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A private investigator working to piece together the death of a missing teenage girl has shared new details about allegedly “sadistic” items found in D4vd ’s Los Angeles rental home.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing since April 2024, was found dead inside the trunk of a Tesla registered to 20-year-old singer David Anthony Burke—known professionally as D4vd—on September 8. Nine days after the grim discovery, LAPD detectives raided Burke’s $4.1 million Hollywood Hills mansion, seizing “several items of evidence” connected to the investigation. The property’s owner later hired private investigator Steve Fischer to determine if Rivas had ever been at the home.
Fischer has since reviewed surveillance footage, interviewed neighbors, and combed the property. He told the Daily Mail that multiple unusual tools were recovered—some still in shipping packaging—and described them as potentially “sadistic,” suggesting they could be used to harm someone. Bottles of prescription pain medication and various drug paraphernalia were also found, though the home was otherwise normal.
“We found evidence that multiple people were staying at the home,” Fischer said, noting personal belongings belonging to men and women in guest bedrooms and bathrooms. None of the female effects appeared to belong to Rivas. A neighbor told Fischer they had once seen the girl sitting on the front curb, seemingly waiting for someone.
The LAPD has not confirmed a link between Rivas and D4vd, though sources told the Daily Mail the pair had a purported illicit relationship that began online when Rivas was 11 or 12. Fischer says he has material suggesting she was still alive as recently as January 2, 2025.
Surveillance footage also shows the black Tesla—covered in mud and dented—was last moved on July 29, with Fischer identifying the driver but declining to name them. Burke was reportedly in Los Angeles at the time, leaving later that day for San Francisco to kick off the first show of his Withered World Tour.
Fischer added that Burke appeared to maintain a small inner circle at the Hollywood Hills home. After news of Rivas’s death broke, members of this group allegedly unfollowed each other and deleted posts showing them together. He also believes multiple people had access to the Tesla.
D4vd canceled the remainder of his tour following the discovery of Rivas’s body but has not publicly addressed her death. Authorities have not named any suspects, and the singer has not been accused of any crimes. The investigation remains ongoing, with the LAPD treating it as a death investigation rather than a confirmed homicide.
