LAPD TRUTH BOMB: Celeste Rivas Body NOT Frozen, NOT Decapitated I Crime Alert 5PM 11.27.2025

The LAPD says Celeste Rivas body was not frozen when found in frunk of Tesla registered to D4VD. LAPD Captain and commanding officer of Robbery Homicide Division, Scot Williams, says "the whole frozen thing doesn't make sense, her body was in the car for weeks." 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Lord hourly update, Breaking crime News Now, I'm Dave Man.
The Celeste revs. Hernandez case has taken another turn, forcing
police to finally provide some new information to a case
that has been creating headlines for months, with LAPD remaining
mostly silent. The story began when the body of missing

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teen Celeste Revas Hernandez was found decomposing in the front
of an abandoned tesla registered to singer D four Ved
David real name David Anthony Burke in September. Since the
discovery of the body, the LAPD has remained relatively silent,
while leagues from the investigation appear regularly on TMZ dot
com and local news outlets. Recent reports from an anonymous

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source tied closely to the investigation claims the body was
frozen and decapitating. Found that leaked information causes LAPD Captain
and commanding Officer of Robbery Homicide Division, Scott Williams, to
provide an update, saying selest Us body was not frozen
and she was not decapitated, going so far as to say, quote,

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the whole frozen thing doesn't make sense. Her body was
in the car for weeks unquote. While the LAPD remains
tight lift about the case. What is known is that
the timeline regarding the Tesla containing the body of Celeste
was last moved on July twenty ninth. The vehicle was
tagged by police and later towed to impound on September fifth.

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On September eighth, police are called to the impound lot
due to a horrible smell coming from the tesla and
the remains of Celest are found. Celeste remains are discovered
one day after her fifteenth birthday, leading some news outlets
to identify her as being fifteen years old. Captain Williams
corrects this by saying she was only fourteen when she died.

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Celeste Revas Hernandez was reported missing by her parents and
like Elsinore, California, on April five, twenty twenty four, when
she was just thirteen. Even though there's clear video of
it and showing Celeste at her parents' home in September
of twenty twenty four, the status of her case was
not changed and she was still considered a missing person
when her remains were found. The autopsy report for Celeste

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was listed as deferred while awaiting toxicology and additional tests,
but now LAPD Detective Joshua Buyers refers to the case
as an ongoing investigation of murder and releasing the medical
examiner's findings could endanger the lives of witnesses and or
compromise the investigation. Buyers says making the document's public will

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reveal or tend to reveal the ongoing investigation and the
integrity of the investigation, as well as the identity of
witnesses and or informants who are cooperating with law enforcement,
and the content of the information they have provided, which
could endanger the lives of witnesses and or compromise the investigation.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Richmond ordered that all

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documents related to the court or be sealed until further
order of this court or a competent court having jurisdiction
over the matter. David Anthony Burke has been identified as
a suspect and Celestes death. More crime injustice news coming up.

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In the midst of an undefeated season and in the playoffs,
chasing a state championship, Union high school football coach Travis
Turner goes missing. State police special agents from a Bureau
of Criminal Investigation office were sent to his home not
to arrest him, but to talk to him as part
of an investigation. On the way to the coach's home,

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officers are notified the coach is gone. A search of
the area nearby was conducted with drones, dogs, and rescue teams.
As the search continues for the runaway coach. Charges are filed,
including possessing child pornography and using a computer to solicit
a minor. Virginia State Police say Turner is now wanted

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on warrants of five counts of each charge, adding that
additional charges are pending as an investigation continues. They did
not share details about what prompted the charges. Turner's wife, Leslie,
denies the charges, saying, quote, none of that is true.
He's a good dad and a good husband unquote. Turner

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is the football coach at Union High School in southwest
Virginia's Wise County. Union has put together an impressive undefeated
season through the first round of the state playoffs. Union
High School assistant coach Jay Edwards has since stepped in
two handle all coaching responsibilities as the search continues. For
the latest crime and justice news followed the Crime Alert

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I'm Dave, Matt