It’s been weeks since the world first learned the name Celeste Rivas Hernandez—a teen missing from Lake Elsinore, California—found in the trunk of a Tesla tied to rising R&B singer D4vd.
No one’s been charged in the case. No suspect has been named. Yet the details of the presumed homicide are gruesome. Hernandez was likely dead for several weeks according to new reporting in People - and her body was found badly decomposed.
She was just 15 years old.
What we know: The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has completed the autopsy into Hernandez and her body was released to the family. But the exact cause of death is still listed as ‘deferred’ as of today, September 29. The office telling KTLA, “A deputy medical examiner completed an examination but requested additional testing and/or stu