Speaker 1: It has been a week of fast moving and pretty
Speaker 1: gruesome developments and updates in the case of singer David,
Speaker 1: who had a teenage girl's dead and dismembered body found
Speaker 1: in the trunk of his car, And with that, welcome
Speaker 1: to this episode of Amy and TJ. Roobs. I mean,
Speaker 1: this story sounded weird from the very beginning, and now
Speaker 1: it gets in some cases, weirder and more gruesome.
Speaker 2: It absolutely has, And just when you think that you've
Speaker 2: heard the worst detail, you get more trickling out. And
Speaker 2: I think that's been the tough One of the tough
Speaker 2: parts about this case. We heard in September a young
Speaker 2: teenage girl's decomposed and dismembered body was found in the
Speaker 2: trunk of David's car, and then there was nothing, I
Speaker 2: mean almost no information coming out of the LAPD. And
Speaker 2: now once we've gotten the confirmation that David, Singer David,
Speaker 2: is in fact a suspect, now we're starting to get
Speaker 2: more information coming out.
Speaker 3: And the the.
Speaker 2: Details we got over the weekend were exceptionally tough to hear.
Speaker 1: Well, people we're wondering. Quite frankly, I am not necessarily
Speaker 1: surprised by some of the details because it fits with
Speaker 1: the story we got at the beginning. They just didn't
Speaker 1: fill in any blinks, right right, So now I'm hearing, Okay,
Speaker 1: she was the way she was decomposing, she was dismembered.
Speaker 1: And now the new updates we're getting Robes and we
Speaker 1: were going to get into is that she was possibly
Speaker 1: they believe frozen her dismembered body parts at some point.
Speaker 1: So Robes, Yes, all this is gruesome and awful, but
Speaker 1: it fits with some of the little information we had,
Speaker 1: which is that they thought she was dead for a
Speaker 1: while before she was. That would explain why maybe God, again,
Speaker 1: this is gruesome, maybe there wasn't an odor initially coming
Speaker 1: from the car. That's awful to say that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2: It is you have to actually take it for the
Speaker 2: facts in this case. So we started hearing that police
Speaker 2: initially said this has been a body that has been
Speaker 2: decomposing for weeks.
Speaker 3: Now they're saying months now.
Speaker 2: There are reports that she may have died as early
Speaker 2: as the spring, like we're talking April. So if her
Speaker 2: body hasn't been discovered until September, where has it been,
Speaker 2: where has it been? And so what we're hearing, Yeah,
Speaker 2: what we're hearing now, is it seems as though she
Speaker 2: was dismembered and then frozen, and for whatever reason, it
Speaker 2: did time out with David then having to leave for
Speaker 2: his scheduled tour. But then it's believed that perhaps those
Speaker 2: frozen body parts were moved into the front trunk of
Speaker 2: his Tesla suv and that they literally started to melt,
Speaker 2: and once it became unfrozen, the smell happened pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Nothing you could do to cover that up. But if
Speaker 1: someone's been dead for that long, there's noe. What do
Speaker 1: you do? How do you store a body? So, like
Speaker 1: I said, some of the details now seem to fit,
Speaker 1: and folks will take you back. This is September eighth.
Speaker 2: Yes, I believe she was discovered. Her birthday was September seventh,
Speaker 2: So her body was discovered on September eighth.
Speaker 1: And we're talking about and make sure I get this right, Robes,
Speaker 1: fourteen year old Celeste Reevist, because her birthday was the
Speaker 1: day what'd you say?
Speaker 3: On September seventh was her birthday?
Speaker 2: Her? That would have been her fourteenth, sorry, her fifteenth birthday, and.
Speaker 1: Police do not believe she made it to her fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: But you will see plenty of articles out there and
Speaker 1: maybe you understand why it said fifteen year old, fifteen
Speaker 1: year old, fifteen year old. I know, there's what what's
Speaker 1: the difference? Fourteen fifteen. It is a difference. It really
Speaker 1: is in fourteen and fifteen, ten to eleven, eleven to twelve.
Speaker 1: I mean it's he's a fourteen year old child, but
Speaker 1: she was found in the trunk of a Tesla southern California.
Speaker 1: The car is registered to singer David. And I always
Speaker 1: keep explaining we do how his name is spelled for
Speaker 1: the sake of performing. I think it makes a difference
Speaker 1: because people might recognize it if they saw it, and
Speaker 1: might not recognize us just saying David d.
Speaker 3: Four v D goes by David.
Speaker 2: We even talked about how we just said deforvid so
Speaker 2: we can remember how it's spelled. But he's even joked
Speaker 2: before all of this came up, he had done some
Speaker 2: interviews and he joked about how some people actually only
Speaker 2: knew his name based on seeing it on Spotify or
Speaker 2: seeing it show up on some streaming service, and so
Speaker 2: some people actually really did believe his name was Deforbit
Speaker 2: And he said you know what, I answer to it.
Speaker 2: So he's even joked about the fact that I realized
Speaker 2: that he knows some people don't even know his name
Speaker 2: the way it's spelled is pronounced David. His actual given
Speaker 2: name is David Anthony Burke. And he's twenty years old,
Speaker 2: twenty young kid and.
Speaker 1: On the way up. Considered a top rising star in
Speaker 1: many circles. I keep saying neo soul the right way
Speaker 1: to describe some of his music. But he got popular
Speaker 1: on social media, started going viral on TikTok, has put
Speaker 1: together a career, a tour fans. He was on his
Speaker 1: way up at twenty years old. We mentioned her body
Speaker 1: was found in the trunk of a car registered to
Speaker 1: him September eighth. He was on tour at the time.
Speaker 1: Do I have right rhobes with my recall? How soon
Speaker 1: after the discovery did he get back on stage.
Speaker 3: The next night? Actually, you know what, let me let
Speaker 3: me take that back.
Speaker 2: He got back on stage the night after her body,
Speaker 2: her identity was confirmed, the body was found, and he
Speaker 2: kept touring. It wasn't until it took it took authorities.
Speaker 2: This is just this, This is tough to say, but
Speaker 2: just to give a clear picture of just how bad
Speaker 2: the condition was that this body. Initially, police didn't even
Speaker 2: know if it was male or female. They didn't know
Speaker 2: the gender of the body, so it took them several
Speaker 2: days up to a week, I believe, for them to
Speaker 2: be able to actually identify the remains. And when they
Speaker 2: named her as Celeste Rivas Hernandez, he still went on
Speaker 2: stage the following day, and then after that he ended
Speaker 2: up slowly canceling the rest of his tour because a
Speaker 2: lot of folks immediately connected her name with him.
Speaker 3: They started pointing to those.
Speaker 2: Photos, they saw the song he has that Celeste, and
Speaker 2: certainly people in his inner circle said that the girl
Speaker 2: in the photos released by her family resembled the girl
Speaker 2: who he was with. They thought she was nineteen, they
Speaker 2: thought she was much older. And so when that's as
Speaker 2: soon as her name became public, it took He still
Speaker 2: went on stage the next day, but that's when he
Speaker 2: canceled this tour.
Speaker 1: The internet sleus really got to work and there were
Speaker 1: several things you pointed out. You just said some that
Speaker 1: triggered another memory. Oh, his family was saying that he
Speaker 1: she's not his family. Her family didn't A couple of
Speaker 1: them name and say she had a boyfriend and na David.
Speaker 3: Yes, so immediately there was a connection.
Speaker 1: So people start putting this stuff together. He finally stops
Speaker 1: his tour and do I have right forgive me? Robes.
Speaker 1: I keep leaning on you if I'm forgetting something, because
Speaker 1: I think this is right. We have not heard a
Speaker 1: peep out of him personally a comment about any of this, not.
Speaker 2: One thing, only from his reps initially that he was
Speaker 2: cooperating with police, and now we hear the very opposite
Speaker 2: from the police. They have formally and officially and told
Speaker 2: many news outlets that David Singer David is no longer
Speaker 2: cooperating with them.
Speaker 1: Okay, he may, or I should say, they may never
Speaker 1: find out that they're saying. Another headlinehere we're getting, Robes,
Speaker 1: is that at least I think it was TMC reporting
Speaker 1: that they have a direct source related to this investigation
Speaker 1: that's telling them that they might not be able to
Speaker 1: ever determine the cause of death for celestreebus. But you
Speaker 1: just saw totally different reporting. Was it not from ABC
Speaker 1: out in La about a determination of the cause of death?
Speaker 2: Yes, so ABC seven out in La KTLA absolutely said
Speaker 2: that they are hearing this from the medical Examiner's office
Speaker 2: that they believe the cause of death will be determined
Speaker 2: in the next days to weeks, so it won't be immediate,
Speaker 2: but they believe that within the next days or weeks
Speaker 2: we will get a cause of death. And as soon
Speaker 2: as they say, investigators told their reporter, as soon as
Speaker 2: they determine that cause of death, things will start moving quickly.
Speaker 2: That was the quote they gave, an investigator telling their reporter,
Speaker 2: once we get the cause of death from the medical examiner,
Speaker 2: thing will start to move quickly.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, it took them a while to confirm this
Speaker 1: was a homicide, right, This is a body that has
Speaker 1: been chopped up, yes, say decapitated. The limbs were cut off,
Speaker 1: the torso is intact. Forgive me you all with These
Speaker 1: are just the reporting and the facts of what's out there.
Speaker 1: Limbs cut off, and the limbs were actually in pieces
Speaker 1: as well. I was struck role it was very early on.
Speaker 1: Her funeral was quite some time back, and they released
Speaker 1: her remains to the family and Harry, how do they
Speaker 1: determine a cause of death? If they have released they
Speaker 1: must be done in some way. And I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how they could still be working on that.
Speaker 1: That must mean are there no physical wounds?
Speaker 2: That would be one way to look at it. The
Speaker 2: other idea that folks have floated out there in terms
Speaker 2: of what investigators are looking for, and certainly the medical
Speaker 2: examiner is a toxicology report.
Speaker 3: Those do take a lot longer.
Speaker 2: But the other thought is could she have over and
Speaker 2: then someone panicked?
Speaker 3: So could she?
Speaker 2: So if they can determine that there were a certain
Speaker 2: amount of potentially lethal drugs in her system within the
Speaker 2: tissue that they were able to test, could that then
Speaker 2: perhaps rule out a murder charge. But obviously someone dismembered
Speaker 2: her body, someone placed it in a freezer or in
Speaker 2: some way to buy time, and someone put it in
Speaker 2: that vehicle. So I think the toxicology report might, if anything,
Speaker 2: rule out an overdose or something else that could be
Speaker 2: explained away. And if you don't have any sort of
Speaker 2: chemical inside of you that says, hey, this could have
Speaker 2: been it's I'm guessing they might end up just having
Speaker 2: to like rule out what could have happened to try
Speaker 2: and figure out what did happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're piecing this and how they're
Speaker 1: going to do this. But it is possible, and there
Speaker 1: are cases and there's a current one going on right
Speaker 1: now where guys arguing, yep, I cut my wife up,
Speaker 1: but I didn't kill a I mean, so if you
Speaker 1: can't prove a murder, somebody would much rather go to
Speaker 1: jail for one to three years for dismembering a body
Speaker 1: than for the rest of your life for murder. So
Speaker 1: that's an option. And maybe he had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with any of this. Robes, you innocent to a proven guilty.
Speaker 1: But good god, all this stuff is stacking up and
Speaker 1: he's not speaking, so people are filling in blanks, which
Speaker 1: is awful. But he might be getting advised by damn
Speaker 1: good lawyer not to say a thing. But Robes, you
Speaker 1: said something to me. It was the first time I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't do it. That is the best reasoning
Speaker 1: I have heard so far. And folks, stay here. I
Speaker 1: will tell you what Robox said to me earlier that
Speaker 1: finally made me think, Okay, maybe he's innocent. Stay here,
Speaker 1: all right? We continue now here on Amy and TJ.
Speaker 1: Robes this. I didn't know where this story was going
Speaker 1: to go, but we've been covering singer David since September
Speaker 1: when it came out, we weren't familiar with him or
Speaker 1: his music. But we have been following this case with
Speaker 1: intrigue from the very beginning and here we are now
Speaker 1: with a we got nothing, and now it seems like
Speaker 1: we're getting so much with yes, trickling, but these are
Speaker 1: some pretty earth shattering details that are coming out.
Speaker 2: There have been daily headlines ever since police acknowledged that
Speaker 2: David in fact is a suspect in the death of
Speaker 2: celest Revus Hernandez. And once that became known and official
Speaker 2: reporters are having better luck, I guess, so to speak,
Speaker 2: to get investigators to give them some information because everyone's
Speaker 2: running to their sources to find out exactly what the
Speaker 2: latest is. And yes, we got some pretty gruesome details
Speaker 2: about what happened after revs death. We don't know how
Speaker 2: she died yet, but we know what happened to her
Speaker 2: body afterwards, and they are tough details to process. And yes,
Speaker 2: it did start to raise some questions about if you've
Speaker 2: been able to get away with and I hate to
Speaker 2: say it that way, but she'd been missing for a
Speaker 2: year and a half and if she hadn't been found,
Speaker 2: and even though people were looking for her. Somehow, it
Speaker 2: was all still under the radar. It didn't feel like
Speaker 2: there was any pressure. So now, okay, something happens. I
Speaker 2: don't know how she died, but if you've been able
Speaker 2: to hide her body for months, why then put her
Speaker 2: body somewhere where it would be directly attributable to you?
Speaker 1: And there it is. Folks, When you said that to me,
Speaker 1: I said, nobody is that.
Speaker 3: Dumb, not even a twenty year old Nope.
Speaker 1: When you said, I swear to you that might sound wild,
Speaker 1: that is the best defense I have heard for the
Speaker 1: possibility of him having nothing to do with anything. Is
Speaker 1: that No one in God's green earth the car I'm
Speaker 1: going to put this dead teenager in the trunk of
Speaker 1: my car and park that car on a prominent street
Speaker 1: a block from where I'm living. No nobody does.
Speaker 2: That in a car registered to me with legal plates
Speaker 2: yeah from Texas, where I'm from. Then number goes straight
Speaker 2: to me, and I'm going to go put it a
Speaker 2: block from my home and go. Then I'm going to
Speaker 2: go on tour and think no one's gonna notice.
Speaker 1: I mean things. That's when you said, I say, obviously,
Speaker 1: nobody is that stupid? And by that. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: that is the best case I have heard for why
Speaker 1: there's got to be something else going on.
Speaker 2: The only other thing I thought about, well, because here's
Speaker 2: the deal. Obviously, whoever did this to her body. I
Speaker 2: can't get my head around who has that in them
Speaker 2: to do that to any human body.
Speaker 3: But to go through all that work with what pol
Speaker 3: police have said.
Speaker 2: It was and I don't even need to know how,
Speaker 2: but they just said because of the way her body
Speaker 2: was dismembered, they don't think one person could have done
Speaker 2: it alone. So whatever that means, You've gone through this
Speaker 2: much work and now you've hidden the body in a freezer.
Speaker 2: Now you're leaving to go on tour four months, not
Speaker 2: just in the country, in this country, but you're going
Speaker 2: to Europe. Oh okay, you're gonna go ahead and just
Speaker 2: now take that and put it in a ca That
Speaker 2: makes no sense. But I'm now thinking accomplices. I'm not
Speaker 2: thinking riffs. I'm not thinking he thinks if it's if
Speaker 2: it's even David, if he thinks it's safe in a freezer,
Speaker 2: in a home that he's paying rent on that he's
Speaker 2: not there for, who's going to disturb it?
Speaker 3: Who's going to do anything with it.
Speaker 2: I'm the only Oh wait, there's an accomplice, according to police.
Speaker 2: Could he have angered somebody enough where they said, I
Speaker 2: know how to ruin his life, I know how to
Speaker 2: I know how to make somebody pay the ultimate price,
Speaker 2: And they could have then taken what he thought was
Speaker 2: safely in a freezer or a refrigerator and then put
Speaker 2: it in his car, knowing it would directly link him.
Speaker 2: Could it be a setup, could it be someone trying
Speaker 2: to frame him, or could it be somebody who he upset,
Speaker 2: or it's wild.
Speaker 1: All these scenarios of explain any scenario that makes sense.
Speaker 1: What if somebody didn't do their job and they were
Speaker 1: supposed to take care of that car while he was gone,
Speaker 1: and they never got it off the street, never got
Speaker 1: around to it, it didn't take Oh I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe they didn't know the urgency. Maybe he told them
Speaker 1: to pick it up and didn't say what was that?
Speaker 1: Who the All of this assumes his involvement. But I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, Robes, that argument you make nobody is that
Speaker 1: stupid is the best argument I could hear for why
Speaker 1: he's an innocent man and he is right now that
Speaker 1: needs to be said at the beginning of the middle
Speaker 1: of the end. He is an innocent man until otherwise
Speaker 1: proven guilty. But it's a fascinating case. It's a sad
Speaker 1: when it's a tragic when he was tragic. Before this
Speaker 1: young girl died, he's gone missing since eleven as early
Speaker 1: as eleven or twelves.
Speaker 2: Apparently been reported missing up to four times up until
Speaker 2: her thirteenth year. So yes, there there was a lot
Speaker 2: of disruption and upheaval on her life, a tragedy.
Speaker 1: Before the tragedy, it was yeah, God, this poor girl.
Speaker 1: But folks, we'll keep our eyes on this one. We
Speaker 1: always appreciate you spending some time with us. From now on, TJ. Holmes,
Speaker 1: alongside my partner Amy Roepike, will talk to you all real,
Speaker 1: real soon