Boyfriend ordered to pay $41M to family of fiancée he tortured to death, drained of blood in West Hollywood
03/04/2019 1:19 pm PST
via KTLA:
LOS ANGELES (KTLA/LAT) -- A Los Angeles judge has ordered a graphic novelist from a wealthy Canadian family to pay $41.6 million to the family of his slain fiancée, whom he brutally tortured and killed in 2016 just weeks after their daughter was born.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon delivered the verdict after a bench trial in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Iana Kasian's family against Blake Leibel, who carried out the gruesome slaying using a book he worked on years earlier as a blueprint.
“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,” said Jake Finkel, an attorney representing Kasian's family.
