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David “D4vd” Burke - Part One: The Killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez | #452

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RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Dismembered and stuffed into the “frunk” of David “D4vd” Burke’s Tesla: 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body was found more than four months after she visited the up-and-coming singer’s house in the Hollywood Hills. Immediately, the story exploded across the internet.

Burke had always maintained that he’d only met Celeste once, and that he didn’t know that she was underage. However, Burke’s fanbase knew all too well that this wasn’t the truth.

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0:00.0

On the 8th of September 2025, workmen at an LA impound lot called the police after they noticed a foul smell coming from a Tesla Model X.

0:19.2

The car had been towed from a swanky Hollywood Hill Street three days before,

0:24.2

after it seemingly then left abandoned.

0:27.8

Inside the front trunk, or frunk, which I guess us Brits would call the foot,

0:34.6

police found a black cadaver bag covered in flies.

0:40.1

Inside the bag was a severely decomposed human head and torso.

0:46.4

There was also a black rubbish bag stuffed underneath, which contained the body's dismembered

0:52.5

arms and legs.

0:54.3

The car belonged to Gen X Idol and singer-songwriter D4VD, pronounced David.

1:01.2

Henry Zabrowski says Defalvid, and I can't get it out of my head.

1:05.8

They do also say that.

1:07.3

It became like a joke, so David was the original name. And then people started calling him D. Forward.

1:12.0

And then he was like, oh, I actually kind of like that.

1:14.0

But we're going to call him David throughout this episode because...

1:17.0

I'll do as I'm told.

1:18.1

Because I can't.

1:21.1

So they know who the car belongs to.

1:23.4

And soon the victim was identified through dental records as 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

1:32.5

She had been reported missing by her family a year and a half before.

1:37.2

And now, with a celebrity and a minor at the heart of this story,

1:43.3

naturally the internet exploded with speculation. Had David,

1:48.1

a man who had just announced a world tour, and who had just released his first studio album that had

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