Death by Fame: Where is Blake Leibel now?

May 2024 · 3 minute read

This article comprises graphic references to murder, torture, and home abuse. Please read with caution.

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The Investigation Discover collection Death By Fame, returning Jan 22, 2024, for its 2nd season, will quilt the gruesome story of Blake Leibel. In 2016, Leibel, a Canadian graphic novelist who was hoping to make it in Hollywood, brutally tortured and killed his fiancée and mother of his child, Iana Kasian.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Blake Leibel is the son of Lorne Leibel, a Canadian Olympic sailor and rich building business government. In 2004, Leibel moved to Los Angeles, where he lived on his folks’ cash, and attempted to wreck into Hollywood. While in L.A., Liebel met Kasian, a Ukrainian woman. In 2014, Kasian moved to the U.S. to work as an interpreter.

Iana Kasian was once tortured and killed

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It’s unclear what brought about Leibel to snap, but in 2016, Kasian’s mother, Olga Kasian, who had moved to Los Angeles from Ukraine to be near her daughter and granddaughter, took Leibel and Iana’s child so the couple may paintings on their courting. It’s right here where Leibel’s tale grows really horrific.

While Olga cared for her granddaughter, Leibel inexplicably trapped Iana in their West Hollywood rental. He then maliciously tortured and killed her, dismembering her while she was still alive. Leibel used to be jealous of his new child child, and how Iana died was once very similar to something that came about in Leibel’s 2010 graphic novel, Syndrome.

At Leibel’s trial, Superior Court Judge Mark E. Windham called the Leibel case “ … atypical handiest in its savagery” and added that Leibel’s acts showed “inconceivable cruelty” (by way of the LA Times). Iana’s authentic reason for death used to be ruled exsanguination or severe blood loss.

Leibel was once sentenced to existence in jail

According to Daily Mail, in 2018, Blake Leibel used to be discovered guilty of first-degree homicide, annoyed mayhem, and torture and sentenced to existence in jail with no probability for parole. He used to be also ordered to pay Iana Kasian’s family tens of millions. As of 2024, Leibel served that sentence at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, close to Bakersfield.

Referring to the Liebel case, Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman mentioned in courtroom,

“This used to be depravity. Ms. Kasian died a slow and painful demise … [Liebel] threw away items of his fiancée like she was trash, the mummy of his new child child … [Iana’s] daughter will never know her, and that’s because of the unconscionable acts you heard about throughout this trial.”

via Daily Mail

Death by Fame from Investigation Discovery is to be had to circulate Jan. 22, 2024, on Max, Apple TV, and different platforms.

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