**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski. Here now, Tony Brueski.
**Tony Brueski** (0:06)
A detective wrote a script in a Los Angeles courtroom. A shovel ordered through postmates. Interesting.
Delivered to a home on Doheny Drive on April 24th, 2025 According to the prosecution, Celeste Rivas Hernandez had been dead for less than 24 hours at that point. The man who allegedly ordered that shovel had a radio interview scheduled for later that day. Can't miss the radio morning zoo, right? Oh, it's wacky.
**Tony Brueski** (0:43)
Seven o'clock in the morning. Sunshine today.
**Tony Brueski** (0:45)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:45)
Oh, look at this. It's David.
**Tony Brueski** (0:47)
David, what's going on in your world? Uh, I just, uh, murdered somebody last night. Hey! Hey, birthday's coming up at 7.45.
Uh, you murdered somebody.
**Tony Brueski** (0:57)
Like, uh, wow, that's wild and wacky stuff. David.
**Tony Brueski** (1:02)
My songs are all about death.
**Tony Brueski** (1:04)
Hey! That's true.
**Tony Brueski** (1:07)
Did you? Hey, have you tried the donuts here at the, the, uh, the, the Rick's Breaks and More studio? Oh my God. Rick's Breaks and More is our title sponsor of our studio. So the Rick's Breaks and More studio is where we're at. And oh my God, these donuts. So you tell me more about what you like to do during the day. I'd like to just remember people. Oh, hey. Uh, 7.48. We're going to take a look at your 7-day forecast coming up next.
It's our radio interviews, Kyle, right? You know, anyway, David and I digress. Allegedly took the life of a child and did a radio interview the next morning. Promote the album. He had an album release party that night, too. So he does his radio interview, and then he goes out and promotes an album.
Yeah. At the 100 Thieves Compound, his debut studio album dropped that next day. It was called Withered. It debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200 His name, you've probably heard of him now, David Anthony Burke. You've seen the D4VD and was like, what? The D4VD, the D4VD? What? Yeah, it's pronounced David. The music industry, like I said, knows him as David. And according to prosecutors in Los Angeles County, he allegedly stabbed a 14 year old girl to death the night before that shovel arrived. Interesting thing to order through Postmates, right? Context, eh?
That's your day one of the preliminary hearing for David started. Not with opening arguments, not with motions, with a Postmates receipt for a shovel and an album release party on the same calendar day. But before we get to the full purchase timeline that LAPD robbery homicide detective Joshua Byers laid out under oath, there are three things to keep in mind. First, Burke's iPhone was registered in the Tesla's Bluetooth system under the name A-name. It wasn't under not David, not D4VD, a different name. What investigators found that device connected to, the date it last connected, matters. That comes a little bit later. It's new evidence in this case. Second, when detectives booked Burke in April of 2026, they photographed two tattoos on his hands, one of them matching a marking found on Celeste's body. What those booking photos did to the people sitting in the courtroom on July 21st is part of the story. And third, after the body was found in September of 25, the people closest to Burke's money stopped communicating on regular phones. Who made that decision? And what they were moving while they made it is also part the prosecution wanted the courtroom to simmer with. This week, and the biggest developments in the David case so far. As we work our way through this, your thoughts in the comment section on SubStack and YouTube and be sure to press subscribe wherever you're listening and watching if you want full, complete coverage of this case. We got it for you. Celeste's parents were in the room. Jesus Rivas and Mercedes Martinez. Before the detective took the stand, they were offered the chance to leave. They were told the testimony would be graphic. They stayed. And when prosecutors displayed evidence photos, including images of Celeste's hand, a spectator had to fan her mother to keep her from fainting. Burke sat a few feet away. He'd been brought in wearing orange shackled to a chair. The defense got his handcuffs removed. The shackles stayed. And according to reporters inside the courtroom, he showed no visible reaction to any of it. He leaned back, whispered to his attorney, Blair Burke. The word Fox 11 courtroom reporter used was nonchalant. Same room, same photographs. One person looking at what allegedly happened to her daughter. And they're watching the same evidence the way you'd watch a meeting you already prepared for. Because maybe you've already seen the contents. And if the allegations are correct, he's seen them very close up.
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