{"id":213906,"date":"2025-09-09T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213906\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:08:09","slug":"lapd-investigates-two-decomposed-bodies-one-found-in-tesla-linked-to-rapper-d4vd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213906\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD investigates two decomposed bodies, one found in Tesla linked to rapper D4vd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles police have found human remains in two different vehicles inside local tow yards this week, law enforcement sources have told The Times.<\/p>\n<p>One set of remains were discovered about 12:20 p.m. Monday, when police responded to Hollywood Tow on Mansfield Avenue, according to LAPD Officer Charles Miller. Someone had smelled a foul odor coming from the front trunk of a vehicle, and detectives were sent to investigate the possible presence of human remains. <\/p>\n<p>The car, a Tesla with a Texas license plate, was towed from the tony Bird Streets neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills, according to police sources. The vehicle was abandoned five days earlier. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a body was found partially burned inside a Honda Civic that was logged as towed on Aug. 25, according to two law enforcement sources not authorized to speak about the investigation. The Civic is connected to a missing person report and is considered a separate incident from the one in Hollywood Hills. Detectives found the body at a different tow yard.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Hills case has been classified as a death investigation, according to Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The remains in that vehicle were described as a \u201chead and torso\u201d and were contained in a bag within the trunk, according to the law enforcement source. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/human-remains-discovered-in-trunk-of-tesla-impounded-at-hollywood-tow-yard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KTLA5<\/a> also reported that the L.A. County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office responded to the scene but couldn\u2019t determine the gender of the person due to the level of decomposition. <\/p>\n<p>The L.A. County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was registered to David Anthony Burke, a musician whose stage name is D4vd, according to a law enforcement source who was not authorized to discuss the investigation. The singer is alive and is expected to perform in Minneapolis on Tuesday for his world tour. <\/p>\n<p>D4vd, pronounced \u201cDavid,\u201d first entered the public eye trough TikTok, where he has 3.6 million followers.<\/p>\n<p>Times staff writers Summer Lin and Christopher Buchanan contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police have found human remains in two different vehicles inside local tow yards this week, law&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[13257,116984,52809,171,116983,116979,116980,116981,34011,116982,9548,1812,17820,7829,45494,67,132,68,6189],"class_list":["post-213906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-authority","tag-decomposition","tag-detective","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood-musician","tag-hollywood-tow-yard","tag-human-remain","tag-ktla5","tag-level","tag-minneapolis-tuesday","tag-monday","tag-office","tag-p-m","tag-tesla","tag-trunk","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vehicle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115176623678091040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}