13-Year-Old Found in d4vd’s Tesla: What the Law Needs to File Charges
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
She was reported missing at 13. Then caught on camera five months later — alive and near home. One year later to the day, her body was found in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to rising musician d4vd.
There’s no arrest. No charges. And the LAPD says it’s still “unclear whether there’s any criminal culpability beyond concealment.”
In this episode of Hidden Killers, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us to walk through exactly what’s holding this case back from being charged — and what it would actually take to move it forward.
We dig into:
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How prosecutors handle a case where a “missing” teen is later seen on video
- Why deferred cause of death limits what can be charged
- Whether the placement of Celeste’s body in a Tesla frunk points to concealment or something more
- How celebrity status could influence charging decisions behind the scenes
- And why timeline inconsistencies — April missing report, September sighting, 1-year delay — could make or break the case
If you’ve been asking, “Why hasn’t anyone been charged?” — this is the segment that finally answers that question.
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| 0:00.0 | Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing. |
| 0:05.4 | I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen. |
| 0:07.9 | A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that. |
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| 0:19.0 | Like Teralis, porcelain p paving from only 22 pounds per square meter. |
| 0:22.4 | Love it. |
| 0:23.1 | All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%. |
| 0:25.9 | So now you can keep up with the Joneses. |
| 0:28.0 | And the Evanses. |
| 0:29.2 | And the Bertels. |
| 0:30.2 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:38.9 | Let's move on and continue the conversation, but now for more of a legal perspective, we have a missing girl, a body in the trunk of a Tesla, and a rising music star at the center of it all. |
| 0:52.6 | Right now, no one has been charged. The cause of death, |
| 0:55.8 | it's still pending, but questions are stacking up about timeline, silence, and whether justice |
| 1:01.3 | is coming at all. As you heard Jennifer Coffendaffer recently say, yeah, this thing we may not know |
| 1:09.9 | exactly what was the cause of death. |
| 1:13.0 | That's the medical examiner. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm kind of paraphrasing that. |
| 1:16.5 | Today, now we're going to be joined by criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor |
| 1:19.7 | Eric Fattis to unpack the legal fault lines in this case involving Celeste Rivas |
| 1:24.5 | Hernandez and the artist known as David. |
| 1:27.8 | So let's start here. |
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