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True Crime with Kendall Rae

Teen Girl Found in D4VD’s Tesla: Breaking Down the Celeste Rivas Hernandez Case So Far…

True Crime with Kendall Rae

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True Crime

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

The remains of a badly decomposed person were found in the front trunk of a seemingly abandoned Tesla in Los Angeles on September 8, 2025. They were soon discovered to belong to 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a girl who had been missing from home since this past April. And what’s more, the Tesla she was found in belonged to popular musician and streamer, 20-year-old David Burke, known professionally as D4VD. This case is ongoing, and in this episode is all we know so far…

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of True Crime with Kim O'Rae.

0:10.7

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:12.1

And if you're new to the show, then welcome today.

0:14.8

I am covering a case that has been so heavily requested.

0:21.7

And I really thought about not even covering it because it's so crazy for so many different

0:27.2

reasons and also because I'm just highly disturbed by this case.

0:32.7

But I have seen a lot of misinformation out there and I wanted to do my best to collect what we actually know at this point into a consumable length and a format and timeline that makes sense for people that are curious about this case.

0:50.4

And if you couldn't already tell it from the title today, I'm going to be telling you about the case of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

0:56.4

She is the 14-year-old girl whose body was recently found in the frunk of a Tesla belonging to the singer David back in early September.

1:05.7

And his stage name is David spelled D4VD.

1:09.7

And depending on how much time you spend online, you may or may not know

1:14.2

who he is, but after this episode, you unfortunately will. This case has truly attracted the

1:19.9

attention of hundreds of thousands of people. But what's so sad to me is that Celeste has really

1:26.4

gotten lost in all the noise. I think that's obviously

1:31.2

because David is famous. And if you were to ask someone who loosely knew of this case, not someone

1:36.3

who's like fully dove into it, but ask them what they know about it or what they've heard,

1:41.2

they can likely tell you David. They know David's name or

1:45.3

David's stage name or like something about him that he's a musician or he was famous on TikTok or

1:49.5

Fortnite or whatever it is. But a lot of people wouldn't be able to tell you even Celeste's name.

1:54.9

And as you guys probably have realized over time, I tend to either stay away from really viral cases

2:00.6

or I wait to cover them to make sure that

2:03.0

there's enough confirmed information. And what's wild is there is not a whole lot of confirmed

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