Sickening evidence played out in court in case of 'monster' LA producer accused of killing model and architect

Accused double murderer David Pearce told police during an interview he feared being portrayed as a 'f**king monster.'

The Hollywood producer was interviewed by a detective probing the deaths of friends Christy Giles, 24, a model and aspiring actress, and architect Hilda Cabrales-Arzola, 26, who had partied at a Los Angeles rave on November 13, 2021, with Pearce and his friend, actor Brandt Osborn.

A video recording of the police interview with Pearce, 43, was played in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Friday, on day 13 of the trial.

The court also heard that cash totaling $30,250 and his passport were later found in Pearce's black Prius - the same car prosecutors say was used by the men to dump the women's lifeless bodies outside two separate LA hospitals.

Both women had been drugged with a fatal cocktail of fentanyl, ketamine, cocaine, heroine, MDMA and the rape drug GHB, the court heard.

Prosecutors say Pearce gave them a lethal combination of cocaine, fentanyl and the date rape drug GBH before callously discarding their bodies. 

Their deaths were classified as drug-induced homicides by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner.

During an earlier court hearing it had been alleged that Pearce told a friend, 'dead girls can't talk.'

In the police interview, conducted at LAPD's Olympic Station in Koreatown, Pearce denied giving drugs to the two women he had met hours earlier and brought back to his apartment.

'I feel horrible that two girls died,' he said. 'They were active drug users and I didn't give them any drugs. I knew they were at a rave.

'I was told that there was a very bad batch of fentanyl going around in the USC (University of Southern California) area. I don't do that stuff. It's scary. It's f**king scary.'

At the time of the interview, however, it had not been disclosed that fentanyl was a factor in the women's deaths, Detective Jonathan Vander Lee told the court. In fact, police were not informed until the following April that fentanyl was a factor.

'I didn't think they were dead,' Pearce claimed during his videotaped interview. 'I thought they were breathing that's why I brought them to the hospital. I'm not some f**king monster.'

Pearce said he didn't have drugs at the apartment and didn't see the women taking drugs.

He said he left to go outside to walk his dog for five to 10 minutes then returned. 'I didn't see anything,' he said. 'I walked my dog and came back in.

'Not only did I walk the dog but I picked up the dog poop that was in the kitchen.'

Pearce claimed he wasn't into 'buying drugs and doing drugs. I come from a good family. My parents raised me well.'

He was arrested in the December following the deaths and officially charged with two counts of murder and two counts in the sale, transport and furnish of a controlled substance. 

Osborn, 43, was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact.

In addition to the murder charges, the former film producer had been previously charged with several counts of sexual assault against a total of seven victims spanning a 13-year period.

Pearce pleaded not guilty to the recent charges and remains behind bars, while Osborn, was released on $40,000 bond.

Detective Vander Lee testified that $30,250 in cash was found in a bag in Pearce's Prius along with his passport.

He said the haul also included 'trophies' belonging to Pearce from 'Granite Cock Films,' a porn company, and a face mask similar to one prosecutors say was worn by Pearce when he dumped the bodies.

Judge Eleanor Hunter scolded Pearce in a raised voice at the end of the morning's session for secretly removing some of his attorney's case papers.

Defense attorney Jeff Voll, sitting next to Pearce, told the court that a number of papers had mysteriously gone missing during the previous days proceedings and then surreptitiously returned on Friday morning.

'You cannot take papers from your attorney,' Judge Hunter. 'I don't know how to get through to you. You are not allowed to take papers.

'There are things you're not entitled to. You cannot take anything from your attorney's stack. Are are going to have any more problems with you? 

'How about getting the jury list and threatening to use it?

Pearce responded, 'No, your Honor.'

The judge was referring to phone call Pearce made from jail when he told his mother that he had information on the jurors, regarding their identities and where they worked. Prosecutors alleged he was trying to engineer a mistrial.

Earlier in Friday's hearing, the court was shown security camera footage of Pearce carrying the limp bodies of Chrissy and Marcela Cabrales-Arzola out of the back door of his apartment building in the evening on November 14, 2021.

Pearce told his police interviewer that after dumping Giles he returned home and saw Cabrales-Arzola was 'progressively getting worse.'

'She was breathing and making noise so she wasn't dead.'

One hour later he drove Cabrales-Arzolawas to the another Los Angeles hospital. 'Hilda was alive at the hospital,' said Pearce.

In was at that point the detective told him of the Mexican native, 'She was dead but they brought her back to life.'

Giles' body was left on the sidewalk outside Southern California Hospital in Culver City and Cabrales-Arzola was found outside Kaiser Permanente hospital in West LA.

Giles was declared dead at the scene, and Cabrales-Arzola later died in the ICU.

On the night of the murders, the two women had visited an art exhibit at Soho House in West Hollywood. 

They later went to see one of their favorite DJs perform at a warehouse party in East Los Angeles where they met Pearce.

Giles had recently married South African-born Jan Cilliers, 17 years her senior. The couple had eloped but planned to have a wedding back in Giles' native Alabama.

Photographer Michael Ansbach, 50, who was at the apartment with Pearce and Osborn, alleges Pearce gave him and the two women alcoholic drinks and cocaine laced with fentanyl, according to prosecutor Catherine Ann Mariano.

Even though the women had consumed alcohol and drugs before getting there, Mariano alleged, the drugs Pearce gave them at the apartment are what 'ultimately killed them.'

After his arrest, Peace was heard on a hidden recorder in a police holding cell with his two friends bemoaning his situation. 

'I should have left town last week - shoulda, coulda, woulda. I'm so terribly sorry that we're all here.'

Cilliers, 44, told Daily Mail of Giles after Friday's hearing, 'She was a beautiful soul - she made friends with everyone.'

He added that the evidence against Pearce and Osborn was 'very incriminating.'

Pearce is also facing seven rape charges for sexual assaults he allegedly performed between 2005 and 2021. 

In 2014, prosecutors originally declined to pursue sexual assault charges against him, but after the deaths, several women came forward with stories. 

Some of the women alleged they fell ill after Pearce served them a drink and later woke up to him sexually assaulting them.