A Hollywood producer faces a nearly 150-year prison sentence after a jury found him guilty on Feb. 4 of killing two women and sexually assaulting several others across Los Angeles.
David Brian Pearce, 42, was convicted of first-degree murder in the fentanyl overdose deaths of model and aspiring actress Christy Giles, 24, and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, an architect, in November 2021.
He was also convicted of rape and other sexual assaults against seven other women between 2007 and 2021, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman.
Pearce’s roommate at the time and co-defendant, Brandt Walter Osborn, 45, was also charged with two counts of accessory after the fact. The jury deadlocked on charges against Osborn. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter declared a mistrial on his two charges….