LA producer accused of killing model and architect says he’s not a ‘monster’ as court hears disturbing evidence
LA producer accused of killing model and architect says he’s not a ‘monster’ as court hears disturbing evidence
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Prosecutors say David Pearce gave Christy Giles, 24, and Hilda Cabrales-Arzola, 26, a fatal cocktail of drugs as they partied on November 13, 2021, before dumping their bodies outside two LA hospitals. Pearce, 43, who has pleaded not guilty to killing Christy Giles, 24, and her friend Hilda Cabrales-Arzola, 26, two women he partied with on November 13, 2021, appeared in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Friday for day 13 of his double murder trial.
![[Christy Giles was left outside a Los Angeles hospital 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)
A jury heard a recording of a police interview in which Pearce told detectives at the time that he was only trying to help. “I didn’t think they were dead,” Pearce told the LAPD detective. “I thought they were breathing, that’s why I brought them to the hospital. I’m not some f**king monster.”.
![[Cabrales-Arzola was taken off life support the day before her 27th birthday]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/03/22/newFile-1.jpg)
Prosecutors say Pearce and his actor friend Brandt Osborn, partied with the women and gave them 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 LA hospitals.
Giles was pronounced dead at the scene. Cabrales-Arzola was put on life support and suffered from multiple organ failure. She was taken off life support the day before her 27th birthday. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner determined their deaths to be drug-induced homicides.
