{"id":398390,"date":"2025-11-23T04:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398390\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T04:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:39:14","slug":"second-suspect-idd-in-death-of-15-year-old-celeste-rivas-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398390\/","title":{"rendered":"Second suspect ID’d in death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles police have reportedly identified a second suspect<\/a> in connection with the apparent murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the runaway teen whose dismembered remains were found<\/a> stuffed in the trunk of singer D4vd\u2019s impounded Tesla in September.<\/p>\n

Queens-born D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, is also considered a suspect<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latest update was revealed on Saturday\u2019s episode of the \u201c2 Angry Men\u201d podcast, hosted by TMZ founder and lawyer Harvey Levin and criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos. The two said the second suspect is not believed to have killed the 15-year-old<\/a>, but likely assisted in the dismemberment of her remains.<\/p>\n

The attorneys said they were informed by sources of a trip D4vd took \u201cto a very remote area of Santa Barbara County, in the middle of the night,\u201d per Levin, who believes \u201cthat Santa Barbara trip is the key to this case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Geragos said he\u2019s received the name of someone police are looking at in relation to what happened before, during and after the teen\u2019s death \u2014 though he didn\u2019t want to make that name public at present.<\/p>\n

A combination of cellphone and Tesla data, along with location data from social media, appears to have led law enforcement to identifying the new suspect. The way Geragos interpreted his intel was as a confirmation that person is \u201cconnected to one of the last times that car was moved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"D4vdD4vd (main) and Celeste Rivas (inset). (Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images; LAPD)<\/p>\n

Rivas was just 13 when she was last seen by her family in the spring of 2024<\/a>, after multiple attempts at running away<\/a> from her home in Lake Elsinore, about 75 miles southeast of where her remains were found in L.A. on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

The status of 20-year-old D4vd\u2019s relationship with the teen remains unconfirmed, though people who knew the pair have said they believed they were a couple<\/a>. Rivas\u2019 mother also told TMZ her daughter had a boyfriend named David.<\/p>\n

Contrary to longstanding reports, D4vd has not been cooperating with authorities<\/a>, nor has he ever in the investigation, a police source told People.<\/p>\n

The insider confirmed that police are still unsure of Rivas\u2019 exact time of death and the circumstances surrounding it, though they\u2019ve determined she likely died in the spring of 2025, \u201cnot before then.\u201d<\/p>\n

The L.A. County Medical Examiner has yet to determine an official cause of death. Once that happens, arrests and charges could soon follow<\/a>, sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police have reportedly identified a second suspect in connection with the apparent murder of Celeste Rivas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5295,171,1370,108,50,22810,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-398390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-national-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-snyde","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115597172530535535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398390","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=398390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}