Hilda Cabrales Arzola’s heartbroken dad demands life sentence for killers and says homicide ruling ‘reopened wounds’
THE HEARTBROKEN dad of slain interior designer Hilda Cabrales has called for murder charges to be brought after her death was ruled a homicide caused by a cocktail of drugs.
Mexican systems engineer Luis Cabrales Rivera, 49, exclusively told The Sun that he hopes that the district attorney in LA will “listen to his heart” and finally charge the three men arrested for his daughter’s death.
It comes after the coroner found Hilda’s death was caused by multiple organ failure and multiple drug intoxication, with cocaine, MDMA and other probable undetermined drugs in her system.
Her model friend Christy Giles, 24, was found to have died of multiple drug intoxication from narcotics including cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine, and date rape drug GHB.
Both the deaths were ruled homicides.
Christy, 24, was dumped dead by masked men outside an LA hospital in November following a night out with her friend.
READ MORE ON HILDA CABRALES ARZOLA
Hours later Hilda was found outside a second hospital and she died a day before what would have been her 27th birthday.
Movie producer and party promoter David Pearce, 37, was arrested in December on suspicion of manslaughter following claims that Christy and Hilda’s last hours were spent at his Beverly Hills apartment.
He remains in jail on a $3.4 million bond on separate charges relating to alleged sex assaults on four other women. He pleaded not guilty to those charges.
Pearce’s actor roommate Brandt Osborn, 42, and cameraman Michael Ansbach, 47, were arrested on suspicion of being accessories to manslaughter in the deaths of Alabama native Christy and Hilda and released on bond.
Most read in News
Speaking from his hometown of Monterrey, Mexico, following the coroner’s ruling, Hilda’s dad Luis told The Sun: “The news reopened our wounds.
“Obviously it’s a loss that we are never going to be able to forget and one just has to learn how to live with it.
“Every update we get makes us remember what happened to our girl and makes us very sad.
“But now we have hope that finally charges will be presented for homicide and these people can be put behind bars and they will get what they deserve.
“We are waiting for that so we can be a little bit more at peace.
“We want those people to spend the rest of their lives in prison and that they can’t hurt anyone ever again.
“I imagine that the district attorney, with this ruling of homicide and death by drugs, will now have enough evidence to be able to accuse those men.
We have hope that finally charges will be presented for homicide and these people can be put behind bars and they will get what they deserve.
Luis Cabrales Rivera
“We want the other tests to come back the quicker the better so they can present the appropriate charges.
“We want the district attorney to listen to his heart and bring the charges as soon as possible to get these people off the streets.
“What they did is indescribable, they hurt so many people who loved Christy and our daughter.
“We want the highest possible charges of murder.
“They did this knowing what could happen and didn’t even have the heart to take Hilda and Christy to hospital in time for the doctors to save their lives.”
Christy’s widower Jan Cilliers, 41, told The Sun on Monday that he understands that tests to determine whether the women were sexually assaulted will come back in the next few weeks.
FAMILY'S TRAUMA
South African-born visual effects artist Jan also said he hopes that the three suspects will be charged with murder when those tests come back.
Luis fought back years as he added: “We have been through very difficult times because of the loss of my daughter.
“But we have to keep going forward, for Hilda’s sister Fernanda, for my wife, and for myself.
“My hope is that one day Hilda is going to receive me with open arms when I reach the other side.
“She is going to be there waiting for me.
“We try not to get sad and cry because we know that where Hilda is, the last thing she wants is to see us suffering.
“Our hearts are broken, a part of our hearts died when she left but we have to be strong for her.
READ MORE SUN STORIES
Read More on The US Sun
“I promised my daughter Hilda to be strong and not cry so she is not worried about us.
“She is still with us and has never left.”
We pay for your stories!
Do you have a story for The US Sun team?
Email us at [email protected] or call 212 416 4552.
Like us on Facebook at and follow us from our main Twitter account at