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d4vd’s Tesla, The Bag in the Frunk, and What the FBI Sees Behind the Scenes

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News Commentary, News

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this in-depth interview, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down the latest developments in the tragic death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas-Hernandez, whose body was found in the front trunk (frunk) of an impounded Tesla linked to the musician known as d4vd.

Weeks after the discovery, no one has been arrested, and the LA County Medical Examiner still lists Celeste’s cause and manner of death as “deferred.” Meanwhile, LAPD executed a search warrant at a Hollywood Hills property tied to the artist, seized electronics, and traced movements of the car—but no suspects have been named. Complicating things further, legal records confirm that a Texas home linked to the singer was transferred to his mother just days after the vehicle was impounded, raising fresh questions about intent, optics, and possible legal strategy.

Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her firsthand FBI experience to explain what’s happening behind the scenes—why investigators might delay arrests, how digital forensics and device extractions take time, and how financial movements and behavioral profiling shape the investigative roadmap. We explore the psychological red flags of concealment, the meaning of “cooperation” in active investigations, and how federal agents manage evidence across jurisdictions without compromising the integrity of a case.

If you’re wondering why this case seems stalled—or quietly accelerating—this conversation lays it all out with facts, not speculation.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels.

0:07.9

Let's move over to the David case, cutting through a lot of the noise over there,

0:14.3

15-year-old found on September 8th and the frunk of the impounded Tesla owned by artist David.

0:22.7

The cause and manner still pending electronics seized in the property of David.

0:30.1

There's still a lot of questions, a lot of rumor, a lot of not knowing really any information,

0:35.4

other than they found a woman who was friends with David at

0:39.8

some point in time in a frunk of a car. And that's what we know. That's pretty much, you know,

0:46.3

the end and the end will be all at this moment in time. So many weeks in, Jennifer Coffendaff,

0:52.5

a retired FBI special agent, why is it?

0:54.9

Why are we so far into this in terms of time and there is no arrest?

0:59.3

What does that tell you about what's going on behind the scenes?

1:01.9

Well, this is the biggest problem.

1:03.4

They have to get a forensic anthropologist to explain how in the world she's deceased.

1:12.0

And that's the problem.

1:12.8

Uh-huh.

1:16.1

Was it a homicide?

1:22.7

Was it, and I can't imagine this, a suicide and then somebody took her body and put her in there?

1:25.4

Was it completely accidental like an overdose?

1:33.7

I mean, to me, the one thing that cannot be denied is somebody tampered with her body,

1:39.3

put her in that fronk, and that is a very chargeable offense.

1:45.0

That is the only thing that's bothering me is why in the world haven't they been able to identify that person? And the only conclusion I can make is because the cameras were disabled

1:51.4

or the cameras were enabled, but the person was Brian Koberger kidded out and, like I said,

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