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D4vd hearing details high hopes and brutal end of girl at heart of murder case

A picture of a teen girl surrounded by figurines.
A makeshift memorial for Celeste Rivas Hernandez outside her home in Lake Elsinore, California, on 21 April 2026. Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP

The rising pop singer D4vd and 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez were in the throes of a clandestine relationship months before her mangled and decomposing body turned up last September stuffed in an impounded car registered to the musician.

D4vd, born David Anthony Burke, is set to stand trial for murder, child sexual abuse and mutilation of human remains in connection to the teenager’s death.

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