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

[libraryg]

So hypothetically, if he is completely innocent and someone else has done this..

Should someone report HIM missing?
When was last proof of life?

What if they've do one something to him too but because it looks like he did it and he's in hiding no one's realised?

Just another thought since he's nowhere to be found. IMOO

Really hoping LE has eyes on him......

 

[RandyMcDonald]

His sheltered (he was home schooled and has shared how it has impacted his ability to express himself with others) childhood opened up the world of anime to him and he has shared how much he likes things Japanese. He's toured Japan a bunch. Itami and the corresponding anime were part of his Persona (which is also another video game). In the anime he had created there is a scene where the girl loses a limb. The girl depicted has long wavy hair. It's eerie.

One thing I have noticed is that Japanese pop culture is much bigger with younger generations than with older ones. I am middle-aged, I guess, 45; people in their 20s have grown up with Japanese anime and manga and pop music as huge influences in ways that would have been unthinkable. In my generation, Japanese pop culture was not nearly so mainstream.

This creator/musician is HUGE. The next Big Thing. Just because we don't know about it doesn't mean he wasn't skyrocketing... a huge cash cow for Josh the Manager.... he even played at Josh's wedding in Italy and his parents were in attendance. He had cross promo with Crocs.. fortnite.... other huge companies and they're all on hold. For now.
His Fandom seems to stand by him vehemently.

I am not sure about that. Until the subreddit was locked down, everyone posting there was condemning him. The reactions I have seen on social media have been hostile and disbelieving.

I am sure that some of his fans do not want to believe it. That is a different thing.

 

[RandyMcDonald]

The detectives and the district attorney are going to have to find actual evidence linking him to a homicide, first.

He is not a POI and we should not be assuming that he's guilty. Case law on mens rea is pretty broad. Whoever put her in the trunk of the car did so because they were trying to hide something and were capable of operating the trunk and getting a black plastic bag and squeezing her in there (alive or dead).

As far as we know, DB was able to pack, get himself to an airport and perform several times right after.

IMO

And right now, we do not know enough. For all we know, someone around him may have found Celeste after she overdosed or something and took it on themself to hide her body really badly.

 

[AnyNameIWish]

@RandyMcDonald
Yes I grew up in Japan and USA and today seeing so many American children and young adults at the LA "Anime expo" celebrating Japanese anime is amazing to me.

Re: subreddits... there are many other alt subreddits now where they have all intentionally migrated to discuss the injustice of the court of public opinion. If you look hard enough there are many die hard fans who are not hearing Rational Thought. (I've seen it, I've tried to participate but it is too exasperating)

These are VERY young fans (I know some of these kids, including mine)---- aged 14-19. IF this ends up being anything like "young fan /who could have been a love interest of D was found deceased and possibly was a victim of an overdose".... the Fandom absolutely won't bat an eyelash and he will continue to have a vibrant career. My opinion. Trying to think of a parallel.... actor Matthew Broderick was in a vehicle accident in Ireland that killed 2 women. (Ended up on the wrong side of the road.) It did nothing to tarnish his stardom. Alec Baldwin.... Scot free after shooing Halyna Hutchins..... rocker Vince Neil ... caused a car death... Caitlin Jenner... killed someone w her car... none of the above have served time for what they did and continued to Be Famous.

 

[Angelcat13]

I just came back from visiting California in the Silicon Valley - every other car was a Tesla... that is the first thing that "shocked" me - ALL those Teslas!!

So - no arrest yet??

That’s (ironically) funny and you’d likely make a much better witness than me. About the only thing I notice about cars is their color and if it was a car, SUV, pickup or van. But my husband and youngest son can pretty much ID a car from it’s headlights and/or taillights.

 

[IQuestion]

And right now, we do not know enough. For all we know, someone around him may have found Celeste after she overdosed or something and took it on themself to hide her body really badly.

This may sound snarky...only because I am. Even if she was found unconscious, barely breathing or appeared to be in distress wouldn't it be more appropriate and prudent to call 911? Since everyone "claims" she was 19 years old, what is the crime or necessary cover up of an adult overdosing on pills? Oh gee...maybe they knew about her real age after all and worried about the backlash? For heaven's sake, we've got 9 year olds who know to call 911 when their parent has a medical emergency! Yet, we are to believe only one person in that huge house made the discovery, didn't have the brains of a squirrel to get help, but decides to wrap her up in plastic, carry her to a vehicle and smash her into a tiny trunk. Alrighteeee.... pretty much makes this not a crime for any adult associated with the property, huh?
Hey....someone always has better lies, excuses, fantastical events, coincidences explanations for these horrific events. Go figure.
Good night fellow Sleuths...

 

[tlcya]

If everybody responded to a situation as they should instead of how they do, we'd all be doing something different right now because there'd be no cases to discuss.

These threads are full of stories of people who didn't do the responsible prudent thing. Thank goodness criminals are so stupid. MOO speculation that the person responsible is someone close to DAB is valid IMO, it's either him, or someone close to him, no other logical explanation for her winding up in the frunk of that car.

 

[RandyMcDonald]

@RandyMcDonald
Yes I grew up in Japan and USA and today seeing so many American children and young adults at the LA "Anime expo" celebrating Japanese anime is amazing to me.

Re: subreddits... there are many other alt subreddits now where they have all intentionally migrated to discuss the injustice of the court of public opinion. If you look hard enough there are many die hard fans who are not hearing Rational Thought. (I've seen it, I've tried to participate but it is too exasperating)

These are VERY young fans (I know some of these kids, including mine)---- aged 14-19. IF this ends up being anything like "young fan /who could have been a love interest of D was found deceased and possibly was a victim of an overdose".... the Fandom absolutely won't bat an eyelash and he will continue to have a vibrant career. My opinion. Trying to think of a parallel.... actor Matthew Broderick was in a vehicle accident in Ireland that killed 2 women. (Ended up on the wrong side of the road.) It did nothing to tarnish his stardom. Alec Baldwin.... Scot free after shooing Halyna Hutchins..... rocker Vince Neil ... caused a car death... Caitlin Jenner... killed someone w her car... none of the above have served time for what they did and continued to Be Famous.

Thank you for the corrective. We live in a world where people can deny COVID-19 exists right up to the point when they are being put on respirators where they die of COVID-19, so some fans taking things too far is plausible.

I do think that this puts a cap on any crossover potential. It is not only the death, which cannot be explained away as an accident, but what they did after. Celeste dying in an overdose is bad enough, but the foresight it takes to hide her body ...

 

[RandyMcDonald]

This may sound snarky...only because I am. Even if she was found unconscious, barely breathing or appeared to be in distress wouldn't it be more appropriate and prudent to call 911? Since everyone "claims" she was 19 years old, what is the crime or necessary cover up of an adult overdosing on pills? Oh gee...maybe they knew about her real age after all and worried about the backlash? For heaven's sake, we've got 9 year olds who know to call 911 when their parent has a medical emergency! Yet, we are to believe only one person in that huge house made the discovery, didn't have the brains of a squirrel to get help, but decides to wrap her up in plastic, carry her to a vehicle and smash her into a tiny trunk. Alrighteeee.... pretty much makes this not a crime for any adult associated with the property, huh?
Hey....someone always has better lies, excuses, fantastical events, coincidences explanations for these horrific events. Go figure.
Good night fellow Sleuths...

It should be noted that, even in jurisdictions where drug users are explicitly protected from prosecution if they take a fellow drug users to hospital if they overdose, they do not. They are afraid of what might follow. Tempe Jane Doe in 2002 comes to mind as one example.

AZ Thread 'AZ - Tempe, HispFem, UP1987, 15-19, hitchhiking, overdose, Apr'02'

Aug 25, 2008

I thought I had a thread about this Jane Doe but can't find it.

Warning! Graphic Photo http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmaprofile_all.php?U200500009S

Could this possibly be a match? Florinda Lopez
http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...=en_US&orgPrefix=NCMC&caseNum=927449&seqNum=1

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All of this becomes worse if you consider that this happened in the environment of a rising star, and the person involved is a deeply underage teenage runaway who has almost certainly been involved in an illegal sexual relationship with said star.

If everybody responded to a situation as they should instead of how they do, we'd all be doing something different right now because there'd be no cases to discuss.

These threads are full of stories of people who didn't do the responsible prudent thing. Thank goodness criminals are so stupid. MOO speculation that the person responsible is someone close to DAB is valid IMO, it's either him, or someone close to him, no other logical explanation for her winding up in the frunk of that car.

Exactly. If he and his entourage was completely uninvolved—if Celeste went out on her own and met someone who gave her bad drugs, say—there is still the fact that she was found in the trunk of a Tesla linked to D4vd. You would have to assume not only that the Tesla was stolen but that no one saw it in the neighbourhood being moved around.

 

[IQuestion]

Since this is now mainstream. It is important to realize these are the words of a "private investigator" not the attorney for D4vd, his parents or his management team. But, I find it strange a PI would already be suggesting "bad decision" defense, in my opinion.
Oh how things have changed...three weeks ago no one associated with that property even had an ounce of grief or curiosity as to her identity. The show must go on, right?
And it was revealed quite a while back that his atty was BB.

PI Says Teen Tragedy Was “Bad Decision” as D4vd Hires Blair Berk

D4vd hires star defense attorney Blair Berk as experts suggest the Celeste Rivas case may shift from homicide to concealment.

lamag.com

 

[AnyNameIWish]

But, I find it strange a PI would already be suggesting "bad decision" defense, in my opinion.

YES and thank you.
This particular PI has an interesting background in Hollywood and has inserted himself (cough) into many cases.... IMO for his own level of clout.

I find it VERY sus that this young woman has now been depicted by almost EVERY news channel (I'm ignoring Youtubers) as a 13 yr old who was a

- habitual runaway who left home often
- from a broken home
- with parents who fought often who treated her poorly
- truant from school
- foul mouthed teen who argued with neighbors
- teen who spoke with "racist" (I disagree here) language
- teen who possibly alluded to being involved with MS ? (She mentioned being from El Salvador and not Mexico so I think Banfield ran with Sureños vs other gang connection OMFG).

..... as if ANY OF THIS would even matter when it comes to a deceased body in a car of a powerful and wealthy older adult!!!! (Excuse: they "met" online when he was 17 and she was 12-13 so they were friends!?!?)

All I know is thet if she were a straight A student from Newport Beach, the narrative would be SO very different and this makes me very angry.

 

[Gemmie]

Really hoping LE has eyes on him......

Oh, I most definitely think LW has eyes on him. And ears, and tails/surveillance, etc.

 

[AppleTreeGreen]

Now that I think more about it, MOO, I don’t think LE believe CR died or was killed inside the house. If they did wouldn’t the home have been shut down and sealed off as a potential crime scene, like what was seen in the tragic cases in Moscow, Idaho and the Watts’ home in Colorado? I also think LE would have been far less likely to let D4vd or moving service employees enter the home, let alone touch and remove items due to the high risks of contaminating and destroying evidence just by their presence alone leaving behind finger prints, footprints, skin cells, saliva, dirt and such? I wonder if cadaver dogs were used since usually

Perhaps the search of the home indicated the crime did not take place there but digital or CCTV evidence from the computers and cameras they can help track the movements of the car that was parked in front of the rental home?

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[tlcya]

Now that I think more about it, MOO, I don’t think LE believe CR died or was killed inside the house. If they did wouldn’t the home have been shut down and sealed off as a potential crime scene, like what was seen in the tragic cases in Moscow, Idaho and the Watts’ home in Colorado? I also think LE would have been far less likely to let D4vd or moving service employees enter the home, let alone touch and remove items due to the high risks of contaminating and destroying evidence just by their presence alone leaving behind finger prints, footprints, skin cells, saliva, dirt and such? I wonder if cadaver dogs were used since usually

Perhaps the search of the home indicated the crime did not take place there but digital or CCTV evidence from the computers and cameras they can help track the movements of the car that was parked in front of the rental home?

1.03 The 7 S's

Crime-Scene Investigation and Evidence Collection: 5 Steps - Eclipse Forensics

Learn about the essential steps in crime-scene investigation, from securing the scene to evidence collection. Discover how cyber forensic experts solve cases.

eclipseforensics.com

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Cadaver Dogs, also known as Human Remains Detection Dogs, help police look for dead bodies using their nose. Here's how it works.

www.akc.org

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good points. LE failing to secure that rental property after having searched it and seized unknown evidence from it would tend to suggest no obvious signs of foul play were present in the property. Otherwise, I think it would have been secured and LEO activity would have been notably present for some days after. JMO

 

[IQuestion]

YES and thank you.
This particular PI has an interesting background in Hollywood and has inserted himself (cough) into many cases.... IMO for his own level of clout.

I find it VERY sus that this young woman has now been depicted by almost EVERY news channel (I'm ignoring Youtubers) as a 13 yr old who was a

- habitual runaway who left home often
- from a broken home
- with parents who fought often who treated her poorly
- truant from school
- foul mouthed teen who argued with neighbors
- teen who spoke with "racist" (I disagree here) language
- teen who possibly alluded to being involved with MS ? (She mentioned being from El Salvador and not Mexico so I think Banfield ran with Sureños vs other gang connection OMFG).

..... as if ANY OF THIS would even matter when it comes to a deceased body in a car of a powerful and wealthy older adult!!!! (Excuse: they "met" online when he was 17 and she was 12-13 so they were friends!?!?)

All I know is thet if she were a straight A student from Newport Beach, the narrative would be SO very different and this makes me very angry.

ANYNAMEYOUWISH Your post is so powerful and on point....my eyes sting and clenching my teeth trying to hold back tears.
This is the shameful treatment by bad actors (Public Relations types?) to divert attention away from the perpetrator(s) and diminish the lives of minority victims....especially if female. (Guess I am supposed to say, in my opinion, now?) Okay, This is my opinion!

 

[Inthedetails]

YES and thank you.
This particular PI has an interesting background in Hollywood and has inserted himself (cough) into many cases.... IMO for his own level of clout.

I find it VERY sus that this young woman has now been depicted by almost EVERY news channel (I'm ignoring Youtubers) as a 13 yr old who was a

- habitual runaway who left home often
- from a broken home
- with parents who fought often who treated her poorly
- truant from school
- foul mouthed teen who argued with neighbors
- teen who spoke with "racist" (I disagree here) language
- teen who possibly alluded to being involved with MS ? (She mentioned being from El Salvador and not Mexico so I think Banfield ran with Sureños vs other gang connection OMFG).

..... as if ANY OF THIS would even matter when it comes to a deceased body in a car of a powerful and wealthy older adult!!!! (Excuse: they "met" online when he was 17 and she was 12-13 so they were friends!?!?)

All I know is thet if she were a straight A student from Newport Beach, the narrative would be SO very different and this makes me very angry.

Right on.

A teenager ends up decomposed in a rich man's car, and the focus is on her "rough" background.

jmopinion

 

[AppleTreeGreen]

For me personally, learning more about CR made me feel even more empathy and compassion for her. I grew up in a dysfunctional home and not because of anything my parents have done but because I lost two siblings when I was young. None of us knew how to cope and the anger, tension and grief in the home were palpable. I threatened to run away multiple times and packed my bags twice because bring around family made it even more poignant that some of my loved ones were gone. My sister threatened to call 911 and I feel like she might have done so once.

Dysfunction can happen for multiple reasons that are beyond parents control, such as the loss of a child or home, divorce, a caregiver having to live out-of-state or home for work, parents at work a lot due to job demands or working multiple jobs to keep a roof over their head, mental illness, stress and sadness related to having an ill or sick child or parent or caring for physical or intellectual disability of a child or sibling. It can be disruptive and overwhelming while also force kids to grow up fast while young. It is possible that CR’s parents did the best they could by her but things in the home still hurt and I can recall all the different ways that I as a teenager would respond to such.

As for yelling and cursing at her neighbors, my classmates and sister’s friends would pull pranks too. Sometimes they could be so irritating, like when threw firecrackers at the door and we thought they were gunshots at first or when my classmates ordered food that was delivered to another’s classmates home. Who did they think was paying for that? Of course the kid and the mom were irritated and may face cursed somewhat. That was well earned money of theirs spent and gone and some of us came from homes where had to be careful for every dime spent. of course, I don’t know what prank was pulled on CR or the nature of her interactions with her neighbors but I can understand how it can trigger irritation and anger, and may even escalate to cursing out each other, when you were already not in the mood for it.

Nonetheless, listening to how CR’s neighbors and another person whose yard sale she visited speak on how sweet she was gives me the impression she was the person who tried to spread kindness despite any sadness or turmoil she experienced. And overall, her life, story and case still have value whether or not her life at home was rough or she was straight-A student from Newport. She still deserves justice and someone needs to explain and be held accountable for how she could have ever ended up horribly abandoned and hidden within garbage bags in the trunk of a car and everything that happened beforehand.

 

[10ofRods]

Really hoping LE has eyes on him......

Police said day before yesterday that he was "cooperating" with the investigation. So he has not disappeared.

He's just moving out of his house. There were pictures in the LA Times of his moving crew. He has apparently conducted some transactions, as well.

Singer D4vd broke lease and moved out of Hollywood Hills home searched in 15-year-old girl's death

D4vd broke lease and moved out of a Hollywood Hills home that was searched by police in connection to the death of a 15-year-old girl.

www.latimes.com

Police already searched the house, which is interesting. I would assume they used luminol, etc.

 

[Telltale]

YES and thank you.
This particular PI has an interesting background in Hollywood and has inserted himself (cough) into many cases.... IMO for his own level of clout.

I find it VERY sus that this young woman has now been depicted by almost EVERY news channel (I'm ignoring Youtubers) as a 13 yr old who was a

- habitual runaway who left home often
- from a broken home
- with parents who fought often who treated her poorly
- truant from school
- foul mouthed teen who argued with neighbors
- teen who spoke with "racist" (I disagree here) language
- teen who possibly alluded to being involved with MS ? (She mentioned being from El Salvador and not Mexico so I think Banfield ran with Sureños vs other gang connection OMFG).

..... as if ANY OF THIS would even matter when it comes to a deceased body in a car of a powerful and wealthy older adult!!!! (Excuse: they "met" online when he was 17 and she was 12-13 so they were friends!?!?)

All I know is thet if she were a straight A student from Newport Beach, the narrative would be SO very different and this makes me very angry.

No mention of the fact she was a habitual runaway who played truant and fought with her parents because she was (imo) getting groomed from as young as 10 years old by a predatory older man who used celebrity and money to keep picking her up and encouraging her to her run away from home to stay with him?

How many of those police visits were because her parents were reporting her for failing to return home as they should?

There's little evidence she ran away or acted out for reasons that were not connected to D4vd.

I smell a crisis management team kicking into gear. Its pretty hard to spin attention and blame away from the adult celebrity who had a runaway teen found dead in their car, but seems like some agency is giving it a go. Imo.

 

[arielilane]

I am coming into this case as a newbie. It's an interesting case and I am still learning about the tragic case of Celeste being found in a Tesla, so bear with me, please.

I was reading this DM article, and I know most say, it's the DM, so take it with a grain of salt, and I agree.

However, is there any truth to the information about Celeste having a challenging home life. I know teens normally struggle with their parents, as do parents struggle with their teen, but to the point of police being called to the home numerous times? Just asking if anyone knows and for any info.

I also feel that the Tesla itself provides a lot of info, anything revealing yet?

TIA



This comes after news she had a very challenging home life. It has already been reported that the Celeste Rivas had trouble with her family at home prior to being found dismembered.

But on Wednesday TMZ shed more light on just how twisted her residence was as the site reported that police were called over 11 times in just one year to the teenager's Lake Elsinore, California abode.

The time frame was February 2024 to April 2025. The visits to the home were due to 'minor crimes and suspicious activity.'

Things were so bad at her home that one day cops were called a total of three times; the date for that triple stop was March 19, 2024. Rivas was reported missing just weeks later on April 5, 2024.

D4vd's manager breaks his silence on the teenager found dead in trunk

On Wednesday TMZ shed more light on just how twisted her residence was as the site reported that police were called over 11 times in just one year to the teenager's Lake Elsinore, California abode.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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