A shocking revelation from the Los Angeles coroner’s office states that a 14-year-old girl, discovered deceased in the trunk of a vehicle owned by singer D4vd, was brutally stabbed and dismembered.
The autopsy report, obtained by The Daily Mail, details that Celeste Rivas Hernandez suffered fatal knife injuries to her liver and chest.
The young girl’s remains were discovered in a Tesla registered to D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, in September of the previous year.
The disturbing report further notes severe mutilation to her ring and pinky fingers.
Burke now faces accusations including first-degree murder, committing lewd acts with a minor, and body mutilation.
Additionally, the coroner’s findings indicate the presence of Benzodiazepines and Methamphetamine in the girl’s liver.
By the time investigators discovered her remains her head was partially skeletonized and missing an eye.
A defense lawyer entered not guilty pleas to all counts on behalf of Burke, who made his first court appearance Monday.
Rivas’s body was found in a Tesla towed from the Hollywood Hills on September 8 last year, a day after she would have turned 15
D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, performs onstage at Made on YouTube on September 18, 2024 in New York. Burke has now been charged with first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body
The Tesla SUV where police say Rivas’ body was discovered on September 8, 2025
Rivas Hernandez was reported missing by her family in 2024, when she was 13.
That was her age when, according to allegations in a criminal complaint, Burke engaged in continuous sexual abuse of her for at least a year from September 2023 to September 2024.
California law penalizes abuse of a child under 14 especially harshly.
Authorities described her as a ‘runaway’ when she was killed with a sharp object on or around April 23, 2025, a day she was at Burke’s house in the Hollywood Hills.
Prosecutors allege Burke mutilated her body about two weeks later.
The murder charges include special circumstances – lying in wait, committing crime for financial gain and murdering the witness in an investigation – that could carry the death penalty. Prosecutors haven’t announced whether they will seek it.
‘We believe the actual evidence will show David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez,’ lead defense attorney Blair Berk said in court Monday. ‘We would like to have the evidence come into the light of day.’
Berk told the judge that after media reports of months of secret grand jury proceedings, she would like a public preliminary hearing to take place as soon as possible so a judge can decide whether there is enough evidence for trial.
An attorney for Burke, pictured in March 2025, entered not guilty pleas to all counts on behalf
LAPD officers clad in tactical gear and carrying rifles swarmed the 21-year-old musician’s Hollywood Hills mansion on April 16, 2026 and arrested him
Burke is entitled under California law to have the evidentiary hearing within 10 court days of his arraignment. Nearly all defendants waive their right to have it happen that fast, but he didn’t.
He is scheduled to appear in court again on Thursday.
Rivas Hernandez’s remains were discovered in September 2025 after a Tesla Model Y, which was registered to Burke’s Texas address was impounded in Los Angeles.
The vehicle had sat on a public street for more than 72 hours and was seemingly abandoned, according to the LAPD.
Employees at the Hollywood Tow yard called police after they noticed a stench coming from the vehicle.
Investigators searched the Tesla and found a cadaver bag ‘covered with insects and a strong odor of decay,’ court documents said.
‘Detectives partially unzipped the bag and observed a decomposed head and torso,’ the filings added.
LA medical examiner’s office investigators then removed the bag and ‘discovered the arms and legs had been severed from the body,’ according to court documents.
Police raided a $4.1 million home in the Hollywood Hills where Burke had been staying last year
A second black bag was found under the first, and dismembered body parts were inside it.
The coroner determined that Rivas had been deceased in the vehicle for ‘an extended period of time before being found’.
The medical examiner said she was wearing black leggings, a tube top, a yellow metal chain bracelet and stud earrings when she was found.
Neighbors said the Tesla had been moved several times over the preceding three months before it was left on Bluebird Avenue in the Hollywood Hills.
Last September, LAPD obtained a warrant to search the rented $20,000-a-month home that Burke had been staying at in Hollywood Hills. Officers seized a computer from the residence.
Burke broke his lease shortly after the raid and moved out of the home.
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