A model and her architect friend were left to die after leaving an LA party. An aspiring Hollywood producer is set to stand trial
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The trial of Hollywood producer David Pearce, charged in the deaths of two women, begins this week. The mother of Christy Giles, one of the victims, believes he should be held responsible for their deaths. Andrea Cavallier takes a look back on what happened that night.
![[Hyman’s podcast Once Upon A Crime in Hollywood , which launches on January 6, delves into the case of two women whose bodies were dumped by three men after a party in November 2021]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/03/21/image004.jpg)
Surveillance video from November 13, 2021, showed the men driving a Toyota Prius with no license plates as they dropped an unconscious 24-year-old Christy Giles off outside Culver City hospital, where she died of a fatal cocktail of drugs. Hours later, Giles’ friend, Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, an architect and interior designer, was dumped outside a different LA-area hospital. She remained in the ICU for 10 days before dying of multiple organ failure and drug intoxication.
![[Christy Giles was left outside a Los Angeles hospital last November after suffering a drug overdose]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/07/04/14/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-04%20at%209.42.30%20AM.png)
The men claimed to be good Samaritans who were “doing the right thing” by bringing the women to the hospital, one explained to a security guard, according to an affidavit. A month later, David Pearce, a Hollywood producer who was seen at the party with the women and captured on camera as one of the masked men, was arrested. In July 2022 he was charged with their murders.
![[The model and her friend met producer David Pearce at a LA party on the night of their deaths]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/11/17/21/photojoiner_photo%20%2816%29.jpeg)
As his trial gets underway this week, Christy’s mother Dusty Giles speaks to legal analyst and trial attorney Kelly Hyman about why she believes Pearce should be held responsible for her daughter’s death. “He came back and they searched on the internet how to get rid of a dead body/overdose body without getting in trouble,” she claimed in an exclusive clip shared with The Independent. “And they read it, and did what they found on the internet.”.
![[Hilda Cabrales-Arzola was in the ICU for 10 days then died a day before her 27th birthday]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/03/22/newFile-1.jpg)
