{"id":145194,"date":"2025-09-09T23:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145194\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:17:06","slug":"lapd-finds-decomposing-bodies-in-two-vehicles-one-in-a-tesla-linked-to-singer-d4vd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145194\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD finds decomposing bodies in two vehicles, one in a Tesla linked to singer D4vd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles police have found human remains in two different vehicles inside local tow yards this week, law enforcement sources have told The Times.<\/p>\n<p>One set of remains was discovered about 12:20 p.m. Monday, when police responded to Hollywood Tow on Mansfield Avenue, according to LAPD Officer Charles Miller. Someone had smelled a foul odor coming from the front trunk of a vehicle, and detectives were sent to investigate the possible presence of human remains. <\/p>\n<p>The car, a Tesla with a Texas license plate, was towed from the tony Bird Streets neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills, according to police sources. The vehicle was abandoned five days earlier. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, another body was found partially burned inside a Honda Civic that was logged as towed on Aug. 25, according to two law enforcement sources not authorized to speak about the investigation. The Civic is connected to a missing person report and is considered a separate incident from the one in the Hollywood Hills. Detectives found the body at a different tow yard.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Hills case has been classified as a death investigation, according to Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The remains in that vehicle were described as a \u201chead and torso\u201d and were contained in a bag within the trunk, according to the law enforcement source. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/human-remains-discovered-in-trunk-of-tesla-impounded-at-hollywood-tow-yard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KTLA5<\/a> reported that the L.A. County medical examiner\u2019s office responded to the scene, but couldn\u2019t determine the gender of the person due to the level of decomposition. <\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was registered to David Anthony Burke, a musician whose stage name is D4vd, according to a law enforcement source who was not authorized to discuss the investigation. The singer is alive and is expected to perform in Minneapolis on Tuesday for his world tour. <\/p>\n<p>D4vd, pronounced \u201cDavid,\u201d first entered the public eye trough TikTok, where he has 3.6 million followers.<\/p>\n<p>Times staff writers Summer Lin and Christopher Buchanan contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police have found human remains in two different vehicles inside local tow yards this week, law&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17864,90041,19493,88,90040,90035,90036,90037,21395,90038,23600,16178,22215,1019,90039,10129],"class_list":["post-145194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-authority","tag-decomposition","tag-detective","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood-musician","tag-hollywood-tow-yard","tag-human-remain","tag-ktla5","tag-level","tag-minneapolis-tuesday","tag-monday","tag-office","tag-p-m","tag-tesla","tag-trunk","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}