Footage Places Teen Alive Months After Missing Report, Sparking Fresh Questions in Probe of Her Death Linked to Singer D4vd
A new video clip that just surfaced through TMZ is causing a monkey wrench to be tossed into the heated inquiry into the missing and tragic demise of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. This Nest doorbell footage is from September 8th of 2024 and shows the teen in an angry confrontation with neighbors in Lake Elsinore, California nearly five months after she originally went missing and was reported by family.
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The video outright defies the known timeline. Celeste was actually registered as missing on 5th April 2024 when she was only 13 years of age. Yet here she is, quite much abreast and causing a commotion in her community a day after she’d turned 14. Fast-forward exactly one year to September 8, 2025, and her remains turn up in the frunk of a Tesla owned by singer David Anthony Burke, better known as D4vd. That discovery has ramped up both the scrutiny from investigators and the buzz from the public.
Celeste’s family reported her missing back in April 2024. Then, months later on that September day in 2024, the Nest camera catches her in full swing, yelling at folks outside her house. And precisely a year on, September 8, 2025, her body is found in the front trunk of a towed Tesla Model 3 from the Hollywood Hills. This new video is making everyone cops and armchair detectives alike rethink what really went down during those supposed “missing” months.
In the clip, Celeste is fired up, accusing a family of pulling a ding-dong-ditch prank on her parents’ place. Her tone is sharp and intense:
“You ain’t gonna let me talk? Why you not gonna let me talk? … You don’t even got a f**ing house.”
Things get uglier with curses flying, and there’s even a moment where a potential racial slur comes into play. A guy pushes back, saying,
“I’m not Black, so don’t call me the N-word.”
Neighbors who spoke to TMZ said they knew her from the missing-person flyers that had been plastered around the area earlier that year.
Apparently, one neighbor’s boyfriend headed over to Celeste’s house later to say sorry. Witnesses recall her dad answering the door but brushing it off, like it was no big deal and everything was fine.
This Lake Elsinore teen ended up in the trunk of a Tesla tied to 20-year-old R&B star D4vd. The car had been sitting in the Hollywood Hills before getting impounded, with complaints about a bad smell tipping people off. D4vd’s been working with the police but hasn’t faced any charges yet. Cops are floating the idea of something like hiding a body, but they’re clear he’s not a suspect right now.
The LAPD is holding off on naming the official cause of death until tox reports come back. One thing that’s been cleared up her death certificate shows she wasn’t pregnant, shutting down one of those wild rumors that blew up online.
Legal experts are chiming in, saying this video opens up a can of worms about accountability. If she was home and okay after the missing report, did someone drop the ball on the investigation? Folks in digital forensics point out that stuff like doorbell cams can be game-changers for timelines, but you’ve got to double-check the metadata to make sure it’s legit.
On top of that, dropping this video into the mix has folks debating media ethics. Sharing raw, aggressive footage of a kid who later turns up dead it’s a tough call between what’s newsworthy and what’s just invading privacy.
In California alone, there are over 100,000 missing-person cases reported every year, a bunch involving teens. Experts note that digital clues from phones to security cams are key these days in sorting out the facts, though misinformation online often makes things messier.
For the moment, Celeste’s story is a tangled web of sorrow, finger-pointing, and the search for answers. As one investigator put it to the press,
“Each new bit of evidence helps, but damn if it doesn’t just create more puzzles.”
