Hey Reddit, I was just wondering about this case. They said d4vd cut her fingers off because of the tattoos she had, but she was only 14. I don’t really know what age she got the tattoos, but doesn’t it seem kinda sketchy how a 13 or 14-year-old girl was able to get tattoos without a parent present? In some places it’s even illegal to tattoo minors.

So if she did get them behind her parents’ backs, why wouldn’t they investigate how she got them or ask more questions? Idk, it just seems weird that they let their little girl get tattoos that young. And coming from a Hispanic family too, a lot of Hispanic parents are usually really strict about tattoos.

The records show they found blood stains in the garage, but the DA’s brief previously mentioned Celeste was killed with a sharp object shortly after she arrived at the house.

Where in the house do we think she was killed?

Was the clean-up so thorough that no blood evidence was found in the house besides in the garage (with the inflatable pool)?

Do we think the murder weapon will be located?

I've been following this case closely, partly because my son shares Celeste's birthday. That personal connection kept me engaged longer than I normally would be, even when available information about who he is seemed fragmented or incomplete. It's as if he had everyone sign an NDA the moment he met them. Since like fifth grade. As if he knew it was going to come in handy one day. I stepped back from commentary for a while because speculation alone wasn't giving me anything structurally coherent to work with. So I shifted toward a different way of organizing what is observable. I have a background in behavioral analysis as well as completed coursework in the psychological aspects of criminal behavior. I professionally read people, and something about this case felt off to me in terms of how everyone around him has kept quiet for someone who literally lives on camera. I wanted a different lens to understand why that is. What I actually wanted to understand was something specific. Was this an extremely immature man child who spent a considerable amount of time fabricating identities until one stuck? Or was this someone in desperate search for a different life entirely, someone battered by rejection after being pulled out of traditional schooling, who discovered that online spaces responded to him in a way the real world never had, and built on that relentlessly? Down to the algorithm friendly name d4vd. Down to the interviews where he openly said he planned to retire after five years. This was never really about artistry. A true artist cannot shut it off like a switch. It does not work that way. He said that to appear disciplined. He wanted his emergence and limited availability to seem exclusive and necessary. Good for his audience. It also explains the closest fans being pulled into secret exclusive groups he calls the 4heads. Totally makes sense after seeing his chart. So I mapped out his astrological birth chart to examine relational and behavioral patterns as structured data rather than narrative interpretation. I want to be clear that I am not treating astrology as a scientific measure. I am using it as a symbolic pattern mapping tool I have applied in past case studies to better understand behavioral sequencing and relational dynamics. I also want to be transparent about one decision I made. While I could have mapped a synastry chart between the two of them, I chose not to. I did look at her chart separately to get a sense of her general mannerisms, but framing what happened between them as a relationship is not something I can do comfortably. Mature as she was, she was still a child. That framing flattens something that should not be flattened. Now let me show you what his chart actually says. Aries Sun in the 10th House His entire identity was his public image. Aries suns at their worst are deeply narcissistic, and in the 10th that ego is completely fused with fame and status. No audience = no self. Now remove in person community and replace it with follower counts and streaming numbers. That fragile ego has no reality check. Ever. The internet becomes the only mirror and it only reflects back what you want to see. That retirement to an island after five years comment? Completely consistent. Aries Sun in the 10th is not driven by passion. It is driven by conquest. Once the peak is reached there is nothing left to chase. The goal was never the music. The goal was the arrival. Gemini Moon — The Compartmentalizer Goes Fully Online Shadow Gemini Moon is already one of the most dissociative placements in the zodiac. Online interaction supercharges it. When you never have to be the same person in a physical space the compartmentalization becomes total. Different personas for different platforms, different DMs, different worlds that never collide. No body language, no accountability, no one who knows the full picture. This placement was basically built for that environment and not in a good way. The homeschool pipeline removed every in person check that might have interrupted it. By the time he was interacting with anyone at scale it was entirely through a screen where he could be whoever the moment required. Venus in Taurus — Parasocial Possession Shadow Taurus Venus already struggles to see people as autonomous. Online interaction makes this dramatically worse. You can curate exactly who you let in, control the dynamic completely, and never have to deal with someone as a full three dimensional human. Fans become objects. Relationships become transactions you control entirely. The possessiveness has no friction to push back against it. Mars in Aquarius — Detachment Without Consequence This is the placement that online isolation really warps. Aquarius Mars is already emotionally detached in action. But when all your interactions are through a screen that detachment gets normalized and then deepened. You never have to see the impact of what you do in real time. No facial expressions, no immediate consequences, no visceral human reaction to recalibrate against. The coldness just calcifies. This is also the placement that explains the bewilderment when things collapsed publicly. Aquarius Mars does not compute emotional consequence. The gap between his self image and everyone else's perception of what happened likely never fully closed in his own mind. Saturn in Cancer — No Real Home Base Ever Formed Homeschooled, moved from Queens to Houston, primary community was online. Saturn in Cancer needs roots, needs a felt sense of belonging and emotional safety to develop healthy boundaries. He never got that. Instead the home became the internet which is boundaryless by design. Unhealed Saturn in Cancer without any stable physical community is a recipe for someone who genuinely never learned where they end and other people begin. This is also where the rejection sensitivity lives. Saturn in Cancer wounds run deep and quiet. They do not announce themselves. They just shape every single relational decision made afterward. Case Specific: How Does This Chart Handle Being Exposed? Aries Sun in the 10th absolutely cannot cope with public image collapse. This is someone whose entire sense of self is tied to how they are perceived. Being exposed as inauthentic or attached to scandal is not just embarrassing, it is an existential threat. Under less extreme circumstances the response is typically explosive denial, doubling down, or immediate rebranding. They do not quietly accept it. But his Gemini Moon is equally relevant here. This placement genuinely does not always experience itself as fake. The compartmentalization is so complete that each version felt real in the moment. So exposure feels like a betrayal or an attack rather than accountability. "That wasn't the real me" is a very Gemini Moon response. Mars in Aquarius adds a layer of genuine bewilderment on top of that. There is an inability to understand why people are upset. The detachment means the gap between self image and public perception never fully computes. Aries Sun will rage. Gemini Moon will rationalize. Mars in Aquarius will go cold. All three at once is a very specific kind of defensive spiral that creates serious emotional imbalance. And Now He Sits In Jail Here is where it gets truly specific to this chart. Aries Sun in the 10th house in jail is not experiencing obscurity. It is experiencing the most intense public attention of its life. And some part of that placement knows it. The case is still being covered. His name is still being searched. Streams did not disappear. The algorithm did not forget him. In a deeply disturbing way this chart is getting exactly what it was always built to chase. Relevance. Eyes. People talking. He does not care what is being said as long as he is being discussed. A lot of people have been comparing the prosecutor's timeline against what he was doing online on certain days he was allegedly doing far more horrific things. The comments are full of people calling him a monster, unable to understand how cold he seems. How unaffected. How the Discord messages lined up against stream schedules and public appearances did not appear to register on his face or in his behavior the way anyone expected. People keep searching for the crack in the composure and not finding it. This reads less as psychopathy and more as the deeply narcissistic architecture that is undeniably indicated across multiple placements in this chart. Gemini Moon does not distinguish between good attention and bad attention. Attention is attention. The emotional processing system does not have that filter. The compartmentalization means the person who did what prosecutors are describing and the person performing for an audience are not the same person to him. They never were. They live in completely separate boxes that do not communicate with each other. He is not suppressing guilt. He is genuinely operating from a different compartment entirely. The switch flips and the other one simply does not exist in that moment. He can dismiss accountability and genuinely believe that whatever happened during that other performance is not who he is right now. So he will be more confused as to why he is being assigned blame for something another version of him was alleged to have done. It sounds impossible. But that is exactly how this chart translates. Mars in Aquarius is what makes that coldness possible at the execution level. This placement does not feel its way through actions. It moves, calculates, detaches. And when consequences arrive it genuinely struggles to connect them back to anything it recognizes as itself. The bewilderment is real. It is not performance. Now add the Aries Sun in the 10th and understand what jail actually looks like for him right now. Has it hit him yet? Has being deprived of his one outlet forced him to sit with himself as a single entity and connect it all back? The performance should not need to continue without an audience. But in his mind he is still sailing. The world is still watching. The numbers are still moving. Every article, every thread, every video made about this case is feeding the exact placement that was always hungry for that. In his mind this is not a courtroom. This is a stage. The audience is bigger than it has ever been. The name recognition is global now in a way a five year indie career was never going to achieve. Nothing about the crime he is accused of is taking up space in his mind right now. That compartment is closed. It may stay that way. What is open is the one that tracks relevance, attention, and reach. And by every metric that compartment recognizes, he is winning. But There Was A Girl This chart does not outwardly describe a crime. But it describes the architecture of a person who was capable of one. The placements were there from birth. The environment removed every guardrail that might have interrupted them. The internet rewarded every tendency that should have been checked. The fame amplified every hunger that should have been starved. And in the middle of all of it there was a young girl who is no longer here. A girl who was naturally slow to trust and who read consistency from another person over time as loyalty. His rise to fame gave her an avenue to finally access the life she had already been dreaming about. She was a child, and the things that come with being a child felt like they were holding her back, so she jumped in headfirst believing the version he presented to her would be there to catch her. She let her guard down. She opened herself up. She trusted him. The moment she stopped resisting he became bored. And once she saw him up close, rotating between identities in real time, she understood how mistaken she had been. That push and pull, come here go away energy. But every time she pulled back the version of him that had originally made her feel safe would reappear, reinforcing just enough hope to keep her holding on. She excused the inconsistencies. She told herself he was just adjusting to fame. She had no way of knowing how deep it actually went. She was not naive. She was not troubled. She was a child up against someone who had spent years perfecting how to be exactly who any given person needed him to be. The day she threatened to expose him was her breaking point. She was angry and hurt and she did not even fully intend to follow through. Once she calmed down she apologized. And even if the version of him he sent to pacify her acted like it was forgotten, he never forgot. He never forgot. That is the most chilling thing this chart has to say. Not what it reveals about him. But what it could not protect her from. Nothing about this outcome is random. The map was there the whole time. We just did not know we needed to read it.

Okay, okay. I get it. It was in fact confirmed that Celste’s family (except from her brother) did not know of ithe relationship but hear me out. ‘They knew she was dating a man called David’. Can we go back to the ‘a man’ part quickly? If I’m reading and inferring correctly, it means that they knew of the illegal relationship between this man and their child. Given they didn’t exactly who the man was.

Some notes on Neo. We know Neo (possibly) knows and is (allegedly) in on this. Did Neo snitch to get his way out? So far we think. But going back to Neo (allegedly) being an accomplice, wouldn’t that get him in deep trouble too?

Side notes: D4vd’s unreleased song ‘Oh Celeste’ suggests his name is tattooed on her chest. But it was in fact in her finger. (Just for detail, she also had a ‘sssshhhhh…’ tattoo on her finger). She’s 12/13. Why does she have tattoos? I don’t think it’s i everyone’s heads. But that sat wrong with me from when I first heard about it.

Does anyone know if D4vd’s fans knew about any of this?

Does everyone also realise he forced her to get discord and lie about her age?

What sits wrong with me is nobody realised when she said in messages for example ‘HI DAVID BARKKK’.

Common questions: Where are her fingers? Where is the chainsaw he used? Dies he realised he incriminated himslelf by removing the fingers with his name on it? If Celeste’s brother told the police, did he also tell their parents? So we know that some of Celeste’s friends knew, and at least one of D4vd’s, did any other of his friends know? About both her age, the relationship and tohe crimes? Was anyone else there? And what did D4vd do while she was dying? Because in the report it said he stood by and watched her bleed out, so what happened?

My questionp: how good are D4vd’s legal team? If all charges go through, how long will the sentence be?

Last notes/ theories: D4vd was (allegedly) expelled or pulled out of school to be homeschooled. Why? He watches gore to desensitise himself, that’s why he was fine after the murder. Finally, remember that sexual interaction between them started when she was 13 and he was 18.

Everyone is hyper focusing on the text messages where she threatened his career, but I think there’s a much bigger logistical catalyst that forced his hand if you look at the DA's timeline.

He had an album release party on April 24th and was gearing up for a massive international tour in July. We also know her passport was found dumped on the side of the road.

What if she didn’t just show up to hide out? What if she fully expected to go on that international tour with him? You can hide a 14 year old in a Hollywood Hills mansion for a few weeks, but there is absolutely zero chance you can traffic a missing minor through international customs and border patrol without triggering a massive federal incident.

I think he realized his two worlds were violently colliding. She showed up with her passport ready, expecting this rockstar girlfriend lifestyle he probably sold her on. He knew he couldn't actually take her out of the country, he couldn't send her back without her exposing him, and his album release was literally the next night.

It wasn't just a sudden panic. The tour created a hard deadline, and he realized he was trapped by his own lies.

EDIT: After reading through the discussion, the fact that she had already traveled with him to London and France previously actually makes the tension here make even more sense. If she had already tasted that international rockstar lifestyle with him on past dates, she wasn't just daydreaming or naive about how international travel worked, she knew exactly what it felt like to live that lifestyle with him and fully expected to be a part of it again.

So when his April album launch happens and she realizes she is officially being pushed out, hidden away, or replaced on his upcoming summer tour roster, the sense of betrayal hits ten times harder.

This completely answers the timeline objections about the tour not starting until July. It was never about her trying to board a flight with a passport card that exact night in April. It’s about the massive emotional confrontation of discovering she was being cut out of his future right as his career was peaking. She left the house with travel documents on her because their history and his tour promises were physically part of the fight she was bringing to his door. The exposure threat is the legal motive, but the tour timeline is the exact situational pressure cooker that caused it to explode that specific night.

(Final thoughts, I'm not an expert)

I don’t have the exact answer because I wasnt there to see it happen but I believe David got kicked out of school because he couldn’t stop being a weirdo. In a video he mentions he wrote a song about a friend who would go to the gym everyday and draw pictures of his crush. Then in another interview he said he would make magas about his classmates because he was a people watcher so with that being said , I believe he wrote about everyone including teachers in gore comics and even romanticize some

The mods gave me permission to post this.

I thought it would be a good idea to share this with “the class” since it has some similarities to the Celeste case.

Some things to consider/discuss:

1. Accounts of the parents actions

2. reasons why he why he pursued her

3. the additional charges mentioned towards the end of the video

• The description of photographs depicting the victim naked, as well as while she was engaged with defendant in sexual activity when she was 13. The CSAM is proof of their ongoing sexual relationship while the victim was 13 and 14 years old.

• Numerous text messages between defendant and the victim evidencing their sexual relationship, pregnancy, abortion, and use of Plan B emergency contraception.

• Defendant's cellular activity and communications derived from defendant's iPhone and Tesla, which demonstrate defendant's activities from April 22, 2025 - April 24, 2025, including a trip to Santa Barbara County in the middle of the night after the victim arrived at his Hollywood Hills home.

• Surveillance video of defendant driving his Tesla on July 29, 2025, for the last time before parking the vehicle and leaving on tour at the end of July.

• DNA evidence developed from blood stains collected from defendant's garage, which match the victim's genetic profile.

• Proof of defendant's Amazon purchases and deliveries to his residence, including: two chainsaws, a body bag, an inflatable pool, heavy duty laundry bags, and a "burn cage"
after April 24, 2025.

• Proof of defendant's purchase and delivery from Postmates of a shovel from Home Depot to his home on April 24, 2025.

• Uber records showing defendant's transaction where he ordered an Uber to pick up the victim from her Lake Elsinore home and transport her to his residence the night of April 23, 2025.

• Proof of defendant's lucrative career as a singer and songwriter prior to April 23, 2025.
Defendant had an album release party on the night of April 24, 2025, before embarking on an international tour in late July 2025.

• Text message exchanges between defendant and the victim on April 22 and April 23, 2025, where the victim threatened to expose defendant and destroy his career.

This is just my personal theory on what I think may have happened when Celeste went to David’s house, so don’t take this as me saying any of this is confirmed.

I keep thinking that when she got out of the Uber, she probably walked up to the door and maybe it was locked at first. I picture her knocking and waiting for David to answer. When he opened it, I feel like he probably let her come inside first.

I know people have talked about the pocket knife online, and I keep thinking about the markings mentioned on the right side in the autopsy report. That’s why part of me wonders if she may have first been injured there. Then I think maybe she turned around, and he did the two wombs in her liver and lung.

I also keep thinking about the scrapes mentioned on her hand. I’ve wondered if those could’ve come from being dragged through the house. I picture her dropping her belongings during everything, and I’ve always questioned whether that could explain some of the injuries.

As for motive, I think everyone thinks it may have come down to her threatening his career.

The one thing I still go back and forth on is whether he actually acted alone. I know a lot of people online have questioned how one person could’ve handled everything afterward. I’ve wondered if someone close to him helped, whether that was his manager, his friend, or someone else entirely. I also have a feeling more people may have known something than we realize.

Again, this is just me thinking out loud and trying to piece things together. Curious what everyone else thinks.

I know it was clearly something wrong with him since childhood but I’ll never understand anything he did. Why date a minor then kill her for it? Why dismember a body then don’t even try to hide it. Why do you have 40tb of evidence on your hard drive? It’s like this man did absolutely nothing to be hidden but at the same time tried to be riddler

I can’t find much solid information about this. I know she’d gone missing before to be with David, but what actually happened the last time? Was he even on the police radar? Did they look into any leads at all, or did they just assume she was a runaway because it had happened before? It’s terrifying to think that if he had buried her in his yard or disposed of her body somewhere else, she might still be missing and no one would know. So many people knew about their relationship, and not a single person reported him

Am I the only one who’s still in shock about this whole case. Like I was such a huge d4vd fan then one day im scrolling through TikTok and see my fav singer apparently having a body in his frunk tesla. I seriously did not believe he committed this crime, but when photos started surfacing there was no other possible alternative, all the evidence was pointed towards him. I can’t lie but felt sad about it because this guy made incredible music and tossed it away just like that. No im not idolizing any celebrity but the way d4vd expressed his personality it felt like you actually knew him as a person but I guess people are truly not what they seem to be.

This guy had a whole future ahead of him. Its just sad, and I find it disgusting how he was grooming minors while at the same time posting Christian content, this guy is genuinely evil.

I hope justice is served for Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

Posting this so everyone can have it and it never gets removed

He claims he’s documenting all his videos for journalistic purposes but continues to treat her death like some sort of joke, his latest video today he’s wearing a hello kitty top along with a headband similar to d4vids Itami blindfold. The other day he has a star patch on his head and has his nails painted. I like his videos but all this David stuff has really put me off him.

it really irks me when he says he’s making these videos for justice for Celeste while all he is doing is profiting off her death and making fun of the situation really tone deaf , but even says the other day he sees the Cristism of people on this sub. Most of his content is just stealing posts off here.

anything you guys think was found in evidence or just something that’s really hard to pinpoint