On this weblog, we’re going to talk about the continued case relating to the singer d4vd and the dying of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Celeste was 14 when her physique was present in d4vd’s deserted Tesla in September 2025. The investigation continues to be ongoing.
We’re going to run by means of what we all know to this point within the case and we’ll begin with the backgrounds of each d4vd and Celeste.
D4vd was born David Anthony Burke on March 28, 2005. He was born in Queens, New York. He would later transfer together with his household to Houston. When David reached the seventh grade, he began to be homeschooled. He apparently listened to nothing however gospel music till he was 13. He performed piano and likewise sang in a church choir.
He as soon as stated in an interview with Astrophe Journal: “I get my private energy from God for certain. I’m a heavy believer within the Christian religion.”
D4vd loved enjoying Fortnight and he favored watching montages made by followers of the sport. He started to make his personal edits however turned dejected once they have been demonitised for copyright. His mom prompt that d4vd make his personal music, and he did simply that.
His first huge success within the music trade was in 2022 when his songs ‘Romantic Murder’ and ‘Right here With Me’ went viral.
“The factor concerning the music [he made] for Fortnite is that they have been additionally nice songs. I made the songs for movies within the gaming group, they usually have been ready for use in that context. However after I was making these songs I by no means thought, ‘OK, I’m a gamer, I’m going to make a track particularly for this. I’m going to be tremendous corny with it, it’s simply going to be for these folks in a specific viewers and I’m going to field myself into this persona’. I knew what I favored, what I didn’t like, my inspirations and my passions. And music was weaving its manner into my life very subtly and sneakily.”
As a result of being homeschooled, his music typically referenced conditions that he was but to expertise himself. “After I began making these songs, I realised that I used to be speaking about very complicated issues in love and relationships, emotions and feelings that I wasn’t experiencing on the time. I used to be capable of be a conduit for the folks in my life, speaking to my pals about their relationships, or relationship issues and the way their breakups affected them.”
Celeste was born on September 7, 2010. She lived in Lake Elsinore, California. Celeste attended Lakeland Village Excessive Faculty. Celeste’s pal Rubi Alonso described her as ‘candy and studious.’
Her residence life seems to have been fairly troubled – she was reported lacking no less than thrice in 2024, when she was 13/14. The latest lacking report for Celeste was made in April 2024.
An ex-boyfriend of Celeste’s spoke to NewsNation about her residence scenario.
“He stated that she would say that her dad and mom have been actually imply, and that she didn’t like being at residence,” TMZ’s Charles Latibeaudiere instructed “Banfield”.
Damien Hernandez, 15, who dated Celeste in center faculty, revealed that when he first linked with Celeste, she was sort and on the lookout for one thing severe.
Damien stated that Celeste talked typically about working away from residence. She didn’t point out although that there was any abuse.
“It was simply extra about her not liking the atmosphere that she was in,” Damien stated.
Regardless of Celeste being reported lacking in April 2024, there’s video on-line which reveals her on the household residence. So it’s thought she visited them no less than as soon as after she ran away.
Celeste’s mom has later spoken to the media and stated that she believed her daughter was courting a person named David when she ran away.
D4vd launched Romantic Murder on September 7, 2022 which was coincidentally Celeste’s twelfth birthday. D4vd would have been 16 on the time.
Round this time, Celeste and d4vd have been interacting publicly on the Discord platform.
The 2 would work together on Discord till Celeste went lacking in 2024.
On September 7, 2023, Celeste’s thirteenth birthday, d4vd posted ‘birthday suicide’ on Discord.
He posted an image with Celeste on December 13, 2023. Ten days later, he launched a demo track titled ‘ Celeste’.
Lyrics:
Oh, Celeste
The woman with my identify tattooed on her chest
Odor her on my garments like cigarettes
I hear her voice every time I take a breath
I’m obsessed
Oh, Celeste
Afraid you’ll solely love me when undressed
However you look so rattling attractive in that gown
Lacking you a lot makes me depressed
However I digress, as a result of
I really like you so, a lot
D4vd went reside with Celeste on January 11, 2024.
Celeste ran away from residence on February 14, 2024 ( Valentine’s Day). She returned residence in March 2024 and ran away for the ultimate time in April 2024.
In June 2024, d4vd posted a TikTok that included Celeste. She was seen backstage with him on June 27, 2024.
In keeping with the reddit timeline, this was the final time that Celeste was confirmed to have been alive. There are on-line feedback that Celeste was nonetheless involved along with her shut pals till round July/August 2025.
In September 2024, d4vd bought a ‘shh’ tattoo. After she was discovered lifeless, Celeste could be discovered with an identical one.
In February 2025, D4vd posted a video of him cleansing Celeste’s footwear.
It will get a bit sophisticated right here, as a result of in July 2025, d4vd began hanging out with one other woman, additionally named Celeste. Her final identify is Herrera and she or he was 23 on the time.
Round June/July 2025, Celeste H was seen sporting Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s hoodie – this was the merchandise of clothes that she was sporting when her household final noticed her.
On July 30, 2025, d4vd apparently carried out and threw a funeral for his ‘alter ego.’ The efficiency had a hearse/casket/funeral service.
This information about a few of d4vd’s different music is from NewsNation:
Observers have famous that a number of the R&B singer’s music is eerily macabre, with him performing in what seems like a bloodied shirt, a coffin on stage and lyrics like, “Behind my thoughts, I killed you// And I didn’t even remorse it// I can’t consider I stated it// Nevertheless it’s true// I hate you.”
There may be additionally a music video, launched in February this 12 months, that encompasses a physique being dragged and put into the trunk of a automotive.
A non-public investigator who has been concerned within the case would later come out and say that the Tesla was parked on the curb outdoors d4vd’s residence from ‘late July.’
“I’m undecided precisely when the parking complaints concerning the Tesla started, but it surely was nearer to the start a part of August,” Captain Williams instructed the Los Angeles Occasions.
On August 5, 2025, d4vd began to tour for his newest album ‘Withered.’
On September 3, 2025, d4vd’s Tesla was cited for violating a 72-hour parking ordinance.
On September 5, 2025, his Tesla was impounded and brought to a Los Angeles tow yard.
On September 8, 2025, employees on the yard reported a foul odour coming from the Tesla. In addition they stated that the car was attracting flies. LAPD attended and introduced {that a} physique had been present in a bag within the entrance trunk of the Tesla. Information sources did additionally point out that the physique could have been dismembered.
The physique was recognized as being Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her stays have been discovered the day earlier than her fifteenth birthday.
Her physique was so “severely decomposed” that the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Workplace couldn’t distinguish her eye shade or race and listed her weight as 71 kilos. “She seems to have been deceased contained in the car for an prolonged time frame earlier than being discovered,” the medical expert’s workplace stated in an internet report.
The LAPD would additionally affirm that the automotive had been ticketed for 11 days earlier than Celeste was discovered, which strongly signifies that she was within the trunk for that whole interval.
Matthew Rivas’ – allegedly Celeste’s brother – spoke to NBC and stated “I’m simply making an attempt to remain optimistic. I’m simply making an attempt to maneuver ahead. My mother’s grieving actually unhealthy. My dad’s grieving actually unhealthy.”
After Celeste was discovered, police searched the Hollywood Hills mansion the place d4vd had been staying. The house had been rented by d4vd’s supervisor.
The house’s proprietor, Mladen Trifunovic, says he had no thought d4vd had been dwelling there.
“This all got here as an entire shock to me. I solely discovered concerning the police exercise this morning,” Trifunovic instructed Rolling Stone. “Till then, I had no thought something had occurred on the home or what was happening with D4vd and the lacking woman. I by no means knew D4vd, and I wasn’t conscious that he had ever lived in the home.”
The lease started in February 2024.The modern home within the prosperous Birds Streets neighborhood off Sundown Boulevard (which rents for $13,999 per 30 days, in response to rental website flats.com) is barely about 500 toes from the parking place on close by Bluebird Ave the place D4vd’s Tesla was deserted for no less than three weeks earlier than it was towed to the impound lot.
Throughout a search of the house, electronics together with a pc have been seized. Shortly after the search, d4vd’s supervisor terminated the lease and d4vd moved out. He additionally retained a felony protection legal professional, Blair Berk.
On September 16, 2025, a spokesperson for d4vd made a press release. “d4vd has been knowledgeable about what’s occurred. And, though he’s nonetheless out on tour, he’s totally cooperating with the authorities.”
On September 19, 2025, d4vd cancelled the rest of his tour.
Round this time, the admin of d4vd’s Discord server launched a press release:
On September 29, 2025, The LAPD Theft-Murder Division stated that they have been ‘ completely analyzing each side of this case to uncover the reality and search justice for Celeste Rivas Hernandez and her household.”
A vigil was held for Celeste and she or he was buried on the Queen of Heaven Cemetery and Mortuary in Rowland Heights, California on October 6, 2025.
On November 19, 2025, regardless of earlier stories of d4vd being cooperative within the investigation, a supply revealed in any other case. This data is from NBC:
Singer D4vd has been recognized as a suspect within the dying of a 15-year-old woman who was discovered lifeless in a car he owned in September, in response to a Los Angeles Police Division supply with direct information of the investigation
He has not been cooperative, the supply instructed NBC Los Angeles. The teenager almost certainly died within the spring, and D4vd almost certainly had assist dismembering and disposing of the physique, the supply stated.
The case began getting even messier in November. There have been some stories (from TMZ) that Celeste’s physique had been discovered dismembered and partially frozen (in Los Angeles in August/Sept?) however authorities have since debunked that.
This was a part of the preliminary reporting:
Celeste Rivas’s physique had been frozen, and in consequence, it seems the L.A. County Medical Examiner will be unable to ascertain a reason behind dying … sources straight linked to the investigation inform TMZ.
In keeping with these sources, the medical expert acquired the physique in horrendous situation … it was decapitated, and, whereas the torso was intact, the limbs had been eliminated and lower into a number of items.
We’re instructed the entire physique components have been “partially frozen” … and had, apparently, been thawing out whereas sitting within the trunk of D4vd’s Tesla.
It’s doable that a number of the misinformation got here from this excerpt from the Medical Examiner.
It’s attention-grabbing … in a single doc from the Medical Examiner, it reads, “The decedent was not reside scanned as a consequence of waterlogged fingers.” Translation … the M.E. was unable to fingerprint Celeste’s physique.
That is the response relating to the misinformation from the LAPD:
LAPD Captain and commanding officer of Theft-Murder Division, Scot Williams, tells PEOPLE completely that Rivas Hernandez was not frozen and was not decapitated as beforehand reported by native media.
“Celeste’s physique was not frozen,” Williams says. “She was not decapitated. The entire frozen factor doesn’t even make sense. Her physique was within the automotive for weeks.”
Williams continues, “Even when she had been frozen strong when she was put within the automotive (which there’s NO proof to counsel she was), 5 or extra weeks within the trunk of a automotive in sweltering warmth in the course of summer time wouldn’t have resulted in {a partially} frozen physique being found on September eighth.”
That is a part of the official assertion launched by authorities:
“The physique of Celeste Rivas was not frozen when it was found on September 8, 2025. She had not been decapitated,” the division stated in a press release posted on-line. “Now we have proof that D4vd travelled to the Santa Barbara space someday throughout the Spring of 2025. The rationale for that journey continues to be beneath investigation, and we’ve drawn no conclusions at this level concerning the relevance of the journey to this case.”
Steve Fischer is a PI who has been employed by the proprietor of the house the place d4vd was staying. He has spoken about his investigation into the freezer and the house.
‘The freezer nonetheless had its cabinets put in, together with meals and beverage objects that had clearly been there for months,’ stated Fischer.
‘I [also] examined key areas of curiosity in and across the residence with Luminol and BlueStar [to look] for blood proof and didn’t get any optimistic outcomes.’
Steve did additionally talk about different issues he allegedly discovered.
‘There have been a number of of these things that would all be used collectively… [that] you’d by no means want in a Hollywood Hills residence. You’d be extra prone to discover them on a farm.’
Fischer, in interviews with Courtroom TV and Regulation & Crime earlier this month, described the objects recovered from the property as ‘sadistic’, suggesting that they might probably be ‘used to do away with an individual.’ He reiterated these claims on Wednesday, with out providing additional clarification.
Bottles of prescription ache treatment have been additionally recovered inside, as have been varied objects of drug paraphernalia. The situation of the house and the objects discovered inside have been in any other case regular, in response to the PI.
On Monday, Nov. 24, the County of Los Angeles Division of Medical Examiner introduced that they acquired a court docket order, initiated by the LAPD, to position a safety maintain on Celeste’s case.
“No information or particulars related to the case, together with the trigger and method of dying and Medical Examiner report, could be launched or posted on the web site till additional discover,” the medical expert stated. “The Division understands the general public’s curiosity on this case and stays dedicated to transparency when doable. Data will likely be made out there as soon as the court docket order is lifted.”
LAPD Capt. Mike Bland stated the safety maintain was not sought to undermine transparency, however to keep up the integrity of the police investigation, which is ongoing by detectives with the Theft Murder Division
“It was accomplished in order that our investigators get the knowledge earlier than the media and the general public,” Bland stated.
Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Odey Ukpo stated such safety holds are “nearly remarkable in different counties” in California.
“We’re devoted to serving our group with full transparency; nevertheless, the legislation precludes us from doing so whereas the court docket order stays on this case,” Ukpo stated.
On November 26, 2025, we realized {that a} Grand Jury has been convened on this case.
In keeping with the Occasions, prosecutors led by Deputy District Lawyer Beth Silverman have presumably known as a number of witnesses earlier than the panel, in response to a court docket submitting describing the probe. Sources say that the Grand Jury was convened in mid-November, but it surely’s unclear if prosecutors have completed presenting proof.
The LA Occasions acknowledged that the court docket petition they not too long ago obtained (the LAPD blocking the discharge of Celeste’s dying information) contained a “Grand Jury” quantity, confirming their suspicions. The Grand Jury assessment marks the primary time the case has entered the “formal” judicial pipeline, nevertheless, this specific Grand Jury can solely “advocate” fees.
An “investigative” Grand Jury can not return an indictment; they will return subpoenas for witnesses and different proof wanted, and will typically take months to listen to proof as they’re used for complicated and unclear felony instances.
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