Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast · Melissa Morgan, Bleav

FEELS LIKE THERE IS MORE COMING WITH THE CELESTE RIVAS CASE AND D4VD

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A private investigator says he found more than LAPD, including video and disturbing items in the rental house.

1. Just The Tipsers: True Crime Podcast centers this episode on the Celeste Rivas Hernandez update and David Anthony Burke. 2. Melissa Morgan hosts the show, and Joshua St. Bevan co-hosts as her sparring partner and question-asker. 3. The episode exists to sort out what is known, what is rumor, and what LAPD has now said about David Anthony Burke. 4. Melissa says Celeste Rivas Hernandez went missing from Lake Elsinore, California, in 2023 and was last seen at a cousin's graduation in January 2024. 5. She says camera pictures of Celeste were found in the Hollywood Hills rental home where David was living. 6. Melissa says Celeste was 13 when she was missing, would have turned 15 on September 9, 2025, and was found dead on September 8 in the front trunk of David's Tesla. 7. She explains that the coroner first called the death a homicide, then changed the classification to undetermined because the remains were too degraded for clear findings. 8. Melissa says the body was dismembered, and she argues that disarticulation from time alone does not explain the condition of the remains. 9. She says a private investigator hired by the homeowner found video and items in the rental house that LAPD may have missed. 10. Melissa says the PI turned over the material to LAPD after the house had already been swept. 11. One striking detail is the Tesla itself: Melissa says it sat for weeks, collected numerous tickets, and was finally towed after becoming malodorous. 12. Another important detail is that someone moved the Tesla about 150 feet from the house and left the keys nearby. 13. Melissa says the car's only known spring 2025 trip was a late-night drive to Santa Barbara and back. 14. She says that trip has led to theories about whether someone buried Celeste there or moved the body later. 15. Melissa says LAPD now considers David Anthony Burke a suspect, but not necessarily in a finalized murder charge. 16. She says his attorney, Blair Burke, is not cooperating and that no one publicly knows where David is now. 17. The tone is conversational and argumentative, with Melissa and Joshua bouncing between case facts, legal process, and side commentary. 18. The format mixes timeline recap, breaking-update commentary, and long back-and-forth explanation rather than a formal interview. 19. Listeners interested in LA true crime, missing persons, and forensic updates would get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly edited narrative with no digressions may want to skip it.

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Loose banter, hard facts, and a forensic knot that never fully closes.

The episode follows the case of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, moving from her being missing at age 13 in January 2024 to the discovery of her body in September 2025. Melissa Morgan and Joshua St.

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For when you want the Celeste Rivas case unpacked with blunt, talky true-crime banter.

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