D4VD Murder Indictment Coming: Chainsaw, Burn Cage Found at Hollywood Home | Celeste Rivas Case Update
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we break down the explosive new developments in the D4VD case, including the discovery of an unused chainsaw and a 1,600-degree burn cage incinerator inside the Hollywood Hills home where the artist was living. Private investigator Steve Fischer, hired by the property owner, shares his chilling assessment: "Whatever happened here, this wasn't a finalized plan. She was not meant to be left in that Tesla. The plan got upended."
We examine the damning grand jury testimony from D4VD's manager Robert Morgenroth, who reportedly told prosecutors his priority was keeping the tour going—not calling police. We cover the uncooperative female witness facing a body attachment order, the asset transfers D4VD made days after police raided his home, and the timeline Steve Fischer has pieced together showing when Celeste was last seen alive and when the Tesla was parked in its final location.
The cause of death remains deferred pending toxicology, but prosecutors aren't waiting. They're building a murder case one witness at a time. D4VD has not been charged and remains presumed innocent, but the direction of this investigation is no longer ambiguous.
This is the most comprehensive breakdown of where this case stands as we head into 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:07.2 | A chainsaw. Still. And it's protective sheath. Never used. A burn cage incinerator. |
| 0:17.9 | The kind you find on a farm for disposing of animal carcasses, you know. |
| 0:23.6 | It's basically a crematorium, boxed, unopened, sitting inside a Hollywood Hills rental. |
| 0:30.8 | That incinerator burns at 1,600 degrees, hot enough to reduce a human body to ash in a matter of hours, and it was delivered |
| 0:39.5 | to a home of a 20-year-old pop star whose alleged girlfriends' dismembered remains were found |
| 0:47.1 | in the trunk of his Tesla. |
| 0:50.5 | A lot of alleged in there. |
| 0:56.2 | Private investigator Steve Fisher discovered both items while searching the property on behalf of the homeowner. |
| 1:03.0 | His assessment is the kind of sentence that lands like a gut punch. |
| 1:08.1 | Whatever happened here, this wasn't a finalized plan. |
| 1:11.6 | She was not meant to be left in that Tesla. |
| 1:15.5 | The plan got upended. |
| 1:16.9 | That's the P.I's quote. |
| 1:24.1 | That makes this case so disturbing. |
| 1:28.4 | Not just the horror of what allegedly happened, Celeste Rebus Renatis, |
| 1:32.1 | but the shadow of what almost happened or what someone was thinking of having to have happen. |
| 1:38.8 | If we connect those dots in those specific ways, who knows? |
| 1:41.9 | Maybe they just really wanted to have the hottest |
| 1:44.5 | marshmallow roaster on the block, guys, right? |
| 1:53.1 | And started tree trimming business. |
| 1:59.7 | The disposal that never came, the tools that sat unused while a body decomposed in the summer heat for over a month parked on a residential street in the Hollywood Hills until a tow yard worker smelled something wrong and said guys and, and yourself. |
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