D4VD’s Tesla, a Body, and No Arrests: FBI Veteran Unpacks the Investigation
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was just 13 when she was reported missing in April 2024. But five months later, a home surveillance camera caught her outside her house — alive. Then, a year later to the day, her decomposed body was found in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to rising music artist d4vd.
No arrests. No suspect. And the LAPD says it’s still “unclear whether there’s any criminal culpability beyond concealment.”
So how does this look through federal eyes?
In this episode, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers to walk us through the investigation — step by step — the way it would be handled by a federal team. She breaks down the real priorities when a child is found dead in a vehicle. What evidence disappears first. What should’ve been locked down within hours. And what law enforcement could still be missing entirely.
We dig into:
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The administrative timeline of the Tesla — marked, ticketed, towed, then searched
- How the gap between April 2024 and Sept 2025 should’ve been reconstructed
- Why chain of custody around viral evidence like the Tesla keycard could tank a case
- How the FBI uses vehicle telemetry, phone records, and location data to build a profile — even when no cause of death is determined
- And what Jennifer would do right now if this case landed back on her desk
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Burstey, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:10.3 | A missing teenager, body in the front trunk of a Tesla, the Frunk, if you will. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a new term I learned this week as well. |
| 0:19.6 | A rising music star at the center, |
| 0:23.0 | David, or D4VD that you're seeing, and over a year of red flags, but somehow it all went unchecked. |
| 0:30.6 | But beyond the outrage, beyond the speculation, there are real questions. What should have been done? |
| 0:36.5 | And what still can be done? |
| 0:39.8 | And what makes sense in this case? |
| 0:43.3 | They found her body in the front of the Tesla. |
| 0:48.5 | Did the whole body fit in there? |
| 0:50.7 | Was she dismembered? |
| 0:52.0 | Why was she dismembered? |
| 0:53.4 | What does all of that say about the crime |
| 0:57.0 | that took place? We're going to get into all of that today. We're joined by retired FBI special |
| 1:02.3 | agent, Jennifer Coffin-Daffer, someone who's worked these cases in the real world. When the leads are |
| 1:07.9 | cold, Jennifer, the timeline is broken and the public wants justice before the evidence is even in. |
| 1:12.8 | What does a case like this look like through federal eyes? |
| 1:17.2 | And what's the risk when the clock keeps ticking and still no one's been charged yet? |
| 1:23.3 | Well, the clock's ticking, Tony, because they don't have the answers. |
| 1:27.8 | I think that possibly that Tesla information, the century mode that you can put a Tesla in, |
| 1:34.4 | maybe was disabled, it seems to me if they had absolute evidence of who put her in that trunk, |
| 1:41.2 | that that would be at least one charge that could be charged but they haven't charged |
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