Decapitated, Decomposing, Remains of Missing 13-Year-Old Found in Abandoned Tesla!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A 2023 Tesla Model Y was abandoned in the Hollywood Hills along Bluebird avenue on July 29, 2025. The dented and dirty Tesla has Texas license plates. After several weeks of no movement, a neighbor reports the car abandoned, starting a timeline in the middle of a horrible story that includes Celeste Rivas, reported missing from her parents home on April 5, 2024 when she is just 13, and a 20-year-old singing star on-the-rise, D4VD, on his first world tour promoting his first full-length CD, "Withered". How did the dismembered, decomposing body of Celeste Rivas end up in the frunk of an abandoned Tesla registered to D4VD?

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00:00:02.45 Introduction - Celeste Rivas case

00:01:25.02 Suspect identified, not officially named

00:02:08.82 Due to volume of info, this is part 1

00:03:05.66 Body found in frunk of Tesla

00:04:59.97 Tesla abandoned in the Hollywood Hills

00:10:20.12 Smell of death

00:15:07.96 Movement of wrecker could cause bag to leak

00:20:06.74 Tesla is 2023 Model y - abandoned

00:25:32.97 Victim didn't crawl in bag and seal it

00:30:29.09 Explaining problem with a "wet" body

00:35:35.67 Took 10 days to identify Celeste Rivas

00:40:05.21 Getting prints, other evidence from bag containing remains

00:44:39.22 Celeste reported missing April 5, 2024 - she was 13

00:49:24.02 Conclusion of Part 1

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.7	Quality Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.5	I get messages all the time from people that tell some of the most tragic stories.
0:19.2	I wish that I could go and provide answers to people.
0:24.9	I wish I had a whole staff of people that I could have, take a look at cases on my behalf
0:32.3	and kind of filter them to me where I can, but it's an empirical impossibility.
0:37.0	I wish, I wish, I wish.
0:40.3	There has been a case now that has been, I guess, dogging us for some time, where there is
0:50.9	a market level of interest,
0:56.7	certainly on the behalf of the authorities in Los Angeles, California,
1:03.8	hopefully on the part of the family.
1:07.9	And we might have a crack in the wall finally.
1:14.9	We might have a little beam of light that's shining through.
1:18.8	Because now, for the first time, in a very long time,
1:23.8	a suspect has been identified in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez death investigation.
1:36.3	Let's kind of open the book and take this step by step, just like we should, with any forensic investigation, and see
1:46.6	what we know versus what we suspect. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags.
2:00.2	Dave, I'm going to go ahead, brother, and open up
2:02.7	a saying, and I think that you will probably concur with me on this.
2:07.7	We've got so much to go over, this is going to be a two-part.
2:12.5	Okay?
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