How digital evidence may be prosecution's backbone in D4vd's murder case

Summary by The Los Angeles Editorial Desk · Byline on the source page: Helen Jeong, as published by NBC Los Angeles (KNBC) · July 25, 2026 · 1 min read

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Nearly a year after the badly decomposed remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez were discovered in the front trunk of a black Tesla Model X, singer D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, appeared in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom this week as prosecutors laid out their case accu...

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