Disgraced Hollywood producer David Pearce will be behind bars until 2171 after he raped and killed two models, a judge ruled.
Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, and her model friend Christy Giles, 24, from Alabama, were plied with fatal cocktail drugs by Pearce on November 13, 2021 at his Beverly Hills home after meeting at a warehouse party a few hours earlier.
The girls were then callously dumped and left for dead outside different hospitals in Los Angeles by two masked men.
Pearce, 42, was found guilty in February for killing the two women as well as a series of brutal sex abuses and rapes on seven Jane Does he targeted between 2007 and 2021 who later came forward to share their horrific experiences.
On Wednesday, a judge sentenced him to 146 years behind bars for the heinous crimes.
Cabrales-Arzola, a Mexican native who’s been remembered as a ‘big dreamer’, was revived by hospital staff but a lack of oxygen had left her brain dead.
Her mother and sister rushed to her bedside from abroad where she remained in a coma for nearly two weeks.
She died on November 24, just five days before her 27th birthday. Giles was already dead when she was dropped off at the hospital.
Disgraced Hollywood producer David Pearce (pictured in 2018) will be behind bars until 2171 after he raped and killed two models, a judge ruled on Wednesday
Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola (right) 26, and her model friend Christy Giles (left), 24, from Alabama , were plied with fatal cocktail drugs by Pearce on November 13, 2021 before being dumped at separate hospitals
Pearce is seen in orange prison clothing as he entered Los Angeles Superior Court in July 2022
During the trial, it was revealed that Pearce told a friend ‘dead girls can’t talk’ which prosecutors said indicated he wanted the girls to perish so they couldn’t report him to police.
He allegedly recruited his actor friend Brandt Osborn, 42, to help him dispose of the bodies.
But the jury failed to reach a verdict on whether Osborn, who pleaded not guilty, should be convicted on two counts of being an accessory after the fact.
The jury heard how the two men waited 11 hours before they dumped the women’s lifeless bodies outside two different hospitals and fled.
As doctors tried in vain to resuscitate the women, the two men ate a meal at El Pollo Loco.
Cabrales-Arzola’s sister, Fernanda Cabrales-Arzola, 28, previously told the Daily Mail Pearce should have been behind bars ‘years ago.’
The Los Angeles Times reported that the LAPD presented rape allegations against Pearce at least three times between 2007 and 2020, each with twisted similarities to his murder case.
‘The criminal justice system failed. First, the women who came forward, then those who followed, and ultimately, my sister and Christy,’ she told the Daily Mail.
Cabrales-Arzola (left) died on November 24, just five days before her 27th birthday. Giles (right) was already dead when she was dropped off at the hospital
He allegedly recruited his actor friend Brandt Osborn, 42, to help him dispose of the bodies
‘They paid the highest possible price for a failure that never should have happened. Had the system acted when it should have, he never would have crossed paths with them.’
She is, however, relieved that Pearce is finally behind bars for his role in her sister’s gruesome death.
‘We are relieved that it’s finally acknowledged what we’ve known for all these years that what happened was no accident,’ Fernanda said.
‘They were murdered and that we’ve known from day one.
‘We’re finally happy that that came true and the jury saw that as well and now Pearce will be in jail forever.’
However, the family was shocked when the jury was hung on a verdict for Osborn.
Cabrales-Arzola’s sister, Fernanda Cabrales-Arzola, 28, previously told the Daily Mail Pearce should have been behind bars ‘years ago’
Giles’ heartbroken family speaking at court after Pearce was found guilty
The two women had passed out and were barely conscious but the NCIS actor – just like Pearce – failed to call 911 and waited hours to take them to hospital.
‘For us it’s not justice at all because he could have helped her,’ Cabrales-Arzola’s mother, Hilda Marcela Arzola-Plascencia, 51, told the Daily Mail of Osborn.
‘Those two hours that he took, they were vital for my daughter’s life because when she arrived at the hospital they resuscitated her which means she was still fighting for life.
‘That’s why we think it’s not justice. If he (Osborn) had done things in a different way it would have meant the difference between life and death.’
