Iana Kasian


Iana Kasian was a Ukrainian former prosecutor who was tortured and murdered by her fiancé, Blake Leibel, soon after the birth of their daughter.
Kasian was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she had studied law, and worked as a prosecutor at the Ukrainian tax service. In 2014, she emigrated to the United States from Ukraine, and worked as a model in California. On May 3, 2016, she gave birth to daughter Diana.

Murder

The lifeless body of Iana Kasian was found by law enforcement officers on May 26, 2016. The discovery was made following a barricade stand-off with Blake Leibel, who is the father of Kasian's daughter. Leibel was charged with Kasian's murder, which occurred on the 8500 block of Holloway Drive in West Hollywood, California in an apartment that the couple had recently shared. News media reported the crime as "grisly" and possibly "the most gruesome murder in the history of West Hollywood if not Los Angeles".
An autopsy report was released on September 20, 2017, listing Kasian's causes of death as exsanguination and head trauma.
A civil lawsuit filed by the victim's mother, Olga Kasian, included transcripts of Los Angeles County Coroner Dr. James Ribe's deposition, which stated:
Leibel was convicted of first-degree murder, torture and aggravated mayhem on June 20, 2018. On June 26, 2018, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.