S3 Ep357: A Body in the Tesla: The Unraveling Story of D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A few months ago, we covered the disturbing case involving rising R&B artist David Anthony Burke, better known as D4vd, and the disappearance of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez from Riverside County, California. Celeste vanished in April of 2024, when she was just thirteen, and over time, online chatter began linking her to Burke, a singer whose breakout hits like Romantic Homicide and Here With Me had made him one of the biggest viral artists of the last few years. Those rumors took a horrifying turn in September of 2025, when Celeste’s remains were discovered inside an abandoned Tesla registered to Burke. Speculation was that the body had been in the vehicle for an extended period of time, and although the cause of death hasn’t been officially released, authorities were treating it as a homicide. Since then, Burke has cancelled his world tour, suspended upcoming releases, and become the focus of an active death investigation. As we learned in our first video, there were already unsettling connections between the two; from matching tattoos and online interactions to song lyrics and videos that many fans now view in a far darker light. Today, we have some updates in this case.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone back to Crime Weekly News.
0:16.9	And I'm Derec LaVassar.
0:17.8	And I'm Stephanie Harlow.
0:19.4	Okay, so a few months ago, we covered the disturbing case involving rising R&B artist David Anthony Burke, better known as David, and the disappearance of 15-year-old Celeste Revis Hernandez from Riverside County, California.
0:32.5	Celeste vanished in April of 2024 when she was just 13, and over time, online chatter began linking her to Burke,
0:39.5	a singer whose breakout hits like Romantic Homicide, and Here With Me had made him one of the
0:44.1	biggest viral artists in the last few years. Those rumors took a horrifying turn in September of
0:49.5	2025 when Celessa's remains were discovered inside an abandoned Tesla registered to Burke.
0:56.3	Speculation was that the body had been in the vehicle for an extended period of time,
1:00.3	and although the cause of death hasn't been officially released, authorities were treating it as a homicide.
1:05.8	Since then, Burke has canceled his world tour, suspended upcoming releases,
1:09.4	and become the focus of an active death
1:11.6	investigation. As we learned in our first video, there were already unsettling connections
1:16.3	between the two, from matching tattoos and online interactions to song lyrics and videos that
1:21.6	many fans now view in a darker light. Today, we have some updates in the case, and I'll be
1:26.5	honest with you, I do not know them yet. Stephanie started to tell me before we hit record and we're like, oh, well, okay, let's just hold on. Let's just go through it. Let's do it live and we'll see where it goes. Yeah, I can't wait to talk to you about this because we have a few questions answered that we had in the last video because we didn't have all the information
1:44.7	then. There's been a lot coming out. So I'm going to kind of talk about what we know and then
1:49.6	what we're finding out as we gradually go through this episode. Okay. So we know a decomposing body
1:56.8	was found inside a Tesla belonging to the musician David Anthony Burke at an impound
2:02.2	lot in the Hollywood Hills on September 8th, 2025. We also know that the Tesla was brought to the
2:07.9	impound lot after someone reported it abandoned. Okay. And this seems to have some like mystery around it
2:14.2	because nobody really knows who called in.
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