EXPLAINERThe LAPD identified the body of a girl in the car of Romantic Homicide singer d4vd. She went missing in 2024, aged 13.A decomposing body found in the boot of American singer d4vd’s impounded Tesla by police on September 8 was identified by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as missing California teenager Celeste Rivas on Wednesday.It is unclear how or when she died, and the case has taken the internet by storm in the United States ever since.Here is what we know so far:Who is d4vd?David Anthony Burke, professionally known as “d4vd”, is a popular, 20-year-old American singer and songwriter. He was born in Queens, New York.D4vd began releasing his music on audio platform Soundcloud and posting his songs to his YouTube channel in 2021.The first music video he posted was a song titled Romantic Homicide in September 2022. As of Thursday, the video has had 179 million views on YouTube.The audio of this song was released in July 2022. A snippet of the song went viral on social media platform TikTok: “In the back of my mind. You died. And I didn’t even cry. No, not a single tear.”D4vd also shot to TikTok fame with another song titled Here With Me, the video for which he released on YouTube in November 2022. As of Thursday, this video had 244 million views. The lyric from that song, which went viral, was: “I don’t care how long it ta …
