Overview
- Two law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times that evidence was presented for several days in mid-November to an investigative grand jury examining the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
- An LAPD filing described the case as a murder investigation, and Deputy Dist. Atty. Beth Silverman has called witnesses, though no arrests or charges have been announced.
- A judge granted an LAPD request to bar the county medical examiner from releasing autopsy details, with detectives arguing disclosure could endanger witnesses and compromise the probe.
- LAPD leaders publicly said the body was neither frozen nor decapitated, a point disputed in media reports citing an unnamed medical examiner source who claimed partial freezing.
- Detectives seized electronics from a Hollywood Hills residence tied to singer D4vd, say they have evidence he traveled to Santa Barbara County in the spring, and believe more than one person handled the teen’s remains before they were found in his Tesla on Sept. 8.