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

[Nattyj1991]

Well, yeah, actually some people said it was a bad decision (back then and since then). OTOH, people did marry much younger back then. My favorite aunt married at 16 (and he was 18). They dated from the time she was 14. My mom married at 18 and dated my dad from the time she was 15 (he was 20 - they were married for over 60 years, very happily).

That being said, both that aunt AND my parents were shocked by Elvis's relationship with Priscilla. Too big an age gap for them. As a result, his music was banned in our household. My parents were disgusted that our next door neighbor was an Elvis fan and played his music, but stopped short of prohibiting me from playing over there. But for years, I was given the idea that Elvis was a horrible person (not just the age gap, but also the way he danced, ha). The pastor of our church talked about him from the pulpit, etc., saying he corrupted "a child."

Priscilla eventually came to think of it as a bad decision, herself, as indicated by every biography I've read of Elvis. I remember feeling sorry for him, as he pined away for her after she left him. Reading Priscilla's autobiography is eye-opening as well. At least they waited until she was 22 to marry. Whether her book is forthcoming with all details is certainly a matter of opinion, but I think they waited to consummate their relationship until she was much older than 13.

However, Celeste was only 11 when she ran away, as I understand it. Average age of onset of puberty has dropped since the 1950's, so I guess there's definitely a comparison to be made between Priscilla and Celeste.

It's my understanding that the average wait for full autopsy reports in L.A. County is several months. The number of cases they have is staggering and resources are thin. Four to six months for the toxicology:

https://me.lacounty.gov/faqs/#1525897683365-d8048457-c352

IMO

I really appreciate all that background about the Elvis/Priscilla relationship. Honestly, I’m not even sure what point I was trying to make when I said that. On a different note, I was 13 when I made that ultimate decision with my boyfriend, and he was 17. Not saying I condone the relationship Celeste may or may not have had with David, I can just see how it happens. But anyway, I really do appreciate everything you shared. I didn’t grow up in that era so hearing those kinds of memories from you and your family’s perspective from all the way back then is super interesting. MOO!

 

[Nattyj1991]

LE did show up at his door. They brought Celeste back to her home after the first time she went missing. But a few months later she ran away again.

I know about them bringing Celeste home and her running away again. What I’m saying is it would be nice to be a fly on the wall and know if Celeste’s family suspected David as being the reason their daughter was missing and having something to do with her death BEFORE she was ever found in his car. Like did they already think David did it and this just confirmed it? Or what? I hope this makes more sense. It’s hard getting thoughts to paper. MOO.

 

[Nattyj1991]

Do we know when Celeste first ran away? I think this last time was the 3rd? We know he was allegedly grooming her at 11, 4 years ago. BTW, he also released a song titled "Runaway" in Dec 2021.

That’s super morbid. I’m trying to figure out the answer to your question myself but no such luck!

 

[IQuestion]

Do we know when Celeste first ran away? I think this last time was the 3rd? We know he was allegedly grooming her at 11, 4 years ago. BTW, he also released a song titled "Runaway" in Dec 2021.

HONEYBUN!! Per two really great youtube crime commenters, excellent information. Joshua "Josh" Ritter is a Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney who hosts the weekly podcast Courtroom Confidential. CR and D4 were communicating (possibly for 2 years) when he lived in Houston, Tx. She did not "runaway" from home until he moved to Los Angeles! So, her home life was fine until the "guy she met on line" moved to the area, Los Angeles, Calif.
IMO...D4 was the "disruptor" and lured her away. Hmmm, a youngster sneaking off to meet an online predator is nothing new and always inherently dangerous.

 

[Absoluterubbish]

i believe it’s celeste herrera

She has straight hair not curly from all the pics I have seen of her

 

[dotr]

Sep 25, 2025 #Banfield
TMZ senior news reporter Charlie Neff joins "Banfield" after talking with D4vd's friends, who say they knew Celeste Rivas Hernandez as his 19-year-old girlfriend. Rivas Hernandez's decomposed body was found inside D4vd's car and her cause of death remains a mystery.
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D4vd's Friends Thought He Was Celeste Rivas' Boyfriend, Thought She Was 19

Friends who partied with and knew singer D4vd were under the impression Celeste Rivas was his girlfriend, and were shocked when news came out Celeste was only 14.

www.tmz.com

''Friends who partied with and knew singer D4vd were under the impression Celeste Rivas was his girlfriend, and were shocked when news came out Celeste was only 14.

Sources who party in the L.A. music scene tell TMZ ... they saw D4vd and Celeste at parties and hangouts ... and it appeared to them they were a couple.''
''We're told some of them were under the impression she was a student at USC. The friends believed Celeste was around 19 years old and presented herself as such.''

''The people who are now buzzing about what they saw tell TMZ ... one of the reasons they thought she was over 18 was because she was hanging out at places that had age restrictions.

Another thing we're told ... D4vd's contemporaries who were at these parties and hangouts were shocked there was any remote connection between D4vd and Celeste's death -- something that has not been established as far as we know -- because his demeanor was "super shy, soft spoken and gentle."

 

[aurycore]

Did she lie about being a college student or did d4vd make up a lie and told her to roll with it

 

[sapphire blue]

@MassGuy agree with you re timing of arrest (although much less familiar with US police & legal procedures).
In Australia, police usually know a lot more than what is being shared & reported by media. Journalist are legally restricted in respect to publishing things they might find through independent investigation (this is to protect ‘sub-justice’ court/jury integrity)
…I only mention this because this case seems so easily traceable. The owner of the car registration is known with presumably few individual who has access. Clear alibis can be established based on travel movements and tour dates, and no doubt there is loads of CCTV footage in that area

Snipped/ bolded by me - super interesting! I didn’t know that was the case in Australia. I really want to know more about how that is navigated legally. Not the case in the US (Well…typically )

subjudice in Australia begins once a warrant is issued, someone is arrested or charged, up until the court has finished dealing with the case. Media cannot publish prejudicial information

 

[Karin1974]

Weed imo

IMO - A hard drug to a 13/14 year old girl surely? MOO

 

[mickey2942]

I am not going to judge anyone, not the victim's family or D4vd. I had a teen who did what he wanted, it was impossible to control him. He told people he was 18, and on his own. Often with a story about living in an abusive home.

Some teens are their own worst enemy. Unfortunately. Not victim blaming, because the victim had no way of predicting this outcome. Hoping that there will be an explanation about the situation and the perpetrator charged.

 

[libraryg]

Perhaps whoever did it genuinely thought if her poor body was in bags the smell would not escape.
The posts he made that said they had a kid on the way, I initially thought they were posted in November last year and then worked out that IF true, the baby could have been due at the very latest July possibly August and that maybe that played a part in all this. But I think I got confused between the UK and US date format. I saw 11 and thought it was November.
But despite everything, even if he DIDN’T do it, I still maintain that he would not be doing shows and acting normally if she had disappeared and he didn’t know anything about what had happened to her. He’d be trying to find her.

Where had he posted they were expecting?

 

[dotr]

Sep 26, 2025
How 15-year-old Celeste Rivas died and if a crime was committed remain crucial questions and could takes weeks, or even months, for investigators to answer, sources told ABC News.

Referenced video below.. (dragging male body, himself?) to car trunk)

Premiered Feb 7, 2025 #d4vd #WITHERED #OneMoreDance
d4vd - One More Dance (Official Video

 

[jypsijemini]

BANFIELD NewsNation Full Episode 9/25

Coverage of "David & Celeste" begins at timestamp 19:00
- Footage of removalists taking boxes out of 1368 Vireo Dr
- Footage of red Tesla leaving garage of 1368 Vireo Dr
- Revelation that David signed $3m deal with Interscope in 2022; TMZ estimates as much as $6m depending on sales
- At 25:35, interview with Charlie Neff from TMZ who interviewed "friends of David"
- Guest: former Modesto PD detective Jon Buehler (worked the Laci Peterson case)

 

[jypsijemini]

Where had he posted they were expecting?

This article says Discord

Economic Times Article

 

[64WhetstoneRoad]

I’ve been thinking… As we’ve seen in a few articles, D4vid’s friends thought Celeste was over 18. Now. Not three years ago but now. I’ve worked with thousands of teens and preteens over the last 15 years and most are just kids being kids or teens doing teen things but then there are the few that seem to want to be older faster and by saying this I am in no way victim blaming, Celeste was a CHILD and had no responsibility in her actions nor in the outcome. I do wonder if she just said at 11 “well, I’m 14”. No questions asked. To a 17 year old that is still too young but it happens. Maybe even 15. She looked young, not 11 years old young. So as the years passed she went from being 14 or so in David’s circle to being over age or on the cusp or there round about thanks to the fake id’s she had. (Jmo but I’m sure I read it in an article). I’ve had kids with older boyfriends unfortunately, much older, skipping classes, running away, disappearing with said older boyfriends and sometimes the boys/young men had no idea the girl was actually younger than she said was. All of this thinking came about when it’s said the two Celeste’s were regularly mistaken. Even we’ve mistaken them. We’re mistaking a child with someone almost ten years her senior…so that led me to thinking that perhaps she did just seem older, again, no fault of hers. Psychologically I’m not sure how an 11 year old can pass as a teen or a 14 year old pass as someone over the age of 18. I remember now one girl who was 14 when I started teaching her and she did always just have an older air about her, she knew what she wanted, where she was going and seemed pretty put together. I think her friends were older, her mothers friends, then boys and now almost 10 years on (she looks exactly the same now as she did at 14) men double her age following her on insta and leaving her comments. I cringe knowing these men and knowing how young she is. Anyway, point is.. a child ending up in a terrible situation, no adults really there to educate her or help her through things that she was going through, maybe helping her see it’s ok to be 11, no child should ever be made to or allowed to make such decisions in their life and to probably feel so alone. The adults failed her in every way here and they really could have just stepped in. At venues staff know what id’s are valid, which aren’t. I just don’t get it.
After saying all of this in no way either am I condoning David’s actions over the last three years. Over that time span he had to have known something. At first maybe not but keeping up a lie that big is no easy feat, it’s a lot to carry alone, for a child to carry alone. Poor Celeste.

All JMO.

 

[scapa]

The older Celeste seems to have straight hair everywhere I've seen her. How can the 2 Celeste's be mistaken for each other if that's the case? I did noticed the other Celeste wears large glasses, like in the video where a girl is in a hoodie that covers her head, and she tells David to answer the question someone has asked.

If the 2 Celeste's are not that similar, they can't be mistaken for each other IMHO. The video of a female at his concert, wearing a black tube top, with long curly hair, doesn't appear to be the older Celeste (unless she changed her hair). Determining who's who in David's zoo is very important to this case IMHO.

Agree.

I don't find the two Celestes to be particularly similar. I can imagine that they're even less so IRL. I expect that those close to them knew them as quite different people, with specific relationships to D4vd.

D4vd may turn out to be a master criminal, planting Doppelgänger Celestes among his retinue, but my guess is that there just happened to be two lasses named Celeste in his crew, one older and one younger, and it was the younger CR with whom he was more recently involved/ obsessed, etc.

 

[hws134]

Private Eye Shines Light on D4vd's Impounded Tesla in Celeste Rivas Case

A private eye is revealing more details in the case of missing California teen Celeste Rivas -- whose dismembered body was found in a car owned by singer D4vd earlier this month -- and we're getting a good look at the Tesla as police first encountered it.

www.tmz.com

"Licensed private investigator Steve Fischer just posted some of his legwork in the case ... he tracked down photos of the car before it was impounded and the CHP incident report responding to the abandoned car."

 

[Acedia]

D4vd's mom spotted during mysterious gun store trip amid murder probe

The mom of embattled singer D4vd has been spotted at a Texas pawn and gun store, as the investigation continues into a missing teenager's dismembered remains found in her son's Tesla.

www.dailymail.co.uk

D4vd Tesla shocker sees chilling twist: Celeste Rivas met the American singer online when she was just 12

Teen Celeste Rivas, missing since May 2024, was found deceased in musician D4vd's Tesla trunk. Sources allege D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, had an underage relationship with Celeste, meeting her online at 11. Her family confirmed their awareness, stating she vanished after going...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[Acedia]

Private Eye Shines Light on D4vd's Impounded Tesla in Celeste Rivas Case

A private eye is revealing more details in the case of missing California teen Celeste Rivas -- whose dismembered body was found in a car owned by singer D4vd earlier this month -- and we're getting a good look at the Tesla as police first encountered it.

www.tmz.com

"Licensed private investigator Steve Fischer just posted some of his legwork in the case ... he tracked down photos of the car before it was impounded and the CHP incident report responding to the abandoned car."

SF is not the best source of info IMO, per families he's worked for and with. He gets himself involved wherever there's a spotlight and tends to disappear whenever the spotlight fades

 

[Acedia]

Celeste Rivas believed to be 19-year-old USC student, D4vd's friends say: report

Friends of singer D4vd said he and Celeste Rivas Hernandez were "romantically involved" and didn't think she was underage because she was present at age-restricted events.

www.foxla.com

"Police said D4vd is cooperating with the investigation, and he is not a suspect or person of interest at this time."

I mean... how...?