Fresh Breaks in the D4vd : Celeste Rivas Case & What We Hear in the Kohberger Tapes
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was missing for 17 months. Then her body was found wrapped in plastic inside a Tesla registered to music artist D4vd, abandoned in the Hollywood Hills.
Bryan Kohberger stabbed four students to death—then calmly walked into Costco hours later, shopping like nothing happened.
These are two of the most disturbing cases in recent memory. And in this full episode of Hidden Killers, I sit down with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke to analyze the behavior that reveals what’s really going on beneath the surface.
We cover:
🔪 The full Celeste Rivas timeline: from missing person to body in a trunk
🔪 Grooming signs: matching tattoos, shared messages, and behavioral control
🔪 Why no one has been charged in Celeste’s case—and what that means
🔪 Kohberger’s post-murder shopping trip: what investigators read in "normal" behavior
🔪 Survivor interviews: how trauma sounds vs. how the internet twists it
🔪 Community silence: why people didn’t speak up—until it was too late
🔪 What predators count on: your discomfort, your delay, your disbelief
Celeste was visible in Discord chats, Twitch streams, and shared screenshots. Kohberger’s every move was caught on surveillance. Yet in both cases, the public missed what mattered most: the behavior.
Robin Dreeke brings the FBI’s playbook to the table—no fluff, no conspiracy nonsense, just how trained profilers decode grooming, concealment, and control.
👉 Bryan Kohberger has pleaded guilty and is serving life in prison.
👉 Celeste Rivas is dead. Her cause of death is still pending. No charges have been filed.
But the signs were there. And we walk you through every one of them.
If you're here for real analysis—not internet guesswork—this is the episode.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.1 | David, or D4VD, if you're playing along at home going, David, what's David? |
| 0:16.5 | That's David. |
| 0:18.4 | If you've been hearing about this case of the R&B singer who had the 15-year-old in his trunk, |
| 0:26.0 | that's this story. |
| 0:27.0 | And we're going to dive into it. |
| 0:28.0 | Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake is here to join us and help us break this whole thing down. |
| 0:34.7 | To put it into context a little bit, let's rewind a little bit. |
| 0:39.4 | September 8th, 2025, the body of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez found wrapped in plastic |
| 0:46.1 | in the trunk of a Tesla registered to David. |
| 0:51.4 | She's been missing since April of 2024. |
| 0:54.7 | The car had been abandoned, towed, and only discovered after impound staff smelled something. |
| 1:02.0 | And then they looked in the trunk. |
| 1:03.6 | And in a Tesla, that's in the front of the car. |
| 1:06.4 | And they found, from what we're understanding, a dismembered body wrapped in plastic. |
| 1:13.1 | No charge is filed. |
| 1:14.5 | Cause of death is still pending. |
| 1:16.6 | There was enough on the body to recognize that there was a tattoo that said, |
| 1:21.4 | shh, on her hand. |
| 1:23.5 | The same tattoo that David happens to have, and it also happens to be kind of one of his, you know, |
| 1:29.2 | slogans, memes. I don't know what you want to call it. It's a creepy case. He's a fairly |
| 1:36.0 | macabre artist, but macabre doesn't always necessarily mean you're out killing people. |
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