rich 1.0 By seventeen he was signed to Interscope and still in high school. Prosecutors say that by then he had already met Celeste Rivas Hernandez online through gaming, and the age they put on that first contact is the fact that changes how the whole rise reads. This one is for everybody who has followed the d4vd case from the beginning and keeps circling the same question: who was David Burke before any of this happened? Tony and Robin build the timeline. Homeschooled after seventh grade. Gospel music only until he turned thirteen. Almost every relationship he had ran through a screen. A mother who told him to stop crying about copyright strikes on his gaming clips and go write his own songs. A deal with Darkroom and Interscope at seventeen, signed while he was still in high school. And an alter ego named Itami, which is pain in Japanese. Burke described him on camera as an agent of chaos, an evil version of himself in a blindfold, lifted from a manga about a detective who has to solve the murders his other self commits. He filmed the character with a bloody knife. He animated him taking a woman's arm. He released a video in which he personally drags a body and loads it into a car. There is a serious counterargument here and it gets made: violent material proves nothing by itself, and plenty of artists build entire careers on darkness and never hurt anyone. But prosecutors allege Burke did what his character did, and now the whole persona reads differently to everyone who bought it. Tony and Robin also put the industry on the table. A label valued him in the millions and sold the darkness as the product. Does anyone in that building own a piece of this? Burke has pleaded not guilty. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old. END_LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #D4vd #DavidBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #Itami #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RomanticHomicide #CaseUpdate #MusicIndustry #TrueCrimeCommunity D4VD: The Murder Case Of Celeste Rivas Hernandez https://audioboom.com/channels/5158550-d4vd-the-murder-case-of-celeste-rivas-hernandez Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43762007/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8932898/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>