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In California, prosecutors lay out their case against singer D4vd during a preliminary hearing. They say he murdered 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and left her remains in his Tesla. In Massachus...

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I'm Andrea Canning. It's July 23rd, and here's what's on our docket. Jury selection is underway in a Boston suburb at the trial of a labor and delivery nurse accused of murdering her children. Her husband says it's not her fault. He made an appeal to the public.

He wrote, "I want to ask all of you to forgive Lindsay as I have." In Dateline Roundup, Larry Milliette, the San Diego man who consulted with spellcasters before murdering his wife is back in court. And the family of Nolan Wells, the black teenager

who died in mysterious circumstances, continued their search for answers. I ask that each of you keep Nolan's memory alive

and never stop saying his name.

Plus, what should FBI behavioral analysts expect when they go to interview Rex Heurman? A retired criminal profiler tells us what it's like to interview a serial killer.

You have to sort of build rapport with the person

and make them open up to you about very horrible and intimate details. But before all that, we're in California for the latest in a case that is making headlines in true crime and pop culture.

Tuesday morning, dozens of people lined up outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse hoping to get a seat at the preliminary hearing for David. A musician who became famous on TikTok with hits like Romantic Homicide.

He stands accused of first-degree murder. In September, LA police responded to a call that human remains were found in the trunk of the singer's Tesla. After it was taken to a tow yard.

This morning, the LA County Medical Examiner identified 14-year-old Celeste Revis as the person who was found dead at a hollywood tow yard in early September. Seven months later, David was arrested and charged with Celeste's murder.

He has pleaded not guilty. Now, the prosecutor is trying to convince a judge there is enough evidence to take the singer to trial

giving us our first look inside the investigators' case

against him. NBC News Associate producer Madeline Morris and is joining us from inside the courthouse to tell us what she has learned so far. Madeline, thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me, Andrea. And we should just warn our viewers some of what we'll be discussing in this segment is fairly graphic. First, Madeline, remind us about David, full name David Anthony Burke.

Who is he? So he's a singer-songwriter. He's 21 years old. And he kind of rose to fame in 2022 very quickly on TikTok.

And he soon got a multimillion dollar recording contract. He was on a world tour in 2025 for his debut album when Celeste's body was discovered in his Tesla. The medical examiner identified the remains

as belonging, of course, to 14-year-old Celeste Revis Hernandez. What do we know about her relationship with David? She's from Lake Elznor, which is a town in Riverside County outside of Los Angeles.

And prosecutors alleged that David started a sexual relationship with Celeste when she was just 13 years old. And he was 18. And I should say that David hasn't just been charged

with her murder, prosecutors have also charged him with continuous sexual abuse of a minor and middleation of human remains. He's pleaded not guilty to all of those charges.

Where do you Celeste's parents fit into all of this?

Did they know about this alleged relationship she was having with David? They knew that they were hanging out. They reported Celeste missing at least twice in 2024. Both times, police went out to talk to David

and they suspected that she was with him.

The first time that she left Celeste came back after a few days.

The second time her parents said that she had gone out

to a movie with David and never came back.

But they just assumed that she was a runaway teen and they couldn't control her. That was in April 2024. The prosecutors think that Celeste was murder just a year later.

I have prosecutors talked about a possible motive. Well, the press conference after David was arrested. Los Angeles DA had Nathan Hopkins said that David wanted Celeste dead because she was a threat to his lucrative musical career.

He said the release of was under investigation and Celeste was a witness. He didn't get into details on the investigation such as when and how it started. That's something we hope that we kind of learned this week

during the preliminary hearing. So, Madeline, most of the evidence in this case has been sealed until this week. What has it been like in the courtroom? It's been interesting.

And I gotta say, David, he seems polite.

He's almost chipper when he talks to the judge. He, at times, he rests his chin on his fists when he looks and watches the witness on his stand. Typically, then a preliminary hearing like this, prosecutors lay out evidence.

They call witnesses. They show exhibits. It's kind of like a mini trial.

Who was their first witness?

First witness was senior deputy sheriff, Juan Gonzalez. And he went to go talk to David in February of 2024. And that was the first missing person's report that the parents hadn't made for Celeste. We actually got to see a body cam footage

from Juan Gonzalez. And that was kind of the first time we got to hear from David how he and Celeste met. What did he have to say? Well, they met on Discord, which is like an online chat room.

He said that they met in 2020, 2021. The deputy told David that Celeste was missing and David told the deputy that he hadn't seen her in months and they had only met once in person. David said that Celeste told him that she was 18.

The deputy sheriff told him she was just 13 years old. And when the deputy asked him, do you think she looks 13? David said no, no, no. I was kind of a moment.

Okay. So what do you think the prosecution was trying to prove with that interaction? I mean, at the very least, it shows that David was told her age. It's going to be very hard for him to deny knowing that she was a minor at the time.

Okay. So that first witness was from the Los Angeles Sheriff's department. This, the second witness was an LAPD detective who was called to the scene after Celeste's body was found and also who later ended up arresting David. What did he have to say?

This was the rough part of the day. This was really gruesome and graphic testimony. The detective showed photos of Celeste's remains, including the body bags she was found in. And he also presented digital evidence that David ordered body bags

from Amazon. He also ordered multiple chainsaws. And those chainsaws were found in his home. And basically the prosecutor was trying to connect David to the dumping of Celeste's body and that he planned it.

Did the detective go in depth at all about the moment he arrested David?

Yes. Yeah. It was very poignant because he was seeing his mugshot. And there's a moment where they take photos of all the arrestees tattoos. And they were taking pictures of his tattoos, the his tattoos on his fingers. And he noticed that David has a tattoo on his finger. Like, be quiet.

Yes. Yeah. And the detective noticed that because Celeste had the exact same tattoo on her finger. And then he looked on David's left ring finger. And he had Celeste written on his left ring finger. So David's defense attorney was allowed to cross examine witnesses. How did the attorney handle the detective on cross examination?

The defense raised doubt about whether the chainsaws found in David's home could have been connected to the crime at all. And the detective admitted that they didn't test positive for blood. And that kind of pox holes in the prosecution story. We talked a little bit about motive earlier on in the segment.

The prosecution did end up going into their theory in this preliminary hearing, right? Yeah. And they actually called Benjamin Greger, who was David's kind of financial manager. And it's important because the prosecution is trying to prove that David killed Celeste because she was risking his financial gain. Because she would reveal their relationship.

He stood to lose a lot of money. Greger was able to put a number on how much potential was that stake according to Greger between 2023 and 2025.

David earned 10 to 11 million dollars in gross earnings.

Oh, that's a lot of money.

Oh, yeah.

On cross examination, how did David's attorney undercut the prosecution's theory?

Well, he admitted he almost always communicated with David's mom

about his finances almost never spoke to David himself. So he couldn't really know how much was that stake. So a lot happened on day one of the hearing. Celeste's family's lawyers spoke outside of court and madeline, you recorded some of his comments.

Let's take a listen. Well, this is the first time that they've heard this evidence in detail. And they're horrifying. It was absolutely, uh, my mind. It was deplorable.

This has to be so upsetting and difficult for Celeste's family. Yeah, it's been rough. I can't believe they sat through all that. Yeah. What else do you expect to learn as this preliminary hearing continues

and how long do we think it'll go on for?

I expected Celeste as the week. We'll definitely get some text messages between Celeste and David. They allegedly had a big argument that night before she died. Uh, well, we will come back to you. Madeline is this progresses.

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Follow now to listen completely free or subscribe to "Dateline Premium" to unlock new episodes early. The case we're about to discuss is disturbing, and it might be tough to listen to. We'll be talking about attempted suicide and the deaths of three small children. But we'll also be talking about a question that has transfixed the community of ducks bury Massachusetts and beyond. Could more have been done to help a mother struggling with her mental health before she became a killer.

On the evening of January 24th, 2023, Lindsey Clancy did the unthinkable.

She strangled her children in the basement of their home, and then threw herself out of a second story window.

She is now on trial for their murders. The Plymouth County District Attorney says he will prove that Lindsey planned the whole thing and may have even staged that suicide attempt. Lindsey's defense attorney doesn't deny Lindsey killed her children, but says she did it in the grip of psychosis fueled by postpartum depression, and a cocktail of drugs she had been prescribed to manage it. Here to bring us up to speed is NBC 10 Boston's Mary Marko, who has been following the case closely.

Mary, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me.

Why don't you start by just telling us about this family, the the Clancy's?

Yeah, so Lindsey and Patrick, they got married in December 2016. They settled down in Dexbury. It's a quiet, affluent town on the South Shore here in Massachusetts. Patrick worked in telecommunications. Lindsey worked as a labor delivery nurse at Mass General Hospital.

And a year after they got married, they had their first child, Korra, then their second Dawson in 2019. And their third child, Cal, and they had three years later in 2022. Mary, the first time that something was wrong, was a 911 call from the family's home. Walk us through what happened next. According to Korra documents, Patrick Clancy told police,

he just got home from running errands and he found his wife Lindsey on the ground outside their house. It looked like she had slit her wrists and her neck and jumped from a second story window. And so while the paramedics were looking at her injuries, Patrick ran in the house to check on the kids. Police found Patrick in the basement with the children who were unresponsive. And at that point he cried, she killed the kids.

So awful. Two of the children were pronounced dead at the hospital. The third and youngest child died a few days later. What about Lindsey?

Well, she was hospitalized with traumatic spinal cord injuries.

She is now paralyzed from the waist down. Days later, Lindsey was charged with multiple counts of murder. Lindsey listened from her hospital bed as the prosecutor outlined the case against her. And Mary, she alleged that Lindsey had planned the killings.

What evidence did the prosecutor say she had to go for first-degree murder charges?

She said that on the day of the murder, Lindsey asked her husband to go pick up, take out from her restaurant a couple of towns over, and that Lindsey had asked her husband to pick up medication for one of their kids. So by sending her husband out to run errands, prosecutors say Lindsey knowingly gave herself a time in privacy to commit murderers. Lindsey's defense attorney Kevin Rettington spoke at the arrangement and painted a very different picture of Lindsey and what happened.

Yeah, he started by saying that after Lindsey's third child, she got depressed, had a lot of anxiety.

He said that Lindsey started taking a laundry list of medications prescribed by her providers. Her depression, though, just kept getting worse. The defense attorney revealed that Lindsey had actually checked herself into a psychiatric hospital just a few weeks before the murders. What happened with that? Why was she released? Yeah, she told her husband she was having suicidal thoughts, so she admitted herself to McLean.

That's one of the nation's top-ranked psychiatric hospitals. She was released after five days. She told doctors at the time that her thoughts were improving, but less than two weeks after she was discharged, she told her therapist that she was having thoughts about harming her kids. Mary, her legal team is arguing and insanity defense that even though Lindsey killed her kids, she should not be found guilty for that reason, reason of insanity.

What does that mean in the state of Massachusetts?

So in Massachusetts, it's actually called a lack of criminal responsibility, and I talked to some legal experts about what both the prosecution and defense will have to prove.

For the prosecution, they'll have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lindsey could control her actions, and that she understood in that moment that what she was doing was wrong. And the defense will have to prove that her postpartum depression was so severe that she couldn't stop herself. And if the defense is successful, Lindsey could end up in a psychiatric hospital for years or even decades,

what does Lindsey's husband Patrick said about all of this?

He's actually been talking about it. Yeah, he's been backing her out really from the beginning a few days after the murders he made and appealed to the public on a fundraising page. He wrote, quote, I want to ask all of you that you find a deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsey as I have. And another quote, the real Lindsey was generously loving and caring towards everyone, me, our kids.

And his words seem to have quite an impact. Thousands of people donated money to the fundraiser and her fellow nurses of written letters to Lindsey's lawyer and supportive her. Mary, this case really seems to have hit a nerve and on Monday, jury selection began. And you say it was, it was a little unusual. Right, the judge in this case, Judge William Sullivan, he's looking to a panel 18 jurors.

That includes six alternates in case the disturbing nature of this case just gets to intense for some jurors. And that's more jurors than the Karen Reed case for people who have been following the latest cases out of the state of Massachusetts. Oh, yes, we have on date line true crime weekly that is for sure. Lindsey will appear in court in a wheelchair. I would imagine that she would want to testify in a case like this.

Do you know if she's planning to? It's hard to say at this point whether or not she will testify. But we are expecting her husband Patrick to testify in that will be some of the hardest testimony.

I think we'll hear over the course of the trial.

Yeah, really hard. It's such a complex case and story. Mary, we will be following your reporting as this trial gets going. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me.

Up next, it's time for date line roundup. Larry Miliette is back in court and an update in the case of Nolan Wells, the Mississippi teenager whose family is seeking answers about his mysterious death. Plus, inside the minds of serial killers, we'll talk to a retired FBI profiler.

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Thanks for having me.

Mike, first, we are heading to Mississippi for an update in the case of 18 year old Nolan Wells.

The college student who died under mysterious circumstances after going to a ...

It was on Horn Island and he was with some friends.

His parents raised questions from the moment he did not.

The moment he did not come home, including why his friends left him behind on the island. And why one of them had Nolan's phone. And also whether his race Nolan was black and his friends are white had anything to do with his death. There have been some big developments this week. Mike, let's start with Nolan's funeral, which happened on Monday.

Tell us about that. It was incredibly moving. It took place just after midday at centerpoint church in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where they lived. Hundreds of people showed up. They lined up outside to get in.

Nolan's parents had asked guests to dress in black and blue.

Because those were the colors of Nolan's high school football team. Both of Nolan's parents gave emotional eulogies. Nolan's dad Elmore Wandsley talked directly to Nolan. Saying how proud he was of him for his gentle and nurturing nature. And he broke down when he talked about the nickname he had for Nolan.

I nicknamed you Mr. Cool Hands because it seemed like he was kissing itself down every day. You want to be the best. Mr. Cool Hands, I'm so sweet. This is very sad, Mike.

Elmore thanked the community for showing up to remember Nolan.

Nolan's mother, Christine, talked to the mourners too. I asked that each of you keep Nolan's memory alive. Hold him close in your heart.

Share his stories and never stop saying his name.

Mike, as we said, the family still has so many questions about his death. Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton was at the funeral. And he talked about all these questions that people have. He did. He called for a thorough investigation and asked why Nolan's friend kept his phone. And whether anything was erased before the parents got it back.

I hear this morning. Nolan's blood. Crying from the ground. Am I my brother's keeper? Or am I the keeper of some secret? Some information that you could give and won't stand up.

But the blood's going hard to you. Then the family's attorney, Ben Crump, who was also there, led mourners in a chant. Just this for Nolan's Wales. Just this for Nolan's Wales. We should say that there is, of course, an ongoing investigation into Nolan's death.

By the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, the sheriff says they are, quote, working diligently to determine exactly what occurred. Wednesday, there was a new development in the case. What did we learn, Mike? On Wednesday morning, Nolan's parents and Ben Crump held a press conference to announce preliminary findings from the family's independent autopsy. That autopsy was performed by Dr. Roger Mitchell, former chief medical examiner for Washington, D.C.

and a board certified forensic pathologist. Ben Crump started by reading the pathologist Big Picture Conclusion. Calls of death and determined pinned in investigation. The manner of death and determined pinned in investigation. In his report, Dr. Mitchell noted various obstacles he faced doing the autopsy, including the decomposition of Nolan's body by the time he got it.

And the fact that the Jackson County coroner already did not topsy. Dr. Mitchell ruled out fractures and deep tissue injuries. But he did observe what he called red discoloration on the back of Nolan's head. He couldn't say what the cause of that mark was or how it got there. Ben Crump made it clear that the pathologist investigation is ongoing.

According to his report, the pathologist still has questions. For example, he wants to know the position of Nolan's body when it was found.

How did he get in the water? Was he conscious or unconscious?

Remember Nolan was a strong swimmer from what we know. Yeah, so many factors go into determining conclusions on autopsy reports. We still don't know when the autopsy conducted by the Jackson County coroner will be released. But after the presser, the Mississippi State Medical Examiner sent a statement to NBC News saying, "investigators remain committed to following the facts wherever they lead."

And they urged the public to remain patient and allow the investigative process to take its course mic. We should also say that nobody has been charged in this case. Okay, we'll keep an eye on that one for sure. Next to the San Diego County Courthouse and Larry Milliette. He was convicted two weeks ago of killing his wife Maya.

And Larry was back in court Monday facing another charge.

Mike remind us about that.

Police allegedly found an unregistered firearm and other guns in Larry's house back in 2021,

during their investigation into my as disappearance. And he was charged with possession of an unregistered assault weapon. This was not brought up during the murder trial, correct? Correct. Larry's defense team argued that it wasn't related to the murder, so the two charges shouldn't be tried together and the judge agreed.

Larry's defense team opted for a bench trial on the weapons charge.

Okay, so that's why Larry was back in court.

The judge allowed cameras into the courtroom for the hearing. Let's take a listen to what happened next. It's not what we were expecting. All right. How do you plea to a violation of penal conception?

Three, zero, six, zero, five. Subsection, eight, guilty or not guilty.

Any idea why he entered a plea at this point, Mike?

Is it just because once you've been convicted of murder, maybe why not? That might very well be. So Larry has already spent more than four years in a county jail awaiting his murder trial. And the maximum sentence that he could receive for the gun charge is only three years. Meaning he already has more than enough time served.

Okay, so what is next for Larry? The judge said he will sentence him on both charges on September 29th. He's facing 25 years to life in prison on the murder charge. It will be up to the judge to decide if he'll be allowed to be parole after serving a minimum of 25 years.

So there is a chance he could get out of prison one day.

Thank you so much for these updates, Mike. Thanks, Andrea. For our final story this week, we want to take you back to the last time we saw Rex Wormen, the Gilgo Beach serial killer in court. After admitting to the murders of eight women, he stood before a judge for sentencing in June.

He didn't have much to say to the women's families gathered in the courtroom. There are no words I could say. I am responsible for what was said in this room. The words I would say have no meaning and I'm going to be there. But as part of his plea deal, Heurman did agree to tell his story to investigators

from the FBI's behavioral analysis unit. Heurman, who is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison, will now have to answer analyst questions about his crimes, his life, and what led him to kill. It's a process my next guest knows very well.

Retired Supervisory Special Agent Jim Clementi is a former FBI profiler with over 22 years of experience digging into the minds of criminals.

Including the DC snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd, Malvo.

In fact, he was the inspiration for several of the characters in the long-running TV series Criminal Minds, and a writer and producer on the show as well. Welcome to the podcast, Jim. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Very excited to talk to you. This is really interesting. So you were featured in a New York Times article profiling The Gilgile Beach Murderer back in 2011. This was before investigators had any idea that the killer was Rex Heurman.

You offered up some insight into who the killer might have been. So tell us about what your theories were back in the day, and they've really held up all these years later.

Okay, first, let me just tell you what they're based on,

is Criminal Investigative Analysis or Behavioral Analysis. And what we do is we look at victimology, we look at the crime location, the crime scene, the behavior with the victims, and together when we analyze all of that.

FBI agents, FBI Supervisory Special Agents, and the behavioral analysis unit, the profile by reverse engineering that behavior back to the type of person who committed the crime. For example, the demographics in the area.

We felt that because he kept coming back to the same disposal site that he had a connection to that area. He didn't just stumble upon it. He knew it very well. He used to live there or work there.

Or may still, and it turned out that was the case. There was a seasonal nature to the crimes that happened mainly during times when people would be on vacation. So I said he probably lives with a wife and kids or his parents. And these are the times at which he sends them away on vacation.

So he can go ahead and do his horrible, sadistic things. Which he did, which he did. One of them, they were in Iceland. Right, right. And the other time, New Jersey.

I said he would be meticulous because of the way that he bound some of the victims and it turned out that he was an architect. And that's a very meticulous fashion. Absolutely. So those are all things that turned out to be fairly accurate in this case.

But it's not, guesswork. It's based on leaking out information by his behavior.

Everyone was fascinated when they heard that as part of the end to this case ...

that he would sit down with the FBI.

Were you surprised that he agreed to that? I wasn't surprised that he was going to be interviewed. The surprising thing was that he agreed to it up front. That tells me something about his ego, which I would have guessed. Anyway, I think he had a tremendous ego.

And this gave him a feeling of superiority. He could, quote, teach the FBI. So what will happen is he will probably, well, we had a protocol that as an approved research protocol, and there were several hundred questions.

I can't go into the specific questions that are asked because it is proprietary.

But certainly, every aspect of his development as a child,

every aspect of his fantasy life, every aspect of his sexual behavior throughout his life, and every aspect of his crimes will be dealt into in great detail. How do you go about preparing for an interview like this? Are you bringing up photos and transcripts or?

The entire case file, you have to go through the entire case file,

sometimes that takes months. When we go through every one of their crimes, sequentially, most of the offenders that we did interview, loved the fact that we were giving them sort of a platform to talk about what they did to relieve those experiences,

and you have to pretend that it doesn't bother you.

You have to sort of build rapport with the person and actually build up their ego,

and make them feel relaxed and able to open up to you about very horrible and intimate details. Probably one of the worst parts of it is you have to do it in a maximum security, federal prison. You have to go in there unarmed. And when those doors clank shut,

you know that most of the people there are not happy with that the eye agents being around. Yeah. When you're dealing with such horrible crimes and you're diving in so deep, how do you go home at night after something like that?

And try to be normal and try to be with your family and try to, you know, we kind of have to do that at date line too, you know? Sure. Doctors and nurses see the worst things that health problems can cause for humans. And FBI profiles see the worst things that humans do to one another.

You have to develop this clinical detachment in order to not miss the nuances.

In other words, if you get too emotionally involved, you can't see the forest for the trees and you are, you're unable to function. I mean, it's just, it's difficult. But things that drives you forward is that in the end,

when you catch a serial offender, you're preventing future crimes. You're saving someone from that same fate. And I think that is what keeps me going and keeps my colleagues going. And it's, you carry a big burden because when you come home,

unfortunately, what it does is it probably brings a lot of high-pro vigilance. And maybe some cynicism to, you know, our lives, but it's a necessary result of doing that job. Do you think that we'll ever hear what Rex has to say to the FBI,

or will that just be locked up in a vault in the minds of the profiles?

I think it will be something that will be kept in house. I think you may, maybe ten or twenty years from now, somebody might write a book about it and talk about some of the details. But generally, it's used for the intended purpose, which is to help increase the institutional knowledge of the profiles

in the behavioral analysis unit so that they can help law enforcement across the country and around the world solve these cases. Jim, this was a wonderful conversation, so interesting. Thank you, thank you for coming on the podcast. Thank you.

That's it for this episode of Dateline True Crime Weekly. But starting on Monday, make sure to check out a brand new season of missing in America. Josh will be back with six new cases of people who have disappeared, told through the voices of those left behind. I remember my dad's sitting by the phone, weeping, just waiting on it to read,

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