UPDATED, 2:24 PM: The man convicted or murdering model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola was sentenced today to life in prison. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter imposed the maximum sentence David Pearce, 43, which actually was 146 years to life.

Hunter called Pearce “the worst kind of criminal,” noting that he had been called a con artist, a manipulator and a wolf during victim-impact statements. “All of them apply to you,” the judge told him.

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UPDATED, February 4: A man was convicted today on two murder counts in the 2021 deaths of of model Christy Giles and her architect friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola. The Los Angeles jury returned the guilty verdicts against David Pearce, 42, who al

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