What D4vd Wanted To Know About Celeste's Pregnancy

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:07)
A 13-year-old girl told the adult on the other end of her text thread that neither of them could take care of a baby. It's for the best, no, she wrote. The direction of the exchange is actually kind of backwards. The child was reassuring the adult. The reply that came back to her ended with a laugh. You're SM stronger than me, baby. LMAO. So Celeste is texting David at 13 about being pregnant and saying that we can't take care of the baby. And his response is, You're so much stronger than me, baby. Laugh my ass off.
These two people have been so catastrophically failed by their parents, both of them, and it's not an excuse. But it is part of the recipe. It is, it's literally stunning that you have, he's at this time, what, 1718 around there, when this is going down.
And she's there, and it's just, it's as if these people were just thrown out. I mean, David had family. I mean, they both had family to a certain extent. One was an immigrant family that looks like didn't have a lot of time to be parenting. That's not an excuse for absolute shit parenting, in my opinion, but it is what it is. And the other seemed to, well, looks like we got a cash cow on our hands, in my opinion. And let him do what he wants. Don't rattle the machine that's cranking out cash, despite him going down disturbingly dark roads.
You're so much stronger than me, baby, let my ass off. So much stronger. That's that's so much stronger sent with a laugh attached for the grown man in the conversation to the child carrying the weight of it, carrying the child, carrying the grown man's baby. Then he wanted a date. When we gonna, when we gonna get it done? WEN, when you, no, when you, WEN, you gonna get it done. Glad we can use full words here when we're talking about such a serious topic as the life of a human being. And you're just like, when we go, like, please, can we just take him away and execute him? Like this, I mean, this is a blob of flesh that doesn't need to take our air in any longer. He's really stealing too much, too much oxygen from the rest of us. Her answer was two words, two days. And then one more question because he told her his mother had once given him advice about what to ask if he was ever in this situation.
Honey, make sure you ask this question if you're ever in this situation. That's a fun, how did that, was that like on pizza night? Taco night? Oh, it's taco night. Hey honey, if a 13 year old ever says she's pregnant with your baby, make sure you say, is it mine?
His mother's advice to ask, is it mine, right? Question mark. Ooh, we got the cheat cheese extra spicy salsa today for taco night, that's great. I'll take that advice, ma. Can we listen to more Christian Rock?
Of course we can, son.
DVD was brought, I'll just call him DVD. He was brought up in an extremely religious household, which seemed to be very strict until he started bringing in money, you know, singing about murdering people. And it was suddenly like, whoa, God.
He'd be done with that chisel, right?
Is it mine right? Motherly advice, quoted to, oh, Jesus Christ, quoted to a 13 year old in the heaviest conversation of her short life. The advice wasn't to help her. The advice wasn't to tell somebody. The advice was a question about him, about what he was on the hook for. And the answer came back in five words. Of course, it's yours, David. Those texts are from January 24th and July 24th, 26th. A homicide detective read them out loud in the Los Angeles courtroom because the girl who wrote them is dead. And the man she wrote them to is charged with killing her. Detective is Corey Farell, a nearly 30-year veteran of the LAPD and the final witness for the prosecution at the preliminary hearing of David Anthony Burke, the 21-year-old singer known as David. Judge Charlene Olmedo is deciding whether Burke stands trial for murder in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. She was 14 when she died. Her body was found on September 8th in 2025 in the front trunk of Burke's Tesla. And even that discovery was dumb luck in paperwork. The car sat abandoned in a Hollywood Hill street for more than a month, according to neighbors, until somebody reported it in a tow yard hauled it in. Nobody cracked the case. A parking complaint actually cracked the case. That's how hard the system was looking for Celeste Rivas Hernandez, meaning it wasn't while she was missing. It's a detail that follows everybody in the story who claims they did their job. Burke has pled not guilty to murder, a charge involving a child under 14, an unlawful mutilation of human remains. He denies the allegations. A preliminary hearing asks only whether there's probable cause, which is one of the lowest bars in the legal system. And prosecutors could have cleared it quickly. Instead, they spent session after session after session moving this case out of sealed filings and into open court, and they saved the text for the end. On July 24th, Burke's defense team, a room full of reporters and Celeste's own parents listened while the messages of a dead 13-year-old were read into the record. The prosecution built its final day around her words. It's not hard to see why. Physical evidence gets argued over. Chain of custody gets attacked. A text thread pulled off the defendant's own devices, time stamped in their own words, is the hardest kind of evidence to fight. Prosecutors closed on it on purpose. Because the January exchange didn't come from nowhere. And the thread didn't start in January. Farell walked the court through all of it. The first messages between Burke and Celeste traced back to August of 2022 She was 11 Farell testified that the messages show the relationship changed in November of 23 Two months after her 13th birthday, two months after that, the texts turned to a baby neither of them could care for. And a procedure scheduled two days out. That arithmetic sat in open court by the end of the session, and no cross-examination touches it. Eleven when the messages started. Thirteen when the thread changed. Thirteen when she wrote, It's for the best. Those aren't details of a tabloid or a comment thread. Those dates and words are pulled off devices and read to a judge under oath by a cop with 30 years on the job. The dates come straight from the record, and the record came off his own devices. There's no witness to impeach and no memory to shake. The timeline wrote itself message by message for almost three years. The thread runs all the way, April 23rd, 25, and then it stops. The date is the last one in the conversation, and it matters more than any other date in the case. Farell put more than the text on the record. He described nearly 50 images recovered from Burke's phone and iCloud account. Material investigators say is illegal and involves a minor. The photographs were never shown to the public. A detective described them one at a time out loud. Into the record, Celeste's parents had stepped out earlier in the session. While the autopsy testimony ran, they came back for that part. They chose to be in the room while a stranger described what was found on the devices of the man charged with killing their daughter.