Chapter 1: What alarming items did David Burke purchase before his arrest?
In some cases, it's more alarming to buy a money counting machine than to buy a cadaver bag. You can technically freely buy both online. The money counting machines being the little things where you put in a stack of cash, it counts it for you. Some of them are really smart. They do mixed bills of cash. So there's fives, tens, hundreds in there. It'll count it.
Then at some point, that was more alarming in the United States to purchase than body bags. full on cadaver bags. In 2008, the DEA started to use blanket administrative subpoenas to vendors, people who are selling money counting machines. And they're like, we want a list of every single person who's buying a money counting machine.
Basically, if you purchase one, I would imagine that you're still on some sort of federal watch list for buying that money counting machine because why did you need one? The DEA has since stopped.
There was a lot of public outrage and human rights activists arguing that it is actually abusive to Americans' right to privacy to put them on some sort of arbitrary list based solely on the fact that they purchased an item that is technically lawful to purchase. It's a lawful product. They're legally allowed to buy it. People were really upset about it until now.
Now netizens are wondering, maybe we bring the list back and put some other things on the list. Because why are you allowed to go on Amazon and purchase a cadaver bag for $32? You can buy a cadaver bag online, like the ones that they use in morgues and hospitals, body bags.
Depending on the quality, obviously, it's going to be a different price, but it's also going to be anywhere between somewhere to 100% leak-proof for long-term storage. Some of them are going to be better sealed that prevents less odors from escaping. And body bags are not just used for human bodies, which might be why that they're so freely available on the market.
Some hunters say that they use them for game. Though I think that's now been labeled like a newbie mistake because you need your game meat to be able to breathe during transport. So sticking it in this heat sealed body bag would be bad unless you're moving very quick. One hunter writes, you want to get your game out of the skin and on ice immediately. If not, you won't want to eat it.
So maybe a no go on the body bags. Aside from hunting, body bags are used by a lot of different people. Search and rescue teams for recovery missions. State emergency agencies will stockpile them for mass casualty events. Farms, sometimes vets, livestock vets, they're going to have body bags to transfer livestock to their final resting place, wherever that be, or to their cremation, their burial.
Horse owners, cattle ranchers, lots of people will have them. And it's also just something that you can purchase on Amazon for $32. The reviews are not as grim as you would think. Some of these reviews are about people writing about how they used it for something completely unexpected. Somebody is using it to storage their mermaid tail, nine foot tall mermaid tail under their bed in a body bag.
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Chapter 2: What are the details surrounding the discovery of Celeste's body?
They just thought so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a lot of effort.
Yeah.
Yeah. So that's the first one. You're bringing in people to testify because maybe they wouldn't otherwise. Then the second aspect of an investigative grand jury is you're locking in these testimonies. People are testifying under oath in front of the grand jurors. This transcript will always be there forever.
And if the case goes to trial two years down the line, the prosecutor's defense, they can and will hold it against you and try to impeach you on the stand, even if you're the prosecutor's witness. So this is why prosecutors might want to bring in someone like Neo to testify. So to give you an idea, OK, let me explain. Let's say you saw Chelsea steal the cat. You're subpoenaed.
You testify to the grand jurors. I saw her pick up the cat with both of her hands and she put the cat in her backpack and then she ran to the car. Two years later, you're on the stand during the trial and you tell the jurors, I saw her pick up the cat and she was running with the cat to the car. the defense is gonna try to impeach you. Did she have a backpack?
You're like, no, I didn't see a backpack. They're like, oh, well, two years ago during the grand jury investigation, you stated, and she put the cat in her backpack. So do you not remember? Or did you see a backpack? You didn't see a backpack? Or like, you just don't care? Or did you even see her run to the car? Or sometimes it's for the prosecutors.
So if you're friends with the target of the investigation, you might change your mind about what you said. It just could be human nature. And maybe you feel bad for Chelsea. Two years later, you're on the stand at the trial and the prosecutors knew that you have a soft spot for Chelsea. And now you're on the stand and you say, I don't remember if she put the cat in her backpack.
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Chapter 3: How did David's online behavior change after the incident?
Well, in this case, it won't be years later, but it'll be later. So he doesn't know what's being said while it's happening. You can't request the court transcript for grand jury investigations.
Mm-hmm.
And it keeps autopsy details, forensic findings sealed away from the public during the investigation. Basically, an investigative grand jury makes sense in this case when prosecutors want subpoena power. They want testimony under oath. They want people to come in that would never sit voluntarily and they need to lock in their stories.
A lot of netizens were initially concerned that an investigative grand jury meant that this was a weaker case for the prosecutors, just gauging based off the fact that they didn't have a charging grand jury. Thankfully, that is not the case. It's just what the DA decides to do to get what they want.
They had three investigative grand juries not to indict, but to investigate the target, David Anthony Burke, for murder. I'm going to run through the timeline. September 8th, 2025. There's a black Tesla sitting in the impound lot of Hollywood tow. You guys know the story, but there's a little bit more that's come out since. The employees see flies circulating the frunk and the smell emanating.
They state it is, they describe it as being foul. They call the police. LAPD detective Clore says, he opens up the front trunk of the Tesla and he notices this large black zippered body bag with handles. I mean, it's very clear it's a cadaver bag. It's not just like a trash bag. It's not a laundry bag. It's a cadaver bag.
The report reads, he partially opened the bag to reveal a human torso and the back of a head. The autopsy further states how the body was delivered to the ME's office, so we can kind of understand how the body was found in the trunk. Quote, I observed the decedent's posterior head and torso lying prone, so face down.
So Celeste's torso and head were found face down in the body bag when you opened the zipper. And her head was oriented towards the north. She appeared of indeterminate age and ethnicity with dark hair and natural teeth. She was wearing a tube top, underwear and leggings and socks. I observed multiple holes in the front and back of the tube top.
She was missing both arms above the elbows and both legs above the knees. Underneath the body bag was a black trash bag that contained the decedent's apparent compiled bilateral arms and legs. They appear to have been dismembered into several fragments.
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Chapter 4: What were the significant events leading up to David's arrest?
He released a new album, which is a new income stream, just days after they alleged David killed Celeste, two days after his new album drops. And other cases have treated avoidance of loss as equivalent to acquisition of gain. So experts think that this will be the most litigated special circumstance, but I don't know. Then you have the special circumstance of murder of a witness.
And this is where a lot of people have been getting confused. Allegedly, David intentionally killed Celeste for the purpose of preventing potential testimony in a criminal proceeding. So everyone just started running with it. And they were like, oh my God, Celeste had already gone to the police.
Celeste had gone to the police and she was a witness in the crime against her, of him grooming her, essaying her. And then he needed to kill her to make sure that she's no longer a witness. That's not necessarily what the wording means. It just means that she is a witness to a crime that was committed against her.
There's no way to verify as of right now that she had already gone to the police about it. But the wording, I think a lot of people were running with it like she had already gone to the police.
Mm-hmm.
He has also been charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14. They are very specific about this charge. So the charge date is September 7th, 2023 to September 7th, 2024. So this is the exact year that she's 13 years old.
now something to note is the prosecutors believe that this documented abuse will be from when Celeste was 13 all the way up until her death so when she's 14 as well they're like oh yeah he was abusing her when she was 14 too but they only charge him for the time that she's 13 and that is highly intentional so when the victim is under 14 it's going to make the case the most severe in the state of California
And also in the state of California, if a child is under 14, the prosecution does not have to disprove consent. Basically, based on California law, the victim's consent is not a defense to the crime of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under the age of 14 under any circumstance.
So the defense, if they try to do, oh, the victim wanted this, initiated this, kept repeatedly coming back, was gaining financially from it, it doesn't matter because they're under 14. So the judge is going to say, oh, jury, ignore everything the defense is saying. Also, the mistake of age is not a viable defense for this charge.
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