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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Badabing Badaboo
Chapter 2: What songs were released around D4vd's arrest and who are the artists?
Two songs are released two days before David's arrest. One is titled Imaginary Love. This song itself is not moody like you would imagine with a title like that. It's kind of an upbeat song with lyrics that read, jump out of them clothes and jump into my life. Let's sweat it out till it's too hot tonight. Tell me when you dream, do you see me, me, me?
Then a few days later, another song comes out titled S Asterix X. The lyrics are exactly what you imagine. Girl, you're sexy as a motherfucker because you're sexy like no other girl. Can't get enough. Don't let no one say nothing because you're bad as fuck. From heaven you fell, dancing all on my tongue, but don't kiss and tell.
These songs have been heavily discussed on forums talking about singer David's arrest and all about this case of the 14-year-old girl that was found in the front trunk of his Tesla back last year David has just been arrested and these songs are released exactly around that time. But they're not released by David. They're released by another singer, Kara Kova.
This is a stage name and the real individual, the musician behind that stage name is Caleb Burke. David Anthony Burke's 18 year old little brother. The first song is released just two days before his brother David is arrested and charged with the murder of 14 year old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
And with a case like this, it seems like anyone who is around David by choice, whether it be familial ties or friendships, they're going to be scrutinized by the internet. With a lot of people wondering if maybe some of these people knew what David was doing. if his close friends and family members knew or maybe they even helped.
Every single person who was around David is being questioned on forums as to whether or not that they are a potential accomplice in the murder and dismemberment of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a 14-year-old girl. And this is a deep dive into every single one of those people.
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Please be aware that there are mentions of grooming, CSA, CCM, and dismemberment in relation to a minor, a 14-year-old child. We have two previous episodes from like seven months ago on this case back when Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body was first found in the trunk of David's car. However, for those that haven't seen those, I would encourage you to watch those first.
If there's any a moment in these videos where you're like, oh, why didn't you talk about the song that was allegedly made in his name? It... Why don't you talk about the song that David allegedly made in Celeste's name? Why don't you talk about this that's been circulating online? Most likely we covered that seven months ago and I didn't want this to be a complete repeat.
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Chapter 3: How did netizens react to the timing of Caleb Burke's song releases?
We went over some of the prosecutor's preliminary brief of what they believe with the DA, what the police believe happened in this case, when they think Celeste Rivas was killed, when they think she was dismembered, when they think David purchased certain items. We also went over all of the autopsy details that were made public.
In this episode, we're going through all of the named potential accomplices. These are just Reddit theories. These are people piecing together little clues to wonder out loud on the internet if maybe other parties were involved. And that's how David got away with it for so long.
We're also going to dive into the legal aspect of things, what we're expecting for the preliminary hearing that's coming up in June, what David's parents have said publicly about this case, what Celeste's family has publicly said about this case, and also a deep dive into who the fuck David's attorneys are, because they're kind of crazy. And the judge on this case, as well as the DA.
So with that being said, let's get started. One of the key figures in this case online has become a man named Steve Fisher. He's the private investigator. The private investigator that's been digging into this case and he has access that a lot of people do not have.
And a lot of people have mixed feelings about whether or not they like this guy, whether or not he's just like a grimy persona on the internet that's trying to get his three seconds of fame off of this case and maybe pointing the finger a bit too much. or he's someone that's kept this case alive by drawing more and more attention to it up until David's arrest, everybody has a mixed opinion.
But he does have access to this case that we don't have. David allegedly commits this murder inside the garage of a house in the Hollywood Hills. David does not own this house. He rents it under his manager's name.
So after the LAPD conduct a search of this house back in September of last year, the real homeowner, the property owner, like we talked about in the previous episode, they hire a PI named Steve Fisher. They're like, we need to investigate everything. We want answers. We want to know exactly what happened in our house.
The questions that they really want the PI to answer are, quote, did any acts related to Celeste's disappearance or death occur at or materially involve the rental house? We know now, yeah, it probably did. But the DA was not telling them that back in October of 2025. So they're like, we want to know if she was murdered in this house. Like, we want to know what happened in this house.
Another question that they had was what digital and physical traces link the property to the Tesla that's later impounded? Are there overlooked items or recordings from in or around the home or neighborhood that should be preserved and provided to law enforcement? He says, The goal is to reduce uncertainty about whether the residents played any role to relay my findings to the LAPD.
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Chapter 4: What theories are circulating about potential accomplices in Celeste Rivas Hernandez's case?
So it would be in his best interest or at least the homeowner's best interest if this murder did not happen inside the house. So some people think that that's why Steve Fischer keeps pushing this narrative that maybe the crime took place in Santa Barbara.
Yeah, but then he just wouldn't have even talked if he's trying to preserve the interest of the house owner, right?
Yeah, there's a lot of back and forth about that. But one of the most alarming details, the most important detail that I think the PI has come out with, has gone public with, is his belief that there were other minors David was in contact with.
Steve Fisher says that he is in contact with at least two other minors who David was communicating with around the same time that he was communicating with Celeste. He states that he's got pictures. He says he has proof that at one point, David had two rental homes. So he had signed, the manager, Josh Marshall, had signed this specific, let's call this the house.
He signed the contract to the house. But the contract to David's previous place on Doheny had not expired yet.
so he had two active leases more or less so he's saying that on valentine's day he knows for a fact that valentine's day of 2025 he had celeste in one house and another minor in a different house for valentine's day that's what he's claiming now apparently one of the girls has been in contact with him and even like this whole text message thread had been released and it's hard to verify but they're having um
It's a message between the girl and David, and they're having a cheeky conversation about her fighting off his alter ego, Itami. She says, I would definitely win an Itami fight off. David responds, no, you would not.
Who released this?
This is just circulating online. Steve Fisher seems to be heavily involved with getting information out there. So he's saying that two other minors were communicating with David at the time. Then other people have been trying to track down these minors. They've been DMing them. They've been releasing the DMs and.
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Chapter 5: Who is Steve Fisher and what role does he play in the investigation?
And even if they subpoenaed, I wonder if it'll be like a situation for what happened with Nancy Guthrie's case, where technically the ring footage is not safe to her or the Google Nest footage was not safe to her phone, but they subpoenaed Google and Google was able to somehow get this footage that was logged online. But if that, I mean, that could take months.
Nancy Guthrie's case took a while for that footage to come out, but not nearly as long.
That would be like the most critical, right?
So it could be Neo driving it. It could be David driving it. But all we know is that the prosecutor said he was the last one to move the car. Which some people think is interesting because the prosecutors could have also written, knowing that there's so much online speculation about this case, David Burke was the only one to move the Tesla and it was last moved July 29th.
But instead, the wording is very, he was the last one to move the car July 29th before he went on tour, which nothing's necessarily wrong with that wording. But some people online are saying, well, why wouldn't the prosecutors just tell everyone like, hey, he was the only one that ever moved the car and it was last moved on July 29th.
Oh, instead of saying he was the last one. Yes. It almost sounds like there could be someone else before.
And maybe they did that wording because they also don't know and they want to make sure to leave it open just in case. Or they know something that we don't know, which they know lots of things we don't know, but. So there are netizens who think that Neo is not the one in the car. There are ones that they think he is the one in the car. But honestly, I can't tell.
It's genuinely one pixel in quality. I can't tell who it is. I couldn't even tell you one thing about the person driving this car in this footage.
But the private investigator released that basically saying this is Neo.
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Chapter 6: What evidence has been uncovered regarding the Hollywood Hills rental house?
I didn't necessarily interpret it that way. I mean, I guess I could if I really want to kind of analyze the footage that way. I think he's trying to play it up for the cameras of like, oh, God, these people are crazy.
They're talking about pooping because it was like a very like a performative, almost like a reactive to. Yeah, like it's very obvious. Yes.
It's like, where are you guys? Are you guys hearing this?
Wow.
Look at them handshaking for shitting together.
So it wasn't like a subtle shift. It's like obvious. He's making faces.
Yes. It was not like a subtle tensing up of like, okay, let me quickly change the topic. It was very like, ew, gross. Trying to play it up for the cameras. In a teasing manner, right? But I still think Neo is a weird person.
neo has since publicly spoken out he says in a series of stories instagram stories me and my lawyer were actually planning on making a statement soon but obviously now is the best of time since tmz decided to leave out the actual full statement so here you go then you click the next slide because it's instagram story the first statement is from his attorney like say about him tmz i mean i think that people are connecting blair burke david's attorney and tmz's harvey levin
I don't necessarily think that TMZ is Neil Langston's mouthpiece. If anything, they seem to be going down harsh on Neil Langston. They were just releasing bits and parts of his statement. And I don't think that they, in this particular situation, misled the audience because Neil Langston has had some weird social media posts since David's arrest that we're going to go through.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the grand jury's findings and testimonies?
Wait, Decoy Celeste is not like a... It seems like she's not. Wow.
And I will say even watching the two-hour live stream that Sakura posted on 4th of July that is relevant to this case, Asia and David seem a lot closer. The way they interact, the way they talk to each other, whereas the older Celeste just seems very quiet and on the side. She doesn't seem that familiar or comfortable around David.
Interesting. So she, her and David were not like dating or anything?
No, it doesn't appear to be.
Oh, that's weird. Yeah.
Okay.
She is really close with Asia and the PI says, who's one of the people that was always around? So that was just a coincidence. There was another Celeste. It wasn't a decoy or anything like that. That's what the PI is saying. Asia, I do think, is getting a lot more scrutiny because of the way that she's been handling a lot of the questions that netizens have.
Asia had put out a statement reading, "'Since people are being super disrespectful, I will clarify some things. I do not know the girl nor her age. May she rest in peace. I have never posted any videos with Celeste Rivas, only my friends Vanessa and Celeste Herrera, who are commonly being mistaken as Celeste Rivas.'
Everyone wants to act like TikTok detectives, yet they can't tell the difference between people of color. Let's pack it up, y'all. She's stating that she did not know Celeste, the victim. I don't know why she says the girl. I think that language made netizens dislike her quite a bit. But she also says that she didn't know Celeste's real age and that she never knew Celeste.
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