FBI Insider on D4VD & Celeste Rivas: The Mistakes, The Delays, The Timeline That Doesn’t Add Up-WEEK IN REVIEW
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing in April 2024. But five months later, she was caught on camera — alive and near home. Then, one year later to the day, her decomposed body was discovered in the front trunk of a Tesla linked to music artist d4vd.
The car had been sitting on a public street. Then it was ticketed. Then it was towed. No one checked it. No one noticed. Until the smell.
And now?
Still no charges. Still no confirmed suspect.
Just a deferred cause of death. And a growing sense that something — or someone — is being missed.
In this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer walks us through what this case looks like through the lens of someone who’s handled high-profile, high-risk investigations — the kind where the victim is a child, the timeline is broken, and the forensic trail is already cold.
She lays out:
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What should have happened in the first 24 hours after the body was found
- What kind of evidence is lost forever if you don’t move fast — and what might still be recoverable
- How the FBI builds working timelines when a “missing” child turns up on camera months later
- Whether the Tesla's onboard tech could actually reveal who last accessed the car
- The red flags she sees in the tow yard timeline, family silence, media pressure, and the lack of a confirmed crime scene
- And why “no charges” right now doesn’t necessarily mean no case — but it does mean time is running out
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.3 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.7 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Burstey, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:15.3 | A missing teenager. |
| 0:17.6 | Body in the front trunk of a Tesla, the Frunk, if you will. It's a new term I learned this |
| 0:24.0 | week as well. A rising music star at the center, David or D4VD that you're seeing. And over a year |
| 0:32.8 | of red flags, but somehow it all went unchecked. But beyond the outrage, beyond the speculation, there are real questions. |
| 0:39.5 | What should have been done? |
| 0:41.6 | And what still can be done? |
| 0:44.7 | And what makes sense in this case? |
| 0:48.3 | They found her body in the frunk of the Tesla. |
| 0:53.5 | Did the whole body fit in there? |
| 0:55.7 | Was she dismembered? |
| 0:56.9 | Why was she dismembered? |
| 0:58.6 | What does all of that say about the crime that took place? |
| 1:03.6 | We're going to get into all of that today. |
| 1:05.3 | We're joined by retired FBI special agent, Jennifer Coffendaffer, someone who's worked these |
| 1:09.5 | cases in the real world. When the leads are cold, Jennifer Coffendaffer, someone who's worked these cases in the real world. |
| 1:11.6 | When the leads are cold, Jennifer, the timeline is broken and the public wants justice before the evidence is even in. |
| 1:17.8 | What does a case like this look like through federal eyes? |
| 1:22.3 | And what's the risk when the clock keeps ticking and still no one's been charged yet? |
| 1:28.3 | Well, the clock's ticking, Tony, because they don't have the answers. |
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