And he had fallen in love with Ukrainian-born Iana Kasian, who, according to her mother, had moved to Los Angeles with a dream of living in a huge, strong country. He left just before she gave birth to their second child. Blake Leibel and Iana KasianĪt the time Kasian was killed, Leibel was in the process of divorcing his first wife. "In my almost 30 years, I've never been involved in a more heinous crime than this," says Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Police found Iana, who recently gave birth to a daughter with Leibel, dead. Kasian called police, who eventually gained access to the home. "I had this feeling that something was wrong," Olga Kasian tells "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher. Living a trust-fund dream life, he directed an offbeat film and was the co-author of a graphic novel about a vicious murder. Leibel, the son of a wealthy Canadian real estate family, moved in his 20s to Hollywood to make it big. Olga Kasian was concerned when she hadn't heard from her daughter, who was living with Blake Leibel in West Hollywood. Where the trail of blood led them could easily be the subject of big-screen movie script or a novel. Inside, they found Iana Kasian, 30, brutally murdered. Produced by Alec Sirken and Gayane Keshishyan-MendezĪ mother's intuition that something is wrong with her daughter living in Los Angeles led police to a house of horrors.
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