The D4vd Case – Current True Crime
By: Nitzaliah Festinger
This week, rumors are going around about popular music artist D4vd, continuing to surprise the public with new information from his ongoing investigation.
David Anthony Burke, commonly known as D4vd, has recently shocked the internet due to his potential involvement in the abduction and murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Ever since Celeste’s body was found in the trunk of D4vd’s car, the police seem to find more and more evidence pointing towards D4vd.
Prior to the discovery of the body, D4vd was not a suspect in Celeste’s case. Since then, police have shifted their focus to him as Celeste was found in his abandoned car. There haven’t been any public statements announcing him as an official suspect. The music artist’s spokesperson claims that “David has been very cooperative and has not hesitated to let investigators search his home and belongings.”
As for additional information, people online have noticed some “shady” things that they believe could D4vd as guilty. Firstly, before D4vd was a music artist, he was pursuing social media fame. Many videos and content from 2022 have resurfaced with Celeste. The two used to make videos together, and Celeste was a very active figure in D4vd’s online presence. At the time, Celeste was around twelve or thirteen years old. During this time, D4vd’s friends knew Celeste as his girlfriend, and he told his friends that Celeste was nineteen.
Along with this, an unreleased song track has been found titled “Celeste_Demo_unfin”. People speculate the song is about having a romantic relationship with a girl named Celeste, which has sparked conversation within d4vd’s Discord community. The lyrics say, “Oh Celeste, the girl with my name tattooed on her chest.” People found this line extremely alarming once they found out that d4vd and Celeste actually have matching tattoos. The suspected couple both had a tattoo on their pointer finger that said “shhh”. While these facts couldn’t be used as legal evidence, people still believe the song and tattoos mean something.
Celeste was last seen running away from her home in California back in August of 2024. No one had seen her since then, until her body was found. Multiple missing reports were created for her. This raises the question of where Celeste has been this entire year, since she was only found dead recently, and assuming she had died a year ago, her body would have decayed much more than it was when she was found. Unless of course, she was stored somewhere else prior to being placed in the car. The medical examiners haven’t been able to identify the cause of Celeste’s death, or even how long she has been dead.
The aftermath of this case has caused pain for many. Celeste’s family expresses their grief for Celeste. Her brother, Mathew Rivas, told reporters, “My mom’s grieving really bad. My dad’s grieving really bad.” Friends of d4vd have had to cut all ties with him and express that they had no idea that Celeste was so young when d4vd was “dating” her. They describe the heartbreak of learning that someone so close to them had done such horrible things. Similarly, fans of d4vd are upset about the news, especially since d4vd has gone silent. D4vd has cancelled all upcoming tour dates and has gone M.I.A on the internet. People find this “suspicious” and are curious to know what is behind d4vid’s silence.
While d4vd has avoided making any statements, there is footage of a recent interview where he claims his song lyrics were only “metaphorical”. His song “Romantic Homicide” contains the lyrics “In the back of my mind, I killed you. And I didn’t even care.” When questioned, the artist highlights that the song says “In the back of my mind”. Concluding that this line was meant to be a metaphor. Many say that this was just a poor attempt to fix his image, and say that “everyone sees through his lies”.
All in all, it will be interesting to see how this case unravels in the future, considering the massive amounts of public involvement. It seems that everyone has decided to turn into a detective and try to figure it out for themselves, but time will only tell how that pans out.
Sources:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-27/d4vds-tesla-ticketed-on-hollywood-street-11-days-before-the-teen-girls-body-found-in-trunk
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/singer-d4vd-cancels-us-tour-investigation-15-year-old-girls-death-rcna232507
https://www.eonline.com/news/1423033/d4vd-investigation-what-police-found-at-house
https://instagram.com/reel/DO7ceG9kRYM/#:~:text=Know%20these%20coincidences%20were%20on,a%2013%20year%20old%20girl.&filter=Web%20Filter&type=block
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-d4vds-old-leaked-song-with-same-name-as-girl-found-in-his-tesla-has-disturbing-lyrics-new-revelations-emerge/articleshow/123977930.cms?from=mdr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D4vd#:~:text=Burke’s%20debut%20EP%2C%20Petals%20to,action%2Dadventure%20television%20series%20Arcane.
https://www.foxla.com/news/d4vd-friends-celeste-19-year-old-girlfriend-report