’48 Hours’ Shares First Look of Special on Hollywood Producer Who Murdered 2 Women With Fentanyl | Video

David Brian Pearce was charged with the murder of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola following a fentanyl overdose in 2021 The post ’48 Hours’ Shares First Look of Special on Hollywood Producer Who Murdered 2 Women With Fentanyl | Video appeared first on TheWrap.

Mar 27, 2025 - 19:40

’48 Hours’ Shares First Look of Special on Hollywood Producer Who Murdered 2 Women With Fentanyl | Video

CBS News dropped a sneak preview of their upcoming “48 Hours” story titled “Dead Girls Don’t Talk” about Hollywood producer David Brian Pearce’s 2021 drugging of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.

In the sneak peek of the special that airs Saturday, March 29 on CBS a timeline of events is laid out from Giles and Cabrales-Arzola’s night out to ending up at an emergency room after visiting Pearce’s Beverly Hills home and overdosing on fentanyl. The Hollywood producer reportedly told a friend “dead girls don’t talk.”

The special focuses on the investigation of correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti who has been working on this case for more than three years. He speaks exclusively with one survivor, only known as “Jackie,” about Pearce’s actions. She is now bravely sharing her story for the first time and insists she is not a “suvivor.” “I’m a fighter. That’s what I am,” she said of her experience.

“48 Hours” will also feature interviews from Lieutenant Calvin You and Detective Jonathan Vander Lee who worked on the case.

“This trial will not change what happened,” Fernanda Cabrales-Arzola, Hilda’s sister, said. “It will not bring my sister back or Christy.”

The harrowing clip also chronicles Giles’ husband Jan Cilliers tracking his wife’s location the night she died. At one point he shared an unrecognized address – that turned out to be Pearce’s home – and got dark responses.

“There’s somebody that lives at this location that is a very unsavory person,” Cilliers said. “He passed himself off as a big shot Hollywood producer but he was a con man with an alleged history of sexual assault.”

Pearce was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder in early February for Giles and Cabrales-Arzola’s death. The producer was also found guilty 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. All of the charges were for crimes against seven different women that took place between 2007 and 2020.

Giles was found dead outside Southern California Hospital in Culver City. She died from a drug overdose after a mixture of cocaine, fentanyl, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid and ketamine were all found in her system. According to the police report, Giles was dropped at the hospital by masked men in a car that had no license plate.

Cabrales-Arzola died of multiple organ failure after cocaine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) and other undetermined drugs were found in her system. She was left at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospital. She was on life support for 11 days before her parents made the decision to remove her from care.

“Today, a serial rapist was held accountable for the deaths of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, both of whom tragically died as a result of fentanyl poisoning, and the victimization of seven other women across Los Angeles,” District Attorney Nathan Hochman said following the February conviction. “I thank the trial team, Deputy District Attorneys Catherine Mariano and Seth Carmack, for their tireless pursuit of justice and determination to give a voice to the women who bravely came forward to report the crimes committed against them. The office will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law those who illegally supply fentanyl and destroy lives, especially those who commit sexual assaults.”

Watch the “48 Hours” sneak preview above.

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