FBI Agent Breaks Down the D4VD Evidence | Celeste Rivas Case with Coffindaffer
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
So what do they have?
In Part 1 of this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the physical evidence in the Celeste Rivas case and explains what investigators are likely seeing. A chainsaw found with its protective sheath still on. A burn cage incinerator still boxed. PI Steve Fischer's assessment that "the plan got upended" and Celeste "was not meant to be left in that Tesla."
We examine the timeline: last confirmed alive January 2nd, 2025. Tesla parked in its final spot July 29th—allegedly the same day D4VD left for tour. Body discovered September 8th. Jennifer explains what a timeline like this tells investigators, how decomposition affects forensic analysis, and why prosecutors pushed to seal the autopsy findings.
We also discuss how murder cases built entirely on circumstantial evidence succeed—or fail—and what toxicology results could mean for the charges prosecutors ultimately pursue.
D4VD has not been arrested or charged. He remains presumed innocent. But Jennifer Coffindaffer helps us understand how prosecutors build a case when the evidence doesn't speak for itself.
Part 2 covers the grand jury and D4VD's inner circle.
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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. This is getting more traction, if you will, and supposedly |
| 0:15.0 | in indictment may be coming for David in the coming weeks, months. It may take a little while. What the physical |
| 0:24.3 | evidence investigative timeline and deferred cause of death tell us former FBI agent Jennifer |
| 0:31.8 | Coffendaffer is joining us to break this down, that chainsaw that was never used found in the garage of the rental home, |
| 0:39.7 | the burn cage incinerator still in the box, a Tesla parked on a residential street for over a month |
| 0:45.5 | and a teenage girl's body decomposing in the trunk and a cause of death that still officially remains deferred. |
| 0:52.7 | Well, a grand jury hears witnesses and more witnesses. |
| 0:57.1 | The David case says all the harm hallmarks of a circumstantial prosecution. No eyewitnesses, |
| 1:02.4 | as of yet, no confession, no official homicide ruling. The prosecutors are not waiting. |
| 1:07.1 | They're building something. Jennifer is joining us to break all of this down. Let's go where |
| 1:15.1 | things are at right now. Let's start with the physical evidence found inside the Hollywood rental, |
| 1:19.9 | which we keep learning about every single week. There seems to be a new little piece that was in that |
| 1:25.0 | garage sale. We have the at-home crematorium. |
| 1:30.9 | Let's go back to that for just a second, Tony. What would this be used for? Because I, maybe I'm not |
| 1:36.7 | up on a farm or something. If you're, you know, incinerating, you know, animals that have died. |
| 1:43.3 | Like there are practical uses for it, you know, whether that have died. Like there are practical uses for it. |
| 1:46.8 | You know, |
| 1:47.4 | whether than burying a cow, you know, you could do this. |
| 1:50.9 | But not typically in the Hollywood Hills home. |
| 1:53.8 | And a chainsaw still with the protective sheath still on. |
| 1:58.7 | P.I. Steve Fisher said the plan got upended. That's his opinion from an investigative |
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