Overview
- Pearce was sentenced Wednesday after a jury earlier convicted him of two counts of first-degree murder and multiple sex crimes tied to seven women spanning 2007 to 2020.
- The victims were left at separate Los Angeles hospitals in November 2021, and the medical examiner ruled both deaths homicides after finding multiple drugs in their systems.
- Jurors heard from additional women who alleged assaults, as well as a longtime friend who testified about the events preceding the victims being taken to hospitals.
- Defense arguments maintained the drugs could have been accidentally ingested and that Pearce did not provide them, but a judge denied a motion for a new trial last month.
- Co-defendant Brandt Walter Osborn remains subject to a potential retrial after a mistrial on two accessory-after-the-fact charges.