LOS ANGELES—A Beverly Hills man who was already facing sex-related counts involving seven women over a 13-year period has been charged with murder in the overdose deaths of a model and her friend, who were dumped outside Southland hospitals last November, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced July 5.
David Brian Pearce, 40, was arrested last December but was not immediately charged in the deaths of Christy Giles, a 24-year-old model and aspiring actress, and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26. But he had remained jailed in connection with a series of unrelated alleged sexual assaults.
The charges initially involved alleged crimes against four women, with alleged felony crimes against three other women in 2007, 2019, and 2020 included later….