Wendy Budde (Angela's Sister)

Ansbach says he told Pierce to take Christy and Hilda to the hospital and says Pierce then said repeatedly, quote, dead girls don't talk.

But police had at least one woman who could talk about David Pierce at his upcoming trial.

January 9th, 2025, opening arguments begin in the trial of David Pierce, charged with felony murder, and Bran Osborn, charged with accessory after the fact.

Prosecutor Catherine Mariano has marshaled the forensic evidence to make her case.

The toxicology results that found fentanyl in both women and the date rape drug GHB in Christy.

Also, Pierce's DNA discovered on Christy's body and under Hilda's fingernails.

But in order to prove felony murder, she must show that Pierce incapacitated Christy and Hilda to rape them.

Without their testimony, she needs to establish he had a history of doing this to other women, putting drugs in their drinks, and then sexually assaulting them.

But defense attorney Jeff Vahl says the fact that Christy and Hilda were using drugs before meeting Pierce that night means there is no case for murder.

Vall is sixth in a long line of lawyers who have represented David Pearce in this case.

He knows his client is problematic.

Mariano has her own version of who David Pearce is, based on the accounts of the women who talked to investigators and chose to be anonymous.

It was important for me to come forward and get any information I could regarding this vile man.

Jackie is Jane Doe number two.

No cameras were allowed in the courtroom for any of the testimony, but she agreed to talk with us about her experience with Pierce in 2010 when she was a 24-year-old law student looking for a room to rent.

She testified about her meeting with Pierce at his apartment on West Olympic Boulevard, where he gave her a tour and offered a drink.

I started to spin, and, you know, I just became, like, disoriented.

You drink this drink, you start to feel dizzy, I'm sure, confused.

What happens next?

According to Jackie, he continued to assault her.