What Does D4VD's Alleged Post-Crime Behavior Tell Investigators?

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
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This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski and Robin Drake.

**Tony Brueski** (0:16)
Let's move over to another topic here, another case. The autopsy is out, the charges are filed, and what came out of that courtroom on the one year anniversary of the last day of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was seen alive. It's worse than most people were prepared for. Prosecutors say they've got 40 terabytes of evidence, a wiretap nobody knew about, three separate grand juries, and exploitation material found directly on his phone.
His defense team response, speed it up, step on the gas, show us everything. And the question that won't leave me alone, the one that I think you might be sitting with too, is what were all the adults doing for 12 months between when this child vanished and when someone finally smelled something wrong in a tow yard? Your questions on Substack, on YouTube, drop them. We're going to try and get through them as we look at the David case. Let's start here, Robin. His lawyers are demanding a faster hearing strategy. Some people wave the right to speedy. Some are like, let's step on the gas for different reasons. 40 terabytes, they haven't apparently seen yet.
What do they know that we don't, that they're wanting this to move really fast?

**Robin Drake** (1:35)
This is such a Bob question.

**Tony Brueski** (1:37)
It is. I mean, it is, but I'm curious to get your conjecture on it.

**Robin Drake** (1:41)
Yeah. I looked up, there's a lot of legal reasons for this. It's definitely unprecedented. Typically, they don't do this fast. They don't want to move this fast. There's one theory that I kind of have in my mind, because again, you place yourself in that situation. I'm going to answer from a behavioral standpoint, not from a Bob Mata legal stand for it, or our good friend Eric on the prosecution side as well.
I think there's so much that have just happened with the release of the autopsy result, and the terabytes, and what we're seeing for child's S things on his cell phone and things like that.
The faster they move, the less that's known in the media. I think it's really about trying to negate or at least lessen the huge negative impact or conjecture and all these things that are coming out. Let's move fast before people see even more. I really think that's part of it because there is with that much, think about that, terabytes of information, and none of it is any good. None of it's going to be to his benefit. If you want to not give people time to digest that much data, let's quickly move, so you don't get to see that much data, and let's try to get this thing moving. That's what I'm thinking.

**Tony Brueski** (2:56)
Yeah, I mean, again, we are not diagnosing him innocent until proven guilty, in our opinion, blah, blah, blah. Allegedly, put that in front of everything. The narcissist don't like their masks slipping, and if David is a narcissist, which it kind of appears that he may be, he seems to have some of the traits.
The last thing they want is exposure. This is why we've seen so many cases where we get right up to trial, and they're professing their innocence right up until, then suddenly it's like, oh, guess what? It's show time. Here comes a spotlight. It's about to shift on to you. I did it. Shut the show down.

**Robin Drake** (3:36)
AKA. Rex Heurman.

**Tony Brueski** (3:37)
Rex Heurman, Bryan Kohbeger. We see it in a lot of cases like that.

**Robin Drake** (3:41)
Control, control, control.

**Tony Brueski** (3:43)
1000%.
And if that's... And they will exercise any monochrome of control that they can get because that's big to them. That's all they have left. So it's going to be a big deal and they're going to go on at full force. So I'm thinking you're right. I think that's probably some level of this, the less that can just linger out there into the ether, the better. But at the end of the day here, I mean, sorry, this shit's going to linger out there forever. This is part of the record.

**Robin Drake** (4:08)
And I think as soon as I think part of the strategy too, again, we're going to make our list for Bob tomorrow, I think part of the strategy here could also be for the defense to get all the information for discovery as fast as they can before the media gets it so they can make their determination as fast as possible and put a plea to plead on deal together. I think, you know, I know Bob said it last week and the week before as well, I'm leaning on with this much information, with this many bad things going on, I can't imagine it going on for a long time. I mean, and again, but you never know on these things.