Celeste Rivas Hernandez and the disturbing experiences surrounding her loss of life have been straight addressed by the LAPD this week as officers moved to close down misinformation in regards to the teen’s physique being discovered frozen or mutilated in d4vd‘s Tesla.

LAPD Theft-Murder Division Captain Scot Williams spoke plainly to Folks, pissed off by the swirl of on-line hypothesis.

“Celeste’s physique was not frozen,” he stated. “She was not decapitated. The entire frozen factor doesn’t even make sense. Her physique was within the automotive for weeks.”

Williams added that the science alone debunks the frozen principle.

“Even when she had been frozen strong when she was put within the automotive (which there’s NO proof to recommend she was), 5 or extra weeks within the trunk of a automotive in sweltering warmth in the course of summer time wouldn’t have resulted in {a partially} frozen physique being found on September eighth.”

The 15-year-old disappeared from her Lake Elsinore house in April 2024. Her stays have been found 5 months later, sooner or later after what would have been her fifteenth birthday, inside a Tesla towed to a Hollywood Hills impound lot.

The automobile was registered to 20-year-old R&B artist d4vd, whose actual identify is David Anthony Burke.

Police sources advised Folks they imagine d4vd “most definitely had assist dismembering and disposing” of Celeste’s physique, suggesting the case could contain a couple of particular person. Nobody has been charged.

The investigation stays tangled, with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner inserting a safety maintain on all paperwork related to Celeste’s loss of life. A court docket order requested by police is stopping public entry to her post-mortem and explanation for loss of life.

“No information or particulars related to the case, together with the trigger and method of loss of life and Medical Examiner report, will be launched or posted on the web site till additional discover,” the workplace stated in a press release, including they acknowledge “the general public’s curiosity on this case.”

Whereas LAPD leads the probe, d4vd has reportedly not been useful. Regulation enforcement sources say he’s “not cooperating,” regardless of earlier claims from his workforce that he was “totally cooperating” with authorities.

On the time her physique was found, the singer was on tour. Police later executed a search warrant at a residence the place he had been staying, however no arrests have been made.

Celeste’s household state of affairs provides one other layer of heartbreak. A put up circulating on social media reveals her mom expressing anguish, writing, “I haven’t seen my daughter in years!!!!”

The message has drawn consideration to the teenager’s susceptible state earlier than her disappearance.

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