CNN investigation: Missing teenager repeatedly appeared in d4vd’s orbit before her body was found | CNN

A teen girl was found dead in a car owned by d4vd. CNN went to her hometown to investigate the mysterious link between her and the rising music star. Upgrade to watch the full report. In the summer of 2024, a budding musical sensation known to his legion of mostly young fans as d4vd posted on social media that he was experiencing a case of writer’s block. “I’m in a song crisis right now,” the entertainer, then 19, lamented on Discord. Within minutes, one of his followers on the popular platform offered an oddly specific suggestion: “Drop the one with the missing girl celeste rivas hernandez,” the anonymous user wrote, referring to a 13-year-old runaway whose face was plastered on “missing person” posters at the time. The message went unaddressed by the singer, whose full name is David Anthony Burke. But the cryptic—seemingly taunting—post has since emerged as an intriguing nugget in connection with a grand jury investigation in which prosecutors have deemed Burke a “target.” That’s because about a year after the post mentioning Rivas, her dismembered and decomposed body was discovered in the trunk of Burke’s Tesla, which had been abandoned not far from t