By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a court brief on Wednesday detailing “horrifying” steps they said indie pop musician D4vd took to dismember and conceal the body of a teenage girlfriend after allegedly stabbing her to death last April. According to the document, outlining evidence prosecutors plan to present in their murder case, the singer-songwriter placed the victim’s corpse in a blue inflatable pool “to prevent blood from spilling onto his garage floor,” then removed her limbs with a chain saw “and perhaps other tools.” The brief said that D4vd (pronounced “David”), 21, whose legal name is David Burke, had purchased the pool, two chain saws, a shovel, a cadaver bag and other materials online under a fictitious name and had them delivered to his Hollywood Hills home after the killing. The badly decomposed torso and head of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 14, were discovered in September inside a cadaver bag stuffed in the trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke, according to police, prosecutors and medical examiners. Underneath was a
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a court brief on Wednesday detailing “horrifying” steps they said indie pop musician D4vd took to dismember and conceal the body of a teenage girlfriend after allegedly stabbing her to death last April. According to the document, outlining evidence prosecutors plan to present in their murder case, the singer-songwriter placed the victim’s corpse in a blue inflatable pool “to prevent blood from spilling onto hi
Open original open_in_newBy Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a court brief on Wednesday detailing “horrifying” steps they said indie pop musician D4vd took to dismember and conceal the body of a teenage girlfriend after allegedly stabbing her to death last April. According to the document, outlining evidence prosecutors plan to present in their murder case, the singer-songwriter placed the victim’s corpse in a blue inflatable pool “to prevent blood from spilling onto hi
Open original open_in_newBy Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a court brief on Wednesday detailing “horrifying” steps they said indie pop musician D4vd took to dismember and conceal the body of a teenage girlfriend after allegedly stabbing her to death last April. According to the document, outlining evidence prosecutors plan to present in their murder case, the singer-songwriter placed the victim’s corpse in a blue inflatable pool “to prevent blood from spilling onto hi
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a court brief on Wednesday detailing “horrifying” steps they said indie pop musician D4vd took to …
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a court brief on Wednesday detailing “horrifying” steps they said indie pop musician D4vd took to …
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a court brief on Wednesday detailing “horrifying” steps they said indie pop musician D4vd took to …
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a court brief on Wednesday detailing “horrifying” steps they said indie pop musician D4vd took to …
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