# What D4VD's Associates Allegedly Smelled for Weeks After Celeste Rivas Hernandez Vanished

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841)
Published: 2026-05-10T19:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8900821
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Her parents took the phone. It should have been over. Instead, prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke drove to Lake Elsinore and paid one of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a replacement — after deputies had already informed him during a welfare check that she was thirteen years old. In this Hidden Killers Week in Review, Tony Brueski is joined by retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine what prosecutors describe as a systematic effort to maintain access to a child despite direct warnings from law enforcement and family intervention. Coffindaffer brings her FBI behavioral analysis background to the welfare check that prosecutors say should have been a turning point. According to the filing, deputies told Burke directly that Celeste was a minor and that she was missing — and the prosecution alleges he continued the relationship. Coffindaffer explains what that interaction should have triggered within law enforcement, how the alleged exploitation pattern mirrors cases she investigated at the Bureau, and why the prosecution connects that pattern directly to their murder motive. She was reported missing twice. People in Burke's circle reportedly believed she was a nineteen-year-old college student. Scott examines the psychological architecture prosecutors describe — someone who allegedly maintained a sexual relationship with a child from age thirteen while reportedly concealing her age from everyone around him, and whose behavior after her alleged death included reportedly promoting his album on the radio the following morning. Prosecutors allege Burke subsequently ordered chainsaws, a body bag, and an inflatable pool under a fake name, with forensic evidence reportedly tying those items…

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