Remains found inside a car at a Los Angeles impound lot last week have been identified as those of a teenage girl who had been missing since April 2024, authorities said this week. The car where her remains were found was registered to the singer D4vd, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office said on Tuesday (local time) that the remains were found in a Tesla at the impound lot and that they were those of Celeste Rivas, who was reported missing on April 5, 2024, from Lake Elsinore, California, about 112km south-east of Los Angeles.

D4vd and (right) the Tesla in which a teen’s body was found.

Officials have not yet determined how Celeste, who was 13 at the time of her disappearance, had died.

Her body was “severely decompose

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