\n Why it has taken so long for investigators to make an arrest in the case is unclear.\n <\/p>\n
\n Rivas and d4vd had been linked to each other<\/a> in several ways before the girl\u2019s family reported her missing in 2024. But authorities had not publicly named d4vd as a suspect until after a squad of local and federal officers battered down the door of a Hollywood Hills home Thursday and took him away.\n <\/p>\n \n The singer\u2019s attorneys pointed out an indictment or criminal complaint have yet to be filed.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cLet us be clear \u2014 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 defense attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n \n Here is a timeline of d4vd\u2019s connection to Rivas, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and death, and what we know about the investigation so far.\n <\/p>\n \n Signs of Rivas\u2019 connection to d4vd began to surface before she was reported missing.\n <\/p>\n \n In January 2024, Rivas appears side by side with the singer in a livestream video on the social media platform Twitch. In it, the pair joke and banter until about 3 a.m. before d4vd laughingly proclaims, \u201cDelete everything.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Sometime between January and March 2024, d4vd is photographed getting out of a black Tesla a few blocks from Rivas\u2019 home. A local teen in Lake Elsinore later posts the photos on TikTok. CNN geolocated and chronolocated the photos to verify when and where they were taken.\n <\/p>\n \n Rivas is reported missing three times in early 2024 as loved ones and friends worry over the seventh grader\u2019s well-being and whereabouts.\n <\/p>\n \n Rivas is 13 years old when she is first reported missing in mid-February 2024, according to 911 call logs and missing posters. A poster from this time says she was last seen around February 14.\n <\/p>\n \n Around this time, a person concerned about her well-being sends an email to an address bearing d4vd\u2019s name on his record company\u2019s domain.\n <\/p>\n \n The writer references Rivas\u2019 disappearance and says, \u201cThere\u2019s been talk\u201d that d4vd possibly had something to do with it. If there was any truth to that, the person writes, \u201cplease do the right thing and take her home. Her parents are very worried.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n CNN confirmed the authenticity of the email with the person who sent it. But that person asked not to be identified due to safety concerns.\n <\/p>\n \n Rivas returns home within days of that email being sent, an acquaintance of the family confirmed to CNN.\n <\/p>\n \n Rivas is reported missing a second time around March 19, according to 911 logs and missing posters.\n <\/p>\n \n For a third and final time, she is reported missing on April 5, according to the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\n <\/p>\n \n It is unclear when Rivas is killed, but photos indicate she is still alive almost a year after she was first reported missing. Authorities said in court documents she was 14 when she died, according to The Associated Press.\n <\/p>\n \n In June 2024, Rivas is photographed backstage during a sold-out show d4vd performed at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.\n <\/p>\n \n Another hint linking d4vd to Rivas is found in the singer\u2019s rented home after Rivas\u2019 body is identified in September 2025.\n <\/p>\n \n Steve Fischer, a private investigator hired by the owner of the property, said he uncovered a digital camera inside the house that contained photos of both Rivas and d4vd taken in late December 2024 and early January 2025.\n <\/p>\n \n During that time, the entertainer posts other photos from the camera\u2019s memory card to his X account, captioned \u201ctook these pics\u201d along with a selfie of him wearing a camera of the same model.\n <\/p>\n September 8, 2025: Rivas\u2019 body is found<\/p>\n \n A day after she would have turned 15, Rivas\u2019 dismembered and decomposing body is found in the trunk of a Tesla at a police impound yard.\n <\/p>\n \n The car, which was registered to d4vd, had been apparently abandoned on a street not far from where d4vd was living in the Hollywood Hills. The vehicle was eventually transferred to the tow yard, where an employee called police after noticing a foul smell coming from the vehicle.\n <\/p>\n \n No cause of death is announced publicly. The autopsy results were later sealed by a judge at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department, whose elite Robbery-Homicide Division is investigating the young girl\u2019s death.\n <\/p>\n \n When her body is discovered, d4vd is on a world tour promoting his first full-length album, \u201cWithered.\u201d\n <\/p>\n ![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c-2026-04-17t220003z-244618844-rc26rkag80hq-rtrmadp-3-usa-crime-d4vd-memorial.jpg\")
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