Missing teenager identified as body in Laneway star D4vd’s car

The 20-year-old star's connection to the body is yet to be established. Photo / D4vd.

The decomposing body found in the car of a former Laneway performer has been identified as a missing 15-year-old girl.

On September 8, Los Angeles police discovered human remains in an impounded Tesla registered to US singer D4vd.

The 20-year-old played at Auckland’s Laneway Festival last year and is best known for songs Romantic Homicide and Here With Me.

The authorities have now confirmed the body has been identified as Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the U.S. Sun reports.

Hernandez went missing from her Lake Elsinore home on April 5 last year.

The then 13-year-old was last seen wearing a black jumper and Hello Kitty shoes.

Police are yet to announce Hernandez’s cause of death.

Her dismembered body had been wrapped in plastic and put in the front trunk of D4vd’s vehicle, where it is believed to have remained for five days.

The car had been impounded after it was reported as abandoned in the Hollywood Hills, the New York Post reports.

Police were called to the car yard after staff noticed a “foul odour” emanating from the vehicle.

Celeste Rivas Hernandez had been missing for over a year before her body was discovered. Photo / Hernandez Family.

The teen’s mother told TMZ that Hernandez had a boyfriend named David.

D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, has not been charged in relation to the incident and is reportedly cooperating with the LAPD investigation.

Both Crocs and Hollister have dropped Burke from planned ad campaigns since the remains were discovered, cropping the star out of promotional images.

Speculation about whether he will cancel the rest of his Withered World Tour is mounting after he pulled out of a September 17 Seattle show.