Lindsay Clancy Copycat, 5 Year Old Saylor Hayes, Kim Zolciak’s Son & D4vd Update

Serialously with Annie Elise

This week's episode of Serialously covers multiple high-profile true crime cases, including updates on D4VD's legal troubles, the tragic cas

Key takeaways

• D4VD has been taken over by a public defender after his high-profile legal team withdrew, raising questions about financial mismanagement or asset concealment despite earning $10 million from music.
• The Saylor Hayes case involves the death of a five-year-old autistic girl who went missing; her parents have been arrested amid concerns about their lack of concern during the disappearance.

Main topics

• D4VD murder case update
• Saylor Hayes disappearance and death

Notable quotes

"He's stashing money. Already, before he was even arrested... nobody who's innocent does this."

Conclusion

The episode underscores how media coverage can influence criminal behavior and legal

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:01) Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, your host, Annie Elise. If you had a long weekend and are now like back in the groove this week, I know it's almost the weekend again, but hopefully this shorter week was nice for you. Today's Thursday, which means headline highlights, and we have. Of course, like always, no shortage of cases to discuss. I did release a couple deep dives earlier this week on not only this feed, but also my second true crime podcast feed, 10 to Life. So you have plenty of content to go binge, catch up on, do all of that. However, first order of business, why we are here today is because we are going through everything happening this week. And there is so much in the news right now. that honestly, I think quite a few of these cases are going to just naturally become deep dives as well. And you tell me in the comment section which one you want deep dives on. I personally, I mean, looking at all of these cases, I kind of feel like all of them I want to dive into even deeper. But we've got the Lindsay Clancy copycat case, which if you haven't heard about this, get ready. It is diabolical. It is a woman who was following the Clancy trial. in her group chat talking about it. I don't want to say obsessed with it, but constantly talking about it with her friends. And then allegedly, I'm going to say that, took the life of her child. in a very similar manner. And so we're going to talk all about that. We've also got to talk about five-year-old Sailor Hayes. I don't know if you guys saw this come across your feet a couple weeks ago. This beautiful young five-year-old girl who had gone missing. She's autistic. The mom was not acting all that concerned, in my opinion. And sure enough, the parents have been arrested. And there's a lot that we have been able to uncover in that case. So I want to talk with you about that case. There's updates in the shitbag douche canoe. firestorm that is David, D4VD, scamming people left and right, trying to still think that he's above the law. So we've got to talk about that. In Bravo news, I don't know for all my pop culture girlies out there who watch Bravo, Kim Zolciak's son is under fire right now with some sexual assault charges. So we're going to go through all of that. Earlier this week, Reddington spoke out on Good Morning America. There's been a couple interviews here and there where he asked for Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy, yet also in the same breath said that he hopes that Cruz comes in with a plea deal, which kind of leads me to believe, well, I'll save my thoughts for that. So we just have a lot to talk about today. Now, before we get into it, I do want to introduce someone that is brand new to the show. You've never heard her speak. Please join me in welcoming, oh wait, nobody's here today. I don't even have the camera on to pan to an empty chair. How sad is that? But I'm looking right now at an empty chair. Amy Collette is not here today. She has abandoned me. She's living her best life in Ibiza, Ibiza, and just. apparently has no responsibilities. And so she thinks she can just leave me and go and enjoy her life, which is like, hello, no, you don't enjoy life. We don't vacation here at 10 to life. No, I'm just kidding. No, she's having like the time of her life. I'm living vicariously through her stories on Instagram. She's like on boats and beach clubs and watching Swedish house mafia at 4 a.m., which I'm actually not living for that because my bedtime is strictly 7 p.m., but having the time of her life. She is not here with me today. Therefore, I am taking applications for guest hosts. Amy, if you are listening to this, you're being replaced. This is what happens when you abandon me, okay? No, we wish her the best. We're glad she's having fun. But you're going to be riding solo with me today in today's episode, raw dogging it with just me. So hopefully you're not too disappointed. Now let's start with my favorite asshole, David, because this guy is like the scum of the earth, truly thinks that he is above the law in so many different ways. And even though he's been super caught up now, and obviously he's moving forward to trial for Celeste Rivas's murder, he yet still thinks that he can like skirt around the law, play different cards to have the upper hand. It just really makes me sick. So let's start off with this update, okay? Now, as you know, David Anthony Burke, who also goes by D4VD, is officially being represented now by a public defender. This is after his high-profile defense attorney suddenly dropped him. Just... like, you know, a bad habit out of nowhere. Now, this literally happened during his second arraignment back on August 31st. And really quickly, just in case you have never heard of this case, and I'm sure most of you had, David is a rap artist who is about to stand trial for murdering a 14-year-old beautiful girl named Celeste Rivas. Not only murdering her, but then dismembering her, storing her dismembered body in his Tesla, which was then towed and discovered while he was on tour. And... The details of this case are just... absolutely catastrophic and horrible and so evil, I can't even put it into words, but he's about to stand trial. So now this whole switch up, as I just mentioned, his high profile defense attorney just dropped him and now he has a public defender. So Blair Burke and the rest of his team had asked to withdraw from the case, but a reason for why they had asked that has not been reported. Yet on that same day, the withdrawal was approved and a public defender named Waleed Kandil stepped in. Now, it's been reported that Waleed was actually sitting in the courtroom waiting for the change of counsel to be approved. And then once it was, he asked the judge to delay the arraignment because of the change of counsel. However, the judge said no. So being like, oh, well, there's a change of counsel. Can we have a little more time? Can you delay this? And the judge is like, uh. No, bro. We're going to continue as planned. So David went ahead with the hearing and once again pleaded not guilty to all charges, murder with special circumstances, sexual assault of a child under 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. And remember, the special circumstances charges along with the murder are for lying in wait, witness intimidation. There's a bunch of other things stacked within that. And I've done deep dives on this case that you can refer back to if you want. Otherwise, I don't know, maybe we should do a fresh deep dive ahead of the trial. Let me know what you think. Just really outlining everything because we have uncovered so much more, which I wish I could share right now on here, but can I? Now, there's certain things I can't talk about yet, but there is. So much more I do want to share with you. So anyway, now the big question here, obviously, even though he was pleading not guilty once again, is why is this multimillionaire rap artist, rap, R &B, whatever you want to call it, suddenly being represented by a public defender? Certainly he has the means and he has the finances, right? So like, what's going on here? My personal thought the moment I heard this was. Oh, it's because he's stashing money. Already, before he was even arrested, right after they found Celeste's body back in September of 2025, so a year ago, he started moving properties around to his mom's name and hiding assets, which... In my opinion at the time, I called that out even before he was arrested. I'm like, nobody who's innocent does this. He's doing this to prepare for something so that his finances are protected so somebody else has control of them because he probably knows that an arrest is coming down the pike. And sure enough, since this announcement, some people have pointed out that the fact that he didn't have another private attorney just ready to take over could either mean one. he's out of money and he has exhausted all of his finances, or conversely, that he's trying to be shady. Because people have pointed out in all of the forensic accounting and in a lot of the, like, you know, just math of his contracts and what we learned even during the preliminary hearings, he has made at least $10 million from his music career between 2023 and 2025. And look, I get that this is a high profile case, but it hasn't even gone to trial yet. There is no way you've already depleted millions and millions of dollars. So where's the money? Show me the money. And I have to say too, Celeste's family, they are not buying anything that David is selling right now. They don't believe that he can't afford a private lawyer. They even put out a statement claiming that he has all of his money tied up in different corporations. And they're accusing him of transferring assets to his mom, which obviously would not be surprising given what he did a year ago as well. So specifically in their statement, they said, the residents of Los Angeles County should be outraged because it will be the taxpayers that are picking up the tab to def- this millionaire. Perhaps he would have money if he just asked one of his corporations, or if he had not fraudulently transferred assets to his mother slash manager, Colleen Burke. Which, again, yes, we all know he did that. That was no secret. He transferred two of his Texas homes into his mom's name. He was moving money around, and she was his manager even during the height of his career. So it's not unheard of. to think that he's now just trying to fly under the radar. However, the public defender's office does say that they did a full financial review and they determined that David does qualify for a public defender. But I think that could also be for a multitude of reasons. Because... yeah, maybe the money doesn't belong to him anymore on paper. So he would qualify. I mean, hello. So anyway, after the second arraignment hearing was over, the LA County DA, Nathan Hodgman, said that the prosecutors still haven't decided whether or not they will seek the death penalty. I've seen some rumbling saying that they have made that decision now and that they are seeking the death penalty, but I don't want to overly confirm that. But I do believe that. That is where it's going. So he says that they were waiting for David's former defense team to submit a packet explaining why they shouldn't pursue the death penalty. However, that never happened before the attorneys withdrew from the case. So now the new defense team is going to have more time to pull all of that together if they want to. So for now, we're kind of back to the waiting game to see what this public defender is going to do with the mess that is this case. And his next court date is set for October 19th. And we also know based on the prelim that they are going to move forward with a speedy trial. So depending on what happens in that court date, I don't know. I know the change of counsel could delay things, but I can't help but wonder if we are going to see a trial coming up relatively soon. I mean, in comparison to some of these trials that are delayed years and years and years, which speaking of trials that are delayed for years and years and years and another asshat on my list. Let's talk about Barry Morphew. Now, it is no secret that I hate this guy. And look, I get it. Innocent until proven guilty. But this guy just seems like an all-around dirtbag to me. If you don't remember, Suzanne Morphew went missing on Mother's Day back in 2020. Barry, her husband, said that she went for a bike ride. And both of their daughters were away at the time, too. Where were they? I want to say they were camping or they were away to camp. They were somewhere. But anyway. He said that she went for this bike ride on Mother's Day and then he got home and she was nowhere to be found, indicating that she must have been in some sort of biking accident. Well, come to find out, as they start doing the investigation, it took a very long time to find her remains, but they ended up finding... evidence of a tranquilizer dart in his washing machine, which was like a cap to the tranquilizer dart, which was very reminiscent of like Jodi Arias trying to get rid of the SD card in her case when she tried to put the digital camera in the washing machine. Then they saw the phone pinging all around the house as though, and the backyard, as though it looked like he had been chasing after her with this tranquilizing dart, which he said he was chasing chipmunks, which that felt very reminiscent of Chad Daybell saying that he was like shooting rack. Coons, the whole thing. He also, you know, lied about a work site. He was dumping. trash in random bins and dumpsters. His hotel room reeked of chlorine. He left a stack of mail behind. There's so many red flags around this guy, I don't even know where to begin. We also have done a deep dive into this, but I will do a fresh one as the trial approaches. The trial was supposed to originally start this fall, but it's been pushed out. But that's not why he's back in the news today. I just kind of went on a rant. I apologize. But the reason he's back in the news is because We now have another update regarding him, which actually let me backtrack one second because I just gave you a very, very high level highlight of his case and his murder trial that's going to be coming up. But he originally had been charged with Suzanne's murder in 2021. Yet the charges were dropped the following year because at that point they hadn't found her remains yet. At that point, I don't think they had enough