 a.m.,
Many people think to dispose of a body or scout a spot to dispose of a body. If it turns out that Neo Langston phone was traveling along with D4VDs, he's up the you-know-what creek without a paddle. So he can choose. Did you dig the hole or do you want to end up in the hole, Langston?
So this is all assuming that he's got... information to offer that might incriminate David or even himself. But he may be being called in to stick a timeline down. He may be exculpating David in some way or another person who is a person of interest in the matter.
I'm sorry, I just choked on my tea. Hold on. Let me see her, please.
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