A song called "Romantic Homicide." An unreleased track reportedly naming a girl called "Celeste." A music video dripping with dark-haired girls and blood. An album titled "Withered." And now, charges that read like the art came to life — first-degree murder with special circumstances, sexual abuse of a child, and the alleged destruction of her remains.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the final installment of a three-part deep dive into the psychology of the D4VD case. Part 3 takes on the hardest lane: Is this a young man who panicked, or is this someone whose art was telling us something all along?

Scott — the author of The Minds of Mass Killers, with over three decades in forensic mental health and violence psychology — examines where the line falls between dark creative expression and behavioral revelation. She dissects the alleged composure Burke displayed when a Discord user publicly connected him to the missing Celeste Rivas Hernandez. She confronts the "young and dumb" narrative against the pattern of charges prosecutors have laid out. And she addresses the psychological fallout for the millions of young fans who are now processing the possibility that the artist they loved may be the worst kind of person imaginable.

No hedging. No easy answers. Just the clinical reality of what these allegations — and this art — may reveal.

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The grand jury had to drag witnesses in. Neo Langston ran to Montana. Burke's parents fought subpoenas in Texas. The manager testified over multiple days. And for months after Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were allegedly found in David Burke's Tesla, the people closest to the accused reportedly said nothing while a grieving family waited for answers.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for Part 2 of a three-part psychological examination of the D4VD case. This installment focuses on the silence — and what it reveals. How does someone allegedly carry knowledge of extreme violence and continue functioning publicly? What does the alleged Santa Barbara trip and the condition of the remains tell a clinician about the person who allegedly carried out these acts? What is the psychological war between loyalty and self-preservation that plays out inside witnesses like Neo Langston? And when an entire inner circle stays quiet while a child's family begs for information — at what point does that silence become its own kind of crime?

Scott is the author of The Minds of Mass Killers and has worked in forensic settings, crisis teams, and domestic violence response for over three decades. She brings clinical precision to questions most people can only process emotionally — and the answers are harder to hear than the questions.

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Before there were charges. Before a body was found in a trunk. Before a famous musician was arrested. There was a 13-year-old girl who kept running away from home — and a series of adults, systems, and platforms that let her vanish.

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly connected to David Anthony Burke through his Discord server as early as 2022, when she was approximately 12 years old. By 2024, she was reportedly living in his Hollywood Hills rental. She carried fake IDs. His friends thought she was a college student. And nobody asked the right questions.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — a clinician with over 30 years in trauma recovery, forensic mental health, and the psychology of violence — joins Tony Brueski for Part 1 of a three-part deep dive into the psychological dimensions of the D4VD case. This installment focuses entirely on the before: the family dynamics, the systemic failures, the vulnerability that made Celeste a target, and the resource imbalance between a working immigrant family and a celebrity machine that allegedly swallowed their daughter whole.

Scott is the author of The Minds of Mass Killers and has worked extensively with both victims and perpetrators. She doesn't hedge. She doesn't soften. And in this conversation, she lays out exactly how a child disappears in plain sight — and why it keeps happening.

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