By Marlene LenthangNBC
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Two women who were left unconscious at two Los Angeles hospitals by masked men late last year died of multiple drug intoxication, the Los Angeles coroner ruled.
On November 13, 2021, Christy Giles, a 24-year-old model, and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola, 26, were taken to medical centers by a group of men in a black Toyota Prius without license plates, police said. Los Angeles at the time.
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Investigators said they believed the women were drugged and overdosed at a home on Olympic Boulevard on Nov. 12.
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The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ruled both deaths homicides, according to online records.
Giles, 24, died the same day she was taken to the hospital from multiple drug intoxication including cocaine, fentanyl, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), a substance widely used in rape cases, and ketamine. the coroner ruled.
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Arzola died on November 24 from multiple organ failure and intoxication caused by multiple drugs such as cocaine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and "probably other undetermined drugs," the medical examiner ruled.
Christy Giles.@christygilesx via Instagram
Three men: David Pearce, 37;
Michael Ansbach, 47;
and Brandt Osborn, 42, were arrested in connection with the deaths, police announced.
However, they have not been formally charged in the case.
Los Angeles police said they were concerned there might be other victims "who may have been drugged by one or more of these men," police said in a statement at the time of their arrests.
At the time, police said the three men's cases were submitted to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office for consideration.
On Monday, the district attorney's office told NBC News that it has requested further investigation of the case.
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Ansbach and Osborn were released from jail, according to jail records.
On December 17, Pearce was charged in another case that focuses on the sexual assault of four women between 2010 and 2020.
He was charged with two counts of forcible rape and one count of rape of an unconscious or sleeping person and sexual penetration with a foreign object.
He has pleaded not guilty to those charges, according to court records.
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Pearce remains in custody at the Twin Towers Correctional Center in Los Angeles on $3.4 million bail, jail records show.
Her next court hearing is scheduled for April 25 in the case of the four sexual assaults.
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NBC News has reached out to Pearce's attorney for comment on the case.
Giles' husband, Jan Cilliers, previously told NBC Los Angeles that Giles and Cabrales Arzola had been out partying on Nov. 12 and when he checked on his wife's location the next morning, she was already in the emergency room in Culver. City, where he died.
"We're guessing the girls got in the car because they were all going to the party, they all wanted to go together," Cilliers said.
"But they never came."
NBC News has reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department for an update on the case.
