D4vd Prelim Hearing, Multiple Marriages in House of Horrors & 17 Year Old Attacks Parents with Knife

**Annie Elise** (0:02)
Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialously.
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialously. With me, your host, Annie Elise. Happy Thursday. I hope you're having a good week so far. There is a lot that is going on. We are like in the throes of the David Prelim hearing. There are case updates. There are new cases. There is so much to go over today.
If you're a brand new listener, let me just give you a little bit of a rundown first and foremost before we get into it. A, if you're watching the video version of this, you can see this is not my normal tech setup. I'm doing this via StreamYard. The audio might not be as crisp as usual. Same with the video, but bear with me. But anyways, on Mondays, we do a full deep dive together.
I go into a full singular case, researching it, giving you all of the details, everything that we can figure out through outreach, FOIA requests, court records, you name it. Then Thursdays come, like today, and it's Headline Highlights, which means breaking down everything that is happening in true crime this week, whether it's breaking news, updates in cases, trial updates, whatever it may be, just so that you feel like you can have the pulse on what's going on in the true crime role, because unfortunately, it is a lot to keep up with because there is so much crime happening and there's no shortage of it. So with that, we're going to get into today's episode. Like I said, we have a lot to talk about. But before we do, I have to say, I am joined by Amy the Great. Welcome to Headline Highlights.

**Amy** (2:01)
Well, I didn't realize I was just going to pop up on screen.

**Annie Elise** (2:05)
That's the one benefit to stream art is I can like hide you and then bring you in and scare everybody.

**Amy** (2:10)
Well, you didn't see me because I was trying to say something to you right before we started and you weren't answering. So I thought maybe I just wasn't going to be on the episode at all. And then all of a sudden, here I am.

**Annie Elise** (2:20)
You were muted while you were backstage. Sorry. Sorry, ma'am.

**Amy** (2:24)
Thanks for the grand entrance.

**Annie Elise** (2:25)
So I kind of want to say Headline Highlights is obviously HH for short. But I think we could also be CC for short today.
Coast to Coast.

**Amy** (2:39)
Oh, God.

**Annie Elise** (2:40)
Because Amy is in sunny California while I'm in rainy New York. So Coast to Coast. Wait, hold on.

**Amy** (2:47)
I miss you.

**Annie Elise** (2:48)
I'm having a moment.

**Amy** (2:51)
What?

**Annie Elise** (2:52)
HH CC AA. Dare I say, come on.

**Amy** (3:02)
Coast to Coast.

**Annie Elise** (3:03)
Annie and Amy, Headline Highlights. We are ready. I miss you, too.

**Amy** (3:07)
I think you're losing it over there.

**Annie Elise** (3:09)
I am. I'm getting a little stir crazy. I'm ready to get back to California, I think. Then a little much for me, which, speaking of California, we need to jump right in because there is a lot going on with David.
There is some progress being made against the case against David Anthony Burke, otherwise known as David D4vd, you name it. I feel like everybody knows about this case by now, but if you are new here for some reason or you are not familiar with it, I did a deep dive back a while ago into some of the early information that we knew, things about how David and Celeste were connected, how everything really came to ahead last September of 2025
Since then, there have been a ton of updates in this case, which I've been keeping you guys informed on via Headline Highlights. Maybe I need to do a full mash-up, I don't know. Let me know if that would be helpful. Because there is a lot of information that continuously is coming out.
Giving you just a very top-line refresher in all of this. David Burke is a man who has been charged with the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her decomposed and dismembered remains were discovered inside the front trunk of his Tesla back in September of last year. However, that's after her remains had been there for months after he dumped the car in July. Prosecutors also allege that David had been grooming Celeste for years, starting when she was just 11 years old. And that then, after she threatened to expose their relationship, when she discovered that he was dating other women, seeing other people, he wanted to silence her. He planned and carried out her murder. This is what they are alleging. And that he lured her to his house in the Hollywood Hills area and murdered her, kind of sat on her body for a little while, ordered supplies to dismember her and then ultimately disposed of her. And there's kind of three chunks to this case. There's the beginning, the middle, and the end. And these three chunks are actually rolled up into what he's being charged with. You have the beginning piece of it, which is the grooming, the underage relationship, CSAM material, which I'm going to touch on here in a minute. You have the middle of it, their actual relationship with that CSAM material, then him allegedly murdering Celeste. And then you have the ending, which is him trying to cover it up, conceal evidence, and act as though he had nothing to do with this. So he's currently facing charges for first degree murder with special circumstances, which the special circumstances include lying in weight, continuous child physical and sexual assault for a child under age of 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. So he was charged back in April and has been held ever since then, which his defense team is adamant, saying he is innocent. They can't wait to prove his innocence. Although even the evidence that we've been able to witness based on the prelim brief, I mean, there is a lot of compelling evidence in this case. So fast forward to this week and the prelim hearing is happening, which the purpose of this is to have a hearing in front of the judge where the judge will decide if there is enough evidence to take this case to trial.