Disturbing details are surfacing after authorities identified a body found in the trunk of a car owned by singer D4vd as a 15-year-old runaway who vanished nearly 18 months earlier.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was 13 when she disappeared from her Lake Elsinore home in early 2024, as CrimeOnline reported. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office made the identification but has not yet determined her cause of death.
The body was found in a Tesla registered to the singer, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, at a tow yard in Hollywood on September 8. The vehicle had been at the lot for several days after it was reported abandoned. The body was found in a bag in the front trunk of the Tesla.
On Wednesday, investigators were seen searching a home near where the car was abandoned, and reports indicated it was a place where D4vd, who is currently on tour, had been living but did not own. TMZ reported that his manager, Josh Marshall, rented the home.
Earlier, police said that the body found in the Tesla had a “Shhh…” tattoo on the right index finger, a tattoo that D4vd also has.
In fact, many celebrities have the same tattoo. It was popularized in 2008 when Rihanna got the tattoo. Lindsay Lohan and Lily Allen are among the other celebrities with identical tattoos.
TMZ also reported about a leaked D4vd song from December 2023. The track was titled “Celeste_Demo unfin” and has since been pulled from SoundCloud. There has been no confirmation that the song is about the missing girl, but Rivas’ mother told the outlet that her daughter had a boyfriend named David.
There have also been photos and images purported to show the two together, but none of that has been confirmed.
Meanwhile, D4vd’s record label has reportedly cancelled promotion of his music even as his tour continues, The Tab reported. Some of his tour dates were cancelled in wake of the identification of Rivas’s body. The tour was originally scheduled to end Saturday in Los Angeles.
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[Featured image: Celeste Rivas/GoFundMe and D4vd/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP]
