D4vid accused of using chainsaw to mutilate 14-year-old - as body parts remain missing

Horrifying new details have emerged of the disturbing way singer D4vd allegedly mutilated a 14-year-old girl with a chainsaw. The performer, real name David Burke, is in appearing in court charged with the murder of Celeste Rivas. According to prosecutors he ordered an Uber to drive Rivas from her family home in Lake Elsinore to his Hollywood Hills home on the night of April 23, 2025. Prosecutors claim he then stabbed her to death and stood by as she bled out. According to court documents, Burke allegedly ordered a shovel from Home Depot the next day via Postmates. Roughly a week later, he ordered two chainsaws from Amazon and on May 5 he allegedly ordered a body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags and a blue inflatable pool. The documents alleged that Burke made the purchases under a fake name of Victoria Mendez. The investigators told the court, from there he “took horrifying measures to destroy and discard the victim’s body.” He allegedly put Rivas’ body into the blue inflatable pool to stop her blood making a mess in his garage and used the chainsaw to cut off her limbs, the documents say. Plastic fragments were embedded in Rivas' remains that matched those found on the pool purchased by Burke on Amazon according to investigators. The singer also amputated Rivas’ left ring and pinky fingers as her ring finger had his name tattooed on it, according to the documents. These fingers were not recovered. In September 2025, police “discovered evidence consistent with the dismemberment of the victim’s body in the inflatable pool, which contained multiple linear cuts. Several biological samples, which tested positive for blood, were collected within the garage area,” and served a search warrant at Burke's home. Investigators found DNA that matched Rivas. The documents claim that Burke and Rivas got into a “lengthy argument” via text message the night before the alleged murder because she was jealous about Burke’s relationships with other women. “She became extremely upset and threatened to disclose damning information about her relationship with defendant to end his career and destroy his life,” investigators said. The documents also contain details about how Burke and Rivas allegedly met when she was only 11 years old in 2022. Investigators claim that the two began a sexual relationship in November 2023, when she was 13 and Burke was 18. Long before her alleged murder, Rivas was allegedly reported missing by her family in February 2024. At this time detectives discovered a phone number in her phone belonging to Burke, according to the documents. Burke claim he was unaware that she was a minor or was reported missing when contacted by detectives. The documents say that Rivas' family confiscated her phone once she was located but Burke continued to pursue her, having been informed she was not of age. Burke allegedly drove to Rivas hometown, Lake Elsinore, and paid a fellow student $1,000 to give Rivas a phone Burke had purchased so they could continue to communicate. Text messages recovered by detectives indicate the pair continued to have a sexual relationship. Burke appeared in court on Wednesday, April 29 where his attorney claimed she had concerns about the alleged evidence becoming public. This follows reports last week that a "significant" amount of child pornography was allegedly found during a search of Burke's iPhone. Investigators said that they gathered 40 terabytes of data through a lengthy investigation. Los Angeles County Coroner's Officer said that the 14-year-old died from “multiple penetrating injuries”. Rivas’ dismembered body was discovered on September 8, 2025 in the boot of a Tesla that belonged to Burke. Her cause of death was only determined on December 8, 2025. Burke was charged with first-degree murder with special circumstances. The special circumstances included lying in wait, murder of a witness to an investigation and murder for financial gain. He was also charged with lewd and lascivious sexual acts with an individual under 14 years old, and mutilating the human remains of a body. The special circumstance of murder of a witness to an investigation is because Rivas was a witness in the lewd-and-lascivious investigation. Officials have said the financial gain circumstance relates to the fact Burke believed allegations of sexual relations with a minor could destroy his music career. Burke is currently being held in the infamous twin towers jail in downtown Los Angeles.