The man convicted in drug overdose of two women, serial rapes

A self -proclaimed promoter of the nightlife that threw the bodies of two women in the Los Angeles hospitals after they stood out at home was convicted of two murder positions and seven positions of sexual assault on Tuesday.

David Pearce, 42, was arrested in November 2021 for his role in the deaths of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola after he was caught by the camera driving his loose frames to the hospitals in a car without license plates.

The prosecutors alleged that he provided the drugs that caused their overdose, and then could not draw medical attention for hours. Both women were abandoned in hospitals approximately 12 to 14 hours after fainting in the Olympic Boulevard de Pearce apartment. Giles died shortly after an overdose of fentanyl and cocaine, and Arzola spent 11 days in a coma before dying of organic failure and cocaine poisoning.

The news of the arrest of Pearce led to at least a dozen women to present and accuse him of sexual assault, and many said that he made a Hollywood figure well connected to attract them to his department after the party nights. Some said they lost knowledge or felt “paralyzed” after they served a drink and woke up with Pearce assaulting them.

“He is the guy you fear that your daughter is while celebrating a birthday. He is the guy you fear in a bar. … He is the guy you fear that your friend will connect in a dating application, “Deputy Dist. Atty. Catherine Mariano said in his opening statement last month.

Pearce did not betray any reaction when the verdict was read. The jury members could not reach a verdict against their coacusado, Brandt Osborn, who faced two positions of being an accessory for murder. The prosecutors claimed that Pearce helped destroy the evidence related to the death of women.

A toxicology screen found gamma-hydroxybutirate, the rape drug of date commonly known as GHB, in the Giles system, but Pearce was not accused of raping any of the women who died of overdose after partying with him that night in November 2021.

The police had previously investigated Pearce for sexual aggression, but Los Angeles County prosecutors refused to accuse him in 2014. The District Prosecutor’s Office has not responded to the requests for comments on the matter or a request for public records that They look for documents related to the case.

In the courtroom, Giles’s mother, who wore a “Christy’s Mom” ​​shirt, and several other women who appeared in support of the victims could be seen hugging and cutting their eyes.

Pearce denied everything bad. Near the end of the two -week test, He took the position in his own defense, Where he admitted that he was living a life -fed lifestyle that often involved the people who passed out or in his apartment. But he denied providing drugs to Giles or Arzola and said he was not even in the room when they took what prosecutors believe is their fatal increase in cocaine.

Michael Ansbach – who was originally arrested with Pearce and Osborn before become a witness to the Prosecutor’s Office – Pearce testified served him and a mysterious batch of cocaine that left him with serious pain. Ansbach said he became violently ill and took coal tablets to induce vomiting and purge the drugs of his system the next day. Ansbach said that when he begged someone to lead women unconscious to the hospital, Pearce seemed more concerned about protecting.

“‘Dead girls don’t speak,” Pearce said, according to Ansbach’s testimony. “It is a phrase that resonates in my nightmares and disturbs me.”

Prosecutors did not offer Ansbach immunity in exchange for their testimony. Months after his arrest, Ansbach provided a statement through a lawyer who implies the other men. Under the interrogation, Pearce’s lawyer, Jeff Voll, repeatedly hit the fact that Ansbach did not tell the police anything he would later testify in the trial.

“He was afraid,” said Ansbach. “I had never been in that situation before, and I had no idea what to do.”

“Then you lied?” Voll asked.

Arzola studied architecture in Mexico and worked as a project manager before his death, according to a EMPLOYMENT PROFILE. He graduated from the University of Monterrey in Nuevo León, Mexico, at the top of his class in 2019 and became friend of Giles when he moved to Los Angeles. Giles, born in Alabama, moved to Los Angeles to continue modeling. She met her husband, Jan Cilliers, several years ago and the two quickly married during a ceremony at the Burning Man in Nevada, according to a Gile family lawyer.

Pearce grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, where he showed interest in “drama” and theater and was a kind of social butterfly, according to his mother, Ilene Granat-Pearce. He studied at UCLA, moved to Los Angeles permanently after graduation and entered the entertainment industry, he said.

Although prosecutors say that Pearce represented himself as a Hollywood player, evidence of any tangible success in his career is scarce. While reserved an appearance in the teenage drama “Dawson’s Creek” in the 1990s, according to his IMDB page and his mother, he has not been publicly accredited in anything since 2006.

Granat-Pearce said that his son’s portrait as a nocturnal that emerges in court was not the child who raised.

“David has some unique qualities that people would never know because they would never show them,” he said.

Pearce called her several nights after Giles’s death to explain what happened, and Granat-Pearce said she attached to the story she told in court: she had left the room when Ansbach and women lost knowledge.

But even she did not seem safe from her innocence during an interview the day before the verdict was announced.

“If he is (guilty), then he must be punished,” he said. “The conclusion for me is that I love my son. … I may not like it. I may not like what it does. But he is still my son. And it is very, very difficult to listen to people to say bad over their children. ”