Why Nobody Around D4vd Or Nolan Wells Will Talk

**Tony Brueski** (0:01)
This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski and Robin Dre.

**Tony Brueski** (0:09)
David's five-day preliminary hearing didn't just build the murder case, it exposed what Celeste Rivas' own parents allegedly knew and what they actually signed off on.
A lot of it we've been speculating about for quite some time now. And it turns out it looks like we were probably pretty right. A notarized London travel form, a Vegas trip with her sister along for the ride, David sitting in the family's church pew. All entered into evidence while her father's attorney maintained he'd never had contact with the singer. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis is with us today on whether the adults who are supposed to protect Celeste face legal exposure of their own. We're going to talk about that lane of things first, and then we're going to talk about all of the other stuff that David is now facing that have come out in those preliminary hearings with the judge. Spoiler alert said, yes, you're going to trial. Robin is off today on a speaking engagement, so it's you and me, Eric, we're kicking it old school.
Let's start by talking about the parents here a little bit. Detective Farrell testified that the family knew David attended their church, he says. The sister went to Vegas with them, and the parents signed a notarized form, letting their 13-year-old fly to London with a grown man. These are all the allegations under California's Child Endangerment Statute. Isn't that exactly what permitting a child to be placed in a dangerous situation looks like? You tell me.

**Eric Faddis** (1:48)
You know, it's certainly a fair question.
Most folks would not think to allow one of their minor children to go with a strange adult, you know, overseas and things like that, on the one hand. On the other hand, you know, you look at cases like Michael Jackson. And David is a far cry from Michael Jackson.

**Tony Brueski** (2:07)
Yes.

**Eric Faddis** (2:07)
I'm not equating the two. But, you know, Michael Jackson, some people let their children hang out with Michael Jackson. He's a star. Oh, there must be security around, right? Oh, it must be safe, right? And those assumptions don't always hold.

**Tony Brueski** (2:20)
That's a really interesting point. It's a lot of, oh, there must be, it must be dot dot dot. And you put that guard down, I guess. Well, some people do anyway. People who maybe are not super aware or, I don't know, experienced in the world. I don't know. There might be some barrier here. I know they are immigrants. Celeste, I believe, is the first generation of the country.
If we're looking at it from that perspective, this is not something that's necessarily completely unheard of, of people and celebrities. And when celebrities, some celebrities that seem to have a pension for children have been known to do this. R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, the list goes on and on. Elvis Presley, the list goes on and on.
What's going through their mind, do you think, that moment in time when the adult in the room says, I'd like to take your 13 year old on this trip? Is it, wow, what an opportunity. We can't afford her this. Let's let this grown ass man take my 13 year old across the world with him. Nothing could possibly be going on here. He just wants to give her a great experience. Are people that stupid?

**Eric Faddis** (3:45)
I think it's easy for folks to be blinded by sort of the glamour of it all or something. And that can cause them to not accurately discern the risks. That also might be attendant to an event like that. You know, like I said, this famous person, they're a celebrity.
I think there's kind of a notion that, oh, wouldn't it be great if my kid can experience this? Like you said, they might not be able to experience it otherwise. And then, oh, what about these risks? What about these concerns? What about these dangers? Well, let's sort of not give much attention to those things because this is a really cool opportunity for our kiddo, isn't it? I'm just wondering if that's part of the thought process.

**Tony Brueski** (4:28)
It does make you wonder. I mean, at the moment in time, David did not have any charges against him. There was no criminal history. He had a lot of macabre music and that was kind of about it. And there was a huge age difference. If we were to look at something like Michael Jackson and a case like that, in situations there, there was a track record. There was a history.