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Hollywood Hills Horror: Disturbing New Clues in the D4vd Tesla Death Case | Celeste Rivas Hernandez

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

New and disturbing clues are surfacing in the investigation of D4vd and the death of his underage girlfriend, Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Detectives are piecing together what happened inside D4vd’s Hollywood Hills mansion and inside the Tesla where Celeste’s decomposing body was found. Among the new findings is a Build-A-Bear certificate that could connect key people in Celeste’s life and help investigators understand her final days. The toxicology report is still pending, and investigators say it could finally reveal what caused Celeste’s death. Was it an accident, an overdose, or something more sinister?

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead serious. Big new developments in the case of the rising pop star and his dead underage girlfriend discovered in the trunk of his Tesla. You have probably seen the headlines about David, real name

0:22.5

David Anthony Burke, the soft-spoken chart-topping singer whose abandoned Tesla contained the

0:28.2

rotting remains of his underage girlfriend, Celeste Rivas Hernandez, in Los Angeles.

0:33.6

Neighbors had complained about the car for days, mostly because of the smell, a brutal smell.

0:39.4

At first they thought it might be a dead animal, but when the police finally had the car towed,

0:44.4

the smell followed it all the way to the impound lot. And days later, workers there couldn't ignore it

0:50.6

any longer, and they too called the police. This time, when the investigators popped the trunk, they realized what they were smelling

0:57.9

wasn't an animal at all.

1:00.1

Inside the Tesla was the decomposing body of the pop star's underage girlfriend.

1:04.8

Very, very underage.

1:08.1

Celeste had just turned 15.

1:10.4

In fact, her birthday was the day before she was found dead

1:14.1

in that trunk. And since she'd been dead in that trunk for a long time, she died at 14. I think

1:19.8

it's fair to say. She hooked up with David, spelled with the number four, years before even that,

1:26.6

possibly when she was only 12.

1:30.1

Ugh.

1:31.3

David has never been charged, and he has never been named a suspect in any crime, right?

1:36.9

Likely because investigators can't tell how or even when Celeste actually died.

1:51.1

The autopsy was inconclusive, but the all-important toxicology report has yet to be released,

1:54.3

presumably because it hasn't yet been finished.

1:59.6

But there is reason to believe that it could be finished at any moment.

2:02.7

And that report could answer a trunk load of questions. In the meantime, we've got a build-a-bear clue. Yeah, you heard me right. I said,

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