Edited by Abigail Luna and Paul Repreza, Transcribed by Abigail Luna and Kassandra Lopez

Abby: Hey guys, we’re back for another podcast of Certified Chismosas with me, Abigail.

Kassandra: And me Kassandra.

Abby: And today we also have a special guest with us. Paul, welcome to our show.

Paul: 
Hello, hello, how’s it going?

Abby: We’re doing pretty good. How are you doing?

Paul: 
It’s good, it’s good. I’m doing all right. You know, my day’s been all right so far.

Abby: That’s pretty good.

Kassandra: We are going to do a quick recap on the David Burke case.

Abby: So Paul actually just did a huge story on the David case that you can read right now on our Talon Marks website. So he has all the insights.

Kassandra: Okay, let’s get into it.

Paul: All right, cool. So yeah, I just recently did a story about David. 
Um, it was very interesting to have, like, my own opinion on it and having it posted on Talon Marks. The whole scandal about him is very crazy, you know. I first heard about him my freshman to sophomore year. I saw him kind of promoting the song “Here With Me” on TikTok, and, you know, he didn’t really have much of a following. But I remember that video just blowing up and having over a million likes and just seeing him, like, you know, grow into this I guess music superstar. You could say. And, you know, just, hearing his music throughout the years growing up, especially that one song, “Feel It” from the “Invincible Series”, which is a very good series. 
But, besides that, the whole situation with him and the girl, Celeste, which, you know, it’s just very disgusting. And, man, the more details that get released. Like, I guess Celeste, she had a tattoo in her middle finger. It was like, the shush. 
I think it was the same one as Rihanna’s that she has still. Like, she got it a long time ago. And in her autopsy, it was shown that some of her fingers were missing.

Abby: Really?

Paul: And, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, I just find that so crazy cause, like, the whole murder and everything and how…

Kassandra: Supposably, he kept the finger.

Paul: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
And, like, it’s just funny how, you know, he DoorDashed that shovel. Which I just found that really crazy.

Abby: Dude, I did not know that.

Kassandra: His digital receipts are actually crazy. That and then..

Paul: Yeah, and you know, it just gets, like, really worse. Especially because his most popular song, “Romantic Homicide”, has over like 2 billion streams on Spotify. And, you know, I think the chorus “in the back of my mind”, I think it was at the end, “in the back of my mind, I killed you.” At first, you know, listening to it for the first time, I was like, “damn”, you know, “this is, like, the coolest song to listen to.” But, you know, as of right now, it’s like, it’s ages like milk, you know?

Abby: 
It’s kind of crazy though, that it had another meaning.

Paul: Yeah, and like, it was just so crazy because, I’m pretty sure she wasn’t, he wasn’t really talking about her. But it’s just like, what’s going on?

Kassandra: Like it was too connected.

Paul: Yeah. And it gets even more creepier because, he’s done this, and like, I don’t remember what song it was for. He did like this animation where, I guess, there was this girl. 
It looked like it was depicting Celeste or whatever. And I was just like, “damn”, you know? 
And, on top of that, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I saw it on X, where like, Celeste wasn’t the only girl that he was talking to.

Kassandra: Yeah.

Paul: And before she tragically got murdered, she was threatening to like, you know, expose her whole career and her whole relationship with her.

Kassandra: So to add to that, I had seen that David and Celeste had met when she was eleven.

Paul: Eleven.

Kassandra: And then they started their sexual relationship at thirteen.

Abby: And how old was he?

Paul: He was like, I think, eighteen, nineteen, maybe.

Kassandra: Yeah.

Paul: Somewhere around there.

Kassandra: And so, he was pretty much grooming her, you know?

Paul: Yeah.

Kassandra: And with that, I guess he kind of like ended it or whatever. And then she got jealous that he was seeing other women and things like that and having other sexual relationships. And that she threatened, like you said, to like pretty much out him of like the things they had done together. So like that just goes into the whole thing about why he might have killed her because he could have exposed her. 
But yeah, so that’s what I heard.

Abby: Do you guys know when the body was found?

Paul: I think it was around..

Kassandra: April last year?

Paul: No, I think September of 2025, maybe? If I’m not mistaken. And that’s when I started hearing about it, but I could be wrong. But, yeah, it’s just crazy cause around that time, the body was found in his Tesla. Did you guys hear the unreleased song by him talking about Celeste?

Abby: No, 
what is it called?

Paul: It’s literally called Celeste. You can find it on YouTube or TikTok. 
I think the chorus or the bridge or whatever, it says like, “oh Celeste, the girl with her tattoo,” or yeah. Something like that.

Kassandra: Yeah, so, things like only the killer would know, you know?

Paul: Yeah, yeah.

Kassandra: And stuff. But, yeah, I’ve heard a little bit of it.

Paul: Yeah, it was supposedly recorded in 2024 or around there, like.. Yeah, it was basically just talking about her and how he wanted her to be his Valentine and making, like, cupid suicidal or whatever. But at first, it’s like, without context, it just sounds like a love song. 
Sounds very cutesy or whatever. But like, once you know the whole thing, it is just very, creepy and really disgusting, you know?

Kassandra: Yeah.

Paul: And I heard some stuff about it on X. Because, you know, the case is in California right now. 
They were saying how, like, he deserves the death penalty. Cause it’s, like, it’s on pause or whatever. I don’t remember the word, but I was just thinking the other day, like, if he were to get the death penalty, I really wouldn’t be surprised cause this is insane. And I feel like we haven’t even gone into the whole entire details. 
I feel like there’s way more that he’s done that it hasn’t reached the surface or whatever. But, I don’t really, like, wish death on people, but if that ever happens, I’d say he deserves it. Or just, like, you know..

Kassandra: Just with all that evidence, right? Like.

Paul: 
Yeah.

Kassandra: Just the evidence speaks for itself from, like you said, the DoorDash and then also, there was the receipts of Amazon. He literally ordered cadaver bags and an inflatable pool.

Paul: Oh, yeah.

Kassandra: The chainsaws, like all these different chainsaws. So then, he bought the cadaver bags, right, for the body parts. But then he bought the inflatable pool, so that’s where he could, like, chop up her body but not make a mess. And so it’s just like all these digital receipts that it took, like the police to find, and to like be a part of their case to use it against him. 
It’s just crazy. Like, he really didn’t think about what he was doing in that part about like, his digital footprint and things.

Abby: Did he admit that that’s what he was going to do with the things he bought? 
Or is that just like.

Kassandra: No, because he’s still pleading not guilty at the moment. So I don’t know what the defense is, you know?

Paul: Right, yeah.

Kassandra: What are they gonna say, but yeah. So it’s pretty crazy of like, all the stuff that’s now coming out about the case. And then there’s also, I had seen that this video on TikTok. So he was streaming with his friends and he said like, sorry. And it was like a couple months after or something.

Paul: Oh, yeah, yeah. 
I know what you’re talking about.

Kassandra: And he’s like, “oh, sorry for the smell” and stuff. And he blames it like on plumbing or something.

Paul: Yeah.

Kassandra: But it was actually, people are thinking it’s because he killed Celeste there.

Abby: Yeah.

Kassandra: And so, yeah.

Paul: Yeah. Another thing that, prior to him getting arrested by the LAPD and the U.S. Marshals I’m pretty sure, when he got arrested, was that there was a lot of people saying like, “oh, why did this take so long” or whatever. 
Cause, basically they ended it or like, cracked it down in two days or something like that. And, you know, I see the point. I see the point of why it takes so long. Obviously, her and her family, Celeste, they deserve justice. But you know, when it comes to working on a case like this, you need a lot of evidence, like hard evidence. 
And I heard that, I guess the people in charge, they were taking their time and they were forced to like, go to the next stage or whatever.

Kassandra: Yeah.

Paul: But, uh, yeah. And also, after he got arrested or whatever, or, I guess when it happened, a lot of his collabs with like, Kali Uchis, Laufey. 
Did he make a song with Katseye?

Kassandra: No, but they’ve been connected before. It was crazy cause I was telling Abby about this before. 
So he invited them for one of his streams.

Paul: Oh, yeah, I’ve seen that one, yeah.

Kassandra: Yeah, so that one was like in February of last year. And then they got invited to a muckbang. 
So Katseye and David were at this other YouTuber’s house. And the crazy thing is that this was in May. But the crazy thing is that supposedly Celeste was killed in April.

Paul: Yeah.

Kassandra: So that’s why I was like, so they didn’t even know that they were in the room with like a murderer, you know? So that’s what I was like, it’s crazy.

Abby: She was supposedly killed in April 2025?

Kassandra: mhmm.

Abby: And they didn’t find her body until September?

Kassandra: Yeah. But like, also, in that part too, why would you leave your car in an impound with the body, you know? With like, a car that belongs to you and everything. 
You just left it there. Like, the car was under his name and everything and he let it get impounded.

Paul: Yeah. 
What do you think? Do you think, like, her family kind of failed her in a sense? Cause I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard she ran away.

Kassandra: Yeah, that’s what I wanted to get into also. Because they said that they didn’t really take this case seriously at first because Celeste had ran away before and that she had issues with her family and stuff. And there was even like, because David bought Celeste’s passport to travel so she can travel with him. 
Obviously, the family knew about that. And so I don’t know if it was like about money or anything like that or they just didn’t… I don’t want to like assume they didn’t care, you know, because we don’t know what’s happening in their lives, but they had to take some account in that because they knew that she was with David and it’s just, you know, it sucks that you don’t see like what’s happening with your daughter and the relationship she’s having. 
And so, yeah. So I just want to know what’s their part in it, you know?

Abby: Dude, especially since she was fourteen. And he was, like, eighteen.

Paul: Yeah.

Abby: That’s another case.

Kassandra: But they met when she was eleven. So that’s what I’m saying. So, like, where were they doing all this, you know? 
But, yeah, so, like, we really don’t know the whole story, but that’s what I be wondering sometimes.

Paul: Oh, yeah. What’s even more crazier is that she was in, like, David’s official discord server. And they were talking and everything. And supposedly, a lot of people knew about that relationship.

Kassandra: Yes.

Paul: And he was on a stream with her on Twitch, I believe. And, this is crazy cause, you know.

Kassandra: Yeah, that, and then I’ve heard, like in other podcasts referring to this case, that they’ve seen them at parties together and stuff like that as well.

Paul: Really.

Kassandra: Yeah, because like, I was listening to a podcast, I think, um, what’s the guy’s name? 
Harry Daniels. And there’s like this whole other drama or whatever. And he had brought up David and that supposedly David was friends with some girl from Katseye and stuff. And then he, like… this is clickbait, because you know, all these people want to talk about this case because it’s one of the big cases right now. 
And he talks about how he had seen Celeste before at like, some parties and stuff.

Paul: Right.

Kassandra: And so it’s just crazy to think, you know, she was always around and no one realized, you know? 
But yeah.

Abby: Do we know how she died? Like, how?

Kassandra: Yeah, he cut her up with a chainsaw.

Abby: Really?

Kassandra: Yes.


Paul: Yeah, you didn’t know that?

Abby: No.

Kassandra: He bought the chainsaws at Amazon. 
But yeah.

Abby: Oh my God. Wait, so then, what did the officials find in the trunk?

Kassandra: It’s just her body parts cut up.

Paul: Her body. Yeah, like, her fingers were missing and she had multiple wounds. Like, across her body and everything.

Kassandra: And then the crazy thing is that, so first, when they had first, like, buried her, whatever the autopsy, they had said she wasn’t pregnant. But now with the new evidence, they don’t know if she was pregnant, which is the crazy thing. 
So, yeah, so I think this case is just gonna, there’s gonna be more and more information coming in, and we just have to wait and see.

Paul: What do you guys think about it? Like, as woman, you know, how do you guys feel about it, seeing a minor life fall into, you know?

Abby: I mean, it’s just sad because, like, obviously it’s sad what happened to Celeste. But also the fact that there’s other cases like this, that they’re just not brought to light.

Paul: Right.

Abby: And they’re not, like attention isn’t put on them as much either. 
I think the reason why there’s so much attention on this is because of David, you know, like, he’s a famous singer. But there’s other victims just like Celeste and other, you know, criminals and predators.

Paul: Right.

Abby: Like, David. 
And I think justice should be brought to Celeste. Obviously, her family, too, but I’m curious, too. Like, what was her family doing with Celeste?

Paul: Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. 
Yeah.

Kassandra: A lot of accountability needs to be made from everyone, Obviously David, but then, like, her family as well, because she was only fourteen. And, you know.

Abby: And eleven.

Kassandra: Yeah, when she met him. 
So like, I want to know what happened in between those times. I know it’s like, you know, we’re not gonna get the whole story, obviously. But, you know, some people wonder, what do you do in those situations? And I completely agree with Abby. 
It just, we just want her to have justice.

Abby: Yeah.

Paul: Yeah, what’s even more crazier, or insane is that it’s also like musicians. This isn’t the first time where a music artist has had this type of scandal. 
Going back to, like, 2000s and 2016, R. Kelly, you know. I would say that the David situation is even more worse than R. Kelly, cause… I’m not trying to justify what R 
Kelly was saying. What R Kelly did wasn’t bad. It’s still obviously terrible. But, you know, in terms of this scandal with David, it’s just even crazier, you know? Especially as someone that I used to listen to his music, but like, prior to the whole thing, I didn’t really listen to. But I always keep myself updated, but yeah.

Abby: Yeah. We hope you enjoyed this podcast. We know it was more on a touchy subject.

Kassandra: 
Yeah, and that’s the news for today. And if you want to see the full write up Paul did, head over to the Talon Marks website and check out his article. Huge shout out to Paul for joining us today. If you want a deeper solo look at the legal side of cases like this or more into the R&B, stuff like that, make sure you look out for Paul’s solo podcast. It’s dropping very soon, and you don’t want to miss it. 
Catch you next time. Bye.

Paul: Thank you, thank you, guys. 
Bye.

Abby: Bye.