Body Found in D4vd’s Tesla: The Full Story of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On September 8, 2025, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed the identity of a body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd (David Anthony Burke). The victim was 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been reported missing in April 2024 from Lake Elsinore, California.
The Tesla had been towed two days earlier from a Hollywood street and impounded. When staff at the tow yard noticed a foul odor, police were called. Inside the trunk, they found Celeste’s remains, severely decomposed and wrapped inside a bag. Investigators immediately launched an intensive probe into how a missing teenager ended up in a car belonging to one of music’s fastest-rising stars.
Within days, LAPD served a search warrant at a Hollywood Hills residence where D4vd had been staying, seizing items for forensic review. As of late September, no charges have been filed and no suspects named. The cause and manner of Celeste’s death remain pending, awaiting full autopsy results.
The discovery has shaken two very different communities: the music industry, where D4vd had just released his debut album Withered earlier this year, and Lake Elsinore, where Celeste’s family and friends held a candlelight vigil on September 22 to honor her life and demand justice.
This episode of Hidden Killers takes you through the full story, from the tow lot to the vigil, with careful attention to what is confirmed and what remains unknown. We explore how investigators are piecing together the forensic timeline, what post-offense concealment can reveal in a case like this, and why the human cost—the loss of a 15-year-old girl—is what matters most.
This is not about sensationalism. It’s about accountability, community, and the pursuit of justice for Celeste.
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| 1:17.4 | The story begins with something ordinary on a Saturday in early September 2025, a Tesla |
| 1:22.8 | was towed from a street in Hollywood, California, a city where thousands of cars are impounded every single month. |
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