LOS ANGELES (KTLA) - The body of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, found mutilated inside a bag stuffed into the trunk of a rising R&B singer’s impounded Tesla earlier this month, has been released by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner to the teen’s family.

The development means the medical examiner has completed the autopsy and lab tests, and may indicate a cause of death has been determined.

Rivas’ dismembered remains, her “head and torso," according to the Los Angeles Police Department, were discovered on Sept. 8 after employees at Hollywood Tow reported a foul odor coming from the Tesla, which had been on the lot for five days after it was reported abandoned in the Hollywood Hills.

The teen had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024 when she was just 13.

“She appe

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