The irony of a suspect being arrested on the set of CSI! Three men have been arrested in connection to the deaths of model Christy Giles-Cilliers and her close friend, Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola. The two went out for a night on the town in Los Angeles in November yet never came home. Police said that masked men dropped Giles-Cilliers at Southern California Hospital in Culver City. The men were in a black Toyota Prius with no plates. She was left there unconscious and pronounced dead. A short time later, police said the same men dropped off Cabrales-Arzola at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospital.
David Pearce, 37, was arrested and charged with manslaughter after police . He is being held on $1 million bail. Michael Ansbach, 47, and Brandt Osborn, 42, were both arrested and charged with accessory to manslaughter. They are being held on $100,000 bail each.
Brandt Osborn was arrested on the set of CBS’s NCIS: Los Angeles on Wednesday. Osborn was an extra on the show, being used in a pedestrian scene shooting near the corner of Cahuenga and Hollywood boulevards. While he was arrested on the set, there is no indication that he was anywhere near the primary cast.
The group were apparently all partying inside one of the suspect's apartments in West LA when police say the women were drugged. Both women are believed to have overdosed in the suspect's apartment.
Actors Alexandra Creteau and David Murrietta Jr. told FOX 11 that Osborne shocked them by bragging about what he and his friends did.
"He was telling me that he found the lifeless body of Christy and so that’s when they started collaborating a story of how they were gonna do it," Murrietta recalled. "Separate hospitals… they started doing research and basically who drove where… who carried the girls to the hospital…"
"I had that feeling that like sometimes in movies, when a serial killer calls a radio station and tells everything… it was kinda that vibe — because he was proud of it in my opinion," Creteau said. "The energy was not like ‘I’m embarrassed, I want to hide it,’ it was ‘oh my gosh, look how much fun I had, crazy night…’"