The murder of an Alabama model and her friend in California will be featured this weekend CBS’s 48 Hours.

The episode, titled “Dead Girls Don’t Talk,” comes after the February conviction of a nightclub promoter in the 2021 drug deaths of 25-year- old Christy Giles Cilliers, who grew up in Gardendale, and her interior designer friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.

David Pearce, 42, was convicted of two counts of murder in the deaths of the women, who were drugged and dumped at separate Los Angeles hospitals.

Pearce was also convicted of seven counts of sexual assault for seven different women.

He was set to be sentenced this month, but he hired new attorneys who have requested a new trial.

The episode will run Saturday, March 29, at 9 p.m. CST. It will include interviews with LAPD homicide Det. Jonathan Vander Lee, LAPD Lt. Calvin You and a woman who survived an attack by Pearce.

“I wouldn’t say survivor. I’m a fighter,‘’ the woman told 48 Hours. “That’s what I am.”

Cilliers, the youngest of the three Giles sisters, was raised in Gardendale, attending Gardendale Elementary School, Bragg Middle School and Gardendale High Schools.

She was a talented athlete who excelled in soccer and, once in middle school, tried her hand at pageants. The pageants led her to a modeling contract with Wilhelmina Models in Miami just as she was about to turn 15.

Cilliers turned 18 in Miami but moved to Los Angeles a short time later.

In 2019, she met Jan Cilliers and the two eloped after a whirlwind romance, settling down in Marina del Ray.

The weekend of Nov. 12, 2021, Cilliers’ husband took a trip to San Francisco to see his father and go on a hike together.

Cilliers and three friends, including Cabrales-Arzola, decided to have a girls-night-out that Friday.

They headed to Soho House West Hollywood, a private club. 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 encountered Pearce, Ansbach and Osborn.

“They came to the event and posed like they were event staff,‘’ said Cilliers’ mother, Dusty Giles, a retired UAB nurse.

Giles, her husband and other family attended the trial in California. A GoFundMe is helping to pay for their travel expenses from Alabama to California.

Giles previously said. “Ansbach had a camera around his neck.”

Cilliers and Cabrales-Arzola ended up riding with Pearce, Osborn and Ansbach, headed to a party in Beverly Hills.

Somehow the group ended up at Pearce’s apartment next.

Not long after they arrived, Cilliers sent Cabrales-Arzola a text that read, “Let’s get out of here.” It was followed by the wide-eyed emoji.

Cabrales-Arzola replied, “Agreed. Uber called. Will be here in 10.

Phone records show Cilliers read that text but did not reply. There were no more texts sent, no more phone calls made, and no more pictures posted to Instagram by either woman.

“I mean nobody heard from them ever again,‘’ Giles said.

The following morning, Cilliers husband’ started calling her to see how her night went.

There was no answer to his calls or texts. He could see that her phone location was in West Hollywood and assumed she had stayed over with friends.

Cilliers phone showed to be in the same location for 10 to 12 hours, and then suddenly moved to show she was at a hospital in Culver City.

Giles called the hospital, and it was then she learned her daughter was dead.

She would later learn that two men dropped her off outside the hospital. They reportedly said they had found her in alley and wanted to get her help.

It was just a couple of hours later, they learned, that Cabrales-Arzol was dropped off at a different hospital – Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospital – barely alive. She was pronounced dead on Nov. 24.

The story made headlines, and speculation swirled.

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.

Giles said video showed men carrying Christy’s body out of the apartment, putting her in the car and dumping her at the hospital.

They then went back to the apartment and repeated the same process for Cilliers’ friend.

After the deaths of the two women, more women came forward. Pearce was arrested in December 2021 on alleged crimes against seven women reported to have taken place between 2007 to 2020.

The jury couldn’t reach a verdict against Pearce’s roommate and co-defendant Brandt Osborn, who was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact with knowledge of a crime, Giles said.

A third man initially suspected, Michael Ansbach, became a witness for the prosecution.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Ansbach testified that Pearce served him and the women a mysterious batch of cocaine that left him violently ill.

He said when he pleaded for someone to take Cilliers and Cabrales-Arzola, both unconscious, to the hospital. Pearce said, “Dead girls don’t talk.”