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🗓️ 31 December 2025
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Celeste Rivas Hernandez was just 13 when she was reported missing from her family home in Lake Elsinore, 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Celeste, at 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 120 pounds, is reported last seen wearing a black shirt, gray pants, and Hello Kitty sandals. And according to close sources and family members, she has a boyfriend named "David."
Celeste, just entering her teen years, becomes friends with singer D4vd on social media and runs away to Hollywood to see the rising star. Celeste is returned home to Lake Elsinore by the police.
Celeste remains in school for a month, then in May, "D4vd" (David Anthony Burke) picks Celeste up in a Tesla to go to the movies, and she never returns home.
Residents in the Hollywood Hills grow tired of a dusty, 2023 Tesla Model Y with a Texas plate parked on the street for a month and report the vehicle.
Days later, employees at Hollywood Tow notice a foul odor coming from the Tesla and call the police. When officers arrive, they discover human remains wrapped in plastic, placed in a bag, and hidden in the frunk of the Tesla.
Police identify the person/victim as female, 5 feet 2, weighing 71 pounds, with wavy black hair, wearing a tube top and black leggings.
Reports later state the remains are severely decomposed, partially dismembered, and identified as Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the child who was reported missing more than a year ago.
Authorities report the Tesla is owned by singer/songwriter D4vd, who is reported to be living in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood near where the Tesla was abandoned.
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| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.6 | Decomposing, partially dismembered, and a star's Tesla trunk. |
| 0:17.4 | She was left literally to rot. |
| 0:20.2 | It goes beyond the pale of what any human being ever would do to another human being. |
| 0:26.5 | One of the dumbest people in the world. |
| 0:28.7 | That's controversial. |
| 0:29.7 | To leave the body of his girlfriend in a trunk of his car. |
| 0:35.2 | I definitely smell a rat. We need to delete it. A dead body in your trunk of his car. I definitely smell a rat. |
| 0:42.4 | A dead body in your trunk can really hurt your reputation. Residents in Hollywood Hills grow tired of a dusty 2023 Tesla model Y with a Texas plate parked on the street for a month and report the vehicle |
| 1:03.5 | days later employees at Hollywood Toe notice a foul odor coming from the car and call police officers |
| 1:09.7 | discover a decomposing body found in a bag |
| 1:12.5 | in the front of the Tesla. Human remains wrapped in plastic placed in a bag and hidden in the front |
| 1:18.5 | trunk of the Tesla are severely decomposed and partially dismembered. Police say the person was a female, |
| 1:25.2 | 5'2, weighing 71 pounds with wavy black hair and was wearing a tube top in black leggings. |
| 1:31.9 | The person appears deceased inside the vehicle for an extended period of time before being found. |
| 1:37.6 | A missing little girl, Celeste, just 13 years old when she goes missing, found decomposing, partially dismembered, and a star's Tesla trunk, |
| 1:54.6 | who is now whining because his tour is canceled. |
| 1:59.6 | The music star I'm talking about has gone multi-platinum. |
| 2:05.6 | But before I talk about all of his musical success and how much money he's making and how famous he is, |
| 2:12.6 | can I show you what he just reposted? |
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