Lindsay Clancy Copycat, 5 Year Old Saylor Hayes, Kim Zolciak’s Son & D4vd Update

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. If you had a long weekend and are now back in the groove this week, I know it's almost the weekend again, but hopefully this shorter week was nice for you.

Today's Thursday, which means headline highlights, and we have, of course, like always, no shortage of cases to discuss.

I did release a couple deep dives earlier this week on not only this feed, but also my second True Crime Podcast feed, 10 to Life. So you have plenty of content to go binge, catch up on, do all of that. However, first order of business, why we are here today, is because we are going through everything happening this week. And there is so much in the news right now that honestly, I think quite a few of these cases are going to just naturally become deep dives as well. And you tell me in the comment section which one you want deep dives on. I personally, I mean, looking at all of these cases, I kind of feel like all of them I want to dive into even deeper. But we've got the Lindsay Clancy copycat case, which if you haven't heard about this, get ready is diabolical. It is a woman who was following the Clancy trial in her group chat talking about it.

I don't want to say obsessed with it, but constantly talking about it with her friends. And then allegedly, I'm going to say that, took the life of her child in a very similar manner. And so we're going to talk all about that. We've also got to talk about five-year-old Saylor Hayes. I don't know if you guys saw this come across your feed a couple of weeks ago. This beautiful young five-year-old girl who had gone missing, she's autistic, the mom was not acting, all that concerned in my opinion. And sure enough, the parents have been arrested. And there's a lot that we have been able to uncover in that case. So I want to talk with you about that case. There's updates in the ship bag, douche canoe, firestorm that is David, D4vd.

Scamming people left and right, trying to still think that he's above the law.

So we've got to talk about that.

In Bravo News, I don't know for all my pop culture girlies out there who watch Bravo, Kim Zolciak's son is under fire right now with some sexual assault charges. So we're going to go through all of that.

Earlier this week, Reddington spoke out on Good Morning America. There's been a couple of interviews here and there where he asked for Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy, yet also in the same breath said that he hopes that Cruz comes in with a plea deal, which kind of leads me to believe. Well, I'll save my thoughts for that. So we just have a lot to talk about today. Now, before we get into it, I do want to introduce someone that is brand new to the show. You've never heard her speak.

Please join me in welcoming.

Oh wait, nobody's here today. I don't even have the camera on to pan to an empty chair. How sad is that? But I'm looking right now at an empty chair.

Amy Colette is not here today. She has abandoned me. She's living her best life in Ibiza, Ibiza, and it just apparently has no responsibilities. So she thinks she can just leave me and go and enjoy her life, which is like, hello, no, you don't enjoy life. We don't vacation here at 10 to Life. I'm just kidding.

No, she's having like the time of her life. I'm living vicariously through her stories on Instagram. She's like on boats and beach clubs and watching Swedish House Mafia at 4 a.m., which I'm actually not living for that because my bedtime is strictly 7 p.m. But having the time of her life, so she is not here with me today.

Therefore, I am taking applications for guest host. Amy, if you are listening to this, you're being replaced. This is what happens when you abandon me, okay?

No, we wish her the best. We're glad she's having fun. But you're going to be riding solo with me today in today's episode, raw dogging it with just me. So hopefully you're not too disappointed. Now let's start with my favorite asshole, David, because this guy is like the scum of the earth. Truly thinks that he is above the law in so many different ways. And even though he's been super caught up now, and obviously he's moving forward to trial for Celeste Revis' murder, he yet still thinks that he can like skirt around the law, play different cards to have the upper hand, and it just really makes me sick. So let's start off with this update, okay? Now, as you know, David Anthony Burke, who also goes by D4vd, is officially being represented now by a public defender. This is after his high profile defense attorney suddenly dropped him just like, you know, a bad habit out of nowhere. Now this literally happened during his second arraignment back on August 31st. And really quickly, just in case you have never heard of this case, and I'm sure most of you had, David is a rap artist who is about to stand trial for murdering a 14 year old beautiful girl named Celeste Arevus. Not only murdering her, but then dismembering her, storing her dismembered body in his Tesla, which was then towed and discovered while he was on tour. And the details of this case are just absolutely catastrophic and horrible and so evil, I can't even put it into words, but he's about to stand trial. So now this whole switch up, as I just mentioned, his high profile defense attorney just dropped him, and now he has a public defender. So Blair Burke and the rest of his team had asked to withdraw from the case, but a reason for why they had asked that has not been reported. Yet on that same day, the withdrawal was approved, and a public defender named Waleed Kandeel stepped in. Now it's been reported that Waleed was actually sitting in the courtroom waiting for the change of council to be approved. And then once it was, he asked the judge to delay the arraignment because of the change of council. However, the judge said no. So being like, oh, well, there's a change of council. Let's get can we have a little more time? Can you delay this? And the judge is like, no, bro, we're going to continue as planned. So David went ahead with the hearing and once again, pleaded not guilty to all charges, murder with special circumstances, sexual assault of a child under 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains. And remember, the special circumstances charges along with the murder are for lying in wait, witness intimidation. There's a bunch of other things stacked within that. And I've done deep dives on this case that you can refer back to if you want. Otherwise, I don't know, maybe we should do a fresh deep dive ahead of the trial. Let me know what you think, just really outlining everything because we have uncovered so much more, which I wish I could share right now on here, but can I? Now, there's certain things I can't talk about yet, but there is so much more I want. I do want to share with you. So anyway, now the big question here, obviously, even though he was pleading not guilty once again, is why is this multimillionaire rap artist, rap R&B, whatever you want to call it, suddenly being represented by a public defender? Certainly, he has the means and he has the finances, right? So like, what's going on here? My personal thought, the moment I heard this was, oh, it's because he's stashing money. Already, before he was even arrested, right after they found Celeste's body back in September of 2025, so a year ago, he started moving properties around to his mom's name and hiding assets, which in my opinion at the time, I called that out even before he was arrested. I'm like, nobody who's innocent does this. He's doing this to prepare for something so that his finances are protected so somebody else has control of them because he probably knows that an arrest is coming down the pike. Sure enough, since this announcement, some people have pointed out that the fact that he didn't have another private attorney just ready to take over could either mean, one, he's out of money and he has exhausted all of his finances, or conversely, that he's trying to be shady. Because people have pointed out in all of the forensic accounting and in a lot of just math of his contracts and what we learned even during the preliminary hearings, he has made at least $10 million from his music career between 2023 and 2025 Look, I get that this is a high-profile case, but it hasn't even gone to trial yet. There is no way you've already depleted millions and millions of dollars.