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So I have questions, how did the SD card all by itself end up in the street? Does the finder of the card have a connection with the involved?

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Originally Posted by APDDSN0864
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Wont be his only one.

Yeah, videoing and photoing his crime is not the behavior of a rookie murderer. I bet there's a bunch of places that he has been in will start looking at unsolved homicides of females.

I wonder if he had anything to do with the two hookers dismembered bodies that were found about 15-20 years ago that was never solved???

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I thought they cleaned up several of those with Israel Keyes?

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I hadn't heard that they had been part of his spree, but then, I have been wrong in the past. Just ask my ex-wife! grin

I hope they did clear those two cases. Having worked vice I knew, and had arrested both of them on various charges. They may have been prostitutes, but they certainly were not evil nor deserved an ending such as theirs.

I'm also glad this guy is off the streets!

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I thought the female torsos, that washed up in Turnagain Arm, were tied to the escort/prostitution bust that went down a year or two after the remains were found. The cops suspected the guy killed the girls to keep the others in line, but couldn't pin anything on him. The murders stopped after he went to prison for other crimes related to the escort service.


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So the murder happened September 4th at the latest and he was not a US citizen until the 20th. I guess that means he was an illegal alien...


No he held a Green card.

He sounds like a meticulous Serial killer that wanted to be caught.

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Originally Posted by DanInAlaska
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Originally Posted by cv540
Wont be his only one.

Yeah, videoing and photoing his crime is not the behavior of a rookie murderer. I bet there's a bunch of places that he has been in will start looking at unsolved homicides of females.

I wonder if he had anything to do with the two hookers dismembered bodies that were found about 15-20 years ago that was never solved???

Ed

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I thought they cleaned up several of those with Israel Keyes?

Originally Posted by APDDSN0864
I hadn't heard that they had been part of his spree, but then, I have been wrong in the past. Just ask my ex-wife! grin

I hope they did clear those two cases. Having worked vice I knew, and had arrested both of them on various charges. They may have been prostitutes, but they certainly were not evil nor deserved an ending such as theirs.

I'm also glad this guy is off the streets!

Ed

I thought the female torsos, that washed up in Turnagain Arm, were tied to the escort/prostitution bust that went down a year or two after the remains were found. The cops suspected the guy killed the girls to keep the others in line, but couldn't pin anything on him. The murders stopped after he went to prison for other crimes related to the escort service.

That tickled a memory or two. I think you are right.


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Originally Posted by cv540
Wont be his only one.

Sadly, you are not wrong.

From tonight’s online ADN.

“Anchorage man accused of hotel killing charged in the death of another woman

The man charged in the brutal slaying of a 30-year-old Anchorage woman at a Midtown hotel last month is now charged with killing a second, unrelated victim more than a year ago.

Authorities say 48-year-old Brian Steven Smith is accused of killing two Alaska Native women and dumping their bodies to cover up his crimes.

The state is requesting that Smith’s bail be increased to $2 million from $750,000 to reflect his risk to the public, especially vulnerable populations, and the danger he might flee. Originally from South Africa, Smith has lived in Alaska for the past five years. Prosecutors say he became a naturalized United States citizen last month.

Smith already faced eight criminal counts in the death of Kathleen Jo Henry including murder, sexual assault and evidence tampering. A grand jury also found Henry’s killing involved torture.

During an Oct. 8 interview with homicide detectives after his arrest, Smith admitted he shot a woman between 2017 and 2018, authorities told reporters Thursday afternoon. He also provided the location of her body.

The second victim was identified as 52-year-old Veronica R. Abouchuk.

Abouchuk was reported missing in February and was last seen last year, authorities say. Her remains were found along the Old Glenn Highway in April, when Alaska State Troopers recovered a skull with a gunshot wound from an area east of the old Eklutna Power Plant.

Detectives showed Smith a photo of Abouchuk during his interview, court documents show. He admitted she was the woman he shot.

A missing-person alert from Anchorage police in July described Abouchuk as homeless. Her family last saw her in July 2018.

“These were two Alaska Native women, and I know that hits home here in Alaska. And we’re cognizant of that. We treat them with dignity and respect,” deputy district attorney Brittany Dunlop said Thursday. “As far as Mr. Smith’s motives, I can’t speak to that.”

Anchorage Deputy District Attorney Brittany Dunlop speaks to the media during an announcement at APD headquarters on Thursday that Brian Steven Smith had been indicted by a grand jury for the murder of a second unrelated female victim over a year ago. Smith was previously indicted for the murder of a woman at a Midtown hotel. (Bill Roth / ADN)
Anchorage Deputy District Attorney Brittany Dunlop speaks to the media during an announcement at APD headquarters on Thursday that Brian Steven Smith had been indicted by a grand jury for the murder of a second unrelated female victim over a year ago. Smith was previously indicted for the murder of a woman at a Midtown hotel. (Bill Roth / ADN)
When asked whether investigators believe Smith may have harmed others elsewhere, Anchorage Police Chief Justin Doll said that “we will look at every single aspect of the case and, if necessary, follow it wherever we need to.”

Both Doll and Dunlop cited the ongoing investigation when responding to questions about other potential victims and suspects, and the possibility of additional charges against Smith.

“We don’t believe that there’s a particular public safety threat at this point,” Doll said. “Of course, we will look at anybody else that might be involved as the investigation unfolds.” He stressed that only Smith has been charged in the crimes.

After handing down the original indictment against Smith on Monday, a grand jury issued a second, supplemental indictment Thursday adding five counts against him, including murder and evidence tampering. State prosecutors added to the indictment a misdemeanor count of misconduct involving a corpse.

Smith was arrested earlier this month after someone found a small memory card on the ground Sept. 30 near the Anchorage Carrs store at Gambell Street and East 13th Avenue. The card, labeled "Homicide at midtown Marriott,” contained 39 images and 12 videos taken from Sept. 4 to Sept. 6 — all documenting the horrifying scene at a local hotel, according to charging documents.

The images showed a naked woman, later identified as Henry, being beaten and strangled in a hotel room, charges say. She tried to fight back. Other footage showed a man detectives later identified as Smith yelling at her to die and laughing, according to the charges. The man is described as having an English-sounding accent.

Images also showed a body covered in a white sheet being moved through a parking lot to a truck, the charges say. Police identified Henry as the woman whose remains were found near the Seward Highway south of Anchorage on Oct. 2.

Smith, in his interview with homicide detectives Oct. 8 after his arrest, admitted disposing of Henry’s body along the highway and that he was the male in the images and videos on the card, according to a memo submitted with the state’s increased bail request.

Chief Justin Doll speaks to the media at APD headquarters in downtown Anchorage on Thursday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
Chief Justin Doll speaks to the media at APD headquarters in downtown Anchorage on Thursday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
Smith poses a significant public safety risk to “vulnerable, homeless women currently living on the streets of Anchorage," prosecutors argue in the memo.

He also poses a significant flight risk given his family ties in South Africa, the document says. Along with higher bail, the state is also asking that Smith surrender any passports he holds.”

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More to come unless he "Keyes" himself.


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Beat me to it...

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Originally Posted by ironbender
More to come unless he "Keyes" himself.


Or gets plastic surgery and runs off to Israel...


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When we were up there on vacation, we saw the SAR dog teams working along the Seward highway. Glad the POS is out of circulation.

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When we were up there on vacation, we saw the SAR dog teams working along the Seward highway. Glad the POS is out of circulation.

You have to wonder how many more did he kill...


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When we were up there on vacation, we saw the SAR dog teams working along the Seward highway. Glad the POS is out of circulation.

You have to wonder how many more did he kill...

Morbidly, what is the over/under?


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If he is all Keyed up he will try to negotiate conditions with his admissions.


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Let the speculation begin...

https://mustreadalaska.com/do-anchorage-police-have-a-serial-killer-in-custody/

HomeThe 907Do Anchorage Police Have A Serial Killer In Custody?
OCTOBER 18, 2019 AUTHOR: SUZANNE DOWNING1 COMMENT
Do Anchorage police have a serial killer in custody?

HOW MANY OTHERS ARE THERE?

Brian Steven Smith, 48, had been in custody since Oct. 8 for the gruesome murder of Kathleen Henry, an Alaska Native woman. He has pled not guilty to charges associated with that crime.

But oddly, he has confessed to a second murder.

Anchorage police announced Thursday that Smith is also the man who killed 53-year-old Veronica Rosaline Abouchuk, whose body was dumped at Mile 4.5 of the Old Glenn Highway in 2018, and was found in April of this year, a bullet hole in her skull.

Police had put out a Nixle alert for Abouchuk in July of 2019, saying her family had not seen her since July of 2018. “Abouchuk is homeless … and was last seen at Bean’s Café in October 2018. Family’s efforts to locate Abouchuk have been unsuccessful,” the Nixle report said.


Victims Kathleen Henry, Veronica Rosaline Abouchuk
Investigators drew the confession from Smith while interrogating him for the murder of Henry, the 30-year-old Native woman from Eek, whom police say Smith brutally beat and killed on Sept. 4, all while filming and photographing his carnage. Henry’s body was dumped near Mile 108 Seward Highway, south of Anchorage.

The digital card that was turned into authorities had 12 video and 39 photo images on it documenting Henry’s death. Police are saying it was found “on the street” by someone. The digital card was labeled “homicide at midtown Marriott” in Anchorage. The person who “found the digital card on the street” in Fairview took it to police on Sept. 30, according to the official account.

Police knew they had a killer, and they knew there was a dead woman out there somewhere. But where?

Henry’s body showed up on Oct. 2 near the Rainbow Trailhead along Seward Highway south of Anchorage. She had been sexually assaulted and was battered, like the one documented on the digital card turned in two days earlier.

The photos and videos show Henry fighting for her life and Smith could be seen stomping her throat and strangling her, laughing, screaming, and torturing her, according to officials.

But police knew that voice on the video tape. They recognized Smith and his distinctive South African accent because they were already investigating him for something else — something they haven’t yet revealed, yet something that involves his recognizable accent.

It could be his racist rants on Facebook that had drawn the attention of authorities. Smith, if his social media posts are any indication, has white supremacist leanings and an axe to grind against black South Africans and other persons of color.

Or detectives may have already suspected him in connection with other victims. At age 48, Smith is old enough to have a trail of bodies behind him from here to his homeland in South Africa. Rarely does a killer begin his gruesome beatings and killings in his mid-40s. There’s often a pattern of behavior.

Anchorage’s most notorious serial killer was Robert Hansen, a monster who preyed on and killed at least 17 women from 1971 to 1983. Police suspect there were more than 30 victims. Hansen, now known as the “Butcher Baker,” died in prison in 2014.

Israel Keyes was another serial killer who made his way to Alaska and used it as his base. He killed himself in prison in 2012, after a long career of rapes, kidnapping, arson, and murder across the United States. His last known victim was 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, a barista at a drive-through coffee stand in midtown Anchorage.

There are exceptions to the pattern theory. This summer in Anchorage, a teenager was killed by her alleged friends at the request of a 21-year-old man from out of state. None of the young perpetrators has yet been implicated in other murders.

[Read: Investigators say Schilmiller offered $9 million for murder of Cynthia Hoffman]

Brian Smith’s past movements in South Africa and the United States have drawn the attention of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization. The FBI is also providing assistance, and usually that means they’re alert to the possibility there could be victims in other states.

Smith, born near Queenstown, South Africa, immigrated to the U.S., married a former immigration officer, and became a citizen in September.

A warrant was issued for his arrest on Oct. 7. He was taken into custody at Ted Stevens International Airport on Oct. 8, as he returned from a trip Outside. Smith pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the Henry murder. He’ll be arraigned on the Abouchuk murder separately.

Both deceased women were known to work in the prostitution field, a dangerous line of work that predators use to find their next victims.


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