LAPD Says No Homicide in D4vd Tesla Death Case? What’s Really Going On?

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Tony Brueski

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Los Angeles Police Department just confirmed that their “previous statement stands” in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez — meaning, officially, this case is not being treated as a homicide. Celeste’s body was found in September, decomposing in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to recording artist David Anthony Burke, known as d4vd. But according to the LAPD, there’s “no evidence of criminal culpability beyond concealment of a body.” That’s a misdemeanor under California law.

In this in-depth breakdown, Tony Brueski unpacks what that stunning statement really means — and why it might signal a system ready to let this case quietly fade away. Private investigator Steve Fischer, who’s working the case in Los Angeles, says there’s disturbing physical evidence from Burke’s former residence — and hints that there may have been “plans to get rid of her” before the Tesla was discovered. But with no cause of death yet determined by the L.A. County Medical Examiner, prosecutors’ hands are tied.

Was Celeste the victim of a crime — or of institutional indifference? Why is her case the only one from September 8th still missing a cause of death? And how does a child end up dead in a celebrity’s car with no one charged and no one talking?

We break down every angle — the silence, the legal loopholes, the unanswered forensic questions, and what this all says about justice when a famous name is attached.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Brucey.
0:06.9	The Los Angeles Police Department has officially spoken again on the death of 14-year-old
0:11.9	Celeste Revis Hernandez and what they said or rather what they didn't say has thrown this
0:18.2	entire investigation into kind of a chilling limbo, if you will, for the general public.
0:24.6	When KTLA reached out for an update, LAPD responded with a single calculated phrase.
0:30.6	Their previous statement stands on its own.
0:34.4	The previous statement stands on its own.
0:37.4	In any normal case, it might sound like standard PR language, kind of cold, procedural, forgettable.
0:43.2	But in this case, it's kind of everything.
0:46.5	That line tells us they have nothing new to add and no plans to expand their position that so far,
0:52.6	the only potential crime they can confirm is concealment
0:56.7	of a body. So let's be absolutely clear. As of right now, the official stance of LAPD is that
1:06.3	Celeste's death is not classified as a homicide. The medical examiner has not yet determined her
1:12.0	cause her manner of death and the department after nearly two months of investigation has
1:16.8	not identified any evidence of criminal culpability beyond the concealment of her remains.
1:26.3	Clear as mud, right? kind of back to where we were was this was this a crime her death a crime clearly
1:38.8	putting a body in a trunk that is a crime beyond that, how she got dead, to put it bluntly, was that a crime?
1:52.1	A teenager's body was found in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to David, D4VD, and the
2:00.3	legal system's response is maybe just a misdemeanor.
2:04.6	And it might be.
2:06.3	We do not know that he killed her or any sort of nefarious plans to do such a thing.
2:12.6	I mean, that's all hype.
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