D4VD Grand Jury: Robert Morgenroth Grilled for Three Days While a Second Witness Refuses to Testify-WEEK IN REVIEW
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Robert Morgenroth, general manager of D4VD's record label and president of his touring company, spent three consecutive days being questioned by Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman. Three days for a non-target witness is extraordinary. According to reports, Morgenroth was overheard in the courthouse hallway telling his attorney that Silverman was aggressive about one question in particular: why did he never contact police after learning a decomposing body had been discovered in his client's Tesla? His reported answer was that he wanted to continue with the tour.
Meanwhile, a second witness connected to the case allegedly refused to appear before the grand jury. Prosecutors responded by seeking a body attachment order, authorizing law enforcement to detain her and compel testimony. She is represented by the same attorney as Morgenroth, raising questions about coordination within D4VD's inner circle.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing from Lake Elsinore, California in April 2024. Her dismembered remains were discovered in the trunk of D4VD's abandoned Tesla in September 2025, one day after what would have been her fifteenth birthday. LAPD has officially identified D4VD as a suspect. Investigators have reportedly identified a second suspect believed to have assisted in disposing of her body. The case has been built using cellphone data, Tesla GPS logs, and social media location tracking.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down what these moves signal, why extended testimony often means prosecutors are hunting for inconsistencies, and what legal exposure witnesses face when they withhold critical information. The cracks are widening.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden |
| 0:05.9 | Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.2 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:12.4 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:15.7 | The people around David are starting to crack. |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.9 | A Los Angeles grand jury grilled the general manager of David's, |
| 0:30.5 | and that's D4VD, because that's how he spells it. |
| 0:35.4 | They grilled the general manager of his record label for three straight days recently. |
| 0:44.3 | When Robert Morgon walked out of that room, he was overheard in the hallway loud enough for reporters to catch, |
| 0:55.0 | telling his attorney that Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman was allegedly very pushy |
| 1:00.0 | about one specific thing. Why didn't he call the police after a decomposing body was found in his |
| 1:07.9 | client's car? Kind of a valid question. |
| 1:13.7 | His reported answer? |
| 1:17.2 | He didn't feel like it was his responsibility, allegedly. |
| 1:20.2 | He just wanted to continue with the tour. |
| 1:23.5 | That's it for a second. |
| 1:30.3 | A teenage girl's dismembered remains are discovered in a Tesla registered to your artist, and your first instinct isn't to pick up the phone, it's to check the tour schedule. |
| 1:38.9 | That's the music industry. |
| 1:41.7 | It is. It really is. |
| 1:47.5 | Like, well, I was just going to affect our bottom line. I was just going to affect the industry. It is. It really is. Like, well, I was just going to affect our bottom line. I was just going to affect the income we're making off this artist. Yeah. We're going to go through |
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