D4VD Toured for Months. His Circle Said Nothing.

Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke performed on a world tour for months after Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly killed — including the night her body was discovered in Los Angeles. His close friend Neo Langston fled to Montana rather than testify before a grand jury. His parents tried to quash their subpoenas. His manager testified over several days. And through all of it — months of public silence while a family grieved and a community demanded accountability.

In Part 2 of a three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the psychology behind the alleged coverup and the wall of silence that surrounded this case for months. What psychological mechanisms allow someone to allegedly compartmentalize extreme violence and maintain a public persona? What does the behavior of those in Burke's orbit — the fleeing, the legal maneuvering, the eventual cooperation — reveal about what they were carrying? And when loyalty to a friend allegedly crosses the line into enabling the concealment of a child's death — what drives that choice?

Scott brings over 30 years of clinical experience in trauma, violence psychology, and forensic mental health to this conversation with Tony Brueski. She's the author of The Minds of Mass Killers and has sat across from both victims and perpetrators of violence throughout her career. She reads the behavior in this case the way only someone with her depth of experience can — and what she sees is chilling.

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