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"Dead Girls Don't Talk" | Full Episode

April 03, 2025 / 41:35

This episode covers the Hollywood overdose murder trial of David Pierce and Brand Osborne, focusing on the deaths of model Christy Giles and architect Hilda Cabales. Key discussions include the timeline of events leading to their deaths, the investigation by LAPD detectives, and the testimonies from family members and witnesses.

Christy Giles and Hilda Cabales were found unresponsive after a night out in November 2021. Christy's husband, Yan, tracked her phone to a location linked to David Pierce, who had a history of sexual assault allegations. The episode highlights the frantic search for answers by their families and the police.

Detectives Jonathan Vanderly and Calvin Yu detail their investigation, uncovering evidence that suggests both women were drugged and sexually assaulted. The episode includes emotional testimonies from family members, including Christy's mother, Dusty, and Hilda's parents, who recount their heartbreak and the impact of their daughters' deaths.

The trial reveals the challenges prosecutors faced in proving the case against Pierce, who was ultimately found guilty of first-degree murder for both women. The episode concludes with reflections from the victims' families on their loss and the ongoing fight for justice.

TLDR

The trial of David Pierce and Brand Osborne reveals the tragic deaths of Christy Giles and Hilda Cabales due to drugging and sexual assault.

Episode

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[Music] powerful opening statements in the Hollywood overdose murder trial David
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Pierce and brand Osborne on trial for the deaths of two women model Christy Giles and her architect friend Hilda
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cabales this trial will not change what happened and will not bring my sister back or
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Christine Chris's plan for the evening was to go out with some friends and have a fun night
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Aloha my name is yanela and Christy was my [Music] wife Christy loved to spread joy and
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laughter wherever she went Hilda Marella just moved from Mexico she seemed very lovely and they
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were becoming Fast Friends my sister did enjoy going out to parties she liked dancing and music I remember
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seeing her Instagram she was posting stories of deadline she sent me a couple of text
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messages her last text message to me was around 1: or 2 a.m. and throughout the day I was trying to text her and there
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was no response you're tracking Christy's phone yeah is this an address that you recognize it's not an address I
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know around 5:00 p.m. I saw her location had suddenly moved to to an emergency room hospital my level of panic was
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growing and growing I just knew that I had to try and get to the bottom of what happened
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you blast out this address and very quickly you get responses yeah what are those responses that there's somebody
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that lives at this location that is a very unsavory person David Pierce yeah he passed himself off as a big shot
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Hollywood producer but he was a con man with an alleged history of sexual so it wasn't clear what happened we just
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knew she overdosed and to me my reaction was who did this to her so when you heard overdose you immediately thought
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drugged yeah drugged yeah definitely not something that she would have done to herself
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ever that's just not her got a call at home app parent overdose Christ she she was deceased
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Hilda was still on life support at that time I give as much information as I can
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to the detectives Yan had put the number of things out on social media and it spread like
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wildfire people recognize this guy right away and they were urged to to call us authorities say seven more women have
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come forward claiming Pierce sexually assaulted them as well J do number one J do number two J do number three number
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four number five number six number seven being a Jane Doe we are the voice of both Christy and Hilda because they
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can't talk defended Pierce wanted them to die he wanted them to die because dead girls don't talk
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[Music] [Music] for a fresh case it's all on you there's no no one else is going to solve this
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thing for you it's you and your partner that's it and in November 2021 detective
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Jonathan vanderly and detective Calvin Yu had to figure out why a lifeless woman was left at this emergency
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[Music] room this video from Southern California hospital show shows staff pulling a
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woman out of a black Prius and helping her onto a stretcher while two men look on when the stretcher moves into the ER
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it becomes clear the car has no license plates detective vanderly would later learn that the two men told the staff
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they found the woman quote passed out on the curb somewhere nearby and they were
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trying to be Good Samaritans they left without giving their names or phone numbers they were Mass disguised this
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must be adding up to something that sounds very sketchy to you very sketchy but then you still have to figure out if
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an actual crime occurred the woman was Christy Giles and her mother Dusty will never forget the
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call that came from the hospital telling her her 24-year-old daughter was dead from a drug
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overdose and I said what do you mean she didn't make it and then I hung up and I
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fell apart 2 hours later at a hospital just 2 mes away a second woman was left at
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another emergency room by the same two men also in a black Prius and wearing masks they never give their
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names never leave their phone numbers license plates anything like that that was Hilda Marcel cabales the 26-year-old
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architect was still alive in the ICU and fighting for her life and in Durango Mexico her mother Hilda Marcella
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Placencia was getting the news about her eldest daughter and namesake she was very bad she was uh
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intubated you are a doctor what was going on in your mind at the time what happened what what happened to her why
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is she that bad and in the ear earliest hours of the investigation there were only questions
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how could this happen to chrisy it was an unimaginable ending to a life bursting with exuberance let's do some
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donut Christy was an adventurer traveling the world as a high fashioned model for
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Willamina she ultimately made La her home Chrissy Giles I live in Venice California and I am an artist at 21 her
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life took a dramatic turn she met Yan cier a South African born artist photographer and special effects editor
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17 years her senior they'd been together 7 months when the couple went to Burning
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Man an Arts Festival in the Nevada desert where impulsively they took a big leap we just decided to alope we just
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got married right there we said to each other that you know life's very short so we kind of
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really just proposed to each other and the next day we got married after they got married Christy
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started studying interior design in Los Angeles which led to a new friendship with Hilda Marcel Hilda had just moved
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there to start her dream job recalls her father Louise I feel very happy for her
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but very sad for me because we we are very close no one was surprised that the Kum
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graduate of the prestigious University in Montery Mexico was thriving in La especially her
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sister Fernanda she was always making a lot of friends talkative outgoing just having a good time and meeting people
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that they also like the music that they are also enjoying uh dancing dancing as this video shows is
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what the two friends were doing that night Christy's husband Yan was out of town visi visiting his father he knew
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she and Hilda had planned a girls night out starting at Soho house and then on to a warehouse party after midnight to
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see a favorite DJ a friend who was with them said they did ketamine a popular club
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drug but by the next day Yan was on his way home knowing christe was gone in less than 24 hours your world was turned
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upside down shattered yeah Hilda's father and mother rushed to be by her side when they arrived they found
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their daughter on life support my heart broke in thousand pieces because I saw my my baby in
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conscience I'm fighting for her life I said is this real Am I Dreaming I took her hand and I said
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Mom's here with you you're not alone christe's autopsy revealed that in addition to ketamine she had cocaine
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Fentanyl and GHB known as the date rape drug in her system are these drugs that Christie would take willingly I mean
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that combination of drugs sounds deadly to me so like no Yan needed answers so he began to
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build a timeline based on the digital Trail christe Left Behind information gathered from her messages and phone
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which he was able to track I wanted to get to the bottom of exactly what happened that night he already knew what
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she'd been doing before she went out for the evening she was enjoying a lovely sunset
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she took our cat for a walk on the beach s s Panther s Panther oh those were the last pictures she sent
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me of herself and she said I wish you were here and I well forever wish that I was
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there too Yan was able to track christe's phone to a residence located at 8641 West Olympic
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Boulevard at 5:30 a.m. Christy sends Hilda a wideeye emoji and says let's go Hilder replies I'll call an Uber 10
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minutes away the fact that they're both in the same house text messaging each other they need to leave is very
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worrying that was the last text message that Christy or Hilda ever sent that Uber arrived waited 5 minutes and drove
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away empty how did you process that I mean it's just confirming my worst fears again that they were there at that place
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again they will what's going on in your mind from that detective standpoint when you're
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about to arrive at a scene you don't want to form an opinion U prior to getting there but you are kind of
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mulling over the evidence you're thinking about it you're thinking about what questions you want
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to ask acting on information supplied by Yan LAPD detective Jonathan vanderly and
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his partner headed here to 8641 West Olympic Boulevard a little after midnight on November 14th only a
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few hours after getting that call from the second hospital and this is where the Uber that Christian and Hilda called
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that night would have waited right out front yep 10 minutes between life and death it's all it
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takes it was the home of 39-year-old David Pierce police would learn Christie and Hilda had met him for the first time
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at that warehouse party police also discovered Pierce had a registration for a black Prius and found it parked behind
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the building it matched the car seen at both hospitals down to the black rims Pierce lived on the second floor with a
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roommate brand Osborne 42 there was a light on in the upstairs where the two men live so I just went up knocked on
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the door immediately the lights go out you identify yourself yes completely LAPD open the door and then they just
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complete silence after about 15 minutes he says Pierce and Osborne came out Pierce
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denied owning a Prius so I immediately get a lie do you leave no I I interview Mr
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Osborne at first he says Osborne denied seeing Christian Hilda at all you could change in the stories numerous times at
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first there's no girls had been at that location whatsoever I tell them on the interview um I listen I know you're
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lying it's extremely obvious you're very nervous vanderly says Osborne of eventually admitted the women had been
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at their apartment but said he'd been asleep and when he woke up realized Christian Hilda were in distress he said
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he and Pierce chose to go to two separate hospitals because quote we didn't know how it would look Pierce
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police say did later admit he owned the Prius but lied again saying his license plates had been stolen bandly says he
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saw those plates on the ground by the vehicle then the men agreed to let detectives
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inside two beds have been stripped there was a washing machine that had been recently used it was still wet anything
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else that stands out to you there was a safe in his room with baggies which is indicative of of Narcotics they said
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they for crafts for arts and crafts by now vanderly says he knew Pierce and Osborne had dropped Hilda and
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chrisy off and believed Pierce had drugged them but he didn't have enough evidence to make an arrest he thought he
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beat us that night for sure he was happy he smiled and said goodbye yeah thanks detectives y but that wasn't where it
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ended for you no not by a long shot vanderly knew he needed more evidence and turned to his colleague
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detective Calvin Yu you hear the name David Pierce what goes on in your mind well the first thing is who did he
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sexually assault this time detective U had investigated Pierce in 2020 for sexually assaulting a
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19-year-old she was uh raped while she was unconscious the victim said Pierce had given her drugs to knock her out
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during a date but the investigation had stalled and wasn't prosecuted at the time detective U knew Pierce had other
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prior charges including another rape charge from 2014 that was also so not prosecuted he has a pattern his first
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step is trying to find his victim so that could be through a dating app through online listings or meeting them
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at bars or events when he picks his victim he goes to step two which is bragging about himself Pierce relies on
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lies detectives say to set his trap he need to introduce himself as a producer doctor all these different things he's
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none of these things I think he might have been an intern at the time or something at a production company and
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intern yeah they say his next step is to drug his victims and incapacitate them often
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with a drink after they take this drink he goes to step four which is the sexual
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assault police would learn both Christie and Hilda showed signs of sexual assault
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but they feared they would face challenges making the case how difficult is it to prove a crime took place
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when the victims were recreationally using drugs this makes the case extremely hard I told Yan early on that
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this was going to be a near impossible a case to [Applause] prove yeah at first it's a who done
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it it just became what actually happened and that's what the difficulty of this case detective Jonathan vanderly says
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the pressure was on to locate any evidence of what happened after Christi and Hilda met David Pierce that
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night video starts expiring these DVRs it's a constant you got to get this evidence before it
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disappears police did have some luck starting with this footage from from outside that warehouse
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party which they say shows the women leaving with Pierce Osborne and a friend of theirs 47-year-old Michael ansbach on
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their way to Pierce's apartment police also uncovered this text exchange from moments earlier when
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the women were still inside that party do you want Coke asks Hilda yes replies Christie Hilda texted back I'm in the
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kitchen let's do a line Witnesses say Pierce supplied that cocaine which Yan says was not a common
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choice for Christie maybe it was late at night and she wanted to get less tired it's not something she would do
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regularly police determined the group arrived at Pierce's apartment a little after 5:00 a.m. the women aren't seen
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again until 11 hours later when at 4:30 in the afternoon a security camera recorded this grainy image showing
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pierce with christe over his shoulder at the top of the stairs police say Osborne
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is carrying her bag 35 minutes later at the hospital Pierce wearing a black sweatshirt helps take Christy's body out
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of the car Osborne looks on a full hour and a half later this dark image shows the men leaving the
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apartment again with Hilda police say Pierce is carrying her and Osborne has her boots and coat half an hour later
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the Prius arrives at that second hospital where the men take Hilda out of the car together it had been more than
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13 hours since Christy texted Hilda let's go [Music] for two weeks Hilda was on life
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support with no hope of regaining Consciousness her family gathered to say their
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goodbyes H what were your final moments with your daughter they were so hard you
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know and I just was asking God to not let her suffer more I remember telling her that you can
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leave and just thanking her for being my sister I told her baby when I pass away
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I will see you again and I gave you a big hug a kiss the family decided to donate
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Hilda's organs her mom remembers the medical staff lining the Halls as the family accompanied Hilda to the
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O the medical team was clapping to honor her to say thank you for giving life to
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[Music] others like chrisy Hilda had suffered a drug overdose toxicology reports would
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later reveal that she had cocaine MDMA or ecstasy and elevated levels of fentanyl in her
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system police would also learned that while the women were in that apartment the downstairs neighbor heard someone in
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pain and moaning on and off for 6 hours police believe that was Hilda neither Pierce nor Osborne nor ansbach called
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for help it makes me get angry because she was suffering and nobody nobody helped
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her how hard is it to prove this narrative when the victims can't even testify on their own behalf if we were
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just investing Christian H's alone very difficult but the district attorney at the time went public asking other women
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who knew peers to call in so so police could better understand what he did to Hilda and Christie if you feel
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comfortable moving forward so that we can evaluate your case in charge of we're here for you we started getting a
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lot of calls as police continued building their case Yan received a call that Pierce and
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Osborne were on the move he recorded this video of the men loading up a moving van the day after Hilda died
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police say Pierce had also changed his phone number and it took them a week to locate him again so the pressure is on
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you got to get this guy I got to come up with something quick yes police have arrested three men in
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connection with the deaths of a model and her friend last month on December 15th 2021 David Pierce
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brand Osborne and Michael ansbach were arrested in connection with and Christy's deaths the detectives still
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knew next to nothing about what had happened inside that apartment vanderly says they decided to take a Gamble and
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bring the men in this is the only way we're going to get the infile we need once the men were in custody police
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conducted interviews with them one by one kind of played with a rotation and uh I worked out exceedingly well they
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secretly recorded Pierce and Osborne while ansbach was talking to police Pierce says I hope hbox's not up there
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telling him I gave them drugs and wine when it was his turn Pierce denied giving the women drugs he was told it
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was like a very bad bch of fentol that was around this was suspicious because information that the women had likely
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died from fentanyl had not been released I knew these girls died from fentanyl but nobody else knew two months after
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after his arrest ansbach reached out to police with details of what he says he witnessed that night he says Pierce had
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offered the women a ride to an Afterparty and then said he needed to make a quick stop at his house anbo says
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Pierce was very insistent they stay and have a drink and after the women talked about leaving Pierce gave all three of
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them so-called special cocaine ansbach says he christe and Hilda got sick immediately and when he woke up hours
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later he saw Christie without any signs of Life ansbach says he told Pierce to take christe and Hilda to the hospital
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and says Pierce then said repeatedly quote dead girls don't talk I wouldn't say Survivor I'm a
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fighter that's what I am but police had at least one woman who could talk about David Pierce at his
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upcoming trial he asked me if I wanted a drink but it tasted really funny and then I don't remember the next several
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hours after that [Music] January 9th 2025 opening arguments begin in the trial of David Pier charged with felony
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murder and bran Osborne charged with accessory after the fact that is will show that the defendant knowingly gave
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Hilda and Chrissy GHB and fennel knowing that it was dangerous to their lives knowing that it could kill them but he
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just didn't care defendant born helped him get rid of any evidence to implicate defendant peers in the deaths of Christy
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and H prosecutor Katherine Mariano has marshaled the forensic evidence to make her case the toxicology results that
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found fentanyl in both women and the date rape drug GHB and chrisy also Pier's DNA discovered on Christy's body
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and under Hilda's fingernails this is no accident this is no mistake but in order to prove
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felony murder she must show that pierce incapacitated chrisy and Hilda to rape them without their testimony she needs
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to establish he had a history of doing this to other women putting drugs in their drinks and then sexually
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assaulting them he didn't care whether they lived or died all he cared about was taking advantage of that here's
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where there's a problem but defense attor Jeff fall says the fact that Christy and hildo were using drugs
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before meeting Pierce that night means there is no case for murder these young ladies unfortunately injested F and they
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died it's a shame the Mr Pierce didn't k v is sixth in a long line of lawyers who
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have represented David Pierce in this case he knows his client is problematic he's very demanding he's very sure of
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himself what David Pierce wants David Pierce gets he pushes her onto the bed Mariano
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has her own version of Who David Pierce is based on the accounts of the women who talked to investigators and chose to
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be anonymous J one janeo number two janeo number three number four five six number
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seven it was important for me to come forward and you know get any information I could regarding this vile man Jackie
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is janeo number two No cameras were allowed in the courtroom for any of the testimony but she agreed to talk with us
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about her experience with Pierce in 2010 when she was a 24-year-old law student looking for a room to rent she testified
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about her meeting with Pierce at his apartment on West Olympic Boulevard where he gave her a tour and offered a
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drink I started to spin and you know I I just became like disoriented you drink this drink you start to feel dizzy I'm
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sure confused what happens next so the next thing I know um he was you know basically trying uh I would say trying
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to rape me so I started fighting him back according to Jackie he continued to assault her he threw me onto the floor
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he punched me in the face when she tried to take her phone out he grabbed her on
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arms so hard the phone flew and smashed into the wall unsteady on her feet and unable to call for help she did
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everything she could to escape I had to crawl down the stairs I was so disoriented and craw down West
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Olympic Boulevard to my car screaming for help though seriously injured and traumatized she did not report it
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there's a huge stigma that surrounds women that come forward with sexual assault but when she heard about Christy
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and Hilda she decided to act in all 20 women came forward Pierce was charged with seven sexual assaults detective
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Calvin Yu thinks that's just a fraction of those who suffered at the hands of David Pierce are there more Jane Do's
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out there yes I would definitely say so how many do you believe I say 100 100 that's incredible and that's just based
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on the people that you have spoken with directly yes I'm just so grateful that they came forward and I can't even
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imagine how the level of bravery that you have to have in order to testify to a room of strangers that you were so
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intimately violated and as the women testified one by one defense attorney V could see what was happening the
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prosecution strategy was working the victims coming to Court testifying some who broke down in tears all gave the
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same testimony and I am watching the jury they're looking at him and the expression on the juror's faces are like
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how could you how could you do this after the Jane Doe testified the prosecution called Pierce's friend
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Michael ansbach who was in the apartment that night and later arrested along with
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Pierce and Osborne on boach took this video of Christy and Hilda minutes after Pierce gave them wine and cocaine at the
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apartment christe's lying on the couch it looks like she's on her way to becoming
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unconscious in his testimony ansbach again said he also used the same cocaine got violently ill and then passed out
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when he woke up he said Pierce asked him to check on Christie and when he did anbo said it looked like she was not
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breathing Hilda he said was in Pierce's bedroom according to ansbach this is when Pierce told him dead girls don't
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talk like Pierce and Osborne ansbach never called for help his charges were later
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dropped on day 11 and against the advice of his attorney David Pierce who pleaded
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not guilty was sworn in and testified so he got on his stand and he did his best to try to say everybody was
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wrong and he was right he was apparently the only one telling the truth at the entire
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trial on the 12th day pierce his roommate Brant Osborne who also pleaded not guilty takes the stand so Osborne's
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role was to help get rid of the bodies first and foremost he helped carry the girls at
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first he helped formulate the plan in terms of what they're going to tell the security
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guards Osborne testified he was dumbfounded by Pierce's behavior and was emotional crying more than once on the
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stand saying he played no part in a coverup because he didn't have a complete picture of what was really
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going on Yan for one was not buying it he's basically claiming to be an innocent
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bystander in the situation and that he's also a victim in the situation but there
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are facts that prove that he helped David piss covered up the question is whether the jury will believe either
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man after 3 weeks the trial took a toll on christe's family we sat and had a hold our mouth
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closed while they battered and I feel like like they destroyed my daughter's reputation uh it was definitely
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difficult being in the same room as them did I have an overwhelming urge to throw something really hot at their
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heads yeah in closing prosecutor Mariano hits back at the defense just because Christy
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and Hilda did drugs on their own that night doesn't make them responsible for their own deaths David Pierce took care
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of that Mariano argued he didn't care about violating them in the most awful way he didn't care that by drugging
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Christy and Hilda that they could die and she repeats the words of ansbach attributed to David pierce the words
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that rang in the ears of everyone who loved Christy and Hilda he wanted them to die because dead girls don't
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talk hey good afternoon everybody attorneys for Osborne and Pierce told jurors there simply was not enough
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direct evidence linking them to the crime and that there's a strong case for reasonable
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doubt now it's up to the jury to draw its own conclusion about brand Osborne and David
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Pierce JY Giles made her decision a long time ago Pierce is a sick slimy lizard that
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sits and prays and sneaks and his fight is deadly as we're sitting here waiting on
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the voting for the case I just want to um I'm here for till the end for christe's family it's been a
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long and wrenching road to get here for you what does Justice for Christie look like I
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mean there's no justice for Christie there's only preventing him from doing it again I think that's the only Justice
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we can get and for Hilda's mother who could not travel to be in court the last 3 years without her daughter
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have been its own trial nothing can bring her back again but the whole she lives in our lives
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will be always there February 4th 2025 after 2 days of deliberations the jury is back matter of the people of the
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State of California versus David Brian Pierce we the jury and above entitled action find the defendant David Bryan
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Pierce guilty of the crime of first-degree murder upon Christy GES David Pierce guilty we get that guilty on the first
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one and side of relief guilty of the crime of first-degree murder upon Hilda Marcel Cabas arzola Hilda comes up
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guilty again another side of reliefs and then guilty of all the sexual assaults of seven Jane does I don't think I pr at
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all until I heard a guilty on every single one a lot of relief not just for my sake but definitely for all of the
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victims Jane do finally had their day in court and were believed I felt this huge
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weight released off me it was almost like a euphoric feeling we showed the jury what
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kind of man this is but the jury is deadlocked when it comes to brand Osborne a mistrial is
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declared I was surprised definitely disappointed at at the hungery um I thought the trial made clear that he had
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a definitely a hand in their desk what is there to question he was aware of christe's and Hilda's condition he's a
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grown man that stands on his own two feet he withheld medical help from Hilda and christe and until they were
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dead I'm not happy they perfectly could save her life and they chose to not do it for me that's not Justice at at least
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in that part I am here standing for me and hild's Mom Marcela now there's an unbreakable bond
00:38:51
between the mothers who must live without their daughters our daughters individually were like soul sisters both
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of them lost their souls at the hand of the same man same way and that will be forever
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entwined and before she leaves the courthouse there is a final plea from Dusty as much as it hurts to lose my
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baby girl her body was able to tell the story and her sharing her Loc a technology told us where she was how
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long she was so please within your own families share locations you never know when you're
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going to not be able to get in touch with somebody when you look at photos of Christian Hilda what do you
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see I see beauty I see myself when I was 24 I will remember them as as strong independent
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women I'll remember them as beautiful souls free Spirits women that were coming to LA to pursue their
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dreams two young women who loved their families they're animals and their lives I want to remember her as the
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Bright Beautiful Soul that she was Fernanda how do you hope your big sister is remembered as someone who had a lot
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of Dreams Ambitions very intelligent funny she was happy to be alive [Music] [Music]
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Badges

This episode stands out for the following:

  • 85
    Most heartbreaking
  • 80
    Most emotional
  • 80
    Most intense
  • 75
    Most shocking

Episode Highlights

  • The Tragic Overdose
    Christy Giles and Hilda Cabales were found dead after a night out, raising questions about their last hours.
    “This trial will not change what happened and will not bring my sister back.”
    @ 00m 22s
    April 03, 2025
  • The Investigation Unfolds
    Detectives Jonathan Vanderly and Calvin Yu investigate the circumstances surrounding the women's deaths.
    “For a fresh case, it's all on you.”
    @ 04m 02s
    April 03, 2025
  • A Mother's Heartbreak
    Dusty, Christy's mother, recalls the devastating call from the hospital about her daughter's death.
    “I hung up and I fell apart.”
    @ 05m 32s
    April 03, 2025
  • Bravery of the Victims
    Twenty women came forward against Pierce, showing immense bravery in their testimonies.
    “I'm just so grateful that they came forward.”
    @ 30m 34s
    April 03, 2025
  • David Pierce Found Guilty
    After two days of deliberation, the jury finds David Pierce guilty of first-degree murder.
    “We the jury find the defendant David Bryan Pierce guilty.”
    @ 36m 56s
    April 03, 2025
  • A Mother's Plea
    A mother urges families to share locations to prevent tragedies like her daughter's.
    “Please within your own families share locations; you never know when you're going to not be able to get in touch with somebody.”
    @ 39m 36s
    April 03, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • Your world was turned upside down, shattered.
    "Dead Girls Don't Talk" | Full Episode
  • Dead girls don't talk.
    "Dead Girls Don't Talk" | Full Episode
  • He wanted them to die because dead girls don't talk.
    "Dead Girls Don't Talk" | Full Episode
  • I felt this huge weight released off me; it was almost like a euphoric feeling.
    "Dead Girls Don't Talk" | Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Life Support20:02
  • Drug Overdose21:21
  • Trial Begins26:02
  • Victim Testimonies30:59
  • Trial Verdict36:56
  • Mother's Bond38:51

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