A night out in Los Angeles ended in tragedy when the bodies of two women were dumped outside area hospitals. Christy Giles was dead. Her friend Hilda Cabrales-Arzola was barely alive. David Pearce, the Hollywood producer who partied with them that night, was later charged with their murders, accused of providing the women with a cocktail of drugs. Now, a jury has found him guilty. His sister tells Andrea Cavallier it’s what he deserves – and says she wants the victims’ families to know that she’s sorry for his actions.

The jury’s decision on Tuesday not only brings some closure for the families of the victims but also for Allison Pearce, the accused killer's own sister, who tells The Independent that “karma finally caught up to him.”. Since first hearing about her brother’s involvement with the deaths three years ago, Allison has weighed whether she should speak out. “I think I was a little shocked at first, but the more I thought about it, it didn't really surprise me,” she told The Independent.

“I never thought to myself, ‘oh my brother would have never done this,’ because well, yeah maybe. Would he take it THIS far? I don’t know. I guess it’s not so much further from where I saw him as a human being.”. Her relationship with Pearce, a self-described “entertainment professional” who was trying to make his way in Hollywood as a producer, had always been a tumultuous one. She recalled turning points over the years that pushed them further apart, leading to their eventual estrangement. One incident involved an argument between Pearce and his sister, who was visiting him in LA, that culminated with him driving away and leaving her stranded, she said.

After Pearce was arrested in December 2021 and later charged with murder in the deaths of the two women, Allison had no desire to see him at all. At Pearce’s murder trial, prosecutors say the men gave Giles and Cabrales-Arzola a fatal cocktail of drugs – which included cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine, heroin, MDMA, and the date rape drug GBH – before dumping their bodies outside two separate Los Angles hospitals 12 hours later.

Giles was already dead when she was left at the hospital and Cabrales-Arzola was in critical condition. She was taken off life support later that month, a day before her 27th birthday. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner determined their deaths to be drug-induced homicides. While in custody, Pearce was also charged with 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, after seven women came forward in unrelated cases. A jury found him guilty of those charges.

Allison has struggled to come to terms with her brother’s actions, a gnawing pain that’s prompted her to speak out for the first time – and apologize to the victims’ families. “This is really hard for me – not only as his sister, but as a woman,” she said. “I just can’t even believe that he would do something like this, that he would take it that far and that he would hurt and take advantage of these women.”.

Allison said she knows that nothing can bring back Giles and Cabrales-Arzola, but she still wants to apologize. “I want to tell them how sorry I am for my brother’s actions, for how many lives were uprooted and will be forever changed because of what he did. Just know that I want justice.”. In the months and years since Pearce’s arrest in 2021, more information has come to light about his sordid past. While in custody, he was hit with seven rape charges for sexual assaults in unrelated cases that allegedly happened between 2007 and 2021.

Prosecutors alleged that Pearce was well-connected in certain circles of Hollywood and the late night LA club scene, which placed him in the perfect position to approach women, pose as someone who could help with their acting or modeling careers. But it was a ruse, his sister said. “That’s what he does – he’s a liar, he lies about everything, about who he is, and what he does,” his sister said. “He’s a con artist who manipulates people into getting what he wants.”.

Many of the women who came forward had a similar story about being lured to Pearce’s apartment and becoming sick or paralyzed after he served them a drink, according to prosecutors. At the trial, Deputy District Attorney Catherine Mariano told jurors that in Giles’s and Cabrales-Arzola’s case, Pearce “knew the dangers of fentanyl,” but said he still gave the women the cocktail of drugs “because he wanted to sexually assault them.”.

While Pearce’s 78-year-old mother has been in the courtroom to support him, his sister Allison has kept her distance. She said she believes that he deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars. “He needs to pay for what he did,” she said. “For the pain he inflicted on these women, their poor families … and us.”. She hopes his pattern of always getting “away with everything” has finally been broken.