FBI Insider on D4VD & Celeste Rivas: The Mistakes, The Delays, The Timeline That Doesn’t Add Up

Tesla Tomb: The D4vd and Celeste Rivas Story

FBI Insider on D4VD & Celeste Rivas: The Mistakes, The Delays, The Timeline That Doesn’t Add Up

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing in April 2024. But five months later, she was caught on camera — alive and near home. Then, one year later to the day, her decomposed body was discovered in the front trunk of a Tesla linked to music artist d4vd.
The car had been sitting on a public street. Then it was ticketed. Then it was towed. No one checked it. No one noticed. Until the smell.
And now?
Still no charges. Still no confirmed suspect.
Just a deferred cause of death. And a growing sense that something — or someone — is being missed.
In this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer walks us through what this case looks like through the lens of someone who’s handled high-profile, high-risk investigations — the kind where the victim is a child, the timeline is broken, and the forensic trail is already cold.
She lays out:

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  What should have happened in the first 24 hours after the body was found
  
• What kind of evidence is lost forever if you don’t move fast — and what might still be recoverable
  
• How the FBI builds working timelines when a “missing” child turns up on camera months later
  
• Whether the Tesla's onboard tech could actually reveal who last accessed the car
  
• The red flags she sees in the tow yard timeline, family silence, media pressure, and the lack of a confirmed crime scene
  
  
• And why “no charges” right now doesn’t necessarily mean no case — but it does mean time is running out
  

This isn’t theory. This is how a real federal agent thinks, moves, and investigates when the victim is 14 — and the system may already be failing her.
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