Hollywood producer David Brian Pearce was found guilty on Tuesday of two counts of first-degree murder in the drug overdose related deaths of a Los Angeles-area model and her friend. Pearce was also convicted of sexually assaulting seven other women. A jury in Los Angeles deliberated over two days over the murders of year-old model Christy Giles and her year-old friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.
The girls met Pearce at an East Los Angeles warehouse party and went back to his home where he proceeded to drug them. Both girls overdosed on fentanyl and were taken to separate hospitals about two hours apart on the night on Nov. The producer was also found guilty of three counts of forcible rape, two counts of sexual penetration by use of force and one count each of rape of an unconscious person and sodomy by use of force. All of the charges were for crimes against seven different women and took place between and He is facing life in prison.
Brandt Osborn, an aspiring actor, was also charged with being an accessory to murder. The jury was unable to reach a verdict for Osborn. Hunter declared a mistrial on the accessory chargers after jurors said they had reached an impassable deadlock. A hearing date is scheduled to see if prosecutors will seek a retrial.
She died from a drug overdose after a mixture of cocaine, fentanyl, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid and ketamine were all found in her system. According to the police report, Giles was dropped at the hospital by masked men in a car that had no license plate.
Cabrales-Arzola died of multiple organ failure after cocaine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine ecstasy and other undetermined drugs were found in her system.
