Overview
- Newly public Texas filings identify David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, as the grand-jury target in an L.A. investigation into one count of murder tied to 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
- Court documents describe investigators opening the Tesla’s front trunk on Sept. 8, 2025, and finding two cadaver bags containing a decomposed head and torso in one and severed limbs in the other amid a strong odor and insect activity.
- Burke has not been arrested or charged, the grand jury is still hearing evidence, and a judge previously sealed the medical examiner’s autopsy findings at the LAPD’s request to protect the probe.
- Subpoenas issued Jan. 15 for Burke’s parents and brother to testify are being contested in Texas, where an appeals court initially denied their petitions before a higher court granted a temporary stay.
- The Tesla registered to Burke had been left on a Hollywood Hills street for weeks before it was impounded, and a friend, Neo Langston, was arrested after failing to appear as a witness and later compelled to testify.