On Sep. 9, 2025, a foul smell began to emanate from a Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard. The LAPD investigated, cracked the trunk, and discovered something horrible inside: the decapitated and rotting corpse of a teenage girl.
A tattoo helped identify the missing girl as 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and a check on the car revealed that it was registered to rising star musician D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke. Since then, an investigation has been underway, though detectives are still unable to establish either a cause or time of death.
An autopsy concluded that the body was so decomposed that figuring out what killed her was impossible, and it having been frozen after death means traditional methods of narrowing down a time of death don’t apply. As of writing, no homicide charges have been filed against anyone.
But you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to suspect D4vd of involvement in her death. There are numerous photos of the two together, Rivas was said to have gone missing after being picked up by Burke in that Tesla, and sources say the pair were living together at the time she went missing.
Hot enough to burn bone
A private investigator says he found a “burn cage” capable of reaching 1,600 degrees — hotter than needed to cremate human remains — in singer D4vd's Hollywood Hills home. @TVAshleigh pic.twitter.com/3hiYH5Tzpr
— NewsNation (@NewsNation) December 17, 2025
Now there’s a further disturbing twist. A private investigator was given access to D4vd’s home in October, and now his discoveries have been made public. As per a report on News Nation, he discovered “items you would expect to find on a farm rather than in the Hollywood Hills”. Today, we know what one of them was.
This is confirmed to be a “burn cage”, an item generally used on farms to incinerate waste. The model discovered at D4vd’s house was a DR Burn Cage incinerator and the Amazon listing for it claims that it can ” burn in excess of 1600 degrees F, resulting in cleaner and more efficient fires with less residue and minimal ash.”
There are obviously many perfectly innocent reasons why someone might want a burn cage. However, that list of reasons shrinks somewhat when you’re living in the Hollywood Hills, don’t do much gardening, and are a famous musician. But, if you were, say, trying to think of a way to get rid of a human corpse, perhaps it might be a smart purchase?
This is all circumstantial reasoning and is by no means proof that D4vd (or anyone else) purchased this with the intention of burning a corpse. But, well, it is certainly, as the kids say, “sus”.
