uncovered Rivas\u2019s badly decomposed body<\/a> in the trunk of an impounded Tesla registered in his name.<\/p>\nInvestigators found two black bags in the vehicle \u2013 one holding a decomposed head and torso and the other containing other body parts, according to a court filing. An autopsy revealed that Rivas \u201cappeared to have been deceased inside the vehicle for an extended period of time before being found\u201d. The discovery occurred one day before Rivas would have turned 15.<\/p>\n
The LA County District Attorney\u2019s office will review the case against Burke on Monday for formal charges, according to police.<\/p>\n
Burke\u2019s lawyers issued a statement saying they would \u201cvigorously defend\u201d his \u201cinnocence\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet us be clear \u2013 the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death,\u201d lawyers Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter said in a statement quoted by NBC News.<\/p>\n
Burke, from Queens, New York, shot to internet fame in 2022 when his Romantic Homicide became a breakout hit on TikTok.<\/p>\n
Last year, the musician cancelled the last part of his US and European tours<\/a> amid growing fallout from the investigation into Rivas\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arrest comes after police found the body of Celeste Rivas in a car registered to the musician last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,134,43,136,44,41,39,42,40,1055,6075],"class_list":["post-612784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-headlines","tag-music","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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