Nov. 19, 2025

D4vd Officially A Suspect In Death of 15 Year Old Found Decomposing In His Tesla

D4vd Officially A Suspect In Death of 15 Year Old Found Decomposing In His Tesla

Police have finally, and officially named singer D4vd a suspect in death of a teenager found dismembered and decomposing in the front trunk of his Tesla more than two months ago. Police are still waiting for the LA medical examiner to determine Celeste Rivas’ cause of death, but once that happens, officials expect the investigation will move quickly. Amy and T.J. go over the latest new details in the case, including information from police, that more than one person may be involved, and their belief that Rivas might have been dead since last spring.

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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Wednesday, November the nineteenth. Singer David is now finally and formally being called a suspect and the death of a fifteen year old girl who was found in the trunk of his car, And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. This is the story we have been following from the absolute very beginning, and from the beginning people were scratching their heads about why he hasn't been called a suspect the past several months.

00:00:30
Speaker 2: Yes, there have been a lot of curious and interesting questions around this case. Number one, yes, why was David not named a suspect immediately or at least within a few days or weeks? And number two, why have they not ruled this a homicide yet? Those are two questions. And look, we understand it takes time for police to run the test they have to run and obviously make sure that they have all of their evidence in a row before they make these announcements. But it's been months. Her body was found early September, so that's quite some time to be waiting, especially if you're the family.

00:01:10
Speaker 1: So they finally, it took a while before they even spoke of a homicide, that that word was even used in this case. And again we're talking about a fifteen year old girl in the trunk. How does she get in the trunk? What dismembered, dismembered and body decomposing is how she was found. But if folks don't know what genre, do we say of music? Neo soul. He's twenty years old. David Anthony Burke is his name, but he goes by David. And it's spelled D for v D right, Yes, so spelled it?

00:01:45
Speaker 2: Yes, I actually in my head have to say to forbid, so I know how to spell it when I'm actually googling or searching this story.

00:01:51
Speaker 1: And we and I laughed at you the first time you did it, and now that's what I do every single to have to write his name to forbid, but he helps. It's David, is how you say it?

00:01:59
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, But now we are starting to get some information from the police department, and we haven't had much at all, but we do know. Yes, they have acknowledged that David is officially a suspect, and they have told some media that they are certain they are going down the right path for a suspect so that was the closest we got to them saying we got our guy.

00:02:25
Speaker 1: We know who he is, and they haven't announced what the cause of death is. Now I don't know how much robes they might know about the cause of death. But once that is announced, once that's released, things might move really quickly.

00:02:38
Speaker 2: Yes, they said, once the medical examiner makes that determination, then things will progress very quickly. And according to members of the media who have spoken to police, they mentioned they actually got specific about Celeste and her name. By the way, have we said her name Celeste Reevas Hernandez fifteen years old. She actually turned fifteen the day before or her body was found. Police believed that she had been dead for weeks and now they're even saying potentially months, So she never made it to fifteen. She was actually fourteen when she died. But police say that they believed the way her body was dismembered, the process by which it was dismembered, they don't think that one person could have done it by themselves, so they say they are talking to other people who they believe may have been a part of the cover up or the aftermath of this crime. So that is interesting.

00:03:30
Speaker 1: That detail expands this story makes it in that moment. It's one thing to say he's a suspect. Now we're talking about suspects, possibility of several people being a part of what the death or the dismemberment, we don't know. But this story, it never ever sounded. It's tough to explain this type of thing. It's his car registered to him, parked up the street from where he's living. Her body's in the trunk. Okay, there could be some explanations ropes, but from the very beginning and then his behavior, what we were expecting and what we were wanting from the beginnings to come out. I cannot believe this has happened, this poor girl. I want to get to the bottom of what happened. Stone cold silence. Have we even heard from a rep of his through this whole thing.

00:04:14
Speaker 2: No, only that he was cooperating with police early on. They did say that. But here's you said, stone cold. Look, if he has something to do with this, if he loved this girl, if he knew this girl the day her body was found. The following day, he's on a stage in Minneapolis, continuing his tour. Yes, that is cold.

00:04:34
Speaker 1: We were scratching our heads about and look a lot of things. He could have been on stays to honor her. He could have. I don't. We just didn't know. But in the moment, in that moment, it seemed we say cold, but it seemed borderline tacky, just out of respect to bad taste. That's the what I'm looking for. This is your car.

00:04:55
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, if you had nothing to do with it, a young girl who had been missing for a year and a half was found dismembered and decomposing in your car, you don't go on stage and seeing and you know, be adored by fans.

00:05:10
Speaker 1: We were trying to understand at the time. And I'm not sure who we were talking about the other day, but you said, this young girl we forget, don't we see her picture? Child? A child child was in the trunk of his car.

00:05:21
Speaker 2: She was fourteen. Yeah, and when she went missing, when her mother put up the flyers and went to police, I mean she had been missing, went missing several times. There definitely was some issues for her and her family life. But she was thirteen when her mother last saw her. She was a child child, So this is really interesting. So we know that what we got this fall the only details we had we knew police went to the house that David was renting twenty thousand dollars a month. He broke his lease I believe went back home, but they were seen taking boxes of evidence out of that house. TMC had reported that they were looking for blood evidence in the home, so we know that they have been on the case. We just have had almost zero weeks about what's been happening with the case. And yes, David has obviously he canceled his tour. He had a big tour set for Europe as well, canceled that, so he has just really gone underground at this point.

00:06:18
Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, I haven't seen a report of where he is or hearing anything from him lately at all. Can imagine we are going to hear anything anytime soon.

00:06:26
Speaker 2: The only thing we did here, which is a complete reversal from earlier police have said now that he is no longer cooperating with police.

00:06:35
Speaker 1: This all looks bad, but he is innocent until proven otherwise, and always have to caution and pump the brakes no matter how bad something might look. We just don't know.

00:06:45
Speaker 2: We just don't know now. We still actually don't even have full confirmation that David was in a relationship with Celeste. But there is some evidence out there that has been mounting. Of course, you've got all these online sluice looking for any sign sign of their relationship in his work, in any photos that may have been online, and those are all surfacing. There is a song called Celeste that he had out in twenty twenty three, and people are pointing to some of the lyrics. Have you read the lyrics? And so just to prove at least there was a girl that he sung about in twenty twenty three name Celeste. The name of his song is Celeste.

00:07:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, And people piece all these things together and now this proves anything, and now this proves any type of relationship. But given where we are, I mean, people just start to connect some dots and that could be all kinds of coincidences, but damn, there are these are stacking up with the tattoos and the songs and the pictures and the lyrics and the name and that I mean, yes, their connection seems clear. The affection, even, I would argue, seems that way.

00:07:52
Speaker 2: Yes, in the pictures. And then even her own mom, Celest's mom said that her daughter went missing in April of twenty twenty four and had a boyfriend named David. Her brother has been talking as well, Matthew Reeves, and he said that the family knew that the teen girl knew David. By all accounts, they believe they met online and they think she might have been as young as eleven when she first started talking with him online. He was young too, so he was a teen at that point too, so he was probably sixteen seventeen, but still a big age gap between the two and her brother says that his sister vanished when she was on her way to see a movie with David. He said she was going to the movies with singer David and that is the last time he saw his sister.

00:08:39
Speaker 1: That's tough, I mean, obviously this girl had some issues with just who knows what her life has been like? It seems like nobody knows. Her family hadn't seen her in a year or year and a half. What has her life been? Where has she been, what has she been doing, How's she taken care of herself? How's she eating? Where does she get a roof over her head? Where has she been?

00:08:58
Speaker 2: According to people around David circle, they said that she looked older so she was able to. She would go out with him, she was in clubs with him, she was living with him. This is according to folks who are around him, but nothing has been substantiated. I have to say, though, I was looking at some of his work, and we're not huge fans of his music at all, not our genre, and nothing against him specifically, but there is a video called Rehab of one of his songs, and he was into anime. He loved all of that. He in this video, this music video. His anime character is very violent and actually dismembers a girl in this video, so people are pointing to that. Then with the situation at hand, with what happened to Celeste, it's really eerie. And there might not that could be a coincidence, but that is so eerie.

00:09:50
Speaker 1: They're really stacking up here. This is one of those all this stuff on. All you can say is, Okay, I know what you're thinking, but let me explain. And I would love to hear the explanation, but yeah, I just don't just don't want to get too far ahead of it. And we were always cautious when we first heard this story and when we first heard about his behavior and the concerts, and it just nothing made since and we were waiting to hear something ropes and we've heard nothing from police. So I don't know what else, how else to what else to make of these facts, including the last one you're giving about a video. It just all looks awful.

00:10:29
Speaker 2: And the lyrics of some of his songs. Romantic Homicide is his number one song in fact, and here's the other. I just want to point out something about us human nature. I get that this happens, but there were many articles when after the body was found, and when they were rating his home within a few weeks of one another, his songs which had not even been they had been so low on any sort of Spotify chart they didn't even really register. All of a sudden, for the first time in David's musical career, his song Romantic Homicide shot into the top ten in late September on Spotify's charts, so people started getting I think there was another artist, and it was in terrible taste. Was complaining that he wished he could get some publicity. Like David. Maybe he needed to have something happen so that he could get his music played more. But it's disturbing to think that. Yes, people were so fascinated by him and the mystery surrounding this young girl, his music shot up the charts.

00:11:26
Speaker 1: Look I was I am guilty of that. As a matter of research, I didn't know who he was, and I think a lot of people didn't know who he was. I'd never seen the name David before, so being knew who he was, She knew that song Romantic Homicide, So I jumped on to figure out who he was, what kind of music if I jumped on to see if we had heard any of his songs before, which we had not. So yeah, there was a lot of curiosity, morbid and otherwise.

00:11:51
Speaker 2: Yes, I suppose right now and just trying to figure out who this guy is and if what people were saying or implying could possibly be true. When we come back, we're going to talk about the victim in this case, Who is Celeste, who was she, who loved her? And how did she go missing for so long? And continuing now with this fairly breaking story, we've been waiting to hear what might happen in the case of David and the young girl who was found dismembered and decomposing in the front trunk of his Tesla level. David is now officially a suspect in the investigation into her death. We still don't have it ruled as a homicide. We are waiting for the La County Medical Examiner to make the determination what her cause of death was. But this is a young girl who actually really had a mysterious upbringing. There isn't a lot about her out there. We know that she was reported missing from her hometown of Lake elsen, Or, California. Do you are you familiar with that area. I understand it's about a ninety mile drive from Los Angeles, or at least from where her body was found. She was last seen on April fifth, twenty twenty four, and as we reported, her brother said, she was supposedly going to the movies with David. And wow, it's just so ironic and sad that her body was found the day after what would have been her fifteenth birthday.

00:13:27
Speaker 1: What were they looking for her? I mean, I just wonder who I think we said this at the very beginning when we heard she'd been missing so long, Like, who loved her as a kid in southern California? A child? What were we talking about? She started going missing? At time thirteen thirteen.

00:13:46
Speaker 2: They believe she may have started talking to David online around the age of eleven.

00:13:50
Speaker 1: So, I mean, just to think a kid does Yeah, it's just it's tragic, Okay, it ended tragically, but it was tragic before she ever got to Tesla.

00:14:00
Speaker 2: Look, she had a history of running away, according to family members. One of her actually a cousin of hers, went on to TikTok. You know, it's interesting people in the family, some of them have spoken out a little bit, but she claims that she had run away at least four times before the last one in April, and that she would go and live with extended family. She would go and live with an aunt or an uncle or someone other than her immediate family. But everyone who described her described her as bubbly and sweet and look, we have a few pictures that we can go by that we can see of her, and she did look older than thirteen, for sure, but she did have that sweet smile. She was a young girl who had a future. It's just incredibly tragic, incredibly sad. And I don't know, I just I have gotten more and more concerned by the lyrics I have been reading in some of his songs. They are violent. They are about being upset about a girl finding someone else or leaving him. Or he's even put some things on TikTok himself that we're disturbing about what he would do ha ha joke lol, if he caught his girl looking at another guy. I mean, it's a little scary.

00:15:11
Speaker 1: Supposed to be art, all right, supposed to just be art. Folks are now wondering if there's more. Look, we always know this. When there is a lack of information or official information, people will fill in the blanks. And a lot of people are filling in blinks. The story has gone a little wild in a lot of areas I'm sure you've seen on the internet. But the facts still remain, and the fact is now robes. I'm probably sure plenty of police officers the moment this girl was found, had in their mind that he was their suspect.

00:15:46
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and of course they have to make sure they've checked out and exhausted all other potential suspects. But now we are talking about suspects with an s potentially here. And I am curious because we did have so many months of complete silence, two weeks, no information, nothing, I think TMZ was finding things here and there, but they were getting their information from family members, from folks who knew David, folks who knew Celeste. They weren't getting it from police. Now that they have officially gone on the record and said that David is a suspect, I'm curious if more information will be coming out quicker. They know that once they make a declaration like this or they acknowledge something like this now, the media is going to be even more hungry for details and what happens next and where this is headed. So I have a feeling this is just the beginning and we are going to be getting a lot more information in the coming days and weeks for sure, and we will of course make sure we pass that along to you all because this is a developing and morbid but it is a fascinating case nonetheless, and we will be on top of it. So thanks for listening to us, everybody. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.