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[Music] people from all over the country come to Los Angeles all over the world really you know they're all chasing a
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dream my name is Scott Johnson I'm a senior writer at The Hollywood Reporter Blake liel is the son of a wealthy
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Toronto real EST State developer who in his early 20s moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in entertainment film
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and graphic novels the story line is about when a new planet enters our solar system he took up with this woman um
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Jana casian I think for a lot of women Blake was a good catch Yana was raised in
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Ukraine she was a very curious and adventurous seeking type of person she she fell in love with LA shared her
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experiences with her her mother did she think that this man was the man she wanted to marry and have
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children with yes I was in agreement with her she really wanted to have a baby he was a perfectly normal happy
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person sitting with his new family something must have happened he has a brother Cody
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liel Cody drives a series of very rare very expensive Ferraris owns multi-million dollar homes around town
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he's the flashy he's the flashy one yeah Cody liel was an amateur Gambler played
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in a local game called Molly's game which later became a movie I was in a room with movie stars
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directors and business Titans they were going all in all the time there were number of High rolling
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poker players who were part of this game this is the Russian mafia and the three
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are tied together in the Indi through a poker game Blake was concerned about his brother's
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gambling he started to become very paranoid that his brother was indebted to Mobsters he was worried that there were
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people associated with that game Who might threaten him or his family with bodily harm sheriff station help help me
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Polie I had this feeling that something was wrong police swarmed this building after a mother's intuition told her
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something was not right with her daughter I would like for my police to come over to my daughter's
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apartment nothing on the phone prepared us for what we were walking into and I asked them where is my
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daughter and they didn't answer it's hard to talk about it without kind of gagging it's not often
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that a 48 Hours correspondent would caution a homicide detective about the language they use to describe a crime
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scene the blood evidence in this case told me that this was a prolonged and brutal crime the deeper you dig the more
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mysterious it becomes this case reads like a movie script it's just more like a horror
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[Music] [Music] movie [Music] there's still a huge police presence out here in terms of murders it's far and
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away the most Grizzly awful story I've ever [Music] covered as horror stories go says Scott
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Johnson a writer for The Hollywood Reporter and a 48 Hours consultant it doesn't get any darker than the death of
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Jana casian for her mother Olga the news was unbearable I am the mom whose daughter
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was being murdered and I did not do anything to prevent that from happening until the moment Ogle learned
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learned Jana had been brutally killed her 30-year-old daughter's life had seemed Charmed The Sunny glamour of Los
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Angeles is about as far as you can get from the freezing winters of Kiev Ukraine she wanted to live in a huge
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strong country she really loved [Music] it Yana was a tax lawyer in her late 20s
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when she moved to LA where she was learning to work as a translator says the family's attorney Jake fle her
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biggest dream was to you know have children to raise a family here in the United
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States and it seemed like all of her dreams were about to come true when she met and fell in love with the incredibly
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wealthy Blake liel he by all accounts was friendly and people appreciated him we find a new enemy that's about 12 to
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18 ft and they ride and control dinosaurs like dogs Blake an aspiring Hollywood producer speaking here at a
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comic book convention had millions of dollars inherited from his family in Toronto he was s Born Into the lap of
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luxury but Blake's life was complicated he had every Advantage but one of the things that I learned was that from a
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very early age he felt jealous of his brother's attention from the father and were they close or is this cane enable I
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think it's a little of both Cody the older brother developed real estate and owned a record label the family's wealth
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came from both sides on his mother's side his grandfather started a a Plastics Empire Jake edmiston is a
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reporter in Toronto for the National Post and a 48 Hours consultant on the Father's Side he's a major Toronto
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developer so both of them brought a substantial amount of wealth uh to the marriage but the parents separated ated
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and they separated the children Cody would live with his father in the most expensive area of the city while Blake
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was raised by his mother here and what many consider to be the second most expensive area in Toronto would you say
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that this is a neighborhood where if children are growing up here this is a life of privilege I would say wealth and
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privilege yeah but in Blake's case money did not mean happiness his relationship
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with his father was strained after his mother died in 2011 Blake waged a court battle over her
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estate what was the estate worth millions and millions of dollars according to court records about 12
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million Blake ended up with less than half which by most accounts was still a lot of
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money Blake continued his quest to write and Direct in Hollywood was he taken seriously or is this just a a rich kid
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who came in and it was pay to play some people found him to be sort of like a goofy trust funer who was just sort of
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playing with daddy's money but other people said that he was hardworking that he you know poured his his energies into
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these projects and really wanted to succeed I'm 20 years old and I'm losing all of my hair Blake directed a
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lowbudget film called bald about a college student who tries to raise money for his hair transplant
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by creating a website featuring female students he worked on an animated series called Space Balls that stemmed from a
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Mel Brooks movie but his biggest project was a graphic novel called syndrome that
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he hoped to turn into a television show Blake's ambition and probably his money Drew beautiful women to him in
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2006 long before Yana was was in Los Angeles he met Amanda Brawn a model who would become his wife his wife Amanda
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was and has been described as the one who would you know urge them to go to the chat Mormont to get out see people
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go to parties and he was kind of more retiring he liked to stay at home and look at Comics he was he was sort of a
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home body the couple had a son together but just as another baby was on the way Blake picked up and left he left her
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very abruptly in the summer of of 2015 she was about to give birth to their second child and he took up with this
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woman Jana casian and he told Jana his marriage was over it looks like things are actually
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going pretty well they're taking trips there's lots of dinners out he buys her a very expensive Mercedes they moved
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into this condo it was amazing news we were so happy all of us were so happy Olga was aware Blake's romantic life was
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rather unsettled to say the least he kept telling yanishka that he was either already divorced or in the process of
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divorcing his wife Olga flew to LA to meet the man who said he was going to marry her daughter and to help with the
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[Music] baby a few days later a little girl named Diana was born on Olga's 60th [Music]
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birthday Jana was happy she was very happy and he too father mother daughter beautiful in the first few days after
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Diana was born Blake certainly seemed content with his new family did he seem like a a good man and and was he kind to
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Jana yes because uh he always kissed her and he kept saying liima in Russian which means my
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beloved that picture of the happy family was a stark contrast to a fear Blake felt a year earlier and he was
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expressing these fears in these text messages to a very close friend in Blake's mind he believed his brother
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Cody may have had big gambling debts and those poker playing Russian Mobsters posed a serious threat to every one
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Blake loved texting these people Cody owes money to are [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
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dangerous unlike his younger brother Blake Cody liel lived loud he's a big man about town you know loves fast cars
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the past lifestyle he was much more of a public figure and a public presence Cody
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played in that high stakes poker circuit depicted in the movie Molly's game frequented by celebrities and some
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shady rich men including reportedly members of the Russian mafia close friends of both Cody and Blake have told
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me that Cody in at least one case was taken for a large amount of money by some of these other more experienced
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poker players how large over a million dollars I heard Blake was afraid that the people associated with the gambling
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game posed a mortal threat to him and members of his family as Blake's earlier texts
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revealed but as investigators began to unravel Jana's murder they discovered more immediate pressures on Blake that
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painted a disturbing picture he had made choices that ens snared him with three different women simultaneously and that
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was kind of catching up to him in early 2016 Blake liel's personal life had become very complicated he' moved out of
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this house here in Beverly Hills and was in the throws of a divorce with his wife
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Amanda meanwhile he was living here at the West Hollywood condo with Jana and on top of that he was seeing a third
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woman constant bua furri who lived in this posit home home a couple of miles away which was also owned by Blake his
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life had become an unwieldy LoveHate quadrangle so he was going between Jana and constant the condo and this house
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and this house that's correct he's living multiple lives Rob marale and Bill cter investigated Jana's murder for
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the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department they say that in miday 2016 less than a week before Jana's
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killing Constance accused Blake of sexually assaulting her in this house I believe that something occurred here
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some unwanted touching occurred in this house by Blake Blake was arrested and held in jail Jana had to help bail him
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out there probably was a source for tension between the two Blake was never prosecuted but his affair was revealed
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to Jana and she must have been asking Blake like what's going on here like we just had a baby together like why aren't
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you at home helping me with the kid I need your help Olga says her daughter's dream of life in America was quickly
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turning into a nightmare Jana was so afraid of losing Blake she agreed to let her newborn daughter live with her
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mother in a separate apartment a few miles away paid for by Blake that way Yana could focus on her relationship
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with Blake who had suddenly become uninterested in the new baby he constant demanded sex and that
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he could leave her for another woman Yana was still recovering from a C-section he threatened to leave her for
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another woman if she didn't have sex with him yes he even said that to her to Olga
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Jana seemed intimidated by Blake he was controlling her like a hawk he wanted her to do everything he wanted
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Olga begged her daughter to move on from Blake and move in with her and the baby
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and what would she say she would run back to him on May 23rd 2016 Jana seen on this security
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video went shopping with her mother later in the day Olga says Jana started getting texts from
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Blake upon receiving those text she would changed like a chameleon her facial expression changed after those
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texts she would say I'm going to him so she left she did the next afternoon Olga had trouble reaching her
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daughter I did try to call her and the calls went to the voice message six calls with no
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response all of a sudden I had this feeling that I have to go there call it Mother's intuition just out of the blue
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you had a a feeling that you had to go to Jana and check on her yes I wanted to go there but the baby was
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sleeping she called the police they put me on hold for a very long time and then
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eventually they found a girl who could speak Russian after you call the police do they go to the condo to check on
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her I don't know I called them again and again and again finally she decided it was up to her the morning after I just
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called the taxi and rushed there myself uh help help me she's like a tiger trying to get to her cuup she
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wanted to get in that [Music] room by Wednesday morning Olga was frantic for two days she had not seen
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her daughter as this security video shows Olga went to Jana and Blake's condo with
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the friend and tried desperately to get into the Gated property and I went across the street from that building to
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look at the patio Olga says she looked up at their third floor apartment and saw a man standing in the window and I
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started calling Blake Blake you saw Blake inside from the street I did and then another Resident opened the gate I
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ran to that apartment I was knocking at the door I was ringing the bell no answer so again she called police this
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time uniformed officers showed up and I kept telling them here he is here he is break the door and they said
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that they had no right to break the door because they couldn't hear anybody screaming inside there's also no
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indication that there was any Foul Play going on at that time so the decision was made at that time not to go into the
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the complex police tried to call Blake hello this message is for Blake liable this is
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the West Hollywood sheriff station here at your apartment and we need to speak to you immediately sir Blake did not
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respond police waited outside for a few hours and then eventually left are you angry that they didn't
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respond and listen to you on that Tuesday and on Wednesday yeah I choose to I am angry angry and overwhelmed
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convinced Jana was inside Olga was torn she did not want to leave Blake's condo but she had to get back home to her
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infant granddaughter who is being cared for by a friend I was feeling that fear a fear of police fear of leaving the
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baby alone the next morning Thursday Olga was back at the apartment and back on the
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phone help help me begging the police for help please for Russ I want police to come and free my
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finally police agreed it was time to go in they were concerned that Jana might be in medical distress because she had
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recently given birth tell her that we'll go ahead and send somebody over but she
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has to be there when they arrived I wanted to lead them upstairs to the third floor but
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they told me to sit near the main entrance to the building you're sitting outside and they all go inside I was
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outside sitting on the sidewalk here left is the door this is it here after calling out Sheriff's Department
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yelling out Blake's name Ayana's name and no answer they finally obtained a key from the realtor but when they
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unlocked it tried to go inside they encounter those Hotel style locks which tells them that somebody's got to be in
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there so the decision was made to breach that door police break down the front door and enter the condo the living room
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is kind of in dishevel look this animation of of the condo which was later created for the
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prosecution shows police immediately ran into several other obstacles first the hallway door into the bedrooms is locked
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and barricaded so they were forced to actually take the door off the hinges as police look into the guest
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bedroom they see the first signs of a struggle blood they call out again to Blake still no answer still no movement
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after clearing the guest bedroom they move toward the master bedroom but that door is also barricaded with a mattress
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so as they're trying to push forward the mattress is pushing it back but at that
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same time a man yells out Blake liable he is basically saying he's not coming out and tells them Jana isn't
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home Blake calls a friend seen here on this surveillance tape rushing into the condo the friend convinces Blake to open
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the the door and come out of the bedroom wearing only boxer shorts Blake emerges from the
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room detectives cter and marale are then called to the scene been a lot of crime scenes over
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the years but walking into that one was was just different stepping into the hallway that
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led to the bedrooms then things started to appear they entered the guest bedroom started to see blood saw the
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bloody headboard Blood on the walls then the master bedroom there was an obvious large blood stain on the wall
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that someone had tried to clean up and then they saw Jana at that point she was covered to the to the bottom of her chin
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covered in a Mickey Mouse blanket it at first she looked almost peaceful once her head was off of the pillow then you
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could see the full uh damage the injuries she suffered were horrific and unspeakable Jana had been
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scalped her body was eerily and unusually pale it wasn't simply the killing of somebody it
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was sadistic Blake had scratches and bruises on his face and a bite mark on his arm she
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fought she fought valiantly police also found a pair of Blake's pants with his passport and
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$4,000 stuffed in a pocket what did it tell you that this was a man who was probably going to dispose of Ayana
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completely clean up the condo and then probably flee this country back to his native
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Canada police arrested Blake by then Olga had made her way into the building and then I saw Blake handcuffed
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and they were leading him out I did not really pay attention to him I kept looking at that door because
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I thought that they would bring my Yana out I was crying out I was screaming where is my daughter and right here on
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the floor right behind you is where OG's leaning against the wall this is where you had to tell ogga this is where I had
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to inform her that her daughter been [Music] killed I tried to crawl to that apartment I was
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screaming but they did not let me in detectives questioned Blake seen here oddly smiling in his arrest photo but he
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denied having anything to do with y gruesome death or the horrific crime scene did he give any explanation of
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what what he thought happened to Jana like who would have done this to her he gave no reasonable explanation actually
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no explanation at all other than he said really the point of thing was science is
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going to tell you who did this and the science would shock everyone wow yes it's stunning to see
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that much yes for me there's like what the hell [Music] [Music] happened Blake liel told police the
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science would tell them just what happened to Yana and it did all right so walk me through what you saw when you
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went in as soon as as I walked in leaning against this bookshelf was a mattress Leslie Thompson is a crime
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scene specialist with the LA County Sheriff's Department so what really struck me about the scene in general was
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really the lack of blood the lack of blood the lack of blood that was present for a murder this brutal she
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expected a lot more so where did it all go Thompson set up a demonstration all right so you've prepped this horse this
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is a piece of lenium that you've put animal blood that's correct and to my naked eye here I just see some blood
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spatter that's right here she showed us how she can analyze what happened even if there's not a lot to see so this is
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actually I like to call it luminol 2.0 it's called Blue Star Magnum it's a chemical compound that when sprayed on a
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Surface reveals where blood was and where a cleaning substance was used to remove it it creates ill
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luminescence or uh it creates light it's a Search tool for blood that you cannot
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see with the naked eye okay let's see what it [Music] does wow oh you can see the
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footprints the wiping when investigators first came into the master bedroom they noticed
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some blood stains on the mattress but that was all they could see okay let's bring up the blue
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star wow then the bathroom this is what it looked like when you walked in essentially essentially yes okay now
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bring up the blue [Music] star wow and so this none of this you could really see clearly oh you couldn't
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see it at all the guest bedroom also lit up in fact much of the condo was splashed with luminescence it lit up it
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and it it lit up in a bad way even though we had been in there now for 2 days until she did that and lit this up
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and then all of a sudden at least I gained a much better appreciation for what happened
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there what was the story it said to you about Jana and what happened to her the story was uh this event didn't just
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happen quick in one location and perhaps most shocking of all is how Jana died it's called exanguination am I
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saying it correctly there's a new vocabulary word been a crime reporter for 25 years and I've not heard this one
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first time I've heard it as well exanguination meaning the blood had been drained from
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her body that's why yanana was so pale detectives believe it took between six and 8 hours for Jana to
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die it was clear Jana's killer had tried to cover up any incriminating blood evidence wiping down floors and walls
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but where did all those cleaning materials as well as the bedding and clothing go and this is the shoot so
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that's it everything went down here yes almost immediately after they arrive detectives noticed how close the trash
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shoot was to the apartment so this is the shoot that came from the third floor to to the trash detective coder and his
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team collected 11 trash bags from the dumpsters each filled with an abundance of evidence towels clothing and
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bedding one particular item stood out a bed skirt with this bloody handprint as you can see it appears part of the pinky
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finger is missing turns out Blake was missing part of his right pinky finger match for match just match for match
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pinky missing yes everything at the scene pointed to Blake as the killer there was no other suspects it
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was it was clear as to what occurred this murder had nothing to do with Russian Mobsters or jealous girlfriends
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there's no concrete evidence that Cody actually had big gambling deaths only that Blake believed he did in fact Blake
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never mentioned any scenario that pointed away from him it also wasn't a drug fueled attack only a small amount
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of marijuana was found in his system so why did Blake kill Jana detectives struggled to find a motive now I was
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trying to extract something to explain what can cause a man to do this to a woman he professed to love
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and was engaged to did you get anything from that interview that answered that question when he said women don't like
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me and he alluded to the fact that if it wasn't for money women wouldn't like me
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I think that he's a person that controlled the women in his life with money and I think at some point there
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was probably no was said to him and I think he said you don't say no to me because I control the pocket book
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and I think that Tim May caused her demise still a crime this unconscionable doesn't usually come out of nowhere
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which is why detectives even tried looking into Blake's background we ran into roadblocks not a lot of people
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would talk to us nor none of his family would we also searched for answers here in Toronto we approached virtually
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everyone we could find from Blake's early life family members classmates even teachers
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and here in La we tried to talk to everyone from his adult life his wife girlfriends and friends but no one not
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one of them was willing to go on camera and talk about him did you find anything
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in his background any history any whiff of a story that he was a violent or abusive or strange kid or
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teenager no none of Toronto reporter Jake I think speaking to people who knew him
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in different phases of his life all of them are are as shocked as as we are you know the big question is he must be
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crazy look at what he did you know he's tortured this woman but Blake is not crazy says forensic psychologist and 48
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Hours consultant Chris Mandy who worked with the prosecution on this case so you
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can do outrageous heinous terrible things to other people that's different than being found
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insane or incompetent in the eyes of the law Mandi never met Blake but a court ordered psychiatrist did and found Blake
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fit to stand trial moh handy says that's because Blake liel understands right from wrong which is the legal standard
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it's shocking what he did but it's not surprising what he did Mandy points to Blake's background a rich kid alienated
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from his father at a young age with a need for power and control over women he's always gotten everything he wants
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when he wants it but he also has an underlying violent Fantasy Life that he's been mentally
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rehearsing for years and so when the rage comes out it takes the form of those fantasies the fantasies remember that
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graphic novel Blake was working on years before Yana's murder turns out it was about out a vicious killer and it was
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soon to take center stage in Blake's story good morning ladies and gentlemen in June 2018 2 years after Jana's murder
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a very different looking Blake liel went on trial even without a clear motive prosecutor Beth Silverman was sure once
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the jury saw that graphic novel they would convict him of Jana's murder this crime appears to be patterned after the
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defendant's book syndrome but would that be enough tell me about when you heard the
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verdict what this book provides this syndrome it provides a blueprint for this murder prosecutor Beth Silverman
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believes Blake was acting out a fantasy from his graphic novel which shows a doll with its scalp missing on the
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cover inside more chilling details the depiction of two victims hanging upside down in order to drain
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the blood or to sanguinate the blood from these fictional bodies prosecutors say that during the
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prolonged period Blake was torturing Jana over and over and over again he somehow manages to have food delivered
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several times as this security footage shows we know that the defendant had ample time to stop and change his mind
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he chose to commit these horrendous crimes against di Cassio they also present all that blood
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evidence from the crime scene just to be clear this is all the victim's blood and along with the
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jury Olga sees dozens of graphic photos of Jana how a human could do such a thing and for the first time here's
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exactly how profoundly her daughter suffered why did you feel the need to sit through the trial and to sit through
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the details yeah your M I am her mom and I must would all have been through me I asked them to give me those
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pictures those photos I wanted to hug each of those photos and kiss each of those
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photos Olga says someone who loved Jana needed to Bear witness to all that she had gone
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through Blake's brother Cody was in court every day but declined our request for an interview their father did not
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attend the trial after 6 days of testimony from 14 prosecution witnesses the defense calls
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none of its own instead lawyer Haida takasugi tries to create Reasonable Doubt arguing that Blake didn't actually
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author that graphic novel he hired writers they brought the story to life and it was presented for
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Mr liel for his approval and we believe as is your duty as jurors and you wish critically look at the evidence we
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believe that you will realize it shortcomings and downfalls that the only verdict in this case would be not guilty
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for the charges and all the special allegations but the prosecution has the last word this obviously was a vicious a
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horrific a gruesome sadistic unspeakably evil set of crimes and it's your job in
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this case to seek Justice it takes the jury just 3 hours to reach a verdict C read the
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verdicts we the jury find the defendant Blake liel guilty of first degree murder
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of Ayan kazian Blake shows no emotion but out in the hallway Olga is overcome she just wants to scream Yanka
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Yanka I'm sorry I'm sorry I couldn't save [Music] you when you heard the verdict but you're
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very emotional about it yeah given what we knew about the case I did take it home and it it hung like a like a
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picture on the wall for me I mean I have two daughters Rob has one daughter you know as fathers there's that that
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paternal Instinct Olga says while she appreciates the detectives she is also haunted by
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the knowledge that her instinct to call the police was not enough to save her daughter do you
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believe if they had broken down the door on Wednesday when you were there with them that she would still be here
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today I think so yes it's a difficult question to answer but I think based on if we look at the timeline from the
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pathologist standpoint I believe she might have already been dead at that point the defendant's profound brutality
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Blake is sentenced to life in prison without parole and his inconceivable cruelty with both Blake and Jana gone
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the focus is now on their 2-year-old daughter Diana nothing can ever make the death of Ayanna right but I'm hoping
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that the liable family does something honorable and assist with in her time of need but Olga says she has never heard
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from anyone in the Lial family one would think that um you know they would attempt to reach out to Olga seeing as
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that Olga's granddaughter is also a granddaughter of Blake's father and a niece to Blake's brother there has not
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been one cent paid from their family to support Diana more than anything in the world Yana wanted her daughter to be
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brought up in America but because of a lack of money Diana is now living in Ukraine in the town where Jana was to
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rest for some reason I want to keep talking about her it makes my life easier I feel her presence every day
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