Internet sleuths have been hard at work uncovering and demystifying the situation surrounding the discovery of a young girl’s remains in a car trunk belonging to music artist, D4vd.

His legal name is David Anthony Burke, and the girl who was found in his car was recently identified by the coroner’s office as a 15-year-old named Celeste Rivas, who was reported missing from her hometown in Lake Elsinore, California, last year. With the exception of the Los Angeles Police department’s brief statement that they would be “investigating this incident as a homicide,” followed by a near immediate retraction of this announcement, there has been complete radio silence from the police department regarding this case which was opened more than two weeks ago.

TMZ appears to have played a significant role in the identification of Rivas’ body. They obtained an exclusive interview with her mother, where she revealed that Rivas had a boyfriend named David with whom she had matching tattoos on the inside of her right index finger. This information was then forwarded to the police department by the controversial celebrity news outlet. This tattoo was subsequently revealed to be present on the remains. It is clear to see in photos of the singer from his past concerts that he has a finger tattoo which matches the description.

On the social media platform X, there have been mountains of evidence released from various Discord chats and other online communities regarding this case. One is a screenshot of a Snapchat photo which appears to show the singer and Rivas together late at night in 2023. This information was linked with an unreleased song by the artist which was leaked in that same year. Its lyrics, posted online by the news outlet Kurrco, include haunting lines such as “I wanna make you feel suicidal” followed by a chorus explicitly featuring the name “Celeste.”

There are also screenshots of a Discord chat from 2024 which mentioned that the artist was dating a girl named Celeste. Netizens have pointed to his previously released music as evidence of his relationship with the underage victim. One song in particular, called “Romantic Homicide,” features a line where he sings “In the back of my mind, I killed you” (Song by d4vd, 2022). This song has allegedly been made unavailable to stream on Spotify and the closed captions on the song’s music video have been censored to exclude direct English captioning.

Although it is difficult to fact-check these claims, the accumulation of coincidences is indeed alarming. Even the most seasoned contrarian would have to concede to the idea that these revelations are worrisome to say the least. In spite of the vast amounts of incriminating evidence being made available online, there has been no official arrest made on this case.