Overview
- Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter imposed a 146-years-to-life term, ordering maximum penalties on each murder count.
- Pearce was convicted in February of two first-degree murders in the 2021 deaths of Christy Giles, 24, and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26.
- Jurors also found him guilty of rape and other sexual assaults against seven women spanning 2007 to 2021.
- Authorities said he met the two women at a warehouse party, took them to his Beverly Hills apartment, provided drugs, and they were later left outside separate hospitals, where Giles was found dead and Cabrales-Arzola died 11 days later.
- The medical examiner ruled the deaths homicides after detecting GHB and fentanyl, and a jury deadlock prompted a mistrial for alleged accessory Brandt Osborn with a possible retrial pending.