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Hollywood Producer David Brian Pearce Convicted of 2021 Murders of Christy Giles & Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola

David Brian Pearce is accused of drugging Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola after they attended a party in Los Angeles in November 2021.
The unconscious women were allegedly abandoned outside of two different hospitals in Los Angeles by Pearce and Brandt Walter Osborn.
After being charged with their murders in July 2022, Pearce was found guilty on February 4 of first-degree murder in each of their deaths.
According to KCAL News, ABC 7, and NBC 4, the guy who was charged with the November 2021 murders of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola was found guilty on Tuesday, February 4, of first-degree murder.

Model Giles was 24 years old, and her companion, architect Cabrales-Arzola, was 26.

In July 2022, 42-year-old David Brian Pearce was charged with murder in connection with Giles and Cabrales-Arzola’s drug-related deaths. Manslaughter was the initial reason for the Hollywood producer’s arrest. But when the L.A. County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner determined that the victims’ deaths were homicides, Pearce was charged with murder.

He was convicted on Tuesday of two counts of first-degree murder related to the deadly overdoses of Giles and Cabrales-Arzola. He could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Pearce was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault against seven people between 2007 and 2020 prior to the 2022 charge. According to ABC 7, the jury also found him guilty on Tuesday of those allegations of sexual assault, which included three counts of forced rape, two instances of sexual penetration by use of force, and one count each of sodomy by use of force and rape of an unconscious person.

Pearce was found guilty, however Brandt Walter Osborn, 45, Pearce’s co-defendant, was not found guilty by the jury. Two counts of accessory after the fact were brought against Osborn. The jury’s impasse led Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter to declare a mistrial on Osborn’s charges.

March 13 was set aside for Pearce’s sentence. Osborn will have a hearing that same day to determine whether he will face a new trial. Osborn is not in custody.

On November 13, 2021, Giles and Cabrales-Arzola went to a party in East Los Angeles. According to the investigators’ surveillance footage and the testimonies of party goers, Cabrales-Arzola was spotted with Pearce in the VIP area.

Later, in a house between Miracle Mile and Beverlywood in Los Angeles, the women allegedly overdosed after being offered drugs. Citing evidence that Pearce’s DNA was discovered on the two ladies, notably beneath Cabrales-Arzola’s fingernails, the prosecution further claimed that Pearce drugged and sexually abused the victims.

Giles texted “Let’s go” to Cabrales-Arzola at 5:30 a.m. just before they vanished. In response, Cabrales-Arzola said, “I’ll call an Uber, ten minutes away.” When the Uber arrived, they didn’t show up, Giles’ husband Jan Cilliers told CBS 48 Hours.

Police said that masked men—later identified as Osborn and Pearce—dropped them off outside several hospitals.

Giles was discovered dead outside Culver City’s Southern California Hospital. Her spouse followed her to the hospital while he was out of town. Then, claiming to have not heard from her, he called her parents, Leslie and Dusty Giles, in Alabama.

“I just received the message, ‘I’m sorry to tell you, Ms. Giles… Her mother told CBS 48 Hours, “But she was dropped off at our hospital on the outside, kind of like a bag of garbage.” Additionally, ‘She didn’t make it.’ ‘What do you mean she didn’t make it?’ I asked. Furthermore, “And they stated… “It’s a police issue now.” She remarked, “I hung up and I fell apart.”

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, she died from a combination of cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine, and gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, also referred to as the “date rape drug.”

That same day, cops discovered Cabrales-Arzola comatose outside Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center.

According to KCAL, Cabrales-Arzola’s mother, Dr. Hilda Marcela Arzola-Plascenci, “received the phone call in the middle of the night” and was informed that her daughter was so sick that she had to be intubated.

According to ABC 7, Cabrales-Arzola’s family removed her from life support on November 24, 2021, one day before her 27th birthday. Cocaine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), and other unidentified drugs were discovered in her system; she died of multiple organ failure.

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