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

[PaulaDC]

Did David report Celeste missing?

 

[Chimera]

She would have turned 15 on 7th September. She was born 7/9/10 so was 14 when she was found deceased and 13-14 in 2024.

Yep. That is correct.
News articles originally seemed to place her at 13 when found deceased but there was a mix up which is understandable.
Still too young to be in a relationship with an older man.
Imo.

 

[Chimera]

Did David report Celeste missing?

No, her family did in 2024.
Omo.

 

[dotr]

Sep 21 2025 rbbm
''The 20-year-old musician is said to be fully cooperating with the investigation, which remains ongoing.

At the same time, Burke’s music has experienced a surge in popularity. His 2022 single "Romantic Homicide" re-entered the US Spotify Top 10 and climbed 102 places to number 42 on the Global Top 50. The track has now been streamed more than 1.7 billion times.

The heightened attention has coincided with cancellations across his live schedule. Performances in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Grammy Museum have been removed, with his US and European tours also cancelled. Interscope Records has also suspended the planned deluxe release of his debut album Withered: Marcescence.''

D4vd Quietly Removed From Spilt Milk Festival Lineup Amidst Police Investigation - Rolling Stone Australia

US artist dv4d has been quietly removed from the Spilt Milk 2025 lineup as an investigation into the body of a missing teenager found in a Tesla registered to the singer continues

au.rollingstone.com

''D4vd is still scheduled to perform sideshows during the Australian trip, with gigs confirmed in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Tickets for the headline shows are still on sale.''

 

[Absoluterubbish]

Agreed !
The reporting has been somewhat confusing for this case.
Celeste was 12 in 2024.
She was 13 when found deceased.
There is a possibility that she'd told David she was older, we don't know.
No blame to her as I think she was groomed and maybe didn't want to lose that connection she thought she had with David ?
And that may be the cause of confusion for msm because some sources are still reporting her as 15 when found.
Her mother reported her missing in 2024, according to sources I've linked.

D4vd Removes Bloody Shirt Merch From Website Amid Death Investigation

D4vd has removed the bloody shirt merchandise from his website as police continue to investigate the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, whose butchered corpse was discovered in a Tesla registered in his name this month.

www.tmz.com

Celeste was mature for her age and depending how tall she was, she may have convinced David she was older ?

Here is a photo of her from the above link :

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The Riverside County Sheriff told TMZ the teen was reported missing on April 4, 2024 ... and she was found dead in the vehicle in a Hollywood tow yard on Sept. 8 this year -- one day after her birthday.

They reported her missing when she didn't return after leaving with David to go see a movie.
She was with David with her families' consent, it appears from the interview the reporter had with her brother; they reported her as missing when she didn't return.

We all want to believe the best about David, but it doesn't sit well with me that she was found in his car.
It may have been someone else who ended her life, but she was with David when last seen.
Imo.

She was 13 when she was
Reported missing and would have turned 15 the day after her body was found according to everything I’ve read. Her birthday is Sept 7?

 

[aurycore]

why didnt her family question their daughters disappearance? and why on earth were they letting her hang out with a twenty year old at her age?

 

[Pharmasgirl]

Doesn't explain why he didn't tell the cops or Medical Examiner that the person found chopped up in the frunk of his Tesla, resembled Celeste. (If mom knew about the "Shhh" tattoo, he surely did as well.)

We don’t really know WHAT he told the PD or ME…do we?

 

[friendlysleuther]

We don’t really know WHAT he told the PD or ME…do we?

I would assume that if he told the PD or ME that it closely resembled Celeste, she wouldn’t of been unidentified + only identified via DNA

 

[friendlysleuther]

Sep 21 2025 rbbm
''The 20-year-old musician is said to be fully cooperating with the investigation, which remains ongoing.

<rsbm>

It was his team that said he was cooperating. Not authorities

 

[PNW]

Agreed !
The reporting has been somewhat confusing for this case.
Celeste was 12 in 2024.
She was 13 when found deceased.
There is a possibility that she'd told David she was older, we don't know.
No blame to her as I think she was groomed and maybe didn't want to lose that connection she thought she had with David ?
And that may be the cause of confusion for msm because some sources are still reporting her as 15 when found.
Her mother reported her missing in 2024, according to sources I've linked.

D4vd Removes Bloody Shirt Merch From Website Amid Death Investigation

D4vd has removed the bloody shirt merchandise from his website as police continue to investigate the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, whose butchered corpse was discovered in a Tesla registered in his name this month.

www.tmz.com

Celeste was mature for her age and depending how tall she was, she may have convinced David she was older ?

Here is a photo of her from the above link :

View attachment 615664

The Riverside County Sheriff told TMZ the teen was reported missing on April 4, 2024 ... and she was found dead in the vehicle in a Hollywood tow yard on Sept. 8 this year -- one day after her birthday.

They reported her missing when she didn't return after leaving with David to go see a movie.
She was with David with her families' consent, it appears from the interview the reporter had with her brother; they reported her as missing when she didn't return.

We all want to believe the best about David, but it doesn't sit well with me that she was found in his car.
It may have been someone else who ended her life, but she was with David when last seen.
Imo.

She was born in 2010. She was not 12 in 2024.

 

[Chimera]

She was born in 2010. She was not 12 in 2024.

Yes, I posted a clarification later.

 

[Aegon_the_Conqueror]

How sure are they that she died on the 8th?

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

 

[The4TierBridge]

How sure are they that she died on the 8th?

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

The listed date of death on the LA Coroner website is always the date of body being found/date death was pronounced. For example, this man’s remains were discovered earlier this year (he was unidentified for a few months which is why I remember him), and the date of death is the date his partial skeleton was found. He obviously didn’t entirely skeletonize and disarticulate in less than a day, but that is when his death became known to the medical examiner. It’s the same with the place of death info.

https://me.lacounty.gov/case-detail/?caseNumber=2025-03940

 

[friendlysleuther]

why didnt her family question their daughters disappearance? and why on earth were they letting her hang out with a twenty year old at her age?

I mean.. Whenever I was a teenager, my parents could advise me on what to and not do.. but at the end of the day.. i was gonna do whatever I wanted to do..

If Celeste's family didn't care that she was gone, or if they knew she was indeed with David; I dont think they would have filed a missing persons report for her.

IMO

 

[Trebor5591]

why didnt her family question their daughters disappearance? and why on earth were they letting her hang out with a twenty year old at her age?

$ in my opinion

 

[PatLaurel]

It was his team that said he was cooperating. Not authorities

The link below says otherwise.


Celeste Rivas went missing a year ago. Her decomposing body was found dead in singer D4vd's Tesla


"Police are investigating and say D4vd has been cooperating. Representatives for the 20-year-old singer, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, did not respond to requests for comment."

 

[scapa]

I mean.. Whenever I was a teenager, my parents could advise me on what to and not do.. but at the end of the day.. i was gonna do whatever I wanted to do..

If Celeste's family didn't care that she was gone, or if they knew she was indeed with David; I dont think they would have filed a missing persons report for her.

IMO

Good point -- many ways to spin the story to parents especially if the tween/ teen is determined enough and knows parent(s) well enough to pitch the story so it sticks.

I can imagine a scenario in which D4VD or a member of his entourage managed to convince C's family that she was contributing in some important way to the music, the art, the whatever, and that she was being ever so well supervised, taking online classes, blah blah blah, etc.

The whole scenario is difficult to decode at the moment. And to leave a child in pieces in a car -- absolutely and horrifically cruel.

 

[CityKid]

Wow! "Romantic Homicide". Recorded over a year ago..

I like it. Love his voice.

 

[AppleTreeGreen]

Thanks for the link, @Knox .

From the link :
Neighbors said the Tesla had been moved several times over the past three months before it was found on Bluebird Avenue, where it was ultimately located.
Rbm.

So this gives us a partial length of time, in which Celeste was deceased ?
Eta :
More from the link :
"When I taught her, she met this dude on social media. He was a rapper in LA," he said in the video, referring to Rivas and D4vd. "He came and got her. She ran away from home.
She was gone for, like, a month.
The cops found her in Hollywood, brought her back to our school."

After Rivas allegedly told her classmates the story, she disappeared again in May 2024, he said.
Following this second disappearance, the teacher said his students told him the artist, presumably D4vd, was being blackmailed.
Rbm.
So, with the first time running away to be with David and the second time --wouldn't someone have gone to David's house or rental and looked for her ?
Or did that happen (searched) and they just couldn't find her ?
Omo.

It does make me wonder that since teachers are mandated reporters if the information about the rapper and the blackmailing was escalated to the LE or reported by the teacher after students talked to him about it last year?

It does make me wonder again too that based on what the CR’s brother had said to NBCLA and the video of the teacher talking to his class above,
if there wasn’t already a paper trail within LE indicating before CR was identified via dental records that there was a 13 years old Celeste Rivas reported missing from Lake Elsinore in April 2024 and that according to police reports she was found once already in Hollywood, was in a relationship with a rapper/singer named D4vd and that she was last seen going to the movies with him? If so though I wonder why LE would have been comfortable letting D4vd leave the state after the remains discovery or not have called him back to LA for more questioning prior to her identity officially being revealed to the public or to the 16th when he canceled his show was canceled. Even in the case that perhaps CR’s records were not discovered, shouldn’t something have come up when LE looked up D4vd?

Then again, if such a paper trail did exist wouldn’t CR’s mother have been known and contacted by LE directly before or without TMZ contacting them about her or her daughter?

When CR was located in Hollywood the first time, which LE department was in charge or had conducted the search and brought her home? Was it Riverside’s or LAPD or Elsinore’s Sheriff Department?

Body of teen girl found in singer d4vd's impounded Tesla days after Salt Shed concert: What we know

Singer d4vd canceled tour dates amid an investigation into the body of a teen girl found inside his impounded Tesla just days after his Chicago show.

www.nbcchicago.com

Who was Celeste Rivas, the missing teen found dead in singer d4vd’s Tesla?

The LAPD identified the body of a girl in the car of Romantic Homicide singer d4vd. She went missing in 2024, aged 13.

www.aljazeera.com

JMO/own questioning and speculation

 

[DoGooder]

Moo...it's young money world , lots of competition n killings. She might be just a pawn in a dominance game

I was thinking the same thing too. There are no such thing as coincidences and for there to be so many in this case, the tattoo, her mom identifying her bf as "David," if she was getting tattoos i will bet she was also having sex with him. A 20 year old is not going to fall in love with a 13 year old especially when there career is just taking off and he is going to leave on tour, maybe they got into a fight and she threatened to tell police he was using her for sex, maybe she was pregnant. The biggest problem i have is the fact that D4vd was promoting bloody shirts for romantic homicide, and I think he got too big for his bridges and I think maybe he could have been romanticing murder in his mind and although I don't see him doing something stupid to jeopardize his career, I think it's important to find out where CR was especially when she first went missing and who she was with in her final days as well. I also feel like the body was hacked up to try and cover something else up or whoever did this would have at least tried to get rid of the body somewhere why only remove parts of her instead? There is too much gap between the time she went missing and was discovered. The examiners report says she was killed in the vehicle, but how easy would it be to chop someone up in a fronk? Wouldn't you most likely have to remove her from the fronk and then reinsert her back into the vehicle where she was found in pieces?