The mother of a Los Angeles model whose family believes she was murdered, spoke of her devastation in an interview with DailyMail.com.
The body of Christy Giles, 24, was dumped outside a hospital on Saturday evening. According to her husband, CCTV at the hospital showed three men in balaclavas driving a car without plates leaving her there.
Christy's mother Dusty, of Dora, Alabama, was the first family member to receive the shocking news of her death and had spoken to her just hours earlier.
She said her daughter grew up as a southern belle with a fierce independence, was scouted to play soccer for college teams but chose modeling instead, signing with Wilhelmina Models at age 14.
Dusty Giles (second from left) said she believes her daughter Christy Giles (far right) was drugged and murdered, in an interview with DailyMail.com. Pictured left to right: Christy's father, mom, and sister
Photos and video obtained by DailyMail.com shows Christy Giles, 24, (left) partying with friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola (right) just hours before she was found dead and Arzola was dumped at a hospital in critical condition
She described a vibrant woman who was down-to-earth and 'brutally honest' with her friends and family, and remained close and loving to her siblings and parents despite glamorous moves to London, Miami, and Los Angeles pursuing her modeling career.
Her 26-year-old friend, Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, was dumped at a nearby hospital two hours after Giles's body was left, and is now in a coma and unlikely to recover.
Dusty told DailyMail.com that Arzola's hospital toxicology reports showed trace amounts of cocaine and 'molly' or ecstasy in her blood, as well as larger amounts of heroin, but that the LA coroner had not yet reported Christy's results.
She said that texts between the girls also suggested they were taking cocaine at a warehouse party in East LA late last Friday night, after stopping by an event at Soho House in West Hollywood.
The grieving mom said she didn't agree with her daughter's recreational drug use but that Christy was always open and honest about it – and that her daughter was also adamant she would never take heroin, after seeing her close cousin become addicted and her close friend's ex die of an overdose.
Dusty told DailyMail.com that her daughter (pictured with her husband and family) was open about her recreational drug use but believes she was subdued by men she had met while partying on Friday night
The 24-year-old, pictured with her sister, grew up as a southern belle in Alabama, according to her mother
The mother said Arzola - who had only recently moved to LA from Mexico - also despised heroin according to family and friends.
That attitude, and the murky circumstances of Christy's disappearance between 5:30am on Saturday morning and when her body was left at Southern California Hospital in Culver City 12 hours later, lead Dusty to believe that heroin was forced on the two women by the men they were with.
Texts between the girls from that night were recovered from Christy's iCloud account.
'We know that around 4:30am Hildy sent Christy a text and asked her if she wanted to do a line of coke,' Dusty said.
'Christy responded, "yes, where are you?" And she said, "I'm backstage." So at this point, we know that they are still in a public safe area.'
Dusty said she was unsurprised by the references to drug use.
'My daughter by no means was an angel. She lived her life very unapologetically, and was brutally honest and truthful with her family, regardless if we agreed with it or not, because she knew that we loved her unconditionally,' she said.
Dusty said her daughter was scouted by Wilhelmina Models age 14, and moved to LA age 18 – but still had 'strong family roots'
Christy was pronounced dead at Southern California Hospital in Culver City after her body was discovered outside on Saturday evening
'She would have no reason to lie. We actually spoke regarding [heroin]. My daughter said "Hell no, the heroin out here is laced with fentanyl, people are
