D4VD Exposed: Disturbing Timeline & New Details From Discord Chats to a Dead Teen in His Car

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Two weeks after LAPD made the horrifying discovery of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s decomposed body inside a Tesla trunk, shocking new details are surfacing about the case and its disturbing ties to rising R&B star D4VD. Police confirm they searched the Hollywood Hills home where the Tesla had been parked for months, looking for blood evidence. TMZ reports detectives spent 12 hours inside that house, rented by D4VD’s manager.

From leaked Discord chats where D4VD called out “Celeste,” to a leaked love song named after her, to livestreams he tried to delete, a disturbing timeline is emerging. Fans are now questioning if the “Celeste” he sang about was the same missing teen whose remains were found wrapped in plastic.

In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the full investigation: the impound lot discovery, the canceled tour, the police raids, and the disturbing coincidences connecting D4VD to Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious. It was two weeks ago today.
0:13.1	The LAPD was called out to a tow yard because of the stench that was coming from the trunk of an impounded Tesla.
0:24.4	And I know by now, you know what it is they found there. The badly decomposed body of a 14-year-old girl who likely, and this kills me,
0:32.8	who likely spent her 15th birthday the day before she was found rotting in that trunk.
0:41.4	The Tesla belonged to an up-and-coming young R&B singer who was away on a world tour at the time
0:47.2	that this young girl was found dead in his trunk, but he's not away anymore.
0:52.4	David, as he's known, D4VD is how he spells it. David is how he
0:57.6	pronounces it. David has gone off the grid. He has gone radio silent as disturbing connections
1:06.2	to that young teenage girl just keep piling up.
1:17.4	And now LA police have confirmed to the Banfield show, my show on News Nation, that they are actively looking for more connections between David and that young girl, Celeste Rivas
1:24.8	Hernandez, aka they're looking for evidence, folks.
1:28.9	A statement that they sent to my Banfield show on News Nation begins by confirming the search that we told you about last week.
1:36.0	This is what they say.
1:36.7	Quote, on September 17, 2025, detectives from the Robbery Homicide Division served a search warrant on the 1,300 block of Doheny Place
1:45.9	in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. And it goes on to say, several items
1:52.8	of evidence were recovered and will be analyzed by detectives in the coming days. This is an
1:57.8	ongoing investigation. Investigators are following up on several leads."
2:02.6	End quote.
2:04.3	Well, it doesn't get more cut and dry than that, right?
2:07.6	They're not saying anything else.
2:09.6	These robbery homicide detectives are so tight-lipped.
2:14.0	Not just to me.
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