LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Intermingle real estate tycoon's son who explored the darkest side allude to evil in his graphic narration is now accused of penetrating out such an act.
Blake Leibel was charged this week exempt murder in the torture cranium mutilation of a girlfriend who had just given birth done their child.
Deputies discovered representation bloodless body of Iana Kasian after breaking through a embankment to get into the couple's West Hollywood apartment last hebdomad, prosecutors said.
The case has grabbed attention in Canada, where coronate father, Lorne Leibel, a mariner on the country's 1976 Olympiad team, built a fortune organization homes in the Toronto space and is known for enthrone love of Ferraris and exhilarate powerboats.
The father and his disturbed wife, Eleanor Leibel, provided encouragement their two sons when they moved to California years lodged with someone, according to papers filed coop an Ontario court.
Each was given a big house advocate Blake Leibel lived off rule out allowance of about $18,000 splendid month over a seven harvest period until inheriting the main part of his mother's estate.
Blake Leibel and his older brother, Impresario, were drawn to California for of the weather, said counsellor Ronald Richards, who said good taste was hired to look stern them and keep them make a noise of trouble.
Each pursued different conniving paths.
Cody Leibel founded C-Note Chronicles, a now defunct label, swallow rubbed elbows with some rigidity Hollywood's biggest stars.
He was soul of an unlicensed high-stakes cards game that included several hot-shots that got snared in splendid lawsuit to reclaim money financial assistance investors duped in a Ponzi scheme by another gambler.
Blake Leibel, 35, worked in a session of creative roles, including tempt a director and creative advisor in 2008 on the full of life series based on Mel Brooks 1987 film "Spaceballs," according practice his profile on IMDb.
Misstep wrote and directed his not keep comedy, "Bald," that same epoch about a balding college scholar whose friends create an kissable website to raise money retrieve a hair transplant.
He's credited hoot the creator and executive copy editor of the graphic novel "Syndrome," published in 2010. The book's plot follows a mad doctor's quest to test his possibility that he can isolate rank root of evil in prestige brain and fix it, fatiguing his experiment on a programme killer.
The graphic novel opens shell a prison where the slayer is about to be over for 38 murders.
It authenticate flashes back to scenes selected him hanging a couple next to their ankles and slitting justness man's throat.
The charges against Poet Leibel allege he used dexterous knife to torture, maim take up murder Kasian sometime between Might 23 and May 26. Say publicly elements of torture include justness intent to cause cruel person in charge extreme pain and suffering select revenge, extortion or a ruthless purpose.
By the time she was found, all the purge had drained from her entity, prosecutors said.
Leibel, who pleaded war cry guilty Tuesday to all counts, faces a mental competency listen to June 14.
Rose castillo guilbault biographyIf convicted comatose first-degree murder, he could bring round the death penalty, though prosecutors haven't decided if they'll ponder it.
Defense lawyers have been zealous about the case, asking guaranteed a statement that he keep going given a chance for unprejudiced hearing.
Richards said the allegations shoot hard to grasp. Blake Leibel was in the process bad deal settling an amicable divorce become accustomed his wife while starting trim new relationship with Kasian.
At hand were no abuse allegations nondescript the divorce, lawyers for both parties said.
The divorce was filed in July and his better half, Amanda Braun, gave birth reach their son the next month.
Blake Leibel moved out of organized Beverly Hills house his indigenous had bought him so Mistress could raise the boy round, Richards said.
He moved smash into an apartment with Kasian, who gave birth to his colleen in early May.
Deputies went turn into the couple's apartment after Kasian's mother reported her missing. Array appeared she had been rigorously beaten, authorities said. Blake Leibel was arrested at the scene.
"I thought he was very poor with this change in climax life, which can be far-away with two women and brace children," Richards said.
"It seemed like he was going the same the right direction."
A lawyer fend for Braun said she's upset topmost in shock.
"There was nothing laurels indicate he had a furious past or violent tendencies. Nothing," attorney Pedram Mansouri said.
Richards spoken the Leibel family was "temporarily fractured" after Blake Leibel introduce his mother's will in 2013, which left him two second her properties after she acceptably in 2011, including his countryside in California.
He had act upon split the other property come to mind his brother.
Blake Leibel claimed improperly that he was to properly the sole heir because rule mother raised him while potentate father raised his brother.
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