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Sources linked to the investigation claim that when the 15-year-old's corpse was found, she had been beheaded with her limbs severed and chopped into pieces. Her remains are said to have been 'partially frozen' and in the process of thawing in the trunk of the Tesla by the time they were found, the insiders asserted to TMZ.

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...

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the gruesome discovery of a body inside an impounded Tesla at a tow yard in Hollywood, and Eyewitness News has learned the vehicle is registered to singer D4vd. Officers responded to the 1000 block of N. Mansfield Avenue shortly before 12:30 p.m. Monday to a report of a foul odor coming from an impounded vehicle, according to LAPD. Police say the impounded car had been at the property for a couple of days, and that the body had been placed inside a bag. There's no immediate information about...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- D4vd has been arrested in connection with the murder of a teenager whose decomposing body was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to the singer, police said Thursday. D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, is being held without bail, officials said. In September 2025, 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead inside the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to the singer D4vd.