FBI Insider on D4VD & Celeste Rivas: The Mistakes, The Delays, The Timeline That Doesn’t Add Up
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🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 66 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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| 0:28.0 | And the Evanses. |
| 0:29.2 | And the Bertels. |
| 0:30.2 | Wake up! The Joneses are redo in their garden. |
| 0:32.7 | Love that porcelain paving and all that fencing. |
| 0:35.4 | I knew it. |
| 0:36.1 | They've been with their landscaper to Jusen. |
| 0:37.9 | A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba. Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that. For materials, tool hire timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot. Like Turalis, porcelain paving from only £22 per square metre. Love it. All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%. |
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| 0:58.1 | And the Evanses. |
| 0:59.3 | And the Patel's. |
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