{"id":2060882,"date":"2026-07-24T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2060882"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:50:07","slug":"d4vds-tesla-was-filled-with-air-fresheners-when-celeste-rivas-hernandezs-body-was-discovered-with-garbage-bags-containing-his-dna-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2060882","title":{"rendered":"D4vd\u2019s Tesla was filled with air fresheners when Celeste Rivas Hernandez\u2019s body was discovered with garbage bags containing his DNA, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4vd@2000&#215;1270.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">D4vd\u2019s Tesla was filled with air fresheners when Celeste Rivas Hernandez\u2019s body was discovered with garbage bags containing his DNA, court hears<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>At least 11 air fresheners were found in his car alongside the human remains of the 14-year-old<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Liberty Dunworth<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-07-24T14:50:07+01:00\">24th July 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4vd@2000x1270-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"d4vd looks on from behind his defense attorney during his arraignment for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez\" title=\"d4vd@2000x1270\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">d4vd looks on from behind his defense attorney during his arraignment for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. CREDIT: Ted Soqui &#8211; Pool\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><em><strong>Warning: this article contains distressing details<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A court has heard that D4vd\u2019s Tesla, where the decomposing remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez were found, was filled with air fresheners, and also that his DNA was found on garbage bags related to the case.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the singer (real name David Anthony Burke) was accused by prosecutors of dismembering Celeste Rivas Hernandez\u2019s body with a chainsaw in his garage after buying tools online.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with the murder of the 14-year-old girl on April 20, and has pleaded not guilty of murdering and sexually abusing the teen. The victim\u2019s remains had been found severely decomposed in the front boot of a Tesla registered to Burke last September.<\/p>\n<p>During the opening day of a preliminary hearing in the murder case on Tuesday (July 21), the court was shown a series of graphic and distressing photographs relating to the case, and Hernandez\u2019s parents were in attendance at the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>On that day, a homicide detective testified that Burke had purchased a body bag, chainsaws, an inflatable pool and a shovel online in the days after the victim\u2019s death. The details of the murder had previously only been described in court filings, and the hearing marked the first time that evidence and photos were shown publicly in court.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Burke stabbed Hernandez before dismembering her body with a chainsaw to cover up the murder following years of alleged sexual abuse. It is alleged that he killed the teenager because she had threatened to speak out about his relationship with a minor and ruin his music career. He has denied the charges, and told police that he did not know Hernandez was a minor. He also claimed to have only met the then-13-year-old once in person.<\/p>\n<p>Now, at the second day of the hearing, it has been heard that at least 11 air fresheners were found in D4vd\u2019s Tesla alongside the human remains of the 14-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Criminalist with the Los Angeles Police Department, Chelsea Murillo, testified and said that the majority were found on the center console of the Tesla Model X, and some others were tucked into pockets of the rear seats.<\/p>\n<p>She told the court that she noticed a \u201cstrong odour\u201d when processing the vehicle one day after Rivas\u2019 remains were found inside two bags in the storage compartment under the front hood.<\/p>\n<p>The odour, she said \u201cresembled a decomposing body, based on my professional experience\u201d, and prosecutors showed the court images of the air fresheners alongside an image of fly larvae engulfing the air freshener near where the body was found (via <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>As well as the insects in the front boot, Murillo also claimed to have found stains in a compartment of the Tesla\u2019s rear boot, which were later confirmed as Rivas\u2019 blood.<\/p>\n<p>Defense lawyer Blair Berk said that of all the swabs collected by Murillo, only two tested positive for blood DNA, and neither came from the passenger compartment.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the hearing, another LAPD criminologist, Lauren Wallace, spoke about what police found in their search of Burke\u2019s rental home, where the alleged killing and dismembering took place.<\/p>\n<p>She said that traces of blood were found on the rubber floor mats and the brick floor underneath in the garage, as well as on a nearby rowing machine, on a green tarp, and on brown-stained wipes in the bin.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace spoke about the allegations that D4vd used an inflatable pool to collect the blood when allegedly dismembering the body of Rivas. The criminologist said that the pool had a \u201cfresh, almost laundry-like scent\u201d and had dryer sheets stuck on it. No blood was visible, although when sprayed with Bluestar \u2013 a luminol-like chemical used to detect traces of blood \u2013 one patch glowed, indicating likely traces of blood.<\/p>\n<p>In court yesterday (Thursday July 24), another police criminalist, Samantha Tosch, testified that Burke\u2019s DNA was among the genetic material found on a trash bag found in the garage (as per <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>). She said at the hearing that the bag \u2013 which could be significant to the case \u2013 had the DNA of four people, and D4vd was one of them.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that at least two of the four people with their DNA on the bag were male, and that a sample of one of the aforementioned brown-stained wipes in the bag contained DNA that was \u201cthree trillion times more likely to have come from Rivas than from an unknown person\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Burke\u2019s DNA was not found on the wipe.<\/p>\n<p>Tosch later said that other suspected blood evidence found in the garage also matched the DNA profile of the victim, although in the cross-examination by Burke\u2019s defense lawyer, the criminologist acknowledged that DNA can be transferred without a person needing to touch it.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer also pressed Tosch on the software used by the LAPD, suggesting that it may be calculated that only the singer\u2019s DNA was detected in the mixture of the four-people. The LAPD criminologist said that while it was \u201cfair\u201d to say that, it is her professional opinion that the DNA on the trash bag belonged to Burke.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the hearing, criminalist Lauren Wallace revealed that investigators did not swab nor collect the two chainsaws found in Burke\u2019s garage as they \u201cdid not appear to be used\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, prosecutors said that Burke ordered the two chainsaws on Amazon shortly after the alleged murder.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the court heard from an LAPD detective that the singer purchased a third chainsaw from Home Depot on May 4 2025, but that one was never recovered. On Thursday, Wallace said that a third electric saw was found upstairs in the home and tested negative, so was not collected for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary hearing, which is not the trial itself, will see prosecutors lay out the evidence they say links Burke to the teen\u2019s death. They are seeking to convince the judge that there is sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial.<\/p>\n<p>At the first hearing, Burke was reportedly shackled at the wrists and ankles as he attended the hearing wearing orange jail clothes.<\/p>\n<p>During his testimony, Detective Joshua Byers recalled opening a cadaver bag inside the car where the victim was discovered. He found decomposing human remains, including a torso and a head, and a black bag containing severed limbs. According to Byers, Hernandez\u2019s body was so severely decomposed that her face was no longer recognisable.<\/p>\n<p>The court also heard about tattoos prosecutors claimed connected Burke and the victim. Images of a red-ink tattoo reading \u201cCeleste\u201d on Burke\u2019s left ring finger, and a \u201cShhh\u2026\u201d tattoo on his right index finger, were shown to the judge. Another photo showed Hernandez with a similar \u201cShhh\u2026\u201d tattoo on her right index finger, while a separate picture showed a hand where the ring and little finger were cut off.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous evidence filing, prosecutors alleged that the victim had sent text messages threatening to expose her relationship with Burke before she was allegedly murdered.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the court heard that investigators had obtained access to Burke\u2019s iCloud account, which they claimed contained \u201c a significant amount of child pornography\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers have vowed to \u201cvigorously defend David\u2019s innocence\u201d, claiming that \u201cevidence will show that David did not kill Celeste\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was first reported missing in April 2024, with the Tesla later being discovered after it had been moved to an impound lot in LA. 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td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><em><strong>Warning: this article contains distressing details<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A court has heard that D4vd\u2019s Tesla, where the decomposing remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez were found, was filled with air fresheners, and also that his DNA was found on garbage bags related to the case.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the singer (real name David Anthony Burke) was accused by prosecutors of dismembering Celeste Rivas Hernandez\u2019s body with a chainsaw in his garage after buying tools online.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with the murder of the 14-year-old girl on April 20, and has pleaded not guilty of murdering and sexually abusing the teen. The victim\u2019s remains had been found severely decomposed in the front boot of a Tesla registered to Burke last September.<\/p>\n<p>During the opening day of a preliminary hearing in the murder case on Tuesday (July 21), the court was shown a series of graphic and distressing photographs relating to the case, and Hernandez\u2019s parents were in attendance at the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>On that day, a homicide detective testified that Burke had purchased a body bag, chainsaws, an inflatable pool and a shovel online in the days after the victim\u2019s death. The details of the murder had previously only been described in court filings, and the hearing marked the first time that evidence and photos were shown publicly in court.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Burke stabbed Hernandez before dismembering her body with a chainsaw to cover up the murder following years of alleged sexual abuse. It is alleged that he killed the teenager because she had threatened to speak out about his relationship with a minor and ruin his music career. He has denied the charges, and told police that he did not know Hernandez was a minor. He also claimed to have only met the then-13-year-old once in person.<\/p>\n<p>Now, at the second day of the hearing, it has been heard that at least 11 air fresheners were found in D4vd\u2019s Tesla alongside the human remains of the 14-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Criminalist with the Los Angeles Police Department, Chelsea Murillo, testified and said that the majority were found on the center console of the Tesla Model X, and some others were tucked into pockets of the rear seats.<\/p>\n<p>She told the court that she noticed a \u201cstrong odour\u201d when processing the vehicle one day after Rivas\u2019 remains were found inside two bags in the storage compartment under the front hood.<\/p>\n<p>The odour, she said \u201cresembled a decomposing body, based on my professional experience\u201d, and prosecutors showed the court images of the air fresheners alongside an image of fly larvae engulfing the air freshener near where the body was found (via <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>As well as the insects in the front boot, Murillo also claimed to have found stains in a compartment of the Tesla\u2019s rear boot, which were later confirmed as Rivas\u2019 blood.<\/p>\n<p>Defense lawyer Blair Berk said that of all the swabs collected by Murillo, only two tested positive for blood DNA, and neither came from the passenger compartment.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the hearing, another LAPD criminologist, Lauren Wallace, spoke about what police found in their search of Burke\u2019s rental home, where the alleged killing and dismembering took place.<\/p>\n<p>She said that traces of blood were found on the rubber floor mats and the brick floor underneath in the garage, as well as on a nearby rowing machine, on a green tarp, and on brown-stained wipes in the bin.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace spoke about the allegations that D4vd used an inflatable pool to collect the blood when allegedly dismembering the body of Rivas. The criminologist said that the pool had a \u201cfresh, almost laundry-like scent\u201d and had dryer sheets stuck on it. No blood was visible, although when sprayed with Bluestar \u2013 a luminol-like chemical used to detect traces of blood \u2013 one patch glowed, indicating likely traces of blood.<\/p>\n<p>In court yesterday (Thursday July 24), another police criminalist, Samantha Tosch, testified that Burke\u2019s DNA was among the genetic material found on a trash bag found in the garage (as per <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>). She said at the hearing that the bag \u2013 which could be significant to the case \u2013 had the DNA of four people, and D4vd was one of them.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that at least two of the four people with their DNA on the bag were male, and that a sample of one of the aforementioned brown-stained wipes in the bag contained DNA that was \u201cthree trillion times more likely to have come from Rivas than from an unknown person\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Burke\u2019s DNA was not found on the wipe.<\/p>\n<p>Tosch later said that other suspected blood evidence found in the garage also matched the DNA profile of the victim, although in the cross-examination by Burke\u2019s defense lawyer, the criminologist acknowledged that DNA can be transferred without a person needing to touch it.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer also pressed Tosch on the software used by the LAPD, suggesting that it may be calculated that only the singer\u2019s DNA was detected in the mixture of the four-people. The LAPD criminologist said that while it was \u201cfair\u201d to say that, it is her professional opinion that the DNA on the trash bag belonged to Burke.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the hearing, criminalist Lauren Wallace revealed that investigators did not swab nor collect the two chainsaws found in Burke\u2019s garage as they \u201cdid not appear to be used\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, prosecutors said that Burke ordered the two chainsaws on Amazon shortly after the alleged murder.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the court heard from an LAPD detective that the singer purchased a third chainsaw from Home Depot on May 4 2025, but that one was never recovered. On Thursday, Wallace said that a third electric saw was found upstairs in the home and tested negative, so was not collected for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary hearing, which is not the trial itself, will see prosecutors lay out the evidence they say links Burke to the teen\u2019s death. They are seeking to convince the judge that there is sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial.<\/p>\n<p>At the first hearing, Burke was reportedly shackled at the wrists and ankles as he attended the hearing wearing orange jail clothes.<\/p>\n<p>During his testimony, Detective Joshua Byers recalled opening a cadaver bag inside the car where the victim was discovered. He found decomposing human remains, including a torso and a head, and a black bag containing severed limbs. According to Byers, Hernandez\u2019s body was so severely decomposed that her face was no longer recognisable.<\/p>\n<p>The court also heard about tattoos prosecutors claimed connected Burke and the victim. Images of a red-ink tattoo reading \u201cCeleste\u201d on Burke\u2019s left ring finger, and a \u201cShhh\u2026\u201d tattoo on his right index finger, were shown to the judge. Another photo showed Hernandez with a similar \u201cShhh\u2026\u201d tattoo on her right index finger, while a separate picture showed a hand where the ring and little finger were cut off.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous evidence filing, prosecutors alleged that the victim had sent text messages threatening to expose her relationship with Burke before she was allegedly murdered.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the court heard that investigators had obtained access to Burke\u2019s iCloud account, which they claimed contained \u201c a significant amount of child pornography\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers have vowed to \u201cvigorously defend David\u2019s innocence\u201d, claiming that \u201cevidence will show that David did not kill Celeste\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was first reported missing in April 2024, with the Tesla later being discovered after it had been moved to an impound lot in LA. 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