CHILLING new details have emerged in the Celeste Rivas homicide case including about one of her final days before she disappeared.
The 15-year-old was missing for over a year before she was found dismembered in the trunk of Singer D4vd’s Tesla on September 8.
Celeste Rivas had been missing for over a year before her dismembered body was found inside the trunk of a Tesla belonging to singer D4vd[/caption]
David Anthony Burke, aka D4VD, is believed to have been dating the teen but has not been charged in relation to the case[/caption]
Rivas’ remains were discovered after workers at a tow yard reported a foul smell[/caption]
Workers at a Hollywood tow yard reported a foul smell coming from the vehicle, leading to her body being found stuffed in a bag.
The cause and circumstances around her death are still under investigation, but new details have emerged about her home life, including one particularly concerning day weeks before she vanished.
Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies had been called to the teenager’s family home in Lake Elsinore, California, 11 times in just one year, TMZ reported.
These calls were all made between February 2024, two months before she went missing, and April 2025.
Just weeks before she was reported missing on April 5, 2024 at the age of 13, cops visited her home three times in a single day.
According to police records obtained by TMZ, officers responded to the property multiple times on March 19, 2024 – just 17 days before she vanished.
Also on that day in March, she was filmed on liquor store CCTV at 7 am running down the street on the same block as her home.
A car can be seen pulling out but she runs out of the frame and it is unclear if she got in the vehicle.
The majority of the police calls were listed as “minor crime investigation” with another categorised as “suspicious circumstances,” per TMZ.
Rivas had run away from home several times in 2024 before she was reported missing for the last time that April.
A neighbor told Banfield that they sometimes heard the teenager’s parents shouting and arguing about custody of their children, though they are not believed to be divorced.
She added that Rivas was “a sweet little girl whose mom would keep her close at all times”.
Another neighbor said she would regularly run off and return hours later, often being seen walking down the street in the early hours of the morning.
It is believed that Rivas had died weeks before her remains were found.
Timeline of death investigation for Celeste Rivas Hernandez
An investigation is ongoing after a body was found in a car belonging to singer D4vd. Here’s a timeline of the case so far.
April 2024 – Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 13, is reported missing from Lake Elsinore, California.
August 5, 2025 – D4vd starts his Withered World Tour.
September 6 – D4vd’s Tesla is towed after it was abandoned on a street in Hollywood Hills.
September 7 – Rivas turns 15 years old.
September 8 – The Los Angeles Police Department discovered a dismembered body wrapped in plastic in the trunk of D4vd’s impounded Tesla.
September 17 – The decomposing body is identified as Celeste Rivas.
September 18 – D4vd’s house is searched overnight and investigators take a computer and other evidence. D4vd continues his tour with a show in Seattle.
September 19 – D4vd cancels the rest of his tour.
September 23 – It’s revealed that D4vd and his manager have broken their lease and left the house that was raided in Hollywood.
A source previously told The U.S. Sun that the 20-year-old R&B singer, whose name is David Anthony Burke, and Rivas had dated since she was 13 years old.
The pair had matching tattoos on their right index fingers.
D4vd from Texas who has hits such as Romantic Homicide, has not been arrested or charged in connection with her death, and is said to be cooperating with investigators.
He has canceled his US and European tour and has moved out of a property he was renting which has been subject to a police search warrant.
Burke has not commented on the investigation with limited statements only coming from his team.
Rivas’ body has been handed back to her family but the cause of death remains deferred as officials await further test results.
The investigation is ongoing.
Police visited Rivas’ family home 11 times in just one year including three times in a single day weeks before she went missing[/caption]
The home of Celeste Rivas and her family as police records reveal a turbulent home life[/caption]
