D4VD's Parents Fought to Block Their Own Subpoenas

D4VD's Parents Fought to Block Their Own Subpoenas

Author: Hidden Killers Podcast April 23, 2026 Duration: 16:32

The grand jury had to drag witnesses in. Neo Langston ran to Montana. Burke's parents fought subpoenas in Texas. The manager testified over multiple days. And for months after Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were allegedly found in David Burke's Tesla, the people closest to the accused reportedly said nothing while a grieving family waited for answers.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for Part 2 of a three-part psychological examination of the D4VD case. This installment focuses on the silence — and what it reveals. How does someone allegedly carry knowledge of extreme violence and continue functioning publicly? What does the alleged Santa Barbara trip and the condition of the remains tell a clinician about the person who allegedly carried out these acts? What is the psychological war between loyalty and self-preservation that plays out inside witnesses like Neo Langston? And when an entire inner circle stays quiet while a child's family begs for information — at what point does that silence become its own kind of crime?

Scott is the author of The Minds of Mass Killers and has worked in forensic settings, crisis teams, and domestic violence response for over three decades. She brings clinical precision to questions most people can only process emotionally — and the answers are harder to hear than the questions.

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