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Why Was A Private Investigator Hired in D4VD Tesla Celeste Body Case?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News Commentary, True Crime, News

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

When a decomposing body was found in the front trunk of a Tesla linked to indie musician D4vd, it shattered the silence around a missing person case that had gone largely ignored. The body was that of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, reported missing in 2024. But it wasn’t law enforcement who made the next big move—it was the owner of the Hollywood Hills home D4vd had rented. He hired a private investigator.

This segment dives into the unanswered questions swirling around the Tesla body discovery: How did Celeste die? Who left her there? Why is there so much silence? And why did it take a dead teenager linked to a pop star to finally get people to care?

We examine the implications of private citizens hiring investigators when law enforcement stays quiet—and what it means when justice is outsourced to those just trying to protect their names.

#CelesteRivas #D4vd #TeslaBodyCase #PrivateInvestigation #HollywoodMystery #LAPDCase #MissingPersons #TrueCrime2025 #JusticeForCeleste #HiddenKillers

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Transcript

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0:00.0

is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:02.7

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:06.1

When the LAPD opened the front trunk of that impounded Tesla of David's D4VD,

0:14.4

whatever you want to call him, they didn't find equipment, luggage, or even a bad battery.

0:20.5

They found Celeste, Rebus Hernandez.

0:26.7

And she wasn't popping up like a jack in the box.

0:30.2

Hey, you found me.

0:32.7

No, that was not the scene.

0:36.1

They found a body.

0:38.4

Not the kind you'd expect in a Beverly Hills impound lot.

0:42.3

Not a casualty of speed or heat.

0:45.8

A decomposing human body wrapped up and hidden in the storage compartment of a car the car wasn't registered

0:57.1

to some random unknown it belonged to david anthony burke known as david d4vd not to be confused with

1:04.4

his brother blue ray spelled also very bizarrely he's not just some indie artist with Spotify pages. This is a kid who blew up with

1:14.6

aching intimate lyrics, charting songs about isolation, heartbreak, and youth. The kind of vulnerability

1:22.7

that connects like gospel to an entire generation wired into emotion and loneliness.

1:28.9

His voice helped people feel seen.

1:32.6

And that does not make him a murderer.

1:37.4

That's important.

1:39.2

We do not know the answer to any of those questions yet.

1:44.2

So in words spread that a teenage girl's remains were found in his front storage compartment

1:49.5

of his vehicle, the frunk.

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