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So to @atomheartbevo remark in the Elon thread will cameras in the Tesla capture the last person to drive the car? 
 

California authorities have ID’d the dismembered teen found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as Celeste Rivas, a 15-year-old girl with the same tattoo as the artist — and who once had a boyfriend named David, according to her mom.

Rivas’ mutilated body was found last week in the trunk of a Tesla sedan sitting in an impound lot in Hollywood Hills, a car registered to the 20-year-old singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke.

The girl was identified as Rivas, who went missing from Lake Elsinor, Ca., in 2024 and had a boyfriend named David, Rivas’ mom told TMZ.

She also had a tattoo on her right index finger that read “Shhh…” — similar to one D4vd has, according to TMZ, although other celebs have the same ink, including Rihanna and Lindsay Lohan.

The petite teen was found wearing a tube top with black leggings and a yellow bracelet with similar metal stud earrings.

Her body was wrapped in plastic and was so badly decomposed that it wasn’t fully intact and was first reported to authorities because the car itself started to emit a “foul odor.”

Authorities linked the car to D4vd, who has been “cooperating with authorities,” a spokesperson for the singer told NBC 4.
 

Rivas was only 13 years old when she vanished, according to missing persons posters from the time.

When the news broke of the body in the trunk, Rivas’ mom immediately suspected they had found her daughter, she told TMZ.

The outlet reported that he canceled his Wednesday gig in Seattle; however, the venue, The Showbox, was still selling tickets at the time of publication and hadn’t mentioned a cancellation on social media.

When the body was first uncovered in the car, D4vd was preparing for a performance in Minneapolis and had been sharing consistent posts with his 2 million followers on Instagram.

Despite his apparent willingness to work with authorities, D4vd’s career took a harsh hit in the wake of the mystery.

He was dropped by Crocs and Hollister mere days after they both announced him as the face of their “Dream Drop” collaboration.

The product images that Burke modeled for were all released, but his face was cropped out.
 

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the case seems to really be heating up with the identification of the remains. Might as well weigh in. 
 
Very tragic. so young. 
 

Is this a case of it’s exactly what it looks like? 

 

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https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/17/d4vd-sings-about-celeste-leaked-song/
 

not a fan of TMZ but what they found here is interesting. 
 

“D4vd professes his love for someone named Celeste in one of his leaked songs ... and it's the same name as the 15-year-old girl who was found dead in his Tesla.

D4vd sings ... "Oh, Celeste / The girl with my name tattooed on her chest / Smell her on my clothes like cigarettes // I hear her voice each time I take a breath / I'm obsessed."

The never verse also features the name ... "Oh, Celeste / Afraid you'll only love me when undressed / But you look so damn gorgeous in that dress / Missing you so much makes me depressed / But I digress, because."

When the song leaked in December 2023 it was titled "Celeste_Demo unfin."

The track can be heard when you click on the TMZ link. There is a lot more to this story. 

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1 minute ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Damn.  That is a really twisted story.

I was hoping for proof from the Tesla so now they will I guess have to approach the investigation from another way. Cell phone pings and so on. What is weird is that he cancelled his tour today and was hanging out in the area where the missing girl used to live with her parents. This area is a good hour or so from where he lives. But all this shit is circumstantial. Not good enough for a case: he may have known her and dated her (underage) and her remains were found in his car but they are going to have to prove a lot more for him to be charged. If he is in fact involved in her death. 

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19 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

I was hoping for proof from the Tesla so now they will I guess have to approach the investigation from another way. Cell phone pings and so on. What is weird is that he cancelled his tour today and was hanging out in the area where the missing girl used to live with her parents. This area is a good hour or so from where he lives. But all this shit is circumstantial. Not good enough for a case: he may have known her and dated her (underage) and her remains were found in his car but they are going to have to prove a lot more for him to be charged. If he is in fact involved in her death. 

How did she get into his car? I mean, someone put them there. He would have had to have given access if not him, so he knows something. Like we all know about the lake monster in austin. 

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Name in his song, matching tattoos, mom said she had a boyfriend named David when she went missing, found dead in his trunk, I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s involved.  

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7 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

Name in his song, matching tattoos, mom said she had a boyfriend named David when she went missing, found dead in his trunk, I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s involved.  

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Nicole and her group of psychic investigators from the Yogurt Shop murders documentary will solve it using their wind chimes. Have no fear. 

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5 minutes ago, Deej said:

Nicole and her group of psychic investigators from the Yogurt Shop murders documentary will solve it using their wind chimes. Have no fear. 

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2 minutes ago, Deej said:

Nicole and her group of psychic investigators from the Yogurt Shop murders documentary will solve it using their wind chimes. Have no fear. 

 

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2 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

So did he report the vehicle stolen at the time? If not, I don't see how he's not involved.

Police responded to a report of the abandoned Tesla and, after being notified of a foul odor, found the badly decomposed body of a teenage girl inside the vehicle on September 8, 2025. The police reached out to D4vd. They keep saying he is cooperative, which doesn’t mean jack shit. This case could be exactly what it looks like, but so far no arrests. 

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2 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Dunno, Man.  I think he's guilt.  If not of murder then of accessory or illegal possession of a dead body or something.

It sure looks that way, unless some enemy of his did this it seems illogical that an underage girl he allegedly was having a relationship with winds up in his car, dead and wrapped in plastic. You’d think by now they’d have all the good CCTV footage, damn. 

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LE searched a home last night that was near where the Tesla had been (before it was towed) according to ABC7 

 

“On Wednesday night, a house close to where the Tesla was abandoned was searched.

A dozen LAPD investigators took a computer and other items from a Hollywood home. Police spent hours at the home on Doheny Place, placing several evidence bags into an SUV, but they wouldn't say if or how it was connected to the Tesla.

Several homeowners say they remember seeing that distinct Tesla for a while - first parked in front of the house police searched, then at two different spots on the street.

Authorities discovered her body on Sept. 8 after responding to a tow yard near Mansfield Avenue and Romaine Street in Hollywood.

Officers went to investigate a foul odor coming from the Tesla, which police sources say had been at the lot for two days after it was found abandoned on a public street.“


So the car was there a long period of time before it was eventually towed. It’s difficult for me to think D4vd doesn’t know unless he gave someone that car. I have zero hope of a decent prosecution as LA or similar have an abysmal track record of prosecuting celebrities or quasi ones. We shall see. The identification of her body yesterday really caused this investigation to kick into high gear. 
 

so tragic. She was just a child. She deserves justice. The person who did this absolutely robbed her of dignity in death. And her family. Piece of shit.

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This case does kind of give off Gabby Petito vibes a bit. 
 

TMZ is saying just now that D4vd was living in the house that was searched last night. He was fairly well known in music circles hanging out with KATSEYE and Benny Blanco (who is Selena Gomez fiancé—Only Murders much?) TMZ saying they compared the photos of him in a home in this article to pictures of the inside of the home police searched (probably Zillow or something) and they match. 
 

https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/18/d4vd-lived-in-house-lapd-homicide-searched/

I posted this crime bc it does appear like an arrest is imminent, so it is like low hanging fruit. Shit is happening rapidly. 

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10 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

TBH, I'd never heard of him before.  But I'm kind of old!

My son is (was?) a fan.  I took him and his buddy to the show at Stubbs a few weeks back.  This news has them both shaken up.

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4 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Benny Blanco from the Bronx?

 

Yep. 
 

D4vd was a star on the rise. I hadn’t heard of him until I saw the news article the previous week about a dismembered corpse found in a Tesla he owns. But he was collaborating with Crocs on a new shoe project which his involvement has been shuttered. I cannot imagine what happened but it feels like shades of Gabby Petito unless someone was borrowing his car and he was out for town a long time. Still could be the case. There has to be ring footage that they can collect but I don’t know how useful it may be. It’s hard for me to think he wasn’t involved but I’ve seen stranger cases where the original person of interest turns out not to be. It could be someone staying in the house or something else? 

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Just now, Nicole44 said:

D4vd was a star on the rise. I hadn’t heard of him

 

Just now, Nicole44 said:

he was collaborating with Crocs

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“David Anthony Burke, professionally known as “d4vd”, is a popular, 20-year-old American singer and songwriter. He was born in Queens, New York.

D4vd began releasing his music on audio platform Soundcloud and posting his songs to his YouTube channel in 2021.

The first music video he posted was a song titled Romantic Homicide in September 2022. As of Thursday, the video has had 179 million views on YouTube.

The audio of this song was released in July 2022. A snippet of the song went viral on social media platform TikTok: “In the back of my mind. You died. And I didn’t even cry. No, not a single tear.”

D4vd also shot to TikTok fame with another song titled Here With Me, the video for which he released on YouTube in November 2022. As of Thursday, this video had 244 million views. The lyric from that song, which went viral, was: “I don’t care how long it takes, as long as I’m with you, I’ve got a smile on my face.”

The singer is currently on tour, performing in cities across the US, United Kingdom and Europe. He performed in Minneapolis on Tuesday.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/9/18/who-was-celeste-rivas-the-missing-teen-found-dead-in-singer-d4vds-tesla

is this a case of life imitating art? I remember the case of a man who was convicted of murdering his wife on the beach (he claimed a random stranger shot them both—his wound appeared to be self inflicted) and he had downloaded the song “I used to love her but I had to kill her”  right before she was killed and the state used that is a piece of evidence against him in court. Anyway things seem to be breaking pretty fast. 

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2 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

LE searched a home last night that was near where the Tesla had been (before it was towed) according to ABC7 

 

“On Wednesday night, a house close to where the Tesla was abandoned was searched.

A dozen LAPD investigators took a computer and other items from a Hollywood home. Police spent hours at the home on Doheny Place, placing several evidence bags into an SUV, but they wouldn't say if or how it was connected to the Tesla.

Several homeowners say they remember seeing that distinct Tesla for a while - first parked in front of the house police searched, then at two different spots on the street.

Authorities discovered her body on Sept. 8 after responding to a tow yard near Mansfield Avenue and Romaine Street in Hollywood.

Officers went to investigate a foul odor coming from the Tesla, which police sources say had been at the lot for two days after it was found abandoned on a public street.“


So the car was there a long period of time before it was eventually towed. It’s difficult for me to think D4vd doesn’t know unless he gave someone that car. I have zero hope of a decent prosecution as LA or similar have an abysmal track record of prosecuting celebrities or quasi ones. We shall see. The identification of her body yesterday really caused this investigation to kick into high gear. 
 

so tragic. She was just a child. She deserves justice. The person who did this absolutely robbed her of dignity in death. And her family. Piece of shit.

The owner of a Tesla can literally pull up the car's exact location on their phone at any time. Even if he had lent the car out, he would still be able to do that. You also get all sorts of notifications on the car's status. 

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11 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

She has been in a car in an impound lot for a year and a half.... and they just now found the body.... WTF.  How is that possible?

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51 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

The owner of a Tesla can literally pull up the car's exact location on their phone at any time. Even if he had lent the car out, he would still be able to do that. You also get all sorts of notifications on the car's status. 

I did not know that, that’s fucking interesting. Thanks! 😊 

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Just now, RiverwalkMiner said:

Took my wife to the Kali Uchis concert at Moody a few weeks ago, and this kid pops up on stage. Crazy to think I might have seen a killer in concert. 

 

Wow 😮 

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14 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Monster Joe's got rid of the body.. Thats the whole point.

i’m guessing that an 18 year-old wannabe rapper star delegates that task to one of his Homies instead of Mr. Wolf.  

in any event, it seems like they have enough probable cause to charge him with statutory rape.

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49 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

She has been in a car in an impound lot for a year and a half.... and they just now found the body.... WTF.  How is that possible?

She ran away on April 5, 2024. Unforunately, a cause and a time of death haven’t been determined as of yet. I would say she’s probably been dead a few weeks or less.
 

I think some site had a picture (a selfie which is believed to be D4vd and Celeste) which was taken a few months ago. So my best guess is a month or less. For a TOD (time of death.) 

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26 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

i’m guessing that an 18 year-old wannabe rapper star delegates that task to one of his Homies instead of Mr. Wolf.  

in any event, it seems like they have enough probable cause to charge him with statutory rape.

The thought some of us had was that she may have been pregnant and with his star on the rise he couldn’t have that. The age difference between them isn’t huge. He’s 20 and she is 15 but it is the fact that she is 15 and may have been hooking up when she was 13. Shit always gets found out. This crime was so sloppy. The car was parked on the street for a while. It was moved according to neighbors about 3x Then it it sat out in the last spot for 5 days. Probably bc a neighbor was sick of it being parked in front of their house. And it gets towed. 
 

D4vd's car was in the impound lot for about two days before police found a body inside it, as it was towed on September 5, 2025, after being abandoned for five days and was not discovered to have a foul odor and an impound in West Hollywood, California until September 8, 2025, when the body of a missing teenager was found.

 

this leads me to think her death was fairly recent, or at least her body was put in the car fairly recent bc of the smell. How would the tow truck driver not smell it? It only started to reek a few days later but who knows? 

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22 minutes ago, Js1 said:

D4vd?

Kali Uchis?

What the fuck language is this

lorem ipsum 🇦🇷 on X: "me inundó de vergüenza ajena con el grito del final  https://t.co/JOS3UUazu7" / X

I feel like I am back working at Dell. Everything is a fucking acronym.
 

It makes me feel simultaneously ragey and OOTL (out of the loop) 🤣 I say we start throwing out terms from the 70’s and 80’s. We can’t let this shit stand man. 

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Just now, Zepol87 said:

Kali Uchis is dope I had never heard of D4vd before this 

I don’t think many people had. He was just starting to gain some serious traction when this dead body in the impound lot happened. 

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2 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

The first music video he posted was a song titled Romantic Homicide in September 2022.

The B-side Whimsical Dismemberment  should have been a real red flag.

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