Missing 13-year-old FOUND: Dismembered, Decomposing, in D4vd's Tesla

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On Sept. 8, the Los Angeles Police Department was called to a tow yard in Hollywood over reports of a foul odor coming from a vehicle. The LAPD found decomposing, dismembered, human remains, wrapped in a bag hidden in the front trunk area of a tesla registered in Hempstead, Texas, to 20-year-old, David Anthony Burke. He is known by another name as one of the hottest singer/songwriters on the planet, D4vd. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the victim and how she ended up in the Tesla owned by D4vd. The car was towed from the street in front of the house where D4vd was staying in the Hollywood Hills. When the human remains found in his car were identified, she turned out to be a girl who went missing when she was just 13-years-old. Her name was Celeste Rivas Hernandez, from Lake Elsinore, 70 miles away from where her body was found.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction, early memories

03:03.83 Somebody caught a whiff of somethin

05:03.85 Tesla Tech might solve the crime

10:11.21 D4vd builds music career from YouTube gaming

14:12.36 Neighbors had car towed

18:34.04 Tesla registered to D4vd

23:18.07 Car will provide a lot of info

28:37.64 Impact of dealing with dismembered body

34:10.66 Victim went "missing" at 13

39:49.69 Post-mortem manipulation of body

43:13.34 Breaking a saw dismembering a person

48:49.73 What did victim leave behind

50:01.20 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.5	I have early memories as a child of my mother going through the house with lemon fresh pledge,
0:22.7	wiping down all of the surfaces, everything.
0:27.3	We always had a piano in the house, by the way, so, you know,
0:31.3	that is going to be at the top list for her.
0:33.7	My mother taught piano for years.
0:43.7	But that smell has always stuck with me. And now, when I see something that's dust covered, I often think, wow, you know, I wish I had a can of pledge.
0:50.0	Could wipe it down, remove the dust.
1:00.0	Many times, though, the deposition of dust tells us a lot about a place or an object.
1:05.0	It's an indication that time has in fact passed.
1:20.1	Today, we're going to talk about the deposition of dust, dirt, and grime.
1:32.3	Things you might see, for instance, on the side of the street where a car has been abandoned, or maybe in an impound lot. But the thing about it is, the dust outside never quite reveals sometimes the horror that is found within.
1:48.1	Coming to you from the beautiful campus of Jacksonville State University, I'm Joseph Scott
1:54.4	Morgan, and this is body bags.
2:01.6	Well, it's all the rage right now, Dave.
2:03.6	We can't, I can't turn on my computer or look at my phone without what we're about to discuss being the top line in the news.
2:16.6	You know, we've had a lot of busy news the last
2:20.6	couple of weeks and, and, but this thing keeps popping up this case and the more it pops up,
2:27.9	the, uh, I don't know who, which, which character was it that it said, oh, it was Allison
2:32.7	Wonderland. It just gets curiouser and
2:34.7	curiouser um you know because uh you know you begin to think about this pop star david right um who
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