D4vd: The Amazon Orders That Arrived at His Front Door Under a Fake Name

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On April 24th of 2025, David Burke hosted an album release party at the 100 Thieves Compound in Los Angeles. Twitch live streamed that afternoon radio interviews earlier in the day. His debut album, Withered, was dropping the next morning. It would open at number 13 on the Billboard 200 There are photos from the party. He's smiling, posing with friends, posing with label people. According to the Los Angeles District Attorney, Celeste Rivas Hernandez had been dead for roughly 24 hours. Prosecutors alleged Burke stabbed her to death in the Hollywood Hills home that night before, stood by while she bled out and then walked into a party to celebrate the career she'd allegedly threatened to destroy.
Part one in our series here was about every adult in every system that failed Celeste before the night of April 23rd, 2025 Part two, which is where you're at right now, is about what prosecutors say happened that night and the months had followed and the thorough line here is not only horror, it's stupidity. Because if the prosecution's allegations are accurate, Burke allegedly committed the most serious crime imaginable and then documented every single step of the cover up. Delivery apps, Amazon order histories, Uber records, surveillance cameras, GPS metadata, his own Instagram, every alleged move logged, time stamped and saved to a server somewhere.
Somebody who's lived only in technology seems to be about one of the dumbest people I've ever seen using it.
As we continue to go through this story, your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube, those links are in the description. Five days before prosecutors say Celeste died, Burke was on stage at Coachella. He performed for tens of thousands of people on April 18th and went viral for face planting during a backflip. He did a press interview about how much he loved his fans. Five days later, according to the prosecution, he sent an Uber to pick up a 14-year-old girl and bring her to his house. According to prosecutors, the night of April 22nd was an argument. Celeste was upset about Burke's relationships with other women. He'd led her to believe they had a future. She allegedly threatened to expose everything, to end his career and destroy his life. His album was two days from release. Endorsement deals were in place. A world tour was booked for August. According to prosecutors, everything he'd built was at stake, being threatened by a seventh grader that he was romantically involved with. And then April 23rd at 840, prosecutors say Burke ordered an Uber to Lake Elsinore. The driver picked up Celeste, dropped her off at his Hollywood Hills home around 10, and 10 PM, texts between them stopped after she arrived. Prosecutors allege he killed her shortly after. Then, and this is the part according to the filing, he texted and called her phone afterward asking where she was. The prosecution calls is calculated and planned, set up his defense as she was already dead by this time. He allegedly texted a dead girl's phone to build an alibi. That was his first woo-hoo. You ain't gonna get me, Po-Po move. It got dumber from there. On April 24th, the morning after, prosecutors say Burke drove to a remote area near Kachuma in Santa Barbara County overnight to dispose of Celeste's belongings. He came back the next morning and did a radio interview. So ditch the body, go do the radio interview, did a Twitch stream, went to the album release party, and the same day, a Postmates driver delivered a shovel from Home Depot to his Hollywood Hills home address. I know. A shovel ordered through an app that logs everything, delivered to his front door. The digital receipt trail started less than 24 hours after she allegedly died.
May 1st through May 5th, according to prosecutors, Burke ordered two chainsaws, a body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, and a blue inflatable pool from Amazon, all delivered to his Hollywood Hills home, all ordered under a fake name, Victoria Mendez.
Let me land on that for just a second. He used a fake name and shipped everything to his own address. It's like robbing a bank, wearing a mask, and driving the getaway car back to your own driveway. Amazon keeps order histories, delivery drivers keep GPS logs, the alias protected absolutely nothing. Again, this is a guy who grew up online playing Fortnite.
I guess Fortnite doesn't teach you about IP addresses, GPS, tracking, I don't know, basics of life. I know it doesn't, but I would think that maybe, maybe by this point in your life, you might have figured a few of those things out. I guess not. Thank God. Prosecutors allege these items were used to carry out the mutilation charge in his garage, or investigators later found DNA matching Celeste. May 5th is the day prosecutors allege Celeste Rivas Hernandez were dismembered. The same evening, Burke posted an Instagram story from a night market in downtown Los Angeles, shopping for skateboards. A Kirby deck and a Hello Kitty deck. Investigators geo-located the post. If the prosecution's timeline holds up, he allegedly carried out the mutilation charge that day and then posted geotagged content about skateboard shopping that night. Same day, public account location data turned on. Hello Kitty! That's it. Prosecutors allege this man was browsing the same day. He allegedly dismembered a 14-year-old girl. Hello Kitty! July 7th, prosecutors say Burke ordered a burn cage. See, what else can we add to the Amazon list that looks like I might be a mass murderer? An incinerator under the same Victoria Mendez alias. Same fake name. Same real address. That's another receipt in the log. And here's where it goes from absurd to almost incomprehensible. Prosecutors allege Burke kept Celeste remains in the front truck of his Tesla for weeks, possibly months. People noticed. I know. Who would have thought? You keep a body in the California heat, in your trunk.