CA- Body (IDd as Celeste Rivas Hernandez) found in vehicle at Hollywood tow yard, abandoned Tesla registered to singer D4vd – 8 September 2025 #2

[AnyNameIWish]

So... this URL used to link to Celeste's case, saying everything was deferred.

https://me.lacounty.gov/case-detail/?caseNumber=2025-14252

It is now blank and nothing is public as of Friday 11/21.

I can only hope this means LE has more of the goods. TMZ/Harvey keeps dropping more info, the Medical Examiner office and LAPD don't have a good working relationship, the whole Spring Santa Barbara trip.... but the confirmation of actual dismemberment is what strikes me

On the first week, some news agencies and Harvey SAID dismembered. Then they pulled it back saying they could not be sure.

And now..... for sure, dismembered. I think they knew dismembered from day 1.

One more thing he added was "don't try to use logic... none of this makes sense"... even tho I have reservations about Harvey, he started off at NBC4 and knows how to navigate Hollywood news agencies. So all our questions.... I think are valid if this were a "normal" case but I think we'll be surprised at the actions of these kids. As one of the talking heads said, this isn't Dexter. It is amateur hour.


As for rural Santa Barbara, the place inland that comes to mind for me is the area near Neverland Ranch (since sold to someone else, closed off.) That highway running thru the area is NOT well lit and even during the day not well visited.

The Neverland Gates · Santa Ynez, California

maps.app.goo.gl

 

[Telltale]

But coroners can surely tell decapitation/severing based upon sharp edges a la guillotine from exactly this kind of organic separation, yes?

Yes of course.

I was talking about how she could appear dismembered (to first responders) without having actually been chopped up. Hence the confusing rumours around it.

The coroner will of course have the training and anatomical knowledge to know either way, but those rumours didn't come out of the coroners office. They were from (presumably) the people immediately on scene.

 

[dalsglen]

It just seems so ridiculously moronic to kill her, dismember her and then dump her in your trunk. Why not bury parts all over the place.

 

[AnyNameIWish]

Saturday morning TMZ update with Geragos...

LAPD viewing as homicide ....
David is not only suspect ...
At least 1 other suspect, in connection to dismemberment having to do with the trip to remote area in Santa Barbara, not necessarily the murder ...
Geragos says they've triangulated his location to have been in Santa Barbara at the time using Tesla and other technology/ social media??...
Levin (Harvey) thinks it is video from the Tesla that's giving things away. He can't be "more specific " but someone said to him "hiding the body"..... he thinks maybe SB was where body was initially hidden? He cannot explain how the body ends up back in LA in September.

I hope the 2nd suspect is spilling ALL the beans NOW. David has money and attorneys for days so 2nd suspect is toast if they do not!

Aren't Geragos and Burk friends & colleagues though??? Burk is the high profile attorney hired by David. I worry some of this is being leaked to protect David in one way or another. MOO.

Nothing terribly NEW per se on this but having Geragos and Levin share this as Truth is interesting.

I can only imagine the 2 possible names for the assistant in this matter and I think it's one of the people VERY close to David who was in San Francisco with him touring around on July 30th, pictured STILL on the insta of David. Interesting thst the "fweind" has since deleted ALL pics with David on his profile when they used to be pictured together quite often!
At the very END of this, Levin asks Geragos... man or woman?? And Geragos will NOT even say.

 

[Gemmie]

At least 1 other suspect, in connection to dismemberment having to do with the trip to remote area in Santa Barbara, not necessarily the murder ...

I hope the 2nd suspect is spilling ALL the beans NOW. David has money and attorneys for days so 2nd suspect is toast if they do not!

I'm imagining that they are both going to try to throw each other under the bus to save their own butts. MOO

 

[AnyNameIWish]

I'm imagining that they are both going to try to throw each other under the bus to save their own butts. MOO

It's all just a question of time. I hope they are running to the DA office to share what they know and be done with it. Anyone who thinks they'll use anything other than the truth to get out of this is deluded. I doubt they're reading this but for their own young lives I hope they do what's right.....

@Gemmie are you thinking what I'm thinking that it is the 2 fwiends who accompanied David to his San Francisco show?

 

[Gemmie]

It's all just a question of time. I hope they are running to the DA office to share what they know and be done with it. Anyone who thinks they'll use anything other than the truth to get out of this is deluded. I doubt they're reading this but for their own young lives I hope they do what's right.....

@Gemmie are you thinking what I'm thinking that it is the 2 fwiends who accompanied David to his San Francisco show?

It's very possible. They seem to be a tight group. It'll sure be interesting when more details come out naming the other potential suspect(s). Then the puzzle pieces can be put together. Cuz right now they are scattered all over the table, with some having fallen on the floor.

 

[MassGuy]

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

According to those sources, the Medical Examiner received the body in horrendous condition ... it was decapitated, the torso was in tact, but the limbs had been removed and cut into multiple pieces.
We're told all of the body parts were "partially frozen" ... and had, apparently, been thawing out while sitting in the trunk of D4vd's Tesla.

Celeste Rivas' Body Discovered Frozen, Cause of Death Likely 'Undetermined'

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

www.tmz.com

 

[Gemmie]

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

According to those sources, the Medical Examiner received the body in horrendous condition ... it was decapitated, the torso was in tact, but the limbs had been removed and cut into multiple pieces.
We're told all of the body parts were "partially frozen" ... and had, apparently, been thawing out while sitting in the trunk of D4vd's Tesla.

Celeste Rivas' Body Discovered Frozen, Cause of Death Likely 'Undetermined'

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

www.tmz.com

Holy *BEEP*!

 

[Leprikawn]

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

According to those sources, the Medical Examiner received the body in horrendous condition ... it was decapitated, the torso was in tact, but the limbs had been removed and cut into multiple pieces.
We're told all of the body parts were "partially frozen" ... and had, apparently, been thawing out while sitting in the trunk of D4vd's Tesla.

Celeste Rivas' Body Discovered Frozen, Cause of Death Likely 'Undetermined'

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

www.tmz.com

Sounds like they were trying to throw off the timeline. The Ice man in New York did that.

 

[Gemmie]

Sounds like they were trying to throw off the timeline. The Ice man in New York did that.

That wasn't what I thought. I'm not sure they'd think things through about things like timelines, etc. I'm more apt to think they simply did it to stop the smell in the house/garage/wherever while they tried to figure out how to dispose of her. Cuz leaving her body in a frunk of a Tesla that got moved around a lot is NOT a smart thing to do. I'm not giving them that much credit to be that smart.

 

[MassGuy]

That wasn't what I thought. I'm not sure they'd think things through about things like timelines, etc. I'm more apt to think they simply did it to stop the smell in the house/garage/wherever while they tried to figure out how to dispose of her. Cuz leaving her body in a frunk of a Tesla that got moved around a lot is NOT a smart thing to do. I'm not giving them that much credit to be that smart.

I just hope they were able to find that freezer and recover evidence. My suspicion all along is that someone was supposed to dispose of the body, and didn't for some reason.

 

[Telltale]

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

According to those sources, the Medical Examiner received the body in horrendous condition ... it was decapitated, the torso was in tact, but the limbs had been removed and cut into multiple pieces.
We're told all of the body parts were "partially frozen" ... and had, apparently, been thawing out while sitting in the trunk of D4vd's Tesla.

Celeste Rivas' Body Discovered Frozen, Cause of Death Likely 'Undetermined'

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

www.tmz.com

Oh sheeet nevermind then.

Damn, I dismissed the idea she'd been frozen, because if you were organised and motivated enough to process and freeze/store her body for weeks/months. Why the heII would you then take her out of wherever she was and stash her in your car, parked on your street, outside your house. While you ponced off on a multi month tour?

We know they had, at absolute minimum, 10+ hours between the car being parked in its final location and the tour bus leaving. They really couldn't fit in disposing of her? Or at least hiding her somewhere less public before they left?

I really need to know the reasoning (if any) behind her being left in the Tesla, or what went sideways with their plan, because at this point I got nothing.

MOO

 

[Gemmie]

I just hope they were able to find that freezer and recover evidence. My suspicion all along is that someone was supposed to dispose of the body, and didn't for some reason.

What goods could the freezer give up in your opinion? They already have her blood so not like that's needed. Fingerprints? Anything else IYO?

 

[Telltale]

it was decapitated, and, while the torso was intact, the limbs had been removed and cut into multiple pieces.

We're told all of the body parts were "partially frozen" ... and had, apparently, been thawing out while sitting in the trunk of D4vd's Tesla.

Remember, D4vd's vehicle had not been moved for several days when it was parked on a Hollywood Hills street near his rental home ... which resulted in it getting towed, and then the body being found.

Hang on how does that work? At least according to the PI, the Tesla was parked there on the 30th July and nobody went near the car after the tour bus left. Her body wasn't found until the 8th September.

Even if she was put in there frozen solid and the Tesla had enough juice to run the aircon for a month straight. I can't imagine it can keep the frunk temperature at near zero. You are telling me that after 5+ weeks in a frunk in an L.A summer. She was still 'partially frozen?'

Where are they getting 'several days' from? Was the PI wrong about the last time the car moved, or that she had to have already been in there?

I imagine SF didn't sit down and review a month+ of footage to make absolutely sure nobody touched the car after July 30th. Especially as I don't think he had footage directly covering it's final parking spot, so he'd have to mosaic indirect footage together to cover all possible approaches and note anyone carrying anything body-like. That would be a huge time sink even on 5x. So its entirely possible he ran with a reasonable assumption based on a skim though and missed something big.

Celeste Rivas' Body Discovered Frozen, Cause of Death Likely 'Undetermined'

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

www.tmz.com

 

[uteliaisuus]

Hang on how does that work? At least according to the PI, the Tesla was parked there on the 30th July and nobody went near the car after the tour bus left. Her body wasn't found until the 8th September.

Even if she was put in there frozen solid and the Tesla had enough juice to run the aircon for a month straight. I can't imagine it can keep the frunk temperature at near zero. You are telling me that after 5+ weeks in a frunk in an L.A summer. She was still 'partially frozen?'

Where are they getting 'several days' from? Was the PI wrong about the last time the car moved, or that she had to have already been in there?

I imagine SF didn't sit down and review a month+ of footage to make absolutely sure nobody approached the car after July 30th. That would be a huge time sink even on 5x. So it's possible he ran with a reasonable assumption based on a skim though.

Celeste Rivas' Body Discovered Frozen, Cause of Death Likely 'Undetermined'

Celeste Rivas's body had been frozen, and as a result, it looks the L.A. County Medical Examiner will not be able to establish a cause of death ... sources directly connected to the investigation tell TMZ.

www.tmz.com

The only way this would work, if all statements are accurate, is that the car had been there since July, but someone went in September, maybe even a day or two before she was found, and put her frozen body in the frunk, I think?

 

[MassGuy]

What goods could the freezer give up in your opinion? They already have her blood so not like that's needed. Fingerprints? Anything else IYO?

If you have a freezer that was accessible to someone, then that can help connect them to this crime. So it's more about where this freezer was than anything.

 

[Gemmie]

If you have a freezer that was accessible to someone, then that can help connect them to this crime. So it's more about where this freezer was than anything.

Oh I see. Thanks!

(OT - Were your ears burning/ringing yesterday? Hehehe)

 

[BlaiseFinlay]

Oh sheeet nevermind then.

Damn, I dismissed the idea she'd been frozen, because if you were organised and motivated enough to process and freeze/store her body for weeks/months. Why the heII would you then take her out of wherever she was and stash her in your car, parked on your street, outside your house. While you ponced off on a multi month tour?

We know they had, at absolute minimum, 10+ hours between the car being parked in its final location and the tour bus leaving. They really couldn't fit in disposing of her? Or at least hiding her somewhere less public before they left?

I really need to know the reasoning (if any) behind her being left in the Tesla, or what went sideways with their plan, because at this point I got nothing.

MOO

My reaction too. I kept reading speculation that maybe she had been frozen, and I internally dismissed it as ridiculous — trading one storage place for another, when both are presumably connected to you, makes no sense to me.

Also curious how the old apartment fits in, if she was killed in January or February as is being speculated. It could make sense if they had to move her if he was moving out, but they’re saying she was thawing when found in the car in September, whereas he moved out around March, so that doesn’t track.

I understand the procrastination if the car was the first hiding place. I don’t understand it when it is the second or third hiding place and actively thawing.

Perhaps my earlier guess that D4vd delegated disposal to someone not up to the task may still apply. D4vd was handing the hiding of her up until his tour (by freezing her, evidently effectively), then when he was getting ready to go on tour, he knew the risk of leaving her in a house while he was gone, so he moved her to the car with instructions to someone to dispose of the body. My current speculation.

Can’t figure out their theory relating to SB. It might be a great place to dump a body, but they clearly didn’t dump a body there. Do they think it was (very) premeditated murder and that’s where he killed her? That would make sense actually, that’s just not usually my first guess for someone in D4vd’s circumstances (meaning: no violent history that we’re aware of; young; a lot to risk on the odds of being able to get away with murder — while she was admittedly a threat to his career, there’s a reason situations like this are typically dealt with by continued payments rather than murder). But perhaps it’s that simple, and the imagery that he has associated with his music is more a literal reflection of him than metaphorical. Just my musings.

 

[Lucy6226]

The information about her body being frozen is interesting. It goes against the timeline we thought we knew. Either she was place in the car only a day or two before discovery, rather than when the car was first spotted. Or she was placed in an extremely efficient cool box.

I absolutely think him going on tour outside of the US meant her body had to be moved. It's too much of a coincidence imo.