A fourteen-year-old girl walked into a Hollywood Hills home. According to prosecutors, she never came out. Her name was Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and the charges just filed in her case are unlike anything we've covered on this show.
David Anthony Burke — the twenty-one-year-old singer known as D4VD — now faces first-degree charges with special circumstances, allegations of continuous abuse of a minor, inappropriate acts with a child under fourteen, and mutilation of remains. But the special circumstances are what stop you cold. Prosecutors allege he acted with premeditation. That he was motivated by financial gain — protecting a music career that Celeste allegedly threatened. And that he silenced a witness — because Celeste was the only person who could speak to the alleged relationship between them.
This episode is the full breakdown. Every charge. The prosecution's theory of motive. The digital trail that stretched across Twitch, Discord, Instagram, and matching tattoos — a relationship that was visible to anyone paying attention, while a thirteen-year-old girl was reported missing three separate times and the system failed her every single time.
We trace the timeline from an eighteen-year-old telling a girl to "delete everything" on a livestream, to Coachella performances and a debut album, to a Hollywood Hills home on April 23, 2025 — the last day Celeste was known to be alive. We cover what her family is saying, what the defense team is arguing, and what happens next as the DA decides whether to pursue the most severe sentence available.
Celeste's father said it simply after the arrest: "Justice for Celeste." Whether the system delivers on that is the question we're all watching now.
This is Hidden Killers. And Celeste Rivas Hernandez's story demands to be heard.
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