A 14-year-old girl found dead in the trunk of singer D4vd’s car was stabbed to death and dismembered, according to the Los Angeles coroner.

Celeste Rivas Hernandez sustained a knife wound to her liver and her chest, an autopsy report obtained by The Daily Mail reveals.

The teen’s body was found in a Tesla belonging to D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, in September last year.

The harrowing report reveals that her ring and pinky finger had also been mutilated.

Burke, has now been charged with first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body.

Coroners also said Benzodiazepines and Methamphetamine were detected in her liver.

By the time investigators discovered her remains her head was partially skeletonized and missing an eye.

A defense lawyer entered not guilty pleas to all counts on behalf of Burke, who made his first court appearance Monday.

Rivas’s body was found in a Tesla towed from the Hollywood Hills on September 8 last year, a day after she would have turned 15

D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, performs onstage at Made on YouTube on September 18, 2024 in New York. Burke has now been charged with first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body

The Tesla SUV where police say Rivas’ body was discovered on September 8, 2025

Rivas Hernandez was reported missing by her family in 2024, when she was 13.

That was her age when, according to allegations in a criminal complaint, Burke engaged in continuous sexual abuse of her for at least a year from September 2023 to September 2024.

California law penalizes abuse of a child under 14 especially harshly.

Authorities described her as a ‘runaway’ when she was killed with a sharp object on or around April 23, 2025, a day she was at Burke’s house in the Hollywood Hills.

Prosecutors allege Burke mutilated her body about two weeks later.

The murder charges include special circumstances – lying in wait, committing crime for financial gain and murdering the witness in an investigation – that could carry the death penalty. Prosecutors haven’t announced whether they will seek it.

‘We believe the actual evidence will show David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez,’ lead defense attorney Blair Berk said in court Monday. ‘We would like to have the evidence come into the light of day.’

Berk told the judge that after media reports of months of secret grand jury proceedings, she would like a public preliminary hearing to take place as soon as possible so a judge can decide whether there is enough evidence for trial.

An attorney for Burke, pictured in March 2025, entered not guilty pleas to all counts on behalf

Burke is entitled under California law to have the evidentiary hearing within 10 court days of his arraignment. Nearly all defendants waive their right to have it happen that fast, but he didn’t. 

He is scheduled to appear in court again on Thursday. 

Rivas Hernandez’s remains were discovered in September 2025 after a Tesla Model Y, which was registered to Burke’s Texas address was impounded in Los Angeles. 

The vehicle had sat on a public street for more than 72 hours and was seemingly abandoned, according to the LAPD.

Employees at the Hollywood Tow yard called police after they noticed a stench coming from the vehicle. 

Investigators searched the Tesla and found a cadaver bag ‘covered with insects and a strong odor of decay,’ court documents said.

‘Detectives partially unzipped the bag and observed a decomposed head and torso,’ the filings added.

LA medical examiner’s office investigators then removed the bag and ‘discovered the arms and legs had been severed from the body,’ according to court documents.  

A second black bag was found under the first, and dismembered body parts were inside it.

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