What happened.
On September 8, 2025, a body was discovered in a vehicle registered to the singer D4vd (David Anthony Burke) in Hollywood. The body was identified as Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Celeste was 13 years old when she was last seen by her family in April 2024. She had been missing for over a year.
The criminal investigation is active. The case has been the subject of extensive coverage by KTLA, the Los Angeles Times, NBC, and others. We are not making accusations. The courts will decide what happened. What is not in dispute is that a child is dead and that a 13 year old went missing for over a year.
The part that keeps going viral.
The reason this story will not stop trending is the family timeline. Public records and reporting indicate that Celeste was reported missing only briefly in April 2024 and that no sustained, public search was carried out before her body was found seventeen months later. After her identification, a GoFundMe was launched. Comments on a viral Instagram reel show the public reaction: thousands of people writing some version of "do not donate to that GoFundMe" and asking, instead, where the help was when she was alive.
That backlash is not the project. The project is the answer to the question those comments are asking: where do you donate to actually protect kids like Celeste?
The answer is NCMEC.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is the largest, longest-running organization in the United States for finding missing children, working with law enforcement on child predator cases, and giving families resources the moment a child goes missing. NCMEC is the org that runs the CyberTipline, the national missing children hotline (1-800-THE-LOST), and the AMBER Alert technical infrastructure. They are an established 501(c)(3) with audited financials. They are the answer.
If a NCMEC-funded search team had been mobilized in April 2024, Celeste might still be alive. We cannot fix what already happened. We can fund the org that prevents the next one.