More than a month after 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was discovered partially dismembered in the trunk of a multiplatinum R&B artist’s Tesla, a private detective claims to have uncovered new information regarding the teen’s unsolved death.
The remains of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, her “head and torso,” according to the Los Angeles Police Department, were discovered on Sept. 8 after employees at Hollywood Tow reported a foul odor coming from the Tesla, which had been on the lot for five days after it was reported abandoned in the Hollywood Hills.
The teen had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024 when she was just 13.
“She appears to have been deceased inside the vehicle for an extended period of time,” the medical examiner’s report stated.
LAPD investigators said the ve