Before he was arrested in the brutal scalping death of the mother of his newborn daughter, promising scion Blake Leibel got caught up in a twisted love triangle and developed ties to the decadent poker scene depicted in ‘Molly’s Game.’ As he prepares to stand trial, those who knew Leibel best reveal what could have caused him to break so bad.
She had bled out that much was clear. But the body of the woman on coroner Jim Ribe’s examination table told a more disturbing story. Many of the thousands of people murdered each year in America die in this manner and, generally speaking, the underlying injury lies elsewhere a gunshot, a stabbing, blunt force trauma. What Ribe saw before him now was uniquely distressing. The average human …
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