Private investigator Steve Fischer discussed what he could about the pending murder case of Celeste Rivas, who was found deceased in a Tesla owned by D4vd.
Fischer was interviewed on Friday (October 17) on Law&Crime Sidebar with Jesse Weber after he was hired as a private investigator by the singer's former landlord, Mladen Trifunovic. The property owner was reportedly disgruntled after weeks of receiving no updates from the LAPD after Rivas' corpse was found in the vehicle, which was located at a Hollywood impound lot. Rivas went missing in April 2024, when she would have been 13 years old.
Around the nine-minute mark of the episode below, Fischer said that he hadn't recovered any evidence that anything incriminating had occurred in D4vd's house, but that he collected "evidence that helps the timeline."
"We now have a much better understanding of when that Tesla arrived at that final parking spot," Fischer said, adding that he had surveillance footage from neighboring houses that showed the vehicle being moved.
Fischer also shared that pieces of evidence that weren't initially taken from the house were recovered and given to LAPD. The investigator added that he knows who transported the Tesla to the impound lot, although he couldn't speak on the topic at length.
"I'll say I have no evidence of a body being transferred before or after. There's no evidence of that at all," Fischer continued. "But I will say when it was moved to that position, it was already like that. So that car had not been used in a very long time. It was super dirty, caked on dirt."
Fischer estimated that the Tesla was impounded in late July, and thereafter D4vd "immediately" started the Withered World Tour, which abruptly ended last month.
Elsewhere in the interview, Fischer said that while he doesn't have insight into how Rivas died, he believes that "things changed" around January or February of this year. He also speculated that Rivas might have had a drug overdose and a "bad decision" was made as to not "expose a potential relationship" between the teenager and the 20-year-old artist.
"But I will say this, there are some things that — and I'm talking physical evidence that was at that house — ...there could have been greater plans as far as getting rid of her. And it's scary sadistic stuff," Fischer said.
D4vd has since terminated his lease at the Hollywood Hills rental home, and a suspect has not been named in the investigation.