Speaker 1: Hey, they folks. Did is Friday, April seventeenth, and it's
Speaker 1: finally happened. Singer David has been arrested in connection with
Speaker 1: the murder of a fourteen year old girl. And with that,
Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Roolves. I
Speaker 1: say finally because from the moment we heard about the
Speaker 1: death of this young woman this excuse me, this child
Speaker 1: and her connection to David, we were all kind of
Speaker 1: waiting around when is he going to be arrested? And
Speaker 1: Rose didn't know it's gonna take this many months.
Speaker 2: Didn't think it was going to take seven months.
Speaker 3: That's right, because fourteen year old Celestrieves Hernandez, her body
Speaker 3: was found badly decomposing, dismembered in the trunk of a
Speaker 3: car registered to singer David. And by the way, his name,
Speaker 3: his official name is David Anthony Burke, but he goes
Speaker 3: by it looks like de forvid D four vds and.
Speaker 1: We're going to screw that up at some point during
Speaker 1: this conversation. That's how we kind of learned to say
Speaker 1: his name de for of it. That's how we learned
Speaker 1: to spell it because it looks weird. But this is
Speaker 1: what kids do nowadays. Everything on social media, they change
Speaker 1: it up, so we're gonna make that mistake at some point. Robes,
Speaker 1: when this it like, how could anything else be possible? Look,
Speaker 1: this is not a criticism of the police, but they're
Speaker 1: getting there. They were getting their ducks in a row.
Speaker 1: But Robes every what there was no other suspect they
Speaker 1: talked about. There was nobody else involved. There's nobody else arrested.
Speaker 1: It was in his car all of this and Robes
Speaker 1: he was still on tour at the time, and wrote,
Speaker 1: was seven months you said, yes.
Speaker 3: She was found September fourth, one day after what would
Speaker 3: have been her fifteenth birthday, so it was it's been
Speaker 3: a while. And it was November that he was named
Speaker 3: officially a suspect in the case.
Speaker 2: And then there were reports of a.
Speaker 3: Grand jury convening and different folks being brought to the
Speaker 3: Los Angeles area to testify. But this was a tightly
Speaker 3: guarded investigator. In fact, the medical examiner put out a
Speaker 3: statement he was upset he wasn't allowed to give autopsy
Speaker 3: results or even speak to the press, and he felt
Speaker 3: like this was a suppression of information.
Speaker 2: He wanted more transparency. So there seemed to even be.
Speaker 3: Infighting among officials there in LA about how to handle
Speaker 3: the information that was coming in from this case, but
Speaker 3: they managed to keep it very close to the vest.
Speaker 1: You know, let's stop for a second and give that
Speaker 1: department credit for this. This is LA. This is the
Speaker 1: LAPD and Robes in the Los Angeles area. They've been
Speaker 1: known for big cases, celebrity cases, leaks, all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff wherees this one was handled. This was one of
Speaker 1: those cases where every day you see a headline in
Speaker 1: some tabloid that really told you nothing. They were trying
Speaker 1: to keep everybody interested in the case without information. Robes,
Speaker 1: we really have not had a lot of information on
Speaker 1: this case for seven months, nothing official, I was.
Speaker 3: Gonna say, certainly nothing coming from the LA Police Department
Speaker 3: until yesterday.
Speaker 2: And it happened late yesterday. It happened to round what
Speaker 2: eight pm Eastern.
Speaker 1: Times Usterre Town, I think was four thirty when they
Speaker 1: picked them up local Sada's that times out. But Ropes,
Speaker 1: this kind of came out of No, we keep up
Speaker 1: with the case, We keep checking in about and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Googled the Forvid David almost every day.
Speaker 1: The Ropes. There was nothing that was bubbling up necessarily
Speaker 1: that thought something was imminent, and I was almost even.
Speaker 1: There was no press conference, there was no heads up,
Speaker 1: there were no details. They put out a statement on
Speaker 1: X and that was it.
Speaker 3: Yes, and the statement on X read as follows. Detectives
Speaker 3: from Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide Division have arrested
Speaker 3: David Burke, a twenty one year old resident of Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: for the murder of Celeste Reevas. Burke is being held
Speaker 3: without bail. The case will be presented to the District
Speaker 3: Attorney's office on Monday for filing consideration period.
Speaker 2: End of story.
Speaker 1: That's it, and they're keeping a lid on this thing,
Speaker 1: and good for them. They don't want to compromise. I mean,
Speaker 1: folks will still tell you to this day Oja did
Speaker 1: not get convicted because of midsteps and how that case
Speaker 1: was handled. They have learned their lessons. They have cut
Speaker 1: down on leaks and this one at least robes it
Speaker 1: works now. David is not Yes, he's a singer and
Speaker 1: he was up and coming. He was nothing to the
Speaker 1: level of celebrity of a OJ if you will, but
Speaker 1: still Robes you did at the time more of a
Speaker 1: deep dive on this guy. All of our daughters know
Speaker 1: who he is, no his music, know what type of music,
Speaker 1: and he was named one of the top up and
Speaker 1: coming stars in music.
Speaker 3: Yes, his name wasn't necessarily a household one yet for
Speaker 3: folks our age, but you could argue that he was
Speaker 3: on his way to becoming just that he was. He
Speaker 3: emerged to fame on TikTok and that's why we may
Speaker 3: not know him the way our daughters did, but certainly
Speaker 3: he became a TikTok sensation, four million followers. He is
Speaker 3: just setting out on his world tour, his career was
Speaker 3: taking off, and he was just twenty at the time
Speaker 3: when all of these headlines started circling around him, and
Speaker 3: it just seemed like such a shame some young artist
Speaker 3: who was literally just getting started and was touring this country,
Speaker 3: about to have a European leg to his tour. All
Speaker 3: of that canceled, and so much mystery surrounding this relationship
Speaker 3: that appears to have started online when Celeste Reeves might
Speaker 3: have been as young as eleven twelve years old. So
Speaker 3: this has just been a story where we haven't even
Speaker 3: heard much from friends. I mean, this has been a
Speaker 3: tightly guarded story where just a few little hints of.
Speaker 2: What may have happened.
Speaker 3: We believe they were romantically involved, and most people say
Speaker 3: that she was passing herself off as a nineteen year old.
Speaker 2: But short of that, there really is just a lot
Speaker 2: of unknown.
Speaker 1: And this is a young lady. I keep saying, young lady.
Speaker 1: This is a kid. This is a child. She was
Speaker 1: fourteen when she died. We were hanging out with thirteen
Speaker 1: year olds Sabine, having dinner, enjoying ourselves. That is a child.
Speaker 1: So so I keep saying young lady for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: And yes, we see the pictures of her and she
Speaker 1: but that has to be kept in perspective. This is
Speaker 1: a baby. So this young lady robes You remind me
Speaker 1: how many times she had been reporting missing, like a
Speaker 1: couple of times even before she officially went missing.
Speaker 3: Correct, She officially went missing at the age of thirteen,
Speaker 3: so exactly Sabine's age, and she had not been seen
Speaker 3: for about a year and a half before her body
Speaker 3: was found in that trunk of that tesla registered to
Speaker 3: singer David. So she had been running to a lot
Speaker 3: of times. It was relatives. She just had problems with
Speaker 3: her family apparently, And look, a lot of kids go
Speaker 3: through this, and she found seems some sort of solace
Speaker 3: or safety or love or whatever she was looking for
Speaker 3: in the arms of David, and it was reported she
Speaker 3: was actually living with him in Los Angeles leading up
Speaker 3: to her eventual murder and death.
Speaker 1: And the death we go back to September Robes. This
Speaker 1: all came to people's attention because there was a car
Speaker 1: parked on the street. It was in the same neighborhood
Speaker 1: where David was living at the time, but he was
Speaker 1: on tour when the car was discovered, but it had
Speaker 1: been sitting out there on the road for quite a while.
Speaker 1: Neighbors reported it. I believe I'm not sure if the
Speaker 1: foul oder was smelled yet Robe, but once it got
Speaker 1: certainly to the towyard, after a couple of days, a
Speaker 1: foul older was reported. Police were called in and that's
Speaker 1: when they checked out the car. Her body was found,
Speaker 1: and it was found Robes and pretty horrific shape, not
Speaker 1: just decomposing.
Speaker 2: H that's right.
Speaker 3: So not only was Celestreevus's body decomposing, they say she
Speaker 3: had been dead for weeks, at least.
Speaker 2: Weeks, but it was also dismembered.
Speaker 3: So certainly a lot of effort went into to somehow,
Speaker 3: I don't. The reason why it's so confusing is if
Speaker 3: you're going to go to the lengths of actually dismembering
Speaker 3: a body and placing it in bags, why leave it
Speaker 3: in the trunk of your car then in the hot
Speaker 3: late summer, yeah, late summer, early fall sun, to be
Speaker 3: discovered while you're off touring like it. None of it
Speaker 3: makes sense. So go through those lengths of trying to
Speaker 3: conceal the body and be able to move the body.
Speaker 3: Why leave it in a parked car on a public
Speaker 3: street where obviously the odor is going to draw attention
Speaker 3: at some point.
Speaker 1: I give you on that one. That makes no sense. Killer,
Speaker 1: chop her up, leave her in my car in a
Speaker 1: public place, and then I'm going to go on tour.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make sense at all. So there are so
Speaker 3: many questions. But yes, young Celestreevas was last seen April
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four, so this is it was a
Speaker 3: terribly sad ending. We heard from her mother who said
Speaker 3: the moment she heard the news, she was afraid it
Speaker 3: was her daughter. And then look, there were a lot
Speaker 3: of things linking David to Celeste. A matching tattoo, and
Speaker 3: certainly some photos posted online, it seemed pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: Her brother and her mother said he was she was.
Speaker 3: Her boyfriend's name was David, So everyone had linked the
Speaker 3: two together for so long it was interesting. It took
Speaker 3: p least seven months to finally make this arrest.
Speaker 1: Well, then a big part of that was we were
Speaker 1: confused Robes that they had turned the body over to
Speaker 1: the family, saying, we thought, well, how can they continue
Speaker 1: the investigation? How can they prove how she died? How
Speaker 1: could they prove murder? They must be done with the
Speaker 1: examination of the body. We don't know because still Robes,
Speaker 1: they haven't announced how she died.
Speaker 2: No, we don't have a cause of death.
Speaker 1: We don't. But they think it's homicide at this point.
Speaker 1: They think now they can't prove that this girl died
Speaker 1: at the hands of someone. Now, all this might look bad,
Speaker 1: it might sound bad, but David is being defended and
Speaker 1: being defended strongly by his attorneys. Now you would expect
Speaker 1: that them to do their job, but they went even
Speaker 1: farther than they had to in their defense. Stay here,
Speaker 1: all right, We continue here on this Friday episode of
Speaker 1: Amy and TJ. Just getting word late yesterday that singer
Speaker 1: David has been arrested in connection with the death the
Speaker 1: murder of fourteen year old Celeste Reves Hernandez, who was
Speaker 1: found in the trunk of his tesla last September. Now, Robes,
Speaker 1: his attorneys did come out and put a statement. Look,
Speaker 1: they're doing their job. Of course, they're not just saying
Speaker 1: we'll wait and we're not going to do this in public.
Speaker 1: They have gone as far as saying he absolutely did
Speaker 1: not do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a pretty specific statement, standard defense attorney's statement.
Speaker 3: This actually got specific and I thought it was very interesting.
Speaker 3: So this was from David's attorneys following his arrest. Actual
Speaker 3: evidence in this case will show that David Burke did
Speaker 3: not murder celest Reves Hernandez and he was not the
Speaker 3: cause of her death.
Speaker 1: Robes, We hear a lot of statements. There's like defense
Speaker 1: attorneys defend their clients without going that far.
Speaker 3: Yes, it sounds like it sounds like to me they
Speaker 3: are setting up somehow she accidentally died, he panicked, he
Speaker 3: tried to remove her body and then got caught.
Speaker 2: That's what it sounds like. He's they're setting up rogues.
Speaker 1: In the past six months how many of those cases
Speaker 1: have we covered all of them? Didn't kill her, but
Speaker 1: had to chop her up after because I panicked.
Speaker 2: Correct, it sounds like that is what they are saying.
Speaker 1: Rose. I didn't think about that until you just said it. Yes.
Speaker 3: So they went on to say there has been no
Speaker 3: indictment returned by any grand jury in this case, and
Speaker 3: no criminal complaint filed. David has only been detained under suspicion.
Speaker 3: We will vigorously defend David's innocence.
Speaker 1: His innocence. Look, they those are strong words there. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they know for Roges. Again, they did
Speaker 1: not have to go that far in defensive him.
Speaker 3: That is true, and I think it's fair to point
Speaker 3: out too. As much as we've said we heard nothing
Speaker 3: from police, we heard from the investigators on this case.
Speaker 2: There were almost zero leaks. We also have heard nothing
Speaker 2: from David nothing.
Speaker 3: The only thing initially was an announcement or some statement
Speaker 3: by his rep saying that he was cooperating with police.
Speaker 2: Then about a month later.
Speaker 3: We got a statement from police saying David is no
Speaker 3: longer cooperating with police, and that was it.
Speaker 2: So this is the first blip.
Speaker 3: Of information we've gotten from the David camp at all.
Speaker 2: And as you say, it is a very strong.
Speaker 3: And very specific, specifically worded statement defending their client.
Speaker 1: I don't know how this one's going to be covered robes,
Speaker 1: celebrity trials. This guy is not the level of Ditty,
Speaker 1: he's not the level of Weinstein. He's not the I'm
Speaker 1: saying fame, He's not that. But this turns out now,
Speaker 1: given the victim robes, given the circumstances, given that he
Speaker 1: was on tool, given all of this stuff, this makes
Speaker 1: this an incredibly fascinating case that we are going now,
Speaker 1: this is going to become another one of these La Hollywood,
Speaker 1: this is crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh, this story has gripped the nation.
Speaker 3: It certainly gripped us because there are I think what
Speaker 3: we've talked about is nothing makes sense, and there are
Speaker 3: so many mysteries surrounding what their relationship was, how long
Speaker 3: it had been going on, what happened between the two.
Speaker 2: How did she die?
Speaker 1: That's my question.
Speaker 3: And then if he did or didn't have something to
Speaker 3: do with her death, why would anyone chop off a
Speaker 3: body and put it in a car and leave it
Speaker 3: to just sit in the sun in a car registered
Speaker 3: to a up and coming artist whose whole career and
Speaker 3: livelihood were in front of him with great promise.
Speaker 2: It's a crazy story that you cannot make up.
Speaker 3: If you got this script or you saw this movie,
Speaker 3: you would say, no, that doesn't make any sense, that
Speaker 3: would never happen.
Speaker 2: And yet here it is unfolding right before our eyes.
Speaker 1: Monday, we should know more. We're told the investigators will
Speaker 1: hand the case over to prosecutors who will determine what
Speaker 1: the next steps are, but he will remain in jail
Speaker 1: for now. I just want to hop on and give
Speaker 1: you this update here on this Friday morning, which is
Speaker 1: already shaping up to be a busy Friday. Top right
Speaker 1: corner of your Apple podcast app where you see our
Speaker 1: show page at button it says follow, click that subscribe
Speaker 1: and make sure you get all of our updates. We
Speaker 1: are what is this? Somebody said it the other day.
Speaker 1: We are running a two person news network over here,
Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of news lately, so appreciate
Speaker 1: you always sticking with us on TJ. Holmes on behalf
Speaker 1: of my dear Amy roboch. We will talk to y'alls