What Did Investigators Find Inside D4VD's House? | Coffindaffer on Celeste Rivas Evidence
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The D4VD case has all the hallmarks of a circumstantial prosecution—no eyewitnesses, no confession, no official homicide ruling yet. But prosecutors aren't waiting. They're building something.
In Part 1 of this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what investigators are likely seeing in this case. We examine the physical evidence found at D4VD's Hollywood Hills rental and what unused disposal tools suggest about intent versus execution. We discuss how advanced decomposition affects forensic analysis and what toxicology results could mean for the direction of charges. Jennifer explains why prosecutors would push to seal autopsy findings, what travel patterns to secondary locations typically indicate, and how murder cases built on circumstantial evidence succeed or fail.
According to PI Steve Fischer, Celeste Rivas was last confirmed alive on January 2nd, 2025. The Tesla was parked in its final spot July 29th—allegedly the same day D4VD left for tour. Her body wasn't found until September 8th, the day after what would have been her 15th birthday.
D4VD has not been arrested or charged with any crime. He remains legally presumed innocent. But the evidence is piling up, and Jennifer Coffindaffer helps us understand what it all means.
Part 2 covers the inner circle and grand jury proceedings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:07.9 | Let's move over to the David case. This is getting more traction, if you will, and supposedly |
| 0:15.0 | in indictment may be coming for David in the coming weeks, months. It may take a little while. What the physical |
| 0:24.3 | evidence investigative timeline and deferred cause of death tell us former FBI agent Jennifer |
| 0:31.8 | Coffendaffer is joining us to break this down, that chainsaw that was never used found in the garage of the rental home, |
| 0:39.7 | the burn cage incinerator still in the box, a Tesla parked on a residential street for over a month |
| 0:45.5 | and a teenage girl's body decomposing in the trunk and a cause of death that still officially remains deferred. |
| 0:52.7 | Well, a grand jury hears witnesses and more witnesses. |
| 0:57.1 | The David case says all the harm hallmarks of a circumstantial prosecution. No eyewitnesses, |
| 1:02.4 | as of yet, no confession, no official homicide ruling. The prosecutors are not waiting. |
| 1:07.1 | They're building something. Jennifer is joining us to break all of this down. Let's go where |
| 1:15.1 | things are at right now. Let's start with the physical evidence found inside the Hollywood rental, |
| 1:19.9 | which we keep learning about every single week. There seems to be a new little piece that was in that |
| 1:25.0 | garage sale. We have the at-home crematorium. |
| 1:30.9 | Let's go back to that for just a second, Tony. What would this be used for? Because I, maybe I'm not |
| 1:36.7 | up on a farm or something. If you're, you know, incinerating, you know, animals that have died. |
| 1:43.3 | Like there are practical uses for it, you know, whether that have died. Like there are practical uses for it. |
| 1:46.8 | You know, |
| 1:47.4 | whether than burying a cow, you know, you could do this. |
| 1:50.9 | But not typically in the Hollywood Hills home. |
| 1:53.8 | And a chainsaw still with the protective sheath still on. |
| 1:58.7 | P.I. Steve Fisher said the plan got upended. That's his opinion from an investigative |
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