Hollywood producer David Pearce was found guilty of all charges on Tuesday in the death of overdose of drugs of model Christy Giles and her friend – whose lifeless bodies were dumped outside the hospitals of Los Angeles in 2021.
Pearce, 42, was accused of murder of Giles, 24, and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola, 26, to his apartment in November 2021, making them pressed with Fentanyl-Regen Cocaine and their drug drinks. Prosecutors claimed that he refused to call for help after he found them unconscious.
Pearce was also accused of rape counts against seven victims who emerged after his arrest.
La-officer of Justice Catherine Ann Mariano told the 12-person jury that Pearce is a calculated serial rapist who attracted women to his house by introducing himself as a Hollywood Bigshot and promised to help them break into the entertainment business.
Pearce met Giles and Arzola in 2021 at a warehouse Rave party in LA.
According to testimony from the court, he and a Wingman, Michael Ansbach, brought the girls back to Pearce’s apartment.
Ansbach testified that Pearce pushed all three guests to sniff his cocaine. He reportedly served wine to the women and Anbach handed a mistake -tasting cocktail that felt dizzy, fainting and became violently ill when he woke up.
The women also fainted but never woke up, Anbach testified. He also told jury members that when he begged Pearce to call 911, his friend reportedly refused and said, “Dead girls don’t talk.”
After Ansbach had left, Pearce and his roommate Brandt Osborn, who are accused as an accessory, reportedly drove the lifeless bodies of the women in his car, drove them to two different hospitals and threw them on the sidewalks before they drive away.
Fentanyl found a toxicological test and the date of rape medicinal GHB in the body of Giles. The prosecutors said the jury members that the Fentanyl was fatal and that Pearce knew that his cocaine was peppered with it.
But Pearce claimed that he had no idea that the two women were in danger until it was too late.
Pearce took the position against the advice of his lawyers and testified that he put the women in a guest room before he went to sleep in his own room. When the women had been unconscious for 12 hours, Pearce claimed that he had given Reanimation and brought them to hospitals, because he thought it would be faster than calling an ambulance.
But Mariano urged the jury members to not fall for the story of Pearce.
“The suspect is a man who gets out of power and control,” she told the jury. “Exercising strength and control over vulnerable women.”
Pearce has been in prison for 128 years without the possibility of conditional release.
Since his arrest, other women have emerged and Pearce claimed and raped.
In addition to two murder counts, Pearce was accused of sexual abuse of seven victims for a period of 13 years.
Pearce met his victims – who were not identified in court – at parties or on dating apps, served them dried drinks and then forced themselves to them, Mariano said.
