D4VD's Best Friend Fled the Country to Avoid Testifying

D4VD's Best Friend Fled the Country to Avoid Testifying

Author: True Crime Today April 23, 2026 Duration: 16:32

Between the night Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly last seen alive and the day her remains were discovered in a tow yard in Hollywood, David Anthony Burke allegedly kept living his life. He reportedly traveled to a remote area of Santa Barbara in the middle of the night. He performed at Coachella. He released his debut album. He launched a world tour.

And the people around him — his manager, his close friend Neo Langston, his family — allegedly said nothing.

When the grand jury came calling, Neo Langston fled to Montana. He was arrested and extradited back to Los Angeles. Burke's parents filed court papers in Texas trying to block their own subpoenas. And for months, while the public demanded answers about a dead child found in a celebrity's car, the people closest to Burke reportedly stayed silent.

In Part 2 of this three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits down with Tony Brueski to examine the psychology of that silence. What allows someone to allegedly perform for thousands of people while carrying knowledge of something this extreme? What does the alleged act of dismemberment reveal about someone's psychological state? What happens inside a person like Neo Langston when loyalty finally collapses into cooperation? And when a family fights this hard to avoid answering questions — is that love, denial, or something darker?

Scott has spent three decades in forensic mental health and violence psychology. She doesn't speculate. She reads behavior. And what the behavior in this case allegedly reveals is deeply disturbing.

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