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Music Star D4VD’s Career Collapses After Body in Trunk

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Music Star D4VD’s Career Collapses After Body in Trunk

The music world was stunned when police discovered the decomposed body of missing teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez in the trunk of a Tesla registered to rising star D4VD. In this segment, Tony and defense attorney Eric Faddis break down the explosive case that has frozen a career and left a family grieving.

What happens legally when a body is found in your car? How do prosecutors build a case, and what defenses are available when ownership doesn’t always equal possession? And how does celebrity status amplify every move on both sides?

With the investigation still unfolding, no cause of death released, and no charges filed, this case is already one of the most high-profile mysteries of the year.

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0:29.5

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0:31.5

Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:36.8

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:42.2

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:46.6

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good.

0:51.0

I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:54.8

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

0:58.5

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels.

1:06.4

We're going to shift gears right now and talk about another crazy case that is going on.

1:13.0

This is a case that has all the elements that make the public stop in their tracks, a missing teenager, a shocking discovery, and a celebrity's name tied to it all, if you can pronounce their name.

1:25.4

Earlier this month, a Tesla abandoned in the Hollywood Hills was towed to a lot.

1:34.7

Two days later, staff noticed a foul odor.

1:38.4

When police opened the trunk, they found the decomposed body of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a girl who had been missing for more than a year

1:47.3

that Tesla was registered to singer David Anthony Burke, or D4VD, as he spells it, a rising star in the music world.

1:58.2

His career was surging until suddenly it was derailed by this

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