A graphic novelist has been ordered to pay $41.6 million to the family of the fiancee he killed and mutilated in a brutal slaying that mirrored the plot to his gruesome graphic book.
Blake Leibel was told he must give Iana Kasian's loved ones the sum after he was found guilty of torturing and murdering his Ukrainian fiancee, who had given birth to his daughter just weeks before.
Leibel, a millionaire property heir, drained all the blood from her body and removed her scalp. He was sentenced to life in prison in June 2018.
Kasian's autopsy report says parts of the right side of the 30-year-old's face - including her ear - were torn off in the brutal slaying, before she died in May 2016.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon delivered the verdict after Iana's family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Blake Leibel was told he must give Iana Kasian's family $41.6 million. The millionaire property heir drained all the blood from tragic Iana's body and removed her scalp
Iana had given birth to Leibel's daughter just weeks before he brutally killed her
Prosecutors argued that Syndrome had become his 'blueprint' for the horrific murder
The novel begins with the foreword: 'If you loved hurting things, what would you do?' and ends with an image of a hand dripping blood and the caption: 'In the end, we all become monsters'
Jake Finkel, an attorney representing her family, said: 'This murder didn't just kill one person, it really did kill the family, it shattered the family. And the family has had a hard time crawling back from this.
'The most precious thing to take away from a little girl, from a woman, is her mother. [Diana's] mother was taken away from her before she even got a real chance to learn about her, get to know her.
'At one point, she's going to learn about the reality of her mother, and what happened to her, and her biological father and what he did to her mother.'
The money would allow Iana's mother Olga to raise her granddaughter, who turns three in May, the way her daughter would have wanted in Ukraine, Finkel said.
Dr. James Ribe of the L.A. County Coroner's Office said Iana's 'entire scalp was traumatically absent and was not found, was not present with the body.
'Her skull had been stripped down to the surface of the bone. There was no scalp present except for little bits in the back of the neck.'
When officers finally broke into Leibel's apartment in May 2016, looking for Kasian, her naked body was found - mutilated, drained of blood, and covered with a red Mickey Mouse blanket, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Investigators found bits of flesh inside the bedroom, and part of Kasian's scalp and her ear were found in a trash bin at the bottom of the garbage chute outside the home, NBC reported.
The money will allow Iana's mother Olga, left, to raise her granddaughter, center held by her mom Iana, the way her daughter would have wanted in Ukraine. Blake Leibel is right
Blake Leibel was sentenced to life in prison in June 2018 for the May 2016 killing
Kasian's autopsy report says parts of the right side of the 30-year-old's face - including her ear - were torn off in the brutal slaying. She was found covered with a red Mickey Mouse blanket
Prosecutors said that Leibel had become jealous of the attention Kasian gave to their newborn
The Los Angeles Department of the Medical Examiner ruled that the woman's cause of death was exsanguination, the act of draining a person of blood.
Leibel, 37, had tried to keep police out of the apartment by barricading the door.
During Leibel's trial, pathologists testified the horrific murder set a precedent in terms of the brutality and grisliness of Kasian's injuries.
Graphic images of the scene and of Kasian were shown to the jury, as were images from a graphic novel called Syndrome, which Leibel helped to create in 2010.
Prosecutors argued that Syndrome had become his 'blueprint' for the horrific murder. In the novel, a scientist tries to find a way to cure people of evil. One page displays a woman, lying naked on a bed with no head.
The novel begins with the foreword: 'If you loved hurting things, what would you do?' and ends with an image of a hand dripping blood and the caption: 'In the end, we all become monsters'.
Prosecutors District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef and her co-counsel, Deputy DA Beth Silverman argued the 37-year-old had mirrored elements of the novel in Kasian's murder.
Silverman told the court there were no words to describe the depravity of Leibel's actions and the extremity of the violence.
'This was depravity. Ms. Kasian died a slow and painful death,' she said.
The Ukrainian attorney had moved to Los Angeles to work as an interpreter
Blake moved to California in 2004 and lived off an allowance from his parents that reportedly totaled $1.8m in seven years
Leibel, 37, had tried to keep police out of the apartment by barricading the door
During Leibel's trial, pathologists testified the horrific murder set a precedent in terms of the brutality and grisliness of Kasian's injuries
Leibel’s father, Lorne, made a fortune in the home building boom of the 1980s and 90s as the president of Canada Homes, once described as the nation’s largest home builder.
He also sailed for Team Canada in the 1976 Olympics and has since raced both boats and vintage cars, according to The Toronto Star.
His mother, Eleanor Leibel, was the daughter of Paul and Leona Chitel. The Chitel family founded Alros Products Ltd, a plastics company based in Toronto that does business as Polytarp, The National Post reported.
Blake moved to California in 2004 and lived off an allowance from his parents that totaled $1.8million in seven years, according to reports.
He married, had a son before filing for divorce from Amanda Braun in July 2015. Just a month later, Kasian fell pregnant with his child.
The Ukrainian attorney had moved to Los Angeles to work as an interpreter, immigrating to the US in 2014. Prosecutors said that Leibel had become jealous of the attention Kasian gave to their newborn daughter.
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