Former Hollywood producer David Pearce was convicted Tuesday of two first-degree murder charges for the fatal drug overdose of two young women, and sexually assaulting seven women.
Pearce was charged with the murder of 24-year-old model Christy Giles and her 26-year-old friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, an architect, who were abandoned outside of two separate hospitals in Southern California, over the course of several hours by three masked men in November of 2021, after a party at Pearce's Beverly Hills home.
Jurors found that Pearce supplied a lethal cocktail of drugs, which included fentanyl, ketamine, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, and the rape drug GHB. He was also convicted of 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, according to ABC-7.
The sexual crimes, which occurred to seven anonymous women, took place between 2007 and 2020.
Jurors were not able to reach a verdict on Pearce's co-defendant Brandt Walter Osborn, who was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact, and the judge declared a mistrial. However, prosecutors can still seek a retrial against Osborn.
A third man, identified as cinematographer Michael Ansbach was arrested with Pearce and Osborn, but never charged. Ansbach testified in Pearce's trial that the producer told him "'dead girls don't talk," while they waited to take the girls to the hospital, according to the Daily Mail.
Pearce, who will be sentenced in the case on March 13, faces up to life in prison for the crimes.
Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.
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