Body of murdered 13-year-old girl found in trunk of 20-year-old music idol's car

 
NBC Sept. 17, 2025, 6:53 PM EDT

There's a black "singer" calling himself "D4vd" (real name David Anthony Burke), lives in LA.  Burke is 20, and early in its story the NY Times tells readers he has "millions of followers on social media."  Cuz dat's important.  

Several weeks ago a car registered to Burke was reported to have been abandoned in the Hollywood Hills.  NBC says it hadn't been moved for over a month.  NY Times says "for over 72 hours."  Huge difference.  Hmmm....

(It's doubtful that neighbors would call the cops about a car that hadn't moved in just 3 days.)

Cops impounded the car.  Notably, it had not been reported stolen.

On Sept 8th workers at the impound lot noticed a foul smell coming from the car.  They called cops, who found a decomposed body in the trunk.

The body in Burke’s car was identified as that of a teenage girl, later identified as Celeste Rivas, who had been reported missing from Lake Elsinore, California, on April 5th of 2024, at the age of 13.

The LA Times says the girl was 15, because she *would have been* 15 if she hadn't been killed.  Plus, a 15-year-old murder victim doesn't trigger as much outrage as a 13-year-old.

The medical examiner said it appeared the girl had been dead for an extended period of time.  Duh.  What was your first clue, doc?  Yeah, decomposition will do that.

So let's do a bit of investigating: Elsinore is about 70 road miles from LA.  The dead girl--then 13 years old--was reported missing on April 5th of last year.  

As noted above, Burke's car was found abandoned in the Hollywood Hills.  One outlet says it hadn't been moved in over a month--and the state of the girl's body suggests it had been in the car for several months.  *Yet Burke never reported the car stolen.*  

So you'd think the first question the cops would have asked him would have been "Was your car stolen?  If so, when did you notice it was missing?  Did you report the car theft to police?  If so, when?"  (If he's clever he'll say he sold it to a drug dealer--name unknown, of course--for a pound of...something.) 

Surely the cops asked him if his car had been stolen, right?  Cuz that's so obvious.  

The medical examiner said the girl's body had a tattoo on her right index finger that read “Shhh...”  Recent photos of Burke appear to show an identical tattoo on his right index finger.

Democrats: "Dat jus' coincidence."

For the girl's body to be so badly decomposed, she had to have died months earlier, so the first fact suggesting Burke killed her is that he never reported the car stolen, even though residents of the Hollywood Hills said it had been abandoned for over a month.  

And second are the matching tattoos on the right index finger of both Burke and the dead girl.

So the obvious question is for the family of the dead girl: When did she get the tattoo, and did she tell you what it meant?
 
Finally: Burke doesn't have a registered address in L.A. but had been staying at a home in the Hollywood Hills.  Police got a warrant and searched the home.

SO...the "elites" have been *gushing* over what a great musical talent this dude is, which suggests the Media will circle the wagons and try to derail any charges.  It'll be interesting to watch.

Source (one of several): nbc

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decomposed-body-found-singer-d4vds-impounded-tesla-identified-teenage-rcna231868 

David Burke ("D4vd")