{"id":49250,"date":"2025-11-23T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49250\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:16:05","slug":"body-of-teen-found-in-singer-d4vds-trunk-was-frozen-decapitated-and-cops-may-never-determine-cause-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49250\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of teen found in singer D4vd’s trunk was frozen, decapitated \u2014 and cops may never determine cause of death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The runaway teen found\u00a0dead\u00a0in singer D4vd\u2019s abandoned Tesla trunk was frozen, decapitated, and chopped into pieces \u2013 and cops may never know exactly how she died, a report said.<\/p>\n

Celeste Rivas Hernandez\u2019s dismembered body parts were \u201cpartially frozen\u201d and thawing in the \u201cRomantic Homicide\u201d singer\u2019s car, leaving the LA County Medical Examiner\u00a0struggling\u00a0to determine an official cause of death due to the horrific state of the 15-year-old\u2019s remains,\u00a0sources told TMZ.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CelesteA second person has been linked to the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 15-year-old who was found dead in the back of D4vd\u2019s Tesla, according to a report. gofundme<\/p>\n

The cause of death \u201cwill most likely be \u2018undetermined,\u2019\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old singer \u2013 whose real name is David Anthony Burke \u2013 is being eyed as a suspect in\u00a0the teen\u2019s gruesome death<\/a>, though no arrests have been made, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

Now,\u00a0a second person has been linked to the case<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an unidentified individual in the singer\u2019s car, Mark Geragos revealed on TMZ\u2019s \u201c2 Angry Men\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

The suspect\u2019s phone and social media data<\/a>\u00a0was triangulated by LAPD homicide detectives to the Hollywood Hills spot on the same timeframe that Rivas died.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on the death of the teen girl found in rapper D4vd\u2019s Tesla<\/p>\n

The\u00a0teen\u2019s body was found wrapped in plastic on Sept. 8<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the day after what would have been her 15th birthday \u2013 when the singer\u2019s car was brought to a tow lot after being abandoned on a Hollywood Hills street.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The car was later towed \u2013 but the teen\u2019s body wasn\u2019t found for several more days when employees at the lot reported a foul stench.<\/p>\n

Cops believe Hernandez, who repeatedly ran away from home and was reported missing in early 2024,\u00a0likely died sometime in the spring.<\/a>\u00a0They are still digging into whether she was murdered or if her death was the result of an overdose,\u00a0police sources told KABC.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DavidD4vd is also being eyed as a suspect. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Police are trying to determine the exact role the pop star and other suspected accomplices played in her death, but\u00a0D4vd reportedly hasn\u2019t been cooperating<\/a>\u00a0since the investigation began.<\/p>\n

Connections between the teen and singer<\/a>\u00a0trickled 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 \u201cCeleste.\u201d<\/p>\n

D4vd also once made an unreleased track in which he mentioned the name \u201cCeleste\u201d twice, and her mom noted the teen had been dating someone named \u201cDavid.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer\u2019s rented Hollywood Hills mansion is now getting prepped to go back on the market,\u00a0The Post learned Friday.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The runaway teen found\u00a0dead\u00a0in singer D4vd\u2019s abandoned Tesla trunk was frozen, decapitated, and chopped into pieces \u2013 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2136,303,27698,1015,1016,9,11,10,27699,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-49250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-d4vd","11":"tag-deaths","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-tesla","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}