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

[Beldridge]

No person would want a body tied to them with his position, unless insane he would have made her disappear from anything involving him which is my struggle of frame.

 

[Acedia]

'She deserves justice': Celeste Rivas’ hometown mourns 'sweet child' found dead in singer's car

In Lake Elsinore, Celeste Rivas’ hometown, those who knew her are demanding justice after she was found dead in a musician's car.

www.latimes.com

Authorities have said D4vd, 20, was initially cooperating with investigators when news broke that a body was located in a vehicle registered to his name. It’s unclear if he remained cooperative after the medical examiner’s office identified Rivas as the person in the trunk.

Law enforcement sources say Burke has since retained a lawyer.

 

[PrairieWind]

No person would want a body tied to them with his position, unless insane he would have made her disappear from anything involving him which is my struggle of frame.

It could be that he was of a mindset that he literally could not let her out of his possession.

 

[Gemmie]

I went down rabbit hole on this case. Its extremely disturbing. It feels like so many people knew she was with him, she didn’t look 19 .

Im torn on he did it vs someone in his circle did it because David seemed to be climbing fame quite fast and if it came out he was with 13-14 year old it would be an end to him.
Imo I could see someone in his circle getting rid of her in order to save Davids career ( well mostly their cash cow).

I know some criminals are pretty stupid and think they can get away with their crimes (BK comes to mind), but I'd think whoever did this had to know a dead body is going to stink to high heavens. And it's not exactly a smell that you can mistake for something else. And even those that have smelled their first dead body usually come to the conclusion it's the smell of rotting flesh/death.

Lastly, the car was towed because it had been abandoned. I wouldn't think someone in his circle, looking at him as their cash cow, would be that dumb as to leave it in his Tesla, of all cars, abandoned with a hacked up dead body in the frunk and not even consider that LE was going to look at him. It was his car after all. Bye-bye cash cow.

The car, which has a Texas licence plate, was towed from the Hollywood Hills after it was abandoned five days earlier.

Body found in Tesla car linked to D4vd identified as missing teen

Authorities say the cause and time of the 15-year-old girl's death are still unknown.

www.bbc.com

Due to that, I'd be more apt to think it could be someone that had it in for him if it wasn't D4vd himself. A rival perhaps? But definitely not someone from his group. At least IMO. While I can always be wrong, it just doesn't add up for me.

 

[Gemmie]

So... The car was abandoned for a month, presumably with her inside the whole time. Then it was impounded. While towing it, nobody noticed the smell. That came days later. How? If there's a dead deer on the side of the road, you can smell it a hundred away with the air on recirculation. If I took the time to hook up a car with one of those in the trunk, towed it, and parked it, I think I'd gag until I puked.

While this MSM might have it wrong, I haven't seen that the car had been abandoned for a month. I've seen 5 days.

The car, which has a Texas licence plate, was towed from the Hollywood Hills after it was abandoned five days earlier.

Body found in Tesla car linked to D4vd identified as missing teen

Authorities say the cause and time of the 15-year-old girl's death are still unknown.

www.bbc.com

Maybe this is where you're getting a month from?:

That abandoned Tesla was towed earlier this month and workers at a Hollywood tow yard noticed a foul odor and found decomposed human remains

260K views · 3.7K reactions | Officials in Southern California have identified 15-year-old Celeste Rivas as the teenage girl who was found dead in the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to singer D4vd. Our sister station ABC7 Eyewitness News in L

Officials in Southern California have identified 15-year-old Celeste Rivas as the teenage girl who was found dead in the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to singer D4vd. Our sister station ABC7...

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[tlcya]

While this MSM might have it wrong, I haven't seen that the car had been abandoned for a month. I've seen 5 days.

The car, which has a Texas licence plate, was towed from the Hollywood Hills after it was abandoned five days earlier.

Body found in Tesla car linked to D4vd identified as missing teen

Authorities say the cause and time of the 15-year-old girl's death are still unknown.

www.bbc.com

Maybe this is where you're getting a month from?:

That abandoned Tesla was towed earlier this month and workers at a Hollywood tow yard noticed a foul odor and found decomposed human remains

260K views · 3.7K reactions | Officials in Southern California have identified 15-year-old Celeste Rivas as the teenage girl who was found dead in the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to singer D4vd. Our sister station ABC7 Eyewitness News in L

Officials in Southern California have identified 15-year-old Celeste Rivas as the teenage girl who was found dead in the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to singer D4vd. Our sister station ABC7...

www.facebook.com

correct. It had been parked up and down the block off and on for about a month (moving now and again to a new spot) reports I have read said it hadn't moved in at least five days so was reported abandoned.

 

[aurycore]

He FULLY knew she was underage

yeah no he definitely knew judging by that one twitch live with him and celeste together. (context: david was streaming with celeste and someone commented that he was either a pdfile or epstein (?) and celeste immediately urged him to end the live)
please correct me if im wrong, my memory has been kinda foggy.

 

[aurycore]

correct. It had been parked up and down the block off and on for about a month (moving now and again to a new spot) reports I have read said it hadn't moved in at least five days so was reported abandoned.

how was the tesla even impounded in the first place?

 

[aurycore]

also do want to point out that it looks like david didnt really care for celeste whatsoever. many users on social media pointed out that shes been wearing the same clothes in most of the videos---i can see why that is since you'd expect someone like david to get her new clothes or something. she was literally wearing a pair of hello kitty slides in the video where hes taking her back stage.
david doesnt seem to be cooperating with the police at all. he definitely did it and theres no doubt and mind. she was a kid for crying out loud.

 

[aurycore]

This might be a bit of a graphic question to ask, but how long has her body been sitting in the car based on post-mortem intervals? I'd assume the car was hot so it likely enhanced the decomposition. I'm more or so asking this question to link to another question as to how they cant really determine her COD yet. I hope my wording doesnt sound insensitive, just want to know.
Does anybody have a clue on when the tesla was impounded at all or the reason as to why it was towed or impounded?

 

[Bigditch]

I feel as if Celeste was placed in a freezer after death. When the time was right, (D2vd) is on tour, they or whomever, put her in the back of the vehicle.
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious. jmo

 

[sunspun]

how was the tesla even impounded in the first place?

The post you replied to basically has that answer, but this is something I have more questions about as well. Because it says that for at least a month, the Tesla was parked in various places near the house his manager was renting (and where I believe David was staying when he was in town.) Sounds like they would park it on a street near the house for a few days and then move it to another nearby location, still near the house, for the next few days, and then move it again to a different spot for another few days, and this continued (corroborated by witness statements made by people who lived in the area and saw the car parked in different locations in that area during that month.)

Then, after about a month of this moving it around, it was parked in one location for about 5 days, which was apparently long enough in the same spot that someone reported it as an abandoned car, and a tow truck was called (I assume by the police), and it was towed to an impound lot, where soon the awful smell was noticed, and police were called, and her body was found in the car.

So apparently, some person who had access to David's car had been moving it around, parking in different spots for short periods, because that was the way to avoid the car being towed as an abandoned car. And it was working fine, as long as they left it one spot for only a few days, but as soon as they (forgot?) and left it in the same spot for 5 days in a row, someone (possibly the person whose house they parked it in front of that time) called to have it towed. I think this was in a residential area, since they said it was near the manager's rental house, and I would guess that someone didn't like the car being parked in front of their house for 5 days in a row. Maybe they noticed the smell too. Or maybe it was blocking their driveway or just seemed suspicious to them after being there those 5 days in a row.

So I wonder who was moving the car? Seems like it would have to be whoever David had left the keys with. (Or someone that person had lent the car to?) Seems like they'd be able to figure this out and question them, and maybe already have.

But why would they have to keep moving the car around like that? If the point was to keep it near the manager's house, sounds like they were staying in the house. So could have been David himself?

But why did they have to keep parking it in the street at risk of getting towed? They couldn't park it in the driveway of the house, or even the garage? Maybe the smell was obvious all that time, and that's why they didn't want it too near the house. I would've parked it in the backyard, assuming it was fenced, but maybe that's not possible there. Probably had a pool, like seemingly every house in Hollywood does!

But they couldn't have parked it right in front of the house? Maybe that would still be at risk of being towed. Maybe there's no parking on the street allowed at all in that neighborhood? I think that's possible. So maybe no resident actually would have been the one to call it in after that 5 days, maybe the police who regularly patrol the area noticed it in the same spot for 5 days and called a tow truck, since there's no parking on the street allowed.

And the cop wouldn't have noticed the smell, because they might not even have gotten out of their car to inspect it when they called the tow truck. Just reported it as they drove by it for the hundredth time or whatever.

That all sounds plausible. So was the person who was moving the car around for about a month just moving the car while they tried to figure out a better place to put the body permanently? Would they have continued to do this (forever?!) except that they finally messed up, and maybe forgot to move it soon enough, or maybe something happened that they weren't able to move it in time that time? Maybe they had to go out of town or maybe they went to jail or in the hospital, or maybe the car actually was stolen by someone else at that time? Probably not, or it wouldn't have still been found so nearby.

Maybe they finally just got tired of moving it and still didn't know what to do with the body, so just left it. But knowing the car was registered to David, would they do that? Knowing what trouble that would cause for him? Definitely need to find out who was moving that car.

Maybe it was someone who was staying in the house that his manager was renting but who suddenly couldn't keep moving the car around, because he left to go on the World Tour with David? (Or maybe it was David?) Knowing a precise timeline if possible will be crucial here.

All MOO

 

[sunspun]

I feel as if Celeste was placed in a freezer after death. When the time was right, (D2vd) is on tour, they or whomever, put her in the back of the vehicle.
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious. jmo

might be a good thought... but why not just leave her in the freezer? No one would want to use the freezer again anyway after that. And if you put a body in a car, nobody's gonna want to use the car again either. There goes a perfectly good Tesla then. Whoever put the body in the Tesla knew they were throwing away a very expensive vehicle for good, I would think. So it was someone who wasn't the owner of the car and wasn't worried about that? or maybe someone who had enough money that this wasn't a problem? hmm

 

[Chimera]

As if this case is already disturbing enough I honestly believe we may find out more that is going to be hard to take.
Like you, if she had returned at least once from being with David wouldn't that be the first place you look? Did that happen? IDK.
I would like to know if Celeste has had contact with her family since she has been gone. IIRC she spoke with someone from the family after this last disappearance. What about since then? Regular, inconsistent or none at all. SMH

Agreed.
This may be important to the investigation as well.
When did all contact with Celeste stop ?
Imo.

 

[Chimera]

might be a good thought... but why not just leave her in the freezer? No one would want to use the freezer again anyway after that. And if you put a body in a car, nobody's gonna want to use the car again either. There goes a perfectly good Tesla then. Whoever put the body in the Tesla knew they were throwing away a very expensive vehicle for good, I would think. So it was someone who wasn't the owner of the car and wasn't worried about that? or maybe someone who had enough money that this wasn't a problem? hmm

Bbm.
Agreed.
Could be both ?
Now I'm wondering if someone was angry about his rising fame ?

Still can't get past that he and Celeste were in some type of relationship, though.
He's going to have a difficult time explaining that !
Imo.

 

[PatLaurel]

I feel as if Celeste was placed in a freezer after death. When the time was right, (D2vd) is on tour, they or whomever, put her in the back of the vehicle.
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious. jmo

I was just trying to find photos of how a frunk looks like and learned that there are "Portable & Electric Powered Refrigerator / Freezer Cooler for Frunk or Trunk." I thought that maybe it was what some articles referred to as "unique container".

 

[Curiousobserver]

Right now there is a lot of circumstantial evidence for both a relationship and his involvement in a murder. LE will need to meticulously complete the process of getting the data and comparing what everyone is saying. If this were a slam dunk, David would be in custody already. MOO, he will be shortly.

 

[Eli9]

Nothing really new in this article but it does give Websleuths a shout out. LOL

D4vd at center of outrage as mourners DEMAND justice for murdered teen

A grief-stricken California community came together Sunday evening to demand answers and justice for Celeste Rivas, whose body was found in D4vd's car

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Regal Beagle]

I feel as if Celeste was placed in a freezer after death. When the time was right, (D2vd) is on tour, they or whomever, put her in the back of the vehicle.
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious. jmo

I wondered that same thing

 

[tillytatler]

There's another crime here and it's how often you lot are saying the word "frunk".