Teen Girl Found in D4vd’s Tesla: Timeline of a Deadly Disappearance
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
She vanished in April 2024. She was just 15. For 17 months, Celeste Rivas Hernandez was missing. No breaking news alerts. No press conferences. And then, out of nowhere, she’s found wrapped in plastic in the trunk of a Tesla—a car that had been abandoned in the Hollywood Hills and later linked to music artist D4vd.
In this segment, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins me to walk through the full timeline—from the first missing persons report to the shocking discovery in September 2025. We map out how long she was gone, where she was last seen, and how the vehicle sat unnoticed in public view, then at an impound lot, until staff finally opened the trunk after smelling decomposition.
We dig into:
– The risk factors that make missing teens like Celeste vulnerable to long-term grooming
– What post-disappearance patterns of behavior investigators look for in cases like this
– Why a car being abandoned and towed without anyone checking it is a massive procedural gap
– And how time and silence allow these tragedies to unfold in plain sight
As of this recording: no charges have been filed. Cause and manner of death remain undetermined.
But the timeline is real. The body is real. And the silence surrounding it is deafening.
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| 0:58.5 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 1:07.5 | David, or D4VD, if you're playing along at home going, David, what's David? |
| 1:14.9 | That's David. |
| 1:16.8 | If you've been hearing about this case of the R&B singer who had the 15-year-old in his trunk, |
| 1:24.4 | that's this story. |
| 1:25.4 | And we're going to dive into it. |
| 1:26.4 | Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreek is here to join us and help us break this whole thing down. To put it into context |
| 1:34.6 | a little bit, let's rewind a little bit. September 8th, 2025, the body of 15 year old Celeste Rivas |
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