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Girl found dead in D4vd’s Tesla identified as missing teen Celeste Rivas
Daily News ^ | September 17, 2025 | Joseph Wilkinson

Posted on 09/17/2025 11:10:32 AM PDT by citizen

Summary from X: Authorities identified the decomposed body found in the front trunk of an impounded Tesla, registered to singer David Anthony Burke (known as D4vd), as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, who went missing from Lake Elsinore, California, in April 2024. The remains were discovered on September 9, 2025, in a Hollywood impound lot after workers reported a foul odor from the vehicle, towed two days prior; police ruled the death a homicide with no suspects named. Rivas's mother confirmed the identity through a distinctive finger tattoo and recalled her daughter's mention of a boyfriend named David, while Burke, who reported the car stolen months earlier, is cooperating with investigators and faces no charges.


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KEYWORDS: crime; homicide; missing; rapper; tesla

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Speculation: Girl died/killed. "David" rapper put her in the trunk, stashed the car somewhere and reported it missing. Alternate: An associate offed the girl, stole the car and hid the girl in it.
1 posted on 09/17/2025 11:10:32 AM PDT by citizen
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To: citizen

Sounds that way we will never know for sure


2 posted on 09/17/2025 11:12:40 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: citizen

Teslas have cameras....................


3 posted on 09/17/2025 11:14:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: citizen

Reported missing April 2024.

Car reported stolen a few months ago.


4 posted on 09/17/2025 11:29:53 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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“Reported missing April 2024.

Car reported stolen a few months ago.”

I listen to crime vlogs... that cut out means nothing... maybe even premeditated...
Just sayin’


5 posted on 09/17/2025 11:38:25 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: TexasGator

The real question is where has the girl been for the last 18 months?


6 posted on 09/17/2025 11:46:19 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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In a freezer... Probably killed her, or she OD’d... And he wasn’t smart enough to figure what to do with her body... Pig farms are great places for body disposal... You just need a friend with a a pig farm. A dumb idea is placing her body in your Tesla, and then reporting it as stolen.


7 posted on 09/17/2025 11:58:07 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Vaduz

A mid-teen girl, particularly if she’s enamored with the whole rap/music/drug scene, is all too easily led into an unwholesome, dangerous situation - especially in the black world, where we see daily that life is cheap.


8 posted on 09/17/2025 11:58:48 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: jerod

Yes, perhaps stashed in a freezer. Or perhaps she was alive for much of the time she was missing.

The length of time from being reported missing and the discovery of the body in a car trunk is not dispositive.


9 posted on 09/17/2025 12:00:49 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: citizen

Yes


10 posted on 09/17/2025 12:05:30 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: citizen

I have no idea, really, but suspect an autopsy can determine if a body is frozen for a length of time.


11 posted on 09/17/2025 12:06:34 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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Btw, Teslas have the trunk in front, like an old VW beetle?

...I liked my VW beetle. I was a lot younger then.


12 posted on 09/17/2025 12:13:14 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: jerod

If she’s been on ice for 18 months, that will be quite obvious in the post-mortem.

I don’t she’s been dead for very long. I do wonder is she’s the one that stole the car, though and been hanging out with low-lives that eventually killed her and stuffed her into her own stolen car.

And what about the Tesla cameras?


13 posted on 09/17/2025 12:19:13 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Valpal1

I no nothing about Tesla cameras, other that there are cameras that caught the keyers.


14 posted on 09/17/2025 12:31:04 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: citizen

ugh *know


15 posted on 09/17/2025 12:39:02 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: citizen

Being a mudshark has risks


16 posted on 09/17/2025 1:39:24 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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mudshark - that’s a new one on me.

Whatever it means it didn’t work out well for the 15yo girl.


17 posted on 09/17/2025 2:04:16 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: doorgunner69

Yes, it does. Nicole should have proven that.


18 posted on 09/17/2025 2:19:48 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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