Rapper D4VD finally arrested on suspicion of murder of a 14-year-old runaway
Back on September 8, police responded to an impound lot in Los Angeles when the owners reported a terrible smell coming from a Tesla that had been towed. The source turned out to be the severely decomposed body of a 14-year-old runaway named Celeste Rivas. She’d been missing for about a year. The body was found in a cadaver bag.
“Detectives approached the vehicle which was parked on the upper deck of the impound lot and immediately noticed a smell of decaying biological material consistent with a decomposing corpse coming from the front storage compartment of the vehicle.”
The Tesla was registered to the Texas address of David Anthony Burke, a rapper who goes by the name of D4VD. It appears that he and Celeste hung out together quite a bit.
By November, he was declared a person of interest in the case while offering cooperation and claiming innocence
Well, D4VD has now been arrested. He’s being held without bail. The case will go before the DA in LA on Monday (April 20).
D4VD’s lawyers released this statement: “Let us be clear – 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. There has been no indictment returned by any grand jury in this case and no criminal complaint filed. David has only been detained under suspicion.”
Read more here and here. Whatever comes of this, it’s fodder for a future episode of my true-crime-and-music podcast, Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Business.
