The runaway teen found dead in singer D4vd’s abandoned Tesla trunk was frozen, decapitated, and chopped into pieces – and cops may never know exactly how she died, a report said.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s dismembered body parts were “partially frozen” and thawing in the “Romantic Homicide” singer’s car, leaving the LA County Medical Examiner struggling to determine an official cause of death due to the horrific state of the 15-year-old’s remains, sources told TMZ.
The cause of death “will most likely be ‘undetermined,’” the outlet reported.
The 20-year-old singer – whose real name is David Anthony Burke – is being eyed as a suspect in the teen’s gruesome death, though no arrests have been made, according to the outlet.
Now, a second person has been linked to the case – an unidentified individual in the singer’s car, Mark Geragos revealed on TMZ’s “2 Angry Men” podcast.
The suspect’s phone and social media data was triangulated by LAPD homicide detectives to the Hollywood Hills spot on the same timeframe that Rivas died.
Here’s the latest on the death of the teen girl found in rapper D4vd’s Tesla
The teen’s body was found wrapped in plastic on Sept. 8 – the day after what would have been her 15th birthday – when the singer’s car was brought to a tow lot after being abandoned on a Hollywood Hills street.
Police are still trying to determine exactly how long the car was parked there but it had been slapped with a ticket roughly two weeks earlier.
The car was later towed – but the teen’s body wasn’t found for several more days when employees at the lot reported a foul stench.
Cops believe Hernandez, who repeatedly ran away from home and was reported missing in early 2024, likely died sometime in the spring. They are still digging into whether she was murdered or if her death was the result of an overdose, police sources told KABC.
Police are trying to determine the exact role the pop star and other suspected accomplices played in her death, but D4vd reportedly hasn’t been cooperating since the investigation began.
Connections between the teen and singer trickled out as the investigation unfolded, including screenshots of old messages on his Discord fan server that showed he was rumored to be dating a teen named “Celeste.”
D4vd also once made an unreleased track in which he mentioned the name “Celeste” twice, and her mom noted the teen had been dating someone named “David.”
The singer’s rented Hollywood Hills mansion is now getting prepped to go back on the market, The Post learned Friday.
