Why Hasn’t Anyone Been Charged In D4VD Tesla Death Case? FBI Agent Breaks Down the Gaps
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead in the front trunk of a Tesla that had been marked, cited, and towed — and no one noticed for weeks. One year earlier, she was reported missing. Five months later, she was caught on video near her family’s home. And now, a month after her body was discovered, there’s still no arrest. No charges. No confirmed suspect.
This case isn’t closed — but it’s not moving either.
In this Hidden Killers segment, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer returns to walk us through the critical investigative red flags law enforcement should be acting on right now. She’s not speculating. She’s speaking as someone who’s handled these cases firsthand — when the pressure is high, the evidence is fading, and the public is losing trust.
She covers:
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The tow yard failures — and what investigators may have missed in that 72-hour window
- How digital evidence from the Tesla or cell phones should be prioritized (and why delays can destroy a case)
- What the FBI would look for in the family’s timeline gaps if Celeste was known to be back home
- Whether law enforcement is being too cautious — or just doesn’t have the evidence
- Why the lack of a crime scene makes this exponentially harder — and what you chase when you have no location, no cause of death, and no murder weapon
This is a behind-the-scenes look at how the federal system would handle this investigation, what law enforcement should be doing today — and why they may already be running out of time.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.1 | Celeste, and the timeline, as we were talking about, |
| 0:12.1 | Celeste was reported missing in April of 2024. |
| 0:18.2 | And the timeline, as far as we knew, up until, like like yesterday, as of this recording, was she was missing, completely missing for all of that time up until the time that they found her. |
| 0:29.5 | But now there is security camera footage that is from, I believe, the neighbors or on their own house. |
| 0:39.5 | I don't know which camera it is. |
| 0:49.0 | But it is showing Celeste at her residence, her parents' residence, where she, allegedly, where, you know, she was reported missing from. |
| 0:56.0 | About five months later at home yelling at the neighbors who were outside doing karaoke or something. |
| 1:01.4 | How does that deal with this timeline here? |
| 1:06.9 | Is this just, is it simple enough of, well, she returned home and nobody reported that she returned home? |
| 1:08.9 | Is that the answer to that question? |
| 1:12.7 | Well, I think that's the answer, but it begs the question, how many other times did she return home? Is that the answer to that question? Well, I think that's the answer, but it begs the question, |
| 1:18.9 | how many other times did she return home? Yeah. Didn't catch on video. I mean, this whole missing thing now really seems bastardized to me. Yeah, was she missing? I guess is the question. Right. We know she |
| 1:25.8 | went missing in January and then came back and then was reported missing in April. |
| 1:30.3 | And that was after being seen on footage by that pawn shop in March, reported in April. |
| 1:37.5 | And again, the police, there's 11 police reports regarding responses to her house. |
| 1:43.8 | One of them on the day she was reported missing, but unrelated to the missing report. |
| 1:48.9 | So it seems a hot mess for law enforcement. |
| 1:52.4 | I think all of us can see the timeline is a mess because she didn't want to be found. |
| 1:57.7 | She didn't want people to know where she was at. |
| 2:00.4 | And if people knew where she was |
| 2:01.8 | at, they didn't say anything. And that's a real disturbing part of this whole thing. I mean, |
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