GRISLY new details linked to the home D4vd previously rented have emerged after reports claimed the body of the teenage girl found dead in his Tesla was partially frozen.
Celeste Rivas, 15, was found dismembered in the trunk of the singer’s car in September and sources have told TMZ coroners may not even be able to determine how she died.
D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, was renting out a home in Los Angeles and forked out $20,000-a-month before his team abruptly ended the lease.
The lease was ended around two weeks after Rivas’ body was found.
Cops searched D4vd’s rental home as part of their probe and were seen carrying out items.
It has since emerged that the home previously contained a freezer where temperatures could be as low as -8F.
TMZ reported the freezer was around 27 inches deep and around 14 inches wide.
The outlet claimed that Rivas’ body would have fit inside the freezer.
It’s not known if the freezer was still in the property at the time D4vd was renting.
D4vd has not been charged with any crime, but a Los Angeles Police Department source told the NBC affiliate KNBC-TV he is considered a suspect.
Sources believe that Rivas, of Lake Elsinore, died in the spring.
Her remains were partially frozen and were thawing when she was found, according to TMZ.
D4vd’s Tesla was sitting in a Hollywood tow yard and Rivas’ body was discovered after workers detected a foul smell coming from the vehicle.
The car ended up in the tow yard after it had been abandoned near the rental home.
It had been given citations relating to its tires.
After the body was found, medical examiners struggled to identify if it was male or female.
Medical examiners have not disclosed a cause of death and it could remain as undetermined.
A series of chilling similarities between D4vd and Rivas emerged in light of her death.
D4vd and Rivas had a matching tattoo that said: “Shhh.”
Timeline of death investigation for Celeste Rivas Hernandez
An investigation is ongoing after a body was found in a car belonging to singer D4vd. Here’s a timeline of the case so far.
April 2024 – Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 13, is reported missing from Lake Elsinore, California.
August 5, 2025 – D4vd starts his Withered World Tour.
August 27: A traffic officer marks D4vd’s Tesla over an issue relating to its tires.
September 3: D4vd’s Tesla given a citation.
September 5– D4vd’s Tesla is towed to a Hollywood yard.
September 7 – Rivas turns 15 years old.
September 8 – The Los Angeles Police Department discovered a dismembered body wrapped in plastic in the trunk of D4vd’s impounded Tesla.
September 17 – The decomposing body is identified as Celeste Rivas.
September 18 – D4vd’s house is searched overnight and investigators take a computer and other evidence. D4vd continues his tour with a show in Seattle. Rivas’s family breaks their silence on their GoFundMe page.
September 19 – D4vd cancels the rest of his tour.
September 23 – Rivas’s body is released to her family. It’s revealed that D4vd and his manager have broken their lease and left the house that was raided in Hollywood.
October 6 – Rivas is buried in a private funeral ceremony in Rowland Heights, California
November 18: LAPD source claims D4vd is being treated as a suspect.
November 22: Reports claim Rivas’ body was partially frozen when it was found inside D4vd’s Tesla
Both of their tattoos were on their right index fingers.
Sleuths then discovered that D4vd sang about a girl named Celeste in his music.
In one of D4vd’s leaked tracks from 2023, he said: “Oh, Celeste, the girl with my name tattooed on her chest.
“Smell her on my clothes like cigarettes. I hear her voice every time I take a breath. I’m obsessed”
D4vd mentioned Celeste again in the second verse.
The U.S. Sun reported D4vd and Rivas had socialized with each other from when she was 13.
Rivas’ brother, Matthew, said his family was aware of his sibling’s friendship with D4vd.
He claimed she never returned home when she and D4vd were going to watch a movie together, as reported by the NBC affiliate KNBC-TV.
Rivas’ mother believed her daughter had a boyfriend but hadn’t met him, family friend Rubi Alonso told The Los Angeles Times.
Rivas had been missing for more than a year before she was found.
She had been reported missing three times by her family in 2024.
D4vd was on his Withered tour at the time Rivas’ body was found. This has since been canceled.
