{"id":144233,"date":"2025-11-20T05:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144233\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:51:07","slug":"former-laneway-performer-d4vd-now-suspect-in-murder-of-los-angeles-teen-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144233\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Laneway performer D4vd now suspect in murder of Los Angeles teen, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are reportedly \u201ccertain they are going down the right path for a suspect\u201d, a source told ABC News.<\/p>\n

Her cause of death is still unknown, but based on the state of decomposition, LAPD believe Rivas\u2019 body was in the trunk of the car for some time.<\/p>\n

The source also told NBC4 Investigates that Burke would likely have needed an accomplice to dismember her.<\/p>\n

An occasion when he travelled to a \u201cremote area\u201d in Santa Barbara County earlier in the year is allegedly being probed, according to TMZ.<\/p>\n

It is believed the singer may have had a romantic relationship with the girl before her death.<\/p>\n

Rivas\u2019 family reported her missing in April 2024 after she failed to return home from a trip to the movies.<\/p>\n

Her brother Matthew Rivas told NBCLA the then-13-year-old was attending the film with the Houston musician.<\/p>\n

Though Burke had previously not been deemed a person of interest in the case, he cancelled his world tour in late September after the discovery of Rivas\u2019 body.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the Romantic Homicide singer performed in New Zealand at Laneway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are reportedly \u201ccertain they are going down the right path for a suspect\u201d, a source told ABC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,46794,682,3944,2741,31742,15266,14647,156,2740,78,15894,97244,3234,4275,111,139,425,69,1118,4627,10715,312,50359,39811,19687,5163,4054,3608],"class_list":["post-144233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-angeles","tag-being","tag-car","tag-claim","tag-considered","tag-d4vd","tag-discovered","tag-entertainment","tag-former","tag-in","tag-laneway","tag-los","tag-months","tag-murder","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-performer","tag-remains","tag-says","tag-source","tag-sources","tag-suspect","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}