Why Did LAPD Seal The D4VD Autopsy Over The Medical Examiner's Objection?

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

**Tony Brueski** (0:16)
Prosecutors have unsealed the autopsy of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and what it describes is brutal. Two stab wounds to the torso, a perforated liver, her arms and legs severed blue plastic fragments embedded in the cut surfaces. Her remains weighed 71 pounds after months in the trunk of a Tesla. And in a courtroom, prosecutors reveal that David Anthony Burke's devices contain what they called a significant amount of certain types of material that I don't want to say on YouTube because it will flag us immediately.
You can guess what that might involve. Yeah, there's kids in it. Buried inside 40 terabytes of digital evidence pulled from its phone, computer and iCloud for months, police asked whether there was enough to prove this case. The question now is whether the defense has any room left. Joining me to discuss, joining me and Robin Drake, Retired FBI Special Agent Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin is here and also Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to help us break all of this down. Yeah, this is some pretty dark stuff, guys.
Jennifer, the autopsy describes two stab wounds, one perforated Celeste liver, the other damaging the ribs, both with smooth edges from a sharp instrument. What do these wound characteristics tell you about what took place between that girl and somebody?

**Jennifer Coffindaffer** (1:52)
Well, it tells me a lot. This is brutal force to penetrate a rib, brutal force going into the liver. I have to say, I was really surprised that the liver would have even been sort of intact or that they could have made those determinations with degradation of the body that would have happened in that front.
But this is violent, purposeful, no hesitation.

**Robin Drake** (2:18)
You know, Jen, you were one of the proponents early on that this was not an accident of a panic escalation, like some of us, including me. I even said yesterday on the show, I retracted the fact that I thought it was just stupid things happening, stupid people doing stupid 20-year-old and teenage things that escalated and there's a cover-up.
But you called it early on. What were some of the signs that you saw earlier on that said, no, no, this is much worse than this. It's much darker than we think it is.

**Jennifer Coffindaffer** (2:47)
The number one sign was my belief from the beginning, despite detractors, that she was dismembered. I knew there was no way to get her in that frunk at 110 pounds. I know she was found at only 70 pounds, but that was after months of melting away.

**Tony Brueski** (3:10)
Cooking, yeah.

**Jennifer Coffindaffer** (3:12)
Unfortunately. I knew from that. You do not have the capacity to literally remove near the joints, the arms, and dismember somebody. That is not something that someone does because of an accident ever.
So that told me right there that this was going to be something very intentional.

**Robin Drake** (3:35)
Yeah, because even, and we're saying this too, totally agree, because even if it was a panic escalation where you're like, oh crap, we got to get rid of the body, the amount of time to do just what you said, to take things apart like that, it's time, if ever, and as a pre-frontal lobe is fully flooded back out again after about 20, 30 minutes, reason should start coming into play before you're even done, and then you should start making other decisions, but you caught that early, so really good job.

**Tony Brueski** (4:06)
Yeah, you were right 100 percent of the time on this one. I think a lot of us thought, maybe it's something not as, but you called it from day one, 1,000 percent on this, Jen. Drugs also found in her body, benzodiazepines and other things apparently in there, saying that that was not the cause of death, but she was only 14
What are the presence of the drugs? What does that tell you? Does it tell you anything other than she was around a lot of people that were doing things they shouldn't be doing?

**Jennifer Coffindaffer** (4:37)
It told me a lot, Tony, and this is why. First of all, they said methamphetamine or possibly MDMA, you know, very uppers, very upper.
And then they described the depressants, the benzodiazepines. When you add those together, that is somebody that is partaking in huge, huge highs. And to quell the crash, they have to take these downers to bring it down slowly because it's so big. So, this tells me that only 14, this is heavy, heavy, hard drugs. Those benzodiazepines have half-lives, they don't leave you. This tells me a pattern of really egregious drug use that would have been practiced in and around her and that they provided for her. It's really sick.