Story of Alabama-born model Christy Giles, left to die at LA hospital, will be featured on ‘48 Hours’

Story of Alabama-born model Christy Giles, left to die at LA hospital, will be featured on ‘48 Hours’

Christy Giles, 24, and her friend, Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, were found abandoned and unresponsive outside two separate California hospitals after a night of partying on Nov. 13, 2021.

Giles, an Alabama-born model, was pronounced dead the next day. Cabrales-Arzola, an interior designer, died 10 days later, just a week before her 27th birthday.

See also: Alabama family of Christy Giles, one of two women left dead at L.A. hospitals: ‘We’re just broken’

The bizarre tale made national headlines, and eventually David Pearce, a nightclub promoter and producer was charged with murder in the deaths of Giles and Hilda.

Two others, Brandt Osborn and Michael Ansbach, were also taken into custody on suspicion of being accessories in the deaths, the Los Angeles Times has reported.

“Pearce was accused of giving the women a deadly cocktail of drugs resulting their overdose deaths,” that report stated.

The case will be featured this Saturday on “48 Hours” on CBS.

“Investigators say they were later dumped outside of two different hospitals by masked men. Giles was dead. Cabrales-Arzola barely alive,” a promo for the episode — “Christy and Hilda’s Last Dance” — states.

“Were those men good Samaritans or did they know something more?”

The episode features the first primetime television interview with Jan Cilliers, the husband of Christy Giles, as well as the parents and friends of Cabrales-Arzola.

“They met a man who passed himself off as a big shot Hollywood producer,” Cilliers tells 48 HOURS. “And that just clearly wasn’t the case.”

Christy, the youngest of three sisters, was raised in Gardendale, attending Gardendale Elementary School, Bragg Middle School and Gardendale High Schools, where she was a talented athlete who excelled in soccer, her parents have told AL.com.

“It’s been unbearable,’’ her mother, Dusty Giles, said. “We just want to be in the courtroom so that these men know that Christy was loved and have them look at us in our face every time they have a chance.”

The weekend of her death, Christy’s husband took a trip to San Francisco to see his father and go on a hike together. All of Jan’s other family was still living in South Africa.

Christy and three friends, including Hilda, decided to have a girls-night-out that Friday. Christy was exploring a possible career in interior design and bonded with Hilda.

They headed to Soho House West Hollywood, a private club to which Christy and Jan belonged. There was to be an art exhibit opening, followed by a couple of after parties in different locations.

During one of the after parties at the warehouse, the group of women are said to have encountered the three suspects.

Christy and Hilda still planned to go to another party in Beverly Hills and ended up riding with Pearce, Osborn and Ansbach.

“I don’t know what or occurred or how they got them in their car,’’ Dusty said. “I surmise they told them they were going to the Beverly hills party and instead of calling an Uber, do you just want to ride with us?’’

She would learn that two men later dropped Giles off outside Southern California Hospital in Culver City They reportedly said they had found her in alley and wanted to get her help.

“I said, ‘Dropped her off, like garbage?’’

Dusty said she put on her “nursing hat” and held it together to let Christy’s husband, and other family members know what was going on.

It was just a couple of hours later, they learned, that Hilda was dropped off at a different hospital – Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospital – barely alive.

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner classified the deaths as homicides.

Toxicology reports showed multiple drugs in the systems of both victims. Christy, Dusty said, had both GHB, the “date rape drug,” and fentanyl in her system.

“I still to this day I don’t know what happened to my daughter,’’ Dusty said in August.