D4vd: What Forty Terabytes of Evidence Actually Tells Us
About this episode
The episode discusses the complexities of the D4vd case, focusing on the extensive digital evidence and the challenges in securing an indictment.
Prosecutors say they have over forty terabytes of digital evidence against David Anthony Burke. They have a wiretap. They have exploitation material allegedly recovered from his phone. They have three grand juries' worth of witness testimony. And they still could not get an indictment. So what does that tell a former FBI behavioral analyst about how this investigation was actually built — and what it's missing? Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief, takes listener questions and applies behavioral analysis to the D4vd case from the ground up. Why did a year pass between the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and the arrest of the man accused of killing her? What does the volume of sealed digital evidence reveal about how investigators approached a suspect with fame, resources, and a high-powered legal team? And what does it mean that Celeste was reported missing three separate times before she was gone — that there were systems in place that should have intervened and didn't? Trial attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis brings the legal architecture into focus. The felony complaint charges Burke with…
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