The millionaire comic book writer who was inspired by his work to murder and ‘drain the blood’ from his ex-girlfriend’s body

Blake Leibel he lived a life of luxury in Los Angeles, California. The young man who already dreamed of devoting himself to writing stories was the son of Lorne Leibel, a sailor for that country’s 1979 Olympic team and a major real estate developer. After his parents died, he inherited most of their estate, including the luxurious Forest Hill home, which he sold for $5.5 million.

Already based in California, Leibel directed several episodes of the cartoon adaptation of meatball movieand co-wrote several graphic novels and a “space opera comic series”.

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He also helped run a publishing house that released a comic strip in partnership with Wilmer Valderrama. He was married with two young children and the family lived in Beverly Hills. But behind this shell, the young Leibel had almost no income. Their products failed one after another. In 2015, he filed for divorce and soon after met his new girlfriend, the Ukrainian Iana Poor. The protagonist of this story of horror and blood.

The novel that anticipated the horror

In 2010, Leibel had written the graphic novel “Syndrome”. The plot follows a doctor’s quest to isolate the root of evil in the brain and tests his experiment on a serial killer. In the event that life imitated art, Leibel would later brutally murder Kasian in a crime said to “follow the script” of his own making.

In “Syndrome”, Leibel was obsessed with brutality. On the pages of the literary work there are decapitated and bloodied women on a bed. “In the end, we all become monsters”writes Blake on one of the pages of his book.

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Kasian was born in Ukraine and lived in Kyiv until he was 20 years old. In 2014, moved to Los Angeles on a student visa. There he met and began dating Leibel, while completing law school.

Iana had a child with Leibel and the couple were already living together in a large apartment in Hollywood. A week before the crime, the writer had been charged with rape but was released on $100,000 bail. That’s when the click happened. As soon as she was made aware of the situation, Kasian moved out of the apartment she shared with Blake. She moved in with her mother, who came from Ukraine to help with the couple’s newborn baby. However, nothing could prevent the writer from realizing to the letter what he had written in his novel “Syndrome”.

body tortured Kasian, cut off body parts and scattered them at his home in Hollywood. Kasian’s remains were found mutilated, bloodless and covered in a red Mickey Mouse blanket at Leibel’s home in May 2016.

The girl had come here duped. The writer called her because they supposedly had to “fix the visiting regime” the child they had in common. The girl agreed because she thought her ex-partner had changed and wanted her baby to grow up with her dad. Unfortunately, I was entering a trap that I would never get out of.

autopsy details

The report of the Kasian’s autopsy revealed that parts of the right side of the 30-year-old’s face had been ripped off in the brutal murder before her death. Investigators found pieces of meat inside the room, and part of Kasian’s scalp and ear were found in a dumpster at the bottom of the garbage chute outside the room. home, NBC reported.

The details of the girl’s autopsy left California’s most experienced police and doctors stunned. It was that the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Department ruled that Kasian’s cause of death was exsanguination, action of emptying a person’s blood until it is empty.

But before being cruelly murdered, Iana was kidnapped by Leibel for two days. He lived through a hell that he took to the grave.

He recounted the details of those moments Olga, the victim’s mother. Distraught because she hadn’t heard from her daughter for two days, the woman went looking for Iana on May 24, 2016 at Leibel’s. Before, I had made dozens of unanswered calls, texts and emails. Each of these attempts at communication had fallen into a silence that worried the Ukrainian.

The day before, Iana had gone to buy a stroller for her baby. It was the last time Olga saw her daughter alive. After several attempts and after making a fuss at the police station, two officers tried to check if Iana was in the apartment she had shared with Leibel on Holloway Drive in West Hollywood. They had no answers.

despair of a mother

The days passed and Iana did not appear. So, due to the inaction of the police, Olga went alone to Leibel’s house and stopped on the opposite sidewalk. From there, he called out Leibel’s name and asked him about his daughter. “Open the door!”, screamed the desperate mother. At one point he saw Leibel go to the window, close it and disappear. At these times, Iana suffered the most excruciating torments of the comic book author.

The police tried several times but were never able to enter the apartment. Leibel was well advised and argued with laws and amendments to the United States Constitution. who protected their privacy. Detectives even attempted a ruse to lure the writer out, pretending to leave when in fact they were hiding a short distance away. But no one opened the door.

Olga insisted, and in a desperate call to 911, officers decided to break into Leibel’s home. There they have already found the horror scene.

All the evidence against Blake Leibel

Leibel remained silent throughout the trial. Much of the prosecution case was based on what police and forensic experts ultimately pieced together from the crime scene, the killer’s home.

All that forensic and physical evidence, all of which pointed to Leibel as the killer. A medical examiner explained how blood found throughout the house matched that of the victim and how DNA found at the crime scene belonged to both Iana Kasian and Leibelthe only two people who were inside the apartment at the time of the murder.

Specialists also found blood in the kitchen drain and pieces of meat from Kasian’s mutilated body on the bed and on the floor. One sheet had distinct handprints that matched Leibel’s hand exactly, and the jury easily distinguished them because the writer is missing part of his right little finger.

In the basement, police found 11 trash bags containing bloodied sheets and clothes, Kasian’s body parts and strands of her hair and scalp.

That’s not all, in their testimony the police described how they found the victim and his murderer. “The girl’s body was on the bed and Leibel was next to her, staring off into space. When we gave the order to stop, he did not flinch and continued in shock without flinching,” said one of the police officers who testified at the trial.

With the reports of the experts, the prosecutors came to the conclusion that Blake was lying next to the body of his son’s mother. Additionally, the killer had attempted to clean up the crime scene before the police arrived. But he didn’t have time to clean up all of Kasian’s blood and body parts that were strewn around his house.

During the trial, the prosecution showed text messages from Leibel asking for food, while his ex-girlfriend bled to death in front of him. He asked the delivery man not to knock on the door, but to leave the food outside.

In the hours before the police broke down the door, Blake had called his Contador, Stephen Green, who rushed to help him. Video footage showed him running down the hall and entering the elevator. Green testified that when he arrived, he helped the police try to get Leibel out of the room. At one point, Leibel asked Green to pass her some clothes from the salon. Green did, but not before the police had a chance to search them, whereupon they found a passport and $4,000 in cash, which Silverman says might have been the plan. killer escape.

At the time of the closing argument of the prosecutor and in front of the jury, Olga Kassian He showed two photos of his daughter. A smile as she lived a normal life and was full of dreams after immigrating to the United States from Ukraine. And another with a disfigured face and already drained of blood since the moment her body was found by the police in the bed of her murderer.

After a short intermission, the jury declared Blake Leibel guilty of the crime of Iana Kasian. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment for murder by torture by draining all the blood from the body of the young woman who two months earlier had given birth to their son.

Dressed in a blue jacket and crisp white shirt, Leibel stood motionless and stared ahead as a clerk rose to read the verdict. Once sentenced, the killer waited for the guards to bring him back to prison, without uttering a single word of regret.

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