By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-26 07:57:26 | Updated at 2025-01-27 05:43:43
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The Hollywood producer suspected in the 2021 overdose murders of model Christy Giles and her friend is a “monster” and should be sentenced to death, Giles’ heartbroken mother argued.
Dusty Giles did not mince words about the possible conviction of her daughter’s suspected killer, David Pearce who faces charges in the deaths of the 24-year-old model and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26.
“Life, death penalty he needs. He’s a monster. He doesn’t need to have bail bonds or up for parole or anything,” she told The Sun.
Giles and Cabrales-Arzola were at a warehouse party in LA on Nov. 12, 2021 before the pair went to Pearce’s apartment which he shared with fellow defendant Brandt Osborn.
While inside the apartment, Giles texted her friend saying she wanted to leave, and the two ordered an Uber to pick them up.
The Uber arrived outside at around 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 13, but left after waiting for five minutes, according to security camera footage from a nearby building.
Giles’ lifeless body was dropped off at Southern California Medical Center in Culver City just after 5 p.m.
A masked Pearce and Osborn had driven her to the hospital in his black Toyota Prius without any license plates claiming to have found the woman “passed out on the curb.”
Giles was dead when medical staff arrived at her body.
A toxicology report found Giles had a lethal cocktail of cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine and the notorious date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate acid, or GHB in her system at the time of her death.
Pearce and Osborn allegedly dropped off a “partially-clad” Cabrales-Arzola at the Kaiser Permanente in West LA — one after dumping off Giles’ body.
Cabrales-Arzola spent two weeks in a coma and was pronounced dead on November 30, 2021 — the day before her 27th birthday — when her family took her off life support.
The architect tested positive for cocaine and MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, as well as other undetermined drugs, resulting in multiple organ failures.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office handed down charges on Pearce and Osborn on July 5, 2022.
Pearce was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of sale/transport/furnish a controlled substance.
Osborn was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact.
They have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Pearce had already been charged with several counts of sexual assault against seven victims that spanned over 13 years.
“I know how some of those women have to feel that were attacked before and not taken seriously, and I’m glad they’re finally getting their day in court,” Dusty Giles said.
The trials for Pearce kicked off on Jan. 9, after it was delayed because Pearce switched attorneys, a tactic his victims’ families claimed was “manipulating the system.”
Appearing in court, Pearce covered his face with a medical mask and glasses, according to a courtroom video from Court TV.
The heartbroken mom called the hearings “surreal” after waiting several months to travel to LA from her home in Alabama to learn the fate of her daughter’s suspected killer.
“My anxiety and everything. I’m like a cat with a nervous, swinging tail under a rock,” she said.
Giles says she feels guilty for her daughter’s death but is hoping for justice to be served for all involved, she told the outlet.
California law prohibits capital punishment despite Dusty Giles arguing for the death penalty against Pearce,
Photographer Michael Ansbach – who was originally arrested in connection to the murders – took the stand as a witness testifying that Pearce gave him and the two women drinks and cocaine laced with fentanyl.
Ansbach recalled the women not appearing to be alive before Pearce told him “dead girls don’t talk,” according to The Sun.
“It’s a phrase that echoes in my nightmares and disturbs me,” he said.
