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other than that let’s get into today’s
story today’s
story let me
tell you it has been described as one of los angeles
most gruesome
crime scenes in history
history it’s
often compared to the
black dahlia murder in terms of
level of gore
that’s what we’re getting into today
blake label yeah
he was born on may eighth nineteen eighty one in canada
and he was just a normal guy right
always friendly
people liked him
but i think it’s safe
to say that he had a very privileged upbringing yeah
his dad his name was lauren
he’s a prominent toronto real estate mogul so he
blake’s father
had developed thousands
of homes with his father and brother so grandfather and
uncle to blake
anyways so it made the family
pretty well off you
could say they were doing
pretty damn well for themselves
anyhow so his
mother blake’s
mother she was
she was not a nobody you
could say blake’s
mother her name was eleanor
she was an heiress of a
major plastics
production company in canada
yeah this company they made all kinds of like different
plastic products
and her dad
blake’s grandfather he owned a
bunch of patents
so we’re talking
about like rich rich rich
super rich blake
he also had an
older brother and his name was cody
so with parents
like that you know very
successful parents
they this is an assumption here but they probably felt
like they had to do something big and important with
their lives
i don’t know
i don’t know though so don’t quote me
so unfortunately
blinks parents
mom and dad
they couldn’t make the
marriage work so they
ended up splitting up right
but they also decided to
split up the boys
which is weird
i guess like
not only are you not living with both of your parents
anymore but now your brother is gone or your dad
because you’re just
never gonna see them again
because he didn’t like
switch it around
so the two boys they were only a year
apart so it’s like they had a pretty
close relationship but
one went with the dad and one went with the mom
not was that so the boys
ended up growing up
completely apart
once their parents have split
cody went and lives with his dad and
blake went to go live with his mom
and it was pretty
safe to say that they did well
you know it wasn’t like hard times they were both
still growing up in their
life of privilege and luxury
and all that
stuff you know
i guess it was said that
blake was feeling some
sort of way because he was jealous that his brother
got to hang out more with the father
and his father seemed to
favor him a lot more
i mean how could you not
think that when
you’re a kid and you don’t get to see your
dad i mean it’s probably true no offense i don’t know
so it just seemed like he had some like very deep
jealousy issues
but we’ll circle back to that
so the boys grow up and
then they both end up moving to los angeles california
cody decide to follow in his father’s footsteps
and he became a real estate developer
and he would be working on
multi million dollar projects
he was also a
founder of a record company that
didn’t last long
but he tried
you know he tried
and cody was also a business with a
major restaurant and
nightclub owner
so i mean he always coming seem to find
something to do they all did
cody also had some more
interesting
claims to fame
he kind of was like a big man on
campus in the hollywood scene
he definitely liked
to be out in the public eye and like rub
elbows with the
famous people
cody was also
known for the
super secret poker ring that he was in
which is not
so much a secret if it’s like part of your
identity but you know
did you ever read the book
molly’s game
or watch the
movie it was really good you
should watch it
or read it whatever you prefer
molly’s game okay
cody was supposedly part of that poker ring
and played with big celebrities like
tobey maguire
leonardo dicaprio
ben affleck
and matt damon
so i guess cody was in on that
and he was also known for
honestly being really bad like not winning any games
i guess rumor has it who knows
but rumor has it
that there was one time
where he lost over a million dollars in just one game
i know fuck us
we get it so blake
he was like
stereotypical
trust fund kid okay
he joined in
with his older brother
in the high
stakes celebrity
poker games but in terms of his career goals
blake pursued more of the creative arts
he was an artist
after attending the
university of western ontario
in two thousand four
blake joined a bunch of
his college buddies
who had moved out to los angeles
so blake really wanted to direct
movies and he
definitely had the
money to help pave the way for him you know
nothing stopping him
great blake was also
known amongst
his friends to be like he had really cool ideas
but he never was able to execute
these ideas
you know like he was just
full of ideas but
never went anywhere with it
it didn’t matter how much
money you threw
at it he just
i don’t know
he wasn’t reliable i
guess we could say
a lot of people thought
blake was like this genius
but others felt like he was
maybe just a really
smooth talker
and he was just trying to suck you in to like some
grand scheme that just
never paid off
finally blake was able to use his
money to get like
in the door a little bit okay
blake ended up
directing a low
budget film called bald
yeah bald it got two
point six stars on imbd so
that’s better than no stars
spare the no stars
so he directs that movie
and after he
directed that
movie he went on to work on an animated
series with mel brooks
now i had no idea that they turned
spaceballs into an animated tv show
did you i didn’t
what did they do that
i forgot i forgot to look that up
but i didn’t know that
and they did
and blake worked it on it well he
directed and consulted on it
and blake also did some
screenwriting
but one thing that he was
kind of successful at
was writing
graphic novels
that’s where
he was pretty good
he was pretty good
so he was pretty
successful at writing graphic
novels so if you don’t know what a
graphic novel is
cause i really didn’t know what a
graphic novel was a graphic
novel is kind of like a more intense comic book
you know so the
story is told through art like a comic book
but it’s usually longer with more complicated and in
depth storylines
i guess blake’s most successful project was a graphic
novel titled syndrome
yeah syndrome was originally published in 2010
and it’s about a
neuropathologist
who was hellbent on figuring out
what is the root of all evil
so he experiments on serial killers and helps to try
and find a cure for the evilness that is inside of them
no matter what it costs him
and the scientist he never seems to find the cure and
blake ends the book by saying quote
in the end we all become
monsters end quote
which is so freaking creepy when you know
where this goes
now the story in the graphic novel is also pretty
freaking violent okay
and the images
that help tell the
story are very disturbing i mean for example like the
cover of the book is a photoshopped
picture of a baby doll head
with most of the brain and
skull removed no the skulls removed
and the brain is exposed
big difference so right off the bat
that’s a little
warning of the type of
stuff you may be seeing inside the book
and the book itself
it included some incredibly gory illustrations of
two people hanging by
their feet completely
drained of blood
which again
it’s creepy
knowing what’s coming up
there are also illustrations of
women’s body laying on a
blood soaked mattress
and she’s missing her head too
yeah maybe just
store this information in the back of your noggin
cause it’s gonna come up and you’re
gonna be like what the fuck
i’m sorry you can be like what the hell
what the heck
what the sam hell
one of those what the chicken scratch salad
what the bob barker
likes chicken scratch sandwich
what the chicken scratch sandwich
so if you put that disturbing
graphic novel side
i guess blank would be considered
a catch i mean he had money
he came from a well off family
he had celebrity friends or at
least hung out with celebrity so it’s like oh my god
he’s somebody
and bitches
love that so with that being said in two thousand six
blakey he meets a woman
named amanda
now amanda was or is
she’s a former model okay
now just like everybody else
she’s got some baggage
okay so she meets
blake she’s like oh my god yes
you’re so great
and she tells him like my last
relationship was such a disaster
and this guy
blake like he is just the opposite of my last boyfriend
he’s not dead or in prison
many would say that when it came to
blake and amanda
it was like a opposites attract
type of deal
you know like amanda was this outgoing
party girl and
blake was introverted
nerdy whatever the hell that means but you know
maybe she was trying something new
because her last boyfriend
didn’t work out for her
not blaming her not blaming her
just saying to me she’s trying something new
amanda and blake date for a few years before
marrying in 2011
but at that time amanda was already pregnant
with their first son
and they seem to like genuinely just love each other
some speculated
i don’t know
that they were getting married
because they’re having a son and it was for like
legal purposes
i feel like that’s a rich people
think so kind of makes sense but
maybe they just
loved each other
maybe okay so
blake wasn’t really making a lot of
money from his
graphic novels
he was actually getting a monthly
allowance from his parents and then
using that to pay for everything
blake was getting 18 000
a month from his parents
for just being born
and he got just over
17 million dollars over
eight years
until 2011 and that’s when his mom
blake’s mom had died of brain cancer that’s sad
and that’s when the payments ended up stopping
so blake is kind of panicking because he has no
other source of income at all
how he’s gonna support his wife amanda
and their newborn son what’s he gonna do
get a job of course not
blake is like i know what i’ll do
i’ll sue my dad for the money
from mom’s estate
you know since they split up
and i live with her it’s only fair that i get
everything it kind of makes sense because like
no it doesn’t but it kind of makes
sense because a lot of
stuff went to
his dad and they were like divorced for so long
maybe they said they
still liked each
other though
well obviously she left him a
bunch of stuff
what i’m getting at
is his mom’s estate was
worth about
twelve million dollars but the court
only ends up awarding blakey
about half so six million dollars
great math i’m sure you and i
could be like wow
jack fucking pot
great i’m retiring
you’ll never see me
again but but
but but but
and there’s a big but
but lake was not
happy he was very
disappointed with this amount he wanted the full twelve
million i was
about to say
twelve thousand
okay so blake’s not happy
now he’s trying to fight this
right because he
thinks he deserves it all
now the two main reasons why the
courts only awarded him half
the first reason was because
blake didn’t go to his mom’s funeral
yep blake’s friends said that
blake couldn’t handle it because he was
super close with his mom
and like it was just too much for him you know
and and his friends also said that
his mom was his whole
world and her
death was like really hard for him
and that’s why he didn’t go
but the courts didn’t see it that way they’re like hmm
they see it as like
you not wanting to go and now you just want money yeah
why didn’t you go to the funeral
i said last time you get to say goodbye
so he didn’t go to the funeral
and the courts they saw it as cold and
as if he only cared
about her money
the second reason was because in the will his mom left
blake her condo in florida
and her really nice
house in toronto
and blake already got this
and guess what he did with it
he instantly turned around
and sold both properties
and made several million dollars from the two sales
so it’s like bud
where’s your
money going
cause you seem to be doing pretty well
oh gambling duh
maybe that’s where it’s all going
in the courts eyes this kid had already made
so much off of his mother
and all he was doing was turning around demanding more
money you know and to them like the courts
it’s not a good look
you seem real greedy
so they only gave him six million they only
gave him six million
only six million
blake keeps going back to the courts like
can i have some more please
like you’re good blake
you’re good
some believe that
maybe blake was doing this because he was
angry at his dad that his dad got so much money
and like they
weren’t even together and
he felt like well i deserve it more because i loved mom
yeah so that’s what some
people were speculating but it’s just an observation
we really don’t know it just
sounds like he’s
greedy honestly
he doesn’t want to work
so it’s around this time that blake’s friends are
starting to
drift away from him because they noticed like
a change in his attitude
a shift in his character
it kind of started when his
mother was sick
he became more aggressive like he started acting out
he would throw really
awful tantrums like if like a freaking
three year old
and if he didn’t get his way
he would just explode at his friends
he wasn’t physically violent but he was definitely
verbally abusive to them
so he like yelled
a lot and he would verbally harass his friends
and then call him up
and apologize the next day like i’m so
sorry i didn’t mean what i said so
his friends
they weren’t going to put up with his abuse anymore
no they were not
they were like
we don’t need this we don’t need a friend like you okay
we don’t need anybody
like this in our lives so his friends
started dropping them and nobody
needs friends like that in
their lives if you have a friend
like that you get rid of them you do not entertain
that kind of behavior
no you do not
just ghost them you
could be an
adult and like tell them
i guess but
ghosting is easier
but either way
get far away from
those people
one of the issues that
blake seemed to have was that he didn’t like to be
alone and he was getting more more lonely
so it was kind of like i hate you
don’t leave me
kind of deal
you know and with his bad behavior and no one wants
to be around him but he’s like please don’t leave me
just toxic and
never ends and it’s gross
why shouldn’t be
yeah yeah i
should he’s
gross he does terrible things
with all that
money you think he
would have like got a therapist
i don’t know why people are so anti therapist
they are just the best
so over the next four years
blake became
super erratic
and very paranoid
and then one day during the summer of
2015 just out of nowhere poof
blake just picks up and he
leaves his wife amanda
who might i add
was eight months pregnant with their
second child
he just upped and left okay
it was like a
light switch went off and like he just
by she’s eight
months pregnant
middle of summer
okay i hear that’s like the
worst time to be pregnant
and he just up and leaves her
goodbye so blake
going through some kind of midlife crisis
he had met a new woman
and she was just his new world
who is this mysterious woman well
her name is yana casion
yana i’m just
gonna call her yana
that’s her name
great anyways she was born january
twenty seventh nineteen eighty six in keef
in keef ukraine
don’t come for me yana
is apparently this beautiful
tall brunette
dark eyes and a very warm and
inviting smile
her friends and family
would describe
yana as like a very
happy person
with a strong character and
a fighting spirit
most she was just
smart as hell too okay because she was
studying law and college
and later she
would work as a tax office prosecutor
in the ukraine
so she’s got
brains okay
she was fluent in english
and russian
and she had really big
dreams of traveling the world
and working as an interpreter in 2014
while she was in her late 20s she decided to follow her
dreams and and that’s when she came to the united
states in hopes for
i don’t know like a better future you know
so she settled down in california
of course like los angeles
that’s where a lot of people you know
i’m not hating i’m just saying like
so she settled down in
california and she was able to land
modeling jobs okay
and she started to make like a career out of it
now it’s not
clear how or where blake and
yana met amanda’s friends
they spread rumors that yana
remember amanda is the ex wife
so one night they find out that blake is seeing the
siana girl right
so they’re all over you know typical
girls are all over and they start
researching her like looking into her
background and they believe that she was working for an
escort service and that’s probably
where they met because they found racing and nude
photos of her on a
certain website
escort service or not blake was smitten
and he was like taking her out on lavish trips
expensive dinners and just
spoiling her
blake also bought her a condo
for the two of them to move into
and a mercedes she’s believing that this guy is
magical okay he bought her car in a condo
great now blake
did tell yana
about amanda
the ex wife
he didn’t hide
his past from her and he didn’t want like any
double life
vibes going on but he did tell her that his
marriage was over
when in reality
he was still very much married
i’m sorry i already called her the ex wife but at this
point they weren’t
exes yet because he did file for divorce
later that year
but by no means were they anywhere
near it being
finalized and being exes officially
so technically he was
still married
you get it you get it you get it you get it
you get it you get it good
so after a few
months of dating
blake he proposed
to iana he’s like i just love you so much oh my god
and he proposes to her
and then not long after that
he was now expecting
not one kid but two
because his ex wife was pregnant
jana was pregnant she got pregnant in august of
twenty fifteen
yeah just being very
it’s being very messy
and yana was really
excited because she
always knew she wanted to be a mother
she just knew it was something she wanted to do
and on may third
twenty sixteen
yana gave birth to
their daughter
she was thrilled
so after giving
birth to her daughter
it seemed to yawn
that her life was pretty perfect
she had a new baby girl right
she was totally in love with this guy
blankie and
she was with like a pretty wealthy man who loved her
can’t be mad at that
but blake was
definitely not on the same page
okay he was a little stress aholic over here
he based off
some text messages that he had sent to his friends
he was worried that some of his brother’s gambling
debts might
cause him to lose
everything i guess
his brother
cody had developed a bit of a gambling problem
which we knew
about this from the
celebrity ring
that was going on but
he now also owed
quite a lot of
money to some russian mobsters
and blake now was afraid that they or
other people
associated with his brother’s gambling game
would come after him and threaten his family
it was just
gonna get messy and he knew it was
gonna get messy
and he didn’t know what to do
so it’s kind of panicking
okay so gambling debt that sucks
but that wasn’t the only
thing that was stressing
blake out you see
this little bozo over here bozo blake
yeah he seemed
to have gotten himself into a little bit of a pickle
and it came to his love life
you see how
he had a wife
right that he was in the process of divorcing
a fiance that had just
given birth to
their child
and a mistress
so he’s juggling
three women like
how do you have the time
how do you how do you do that
i don’t know what’s why
would you even want that that
sounds like you’re
gonna have a
heart attack or an
ulcer in like two minutes
three women in her life
okay so blake’s
third girlfriend the mistress
she actually worked with him she was like a
storyboard artist
her name was constance
and blake also
he ended up buying her a condo to live in
and it wasn’t
even that far from the home that he shared with iana
yeah it was like down the
street and i
guess i just made it
super easy for him like just
very convenient he just pop on pop on out go down the
street pop on into his mistress
this guy is so
stupid i know
this guy is such a dumbass
okay so he’s got all these
girlfriends
he’s doing the most we don’t know why and she
sounds so stressful
but what blake didn’t know
was that constance the new mistress girl
she contacted
his ex wife
amanda okay
she found her somehow
cause you know how we are investigators
so she tells amanda
who she was
and her reasoning behind the introduction
was to tell amanda
about yana because this constance
girl was like i
found this other girl named yana
and i believe like
she’s girl number two
constance just seemed to be very jealous
and wanted to make sure that amanda knew what was
going on too
you know if i’m
going down we’re all going down
but they kind of formed a
weird friendship over
their hatred or
mutual hatred for yana
yeah yana not the guy
blakey not him
they hate the girl
so they would text each
other saying shit like we
should get yana deported
they were just being evil little rodents
okay just nasty
and they were they’re mad at the
wrong person
that’s not who you
should be mad at you
should be mad at
blake the douchebag over here
what’s he doing with
three girlfriends
nobody’s worth that i’m like foaming at the mouth um
so they are just being evil little rodents
okay and either
way the friendship between amanda and constance
it was just
weird and they
should have been more
focused on taking
blake down but
why do girls do that so yana
she’s having problems of her own
it seems like blake is
extra stressed lately
and it just seems like
things are really bubbling up inside of him
she’s just like
becoming more controlling over her
um for example
while jana was
still recovering from her c section
blake threatened to
leave her if
she didn’t have sex with him when he demanded it
yeah gross ass pig
but i mean this is the
freaking kind of person this guy was gross
and like if that’s not bad enough
blake would
apparently also ask her if he
could leave her
to go out with another woman
i mean i was
about to say at
least he’s telling her
but doesn’t make it better
because he’s demanding
sex from someone who just gave him a baby right
and she’s healing from surgery
and then he’s asking or telling her that he’s gonna go
sleep with another
woman it’s just like
i don’t know
he just had this poor girl
under his thumb like she was
caught up in it all poor thing
if you’ve ever been in one of
these relationships
look a lot of you are
thinking why
doesn’t she just
leave and let me tell you right now
if you’ve ever been in one of
these relationships
they’re really difficult to get out okay
you become brainwashed
you become stuck you feel you can’t go anywhere
that without them you’re nothing they’re
gonna destroy you they threaten
you they just
consume your
whole life and you become like very addicted
to this person’s love it’s very
strange and
you truly feel like you can’t get out of it
so yana’s mom was coming out her name’s olga
okay so she’s coming out and she you know she’s
gonna help her
daughter just had a newborn baby
you know so mom wants to help and be there for her
daughter in this moment and you know you know
you know great
so her mom comes out and then somehow
blake convinces
um yana’s mom
to keep the newborn baby at the
apartment she was renting
so yana could take like take
better care of him the baby was distracting
that baby no
distracting you need to take care of me i’m the baby
that’s what
blake is saying
i’m the baby
he asked can your mom take it like
anyways olga
ends up telling her
daughter like this is not okay okay
he’s controlling you like a hawk
he wants you to do
everything he wants and
yana is like well i love him so it’s fine but her mom
is trying to like warn her and help her get out or at
least see what’s really
going on so
super late on the
night of may 20th
like it’s after midnight okay yana gets a call and it’s
blake you know
bring bling
bling bling
bling yeah bling
bling she’s like
where are you
and like why aren’t you home helping me with our baby
three questions and
blake is like i need you to come family out of jail and
ion is like what do you mean you’re in jail you know
surprise he’s in jail
while she agrees to go out there and post his bail
which is a hundred thousand dollars
she’s like why the hell are you in jail
well let me tell you
blake was arrested on suspicion of
sexual assault
constance girl number three
she accused
blake of raping her
and now prior to this
jana she didn’t know
about this constance
girl but boy
did she know
now she knew
she knew now and she was very
upset to say the least yana
didn’t just find out
about him cheating
everything was uncovered she found out
about the condo he bought for her yeah
that it was just down the street
she could look out the window and be like oh
okay he was there
it all came to the surface
like all of his lies
how long it’s been
going on i mean
i’m just that’s sad that sucks
so jana finally
stood up for herself and she told blake
that she was done
right she was done and she’s
gonna move in with her mother and
she can’t take it anymore good for her
so yana and the baby move in with her mom at the
apartment that mom was renting
and a couple days
later yana and mom are out
shopping for a
stroller and
blake is like texting yana
saying like i’m so
sorry i love you like i can’t live without you
and mom saw
giannis attitude just
completely change
she was like
happy again
and she tells her mom like i’m
gonna go see him
will you keep the baby for a bit
and her mom’s not
excited about that she is not thrilled
but she cannot convince
yana to stay home
but she takes her
granddaughter the baby and
yana goes back
over to blake’s
house or their old condo you know
so yes the next day
on may twenty fourth
jana had not returned to her mom’s
apartment so
olga is sending her
daughter a bunch of text messages like
where are you
you know yes
and she’s getting no response
so then she
tries to call
yana and she’s getting
no response
so she keeps calling she keeps texting like a
dozen times no answer she
leaves voicemails
and yana just
never calls her back
so all the resorts to i’m
laughing because
she resorts to sending emails
which means like she’s really not responding so she’s
emailing her
daughter like what the hell
where are you
nothing at this point
olga knows that something is not
right something is very
wrong so mom
decides you know what i’m just
gonna go down to the
apartment not far
and i’m just gonna see
what’s going on
you know she has a
three week old baby with her
and her daughter’s missing right
so she calls the police
okay she calls him up
and they just kind of blow her off
saying that yana hasn’t been
missing for long enough and they’re sure that she’s
gonna come back
and she i mean what are you supposed to do in that case
one of the police
officers tell you that you know it’s frustrating
mom decides to take matters into her own hands
so olga she goes down to
blake and yana’s west hollywood apartment
and then she sees that there’s an open window
right so she’s like
standing outside she’s
screaming she’s like
blake open the door it’s me so she’s yelling
blake blake you know
and blake ends up coming over to the window
and he doesn’t even acknowledge
her he just
closes the window
and then he just disappears back into the
apartment so all goes like oh fuck no
she ends up
going around to the backside of the
building and then she finds that another tenant
is like leaving the complex
so the doors open
and she’s able to get in because it’s locked you know
she ends up getting into the complex
and then she goes to
blake’s apartment
and she’s knocking and she’s ringing the doorbell
and she’s getting no answer
and she’s like i know you’re in there i just
literally saw you
stop being dumb
so olga calls the police
again and she’s
finally able to convince two officers to do a wellness
check on yana
so they come out
they’re knocking on
blake’s door but
blake refuses to answer
so blake ends
up opening the door and he kind of like starts
talking through the door being like what do you want
to the police
yeah and they’re like we’re looking for ayana
blake’s like
yana’s fine you can go
but the cops are waiting because they want to
see her right
and so they’re
standing around and they’re not leaving
and blake is telling the police officers and
those outside like
yana’s fine she
doesn’t wanna come out i don’t know
why cause this to me
doesn’t sound
right but whatever
cause they didn’t have any
proof that there was a problem so the police
ended up leaving
but i feel like the fact that they didn’t see hannah
that should have been
proof enough that
there was a problem cause i
never saw her
like was just like yeah she’s fine
what’s that sweetie
yeah she told me that she’s fine
no you should
leave so olga
her mom ends up
going home cause like there’s
feels like there’s nothing she
could do poor thing
so she ends up
going home and then the next day on may 26
olga she’s had enough
okay she’s had enough and she’s
gonna take matters into her own hands
she calls 911 saying that she needs their help
and this time the police come to the apartment
and she tells them that
she fears yana
might be in medical distress
because she had just
given birth
so the police arrived
at the complex at 11 50
a m on may 26
they get a key from the realtor
but when they try to open the door
they find that the
apartment had been locked from the inside
they had like one of
those bar locks in the
hotel rooms
you know so this
leaves the cops with the only option to
break the door down so once they get the door
down they walk down the hallway
and they see that the door lean to the bedrooms
it was not just locked but it was also like barricaded
with furniture
and it’s like oh that’s
weird right
whenever it’s
going on it’s
going on in that room
so after cops get through the barricade
they take the door off its
hinges and that’s when police get
their real first
understanding
of what they
might be in for
as they make their way
into the master bedroom they look in the
guest bedroom and see
blood everywhere
there is blood all over the headboard and on the walls
so when they got into the master bedroom
they discovered that it was also locked and
barricaded and blake
he got the mattress from the
guest bedroom
and he put it up
against the door
so the police were like hey
come out if there’s anyone inside like you
should come out
we’re here and
blake calls out from inside the bedroom
he’s like i’m not coming out because you guys are
going to beat me up and
and there the cops are like well yeah of course we are
we’re not gonna beat you up
we’re looking for yana
but we might beat you up you know
they’re trying to
reassure him that they’re not
gonna beat him up so they’re asking like
where’s yana we’re just looking for yana
and blake’s yelling at them like she’s not here
and the cops are
thinking like yeah freaking
right right
so at some point
prior to the police showing up
blake from inside the
house he had called his accountant
um i thought it was i
would think it was his attorney but i
guess it was an accountant
for some reason
the accountant
went to the
house okay and they
showed up with the police
and the accountant is trying to talk to
blake to come out of the bedroom with the police
cause this is a man that like he trusts so
it was gonna work
finally blake
is like okay i’ll come out but can you pass me some
clothes that are in the living room
and the accountant is like sure let me go get them
and the cops are no
dummies so they
search to close and
first they find
blake’s passport in the pockets
and also four thousand dollars in cash
so clearly the guy was trying to make
an escape right he’s probably
gonna jump out the window or something
and run for it
the accountant calls out like hey man i’ve got your
clothes and then finally
blake opens up the door
and he walks out and only
a pair of his boxer shorts
and behind him
the police see a naked body
of 30 year old yana
laying on the bed
covered by a red
mickey mouse
blanket so they go
in and yana is pronounced
dead at 1 02pm
so police ask blake
how did you
wanna die you know and
blake was like
oh i didn’t even know she was dead i thought she’s
still alive
yeah he’s like i know she was dead
i hate this guy just a
waste of our damn time
and the cops are like yeah she’s dead in that bad
right behind you
and then blake looks at them and goes well i
guess you’ll have to find out who did it then
science is gonna tell you who did this
yeah science is
gonna tell us blakey
i want to say this guy has gone
completely mental but
i mean i don’t know
the crime scene
is reported as the
most gruesome murder in the history of los angeles or
west hollywood i
should say if not los angeles
and then when the cops are finally able to get
to the master bedroom they find iana laying on the bed
her head was on her pillow and she’s covered
again by that red
mickey mouse like
blanket it looks like it
might have been
taken from the
daughter’s room and she’s
covered all the way up
to her chin with the blanket
there’s a pillow next to her and it has like a
fresh indent
in it as if someone had been
lying next to her
cops describe her as almost looking peaceful
but there was a
large blood
stain on the wall that looked like someone
had tried to
clean it up
when the police
first inspect
the body they discovered that she okay this is
gonna gruesome
kind of gruesome it’s a lot gruesome actually fyi okay
when the cops
first inspect
jana’s body they discover that she had been scalped
yeah scalped
police find
pieces of her
flesh in the bed
behind the mattress and on the floor
they find one of her eyebrows
one of her eyebrows
cut off removed
thrown thrown on the floor near the bed
and they noticed she’s missing an ear
the cops also noticed something
weird about giannis body aside from the
mutilation she was extremely pale
and that’s not all that’s weird what’s super weird
was that there was like
a lack of blood at the crime scene
there wasn’t a lot of blood like where was the blood
she was brutally attacked she was
scalped and you know she was brutally murdered
there should have been more
blood there should have been blood everywhere
and there were only some spots on the
floor next to the bed
but the bedsheet that jana was laying on was
completely clean
so police begin to inspect the crime scene more closely
and that’s when they
begin to understand what really
really happened
blood spatter evidence suggested that
yana was on the bed when the attack first started
and then in the bedroom they find a
knife and a razor that were probably used on her to
do some shit that’s messed up
and after removing the bed sheets
cops find that the mattress is
stained with blood
but the sheet was clean and the mattress
at the time was dry
so they’re like well she must have been
moved somewhere else in the
apartment so the police come out and they use
um that blue star it’s that like a
what do you call that stuff it lights up all the blood
like you spray it onto a surface
and if there’s been blood on the surface it
lights up blue you’ve seen it and all the crime
stuff right
okay it’s actually fascinating right
because you just
spray the stuff and it finds blood they
spray it okay they
spray it in like the bathroom and
stuff in the living room what not
and the blue star it reveals
where the blood had once been and like
where cleaning
substances had been used to remove it because it wasn’t
visible to the eye but it was
visible to the blue
light so cops
spray the room and it just lights up
okay it was bright it actually lit up the hallway
there was evidence that
blood had been on the
floors and the walls
same thing with the
guest bedroom it just look like
are super fucked up like
nightclub cause it was so blue it said it was very
very bright
also investigators go and
check the bathroom
and in there they find a
razor with clumps of dark hair
stuck to it
and there are some
blood stains and hair in the tub
but otherwise it looks
super clean
but of course when they
sprayed that blue star
stuff it the
whole bathroom just
shined bright
like a diamond
it just like was
everything was covered in
blood and he
cleaned it up
yeah just i got you
police think that maybe after
blake dragged her around the apartment he then
got her into the bathroom and gave her a bath
and when they first arrived they had noticed that the
water was running in the tub
and someone went and turned off
the water when the cops first arrived
like yesterday
or you know the yesterday in the story
i mean clearly there’s
concrete evidence that
the bathtub was heavily used
clearly blake had used a lot of cleaning supplies to
clean up that much blood but there’s no evidence of
those cleaning supplies inside of the apartment
that’s when the police notice that there’s a
trash chute
like right near the door to their apartment so
they hurry on downstairs
to the basement and that’s where they get 11
trash bags that are full of evidence
that’s where they find the bloody sheets bloody clothes
and then in the trash bags they also find a couple
of jana’s body parts
they found like her ear and stuff it was just
not ideal but i mean they found it but that’s still
whatever you know
blake sucks ass
cops and find a bed
skirt and on this bed skirt it had a bloody handprint
but not just any bloody handprint oh nene
it was a handprint that was an
exact match to blake’s
they’re like yes jackpot
hello we did it mystery solved
so cops know for sure that this guy
he’s involved because
blake at the time was missing the top part of his pinky
on his right hand
and so was the handprint
mystery solved
unfortunately
just another one that could have been prevented
so obviously blake
arrested okay
taken down to the station
and they take his mug shot
super weird mug shot because he’s like has all
these scratches and bruises all over his face
and he’s like smiling
it’s just creepy yeah
so on may thirty first blake makes a court appearance
he’s wearing his padded
he’s wearing a padded suicide jacket
he has chains wrapped around his wrist and they cuffed
they cuffed in the front of his body
he was being formally charged with murder torture
mayhem and aggravated
mayhem mayhem
mayhem mayhem
mayhem great
it’s just funny because like
there are so many cases
where people plead not guilty you’re like dude
i don’t think they are guilty you know like they might
actually not be guilty
but then there’s like dumb little
rowboats like this guy
and it’s obvious that he’s guilty but he’s like hmm
not guilty like what’s he
think is gonna happen
they’re gonna agree with that don’t you just be honest
save us all some damn time
so they gave him a test with psychiatrist to see if he
could stand trial
he passes with flying colors he can
definitely stand trial
the prosecution gets to work
building their case
right so the
biggest question for them was like what was the motive
why did blake kill yana
so during interrogation
blake told cops at one
point quote
women don’t like me if it wasn’t for
money women
wouldn’t like me
end quote we also know that blake
tried to control jana
after she gave
birth forcing her to have sex with him
so maybe he felt like he was losing control over her
during the investigation police had a lot of roadblocks
no one who knew
blank want to talk to them
like nobody
no family no friends
no one want to
speak on camera
no one to go into court
didn’t even want to like show
their face in
court at all in the pews is it
are they called pews
i always forget to look that up
but no one so they’re 100 relying on evidence
for this whole case
well and the autopsy
which good thing they have like hardcore evidence
so some of the biggest
pieces of evidence for this case
was the autopsy report
which was finally
released to the public on september twentieth
twenty seventeen
it said that yana
she was killed
between may twenty
third and may twenty six
on her autopsy
report it said that she had
a lot of head trauma
but most of all
she had no blood in her
system like
she okay look
the average
human contains
about five liters of
blood correct
yes which is
about one and a half gallons
that really
doesn’t seem like that much huh okay
well she was
found with less than a teaspoon
left in her so
ultimately this poor girl bled to death
but it’s just like not a
super common way to
kill somebody
the autopsy report also clearly
spells out exactly what the police saw when they
entered the bedroom
jana’s scalp was removed from the body her
skull had been stripped down to the surface of her bone
actually there was no
scalp present
except for like little bits and
pieces on the back of her neck
portions of the
right side of
her face were torn all the way down to her jawline how
what the fuck was this guy doing
i don’t what was he
her right ear was missing okay there were a shit ton
of bruises and cuts on her face primarily
on the left side of her face
she had a human bite mark on the left side of her face
she had lived for at
least eight
hours approximately
after receiving the
scalp injury
and the bruise on her collarbone
which is awful
cause that means she was alive
during scalpage
this poor yana
she just poor thing
and you know what’s sad is like yana’s
mother olga
she was there at
the court listening to all this like i
could not imagine
i say with blake it’s just kind of like
some people just deserve to go
like off with his head
that’s one of
these moments
remember his book
just saying
just saying he
might have used it as a blueprint
so when the
trial first gets
going the prosecution
starts with
olga’s testimony
she spoke she didn’t
speak english
so she had several
court appointed interpreters for
trial which made it a little bit
challenging but
the prosecution showed a lot of
photos from the
crime scene
just describing how
blake probably used the
knife and the
razor found in the bedroom and the bathroom to scalper
and they also just went into really
graphic details
about what he did to her
and the prosecution also had access to newer
technology that was able to
show like a 3d
model of the
crime scene that allowed them to turn on and off the
light that showed the blue star
so the jury
essentially
got to see exactly what the police saw at the
crime scene when they were there
which is fascinating
prosecutors also provided text messages showing that
blake had ordered food from postmates
on several occasions
during the time
when yana was
most likely dying
he’s getting postmates
oh god right he’s
still hungry oh good
he like left specific
instructions to the postmates person like do not
knock on door just
leave it outside
when he ordered the food he was
using on his phone
maybe he wanted to make it look like she was
still alive
ordering postmates
you know hmm
so then the prosecutors they also brought up
blake’s graphic
novel remember syndrome
and remember remember it had
those guys hanging by
their feet and the woman
lying in the bloody bed
the prosecution felt that
like the book pretty much
was a blueprint
that blake might have followed for murdering jana when
blake was questioned as to why
those graphic
scenes were in his book like did he
did he get the ideas from the book
he pretty much told him that he
had done a lot of research on serial killers and that’s
what inspired his book not what his
what he did to yana
no just defense
so the trial
ended up lasting only a week it was a easy
trial it seems like
in june of twenty eighteen
after a ninety
minute deliberation
the jury thirty
eight year old
blake was convicted of
first degree murder
and supplemental charges of torture and mayhem
on his fiance jana
oh yeah as he deserves
he was sentenced
to life in prison with no chance of for all
and he is still serving his sentence at
california correctional institution
he should have got the
death penalty let’s be honest
cody he was the only family
member to show support for
blake but he refused to make any comments to the press
come out say anything
he’s like nope not
touching that
remember amanda
blake’s ex wife
she only showed up
after the verdict had been read
and despite her
initial hatred towards
jana because
jana stole her husband
amanda was shocked when she learned
about jana’s death
and she also cut
ties with constance
thinking she was a threat to her and her kids
and she eventually even got a restraining order
against constance
at no point during the
trial or after the verdict had been read
did blake or anyone from his family
reach out to
olga to offer
child support
for the baby remember there’s a baby
there’s a baby
no one reached out to help
they didn’t even ask for like for custody
not that they
should have but it was like
do they not care
so olga she went
ahead and filed a
sixty five million dollar lawsuit a
civil lawsuit
and a los angeles
judge ordered
blake to pay her
forty one point six million dollars
to yana’s family
will he pay it i don’t know how that
stuff works
cause it seems like they
never pay it
right i don’t know
i should look into that
so that my friends is the
awful story
about blake lapel and how he’s
completely what
would you call this guy
i wanna call him a psycho but i feel like
that word just
doesn’t do it justice anymore because it’s so overused
overused for
everything like oh my god that’s psycho
it’s like so what do you call this guy
like satan he’s fucking satan
okay he is um a clown
not even a clown he’s
worse than a
clown he’s ugh
he ugh a spoiled little brat
who wanted money
didn’t get his way
and then just got really
angry and then did some sick shit
that’s who he is just a little brat
this one actually
a lot of you guys
asked me what stories give me nightmares and stuff this
story actually
gave me a nightmare i did have a nightmare
i did i thought
about the eyebrow on the
floor and i was like holy shit
what would possess him to do that
just an eyebrow on the
floor i mean the whole
scalp yeah but the
what was up
what was he doing what why was he skinning her yeah
like i did have a nightmare
so i’m really
sorry if you have a nightmare
i hope you have a wonderful rest of your day
make good choices
please be safe out there okay
but other than that i hope you have a wonderful day
and i’ll be seeing you guys later bye