Pearce gets 146 years to life for Giles and Cabrales-Arzola deaths

A Los Angeles jury’s conviction of a man who prosecutors say lured two women from a warehouse party, drugged them and dumped their bodies outside hospitals culminated Wednesday in a sentence of 146 years to life for David Brian Pearce. Pearce, in his early 40s, was found guilty in February on two counts of first degree murder in the November 2021 deaths of model Christy Giles, 24, and architect Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, and on multiple counts of assault and sexual assault involving other women dating back more than a decade.

Prosecutors said Pearce met Giles and Cabrales-Arzola at an after-hours rave in East Los Angeles and brought them to his Beverly Hills apartment, where he supplied a combination of drugs that included fentanyl and gamma-hydroxybutyrate, also known as GHB. Within hours, the two women were found unresponsive outside separate hospitals in the Los Angeles area. Giles was pronounced dead on arrival. Cabrales-Arzola was resuscitated but later put on life support and died 11 days after being taken to the hospital. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ruled both deaths homicides after toxicology detected multiple drugs.