A South African man who is accused of killing two Alaskan Native women after horrific SD card footage made its way to the police is finally going on trial.
Brian Steven Smith, 52, is set to start his trial on Monday after years of delays. He is accused of killing Kathleen Henry in September 2019 and Veronica Abouchuck, who died approximately in 2017 or 2018, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
The death of 30-year-old Henry made headlines back in 2019 after an SD card containing disturbing videos and pictures of a man brutally attacking a woman at a Marriott in Anchorage was given to police.
In the videos, Mr Smith’s voice and accent were recognised by police from a prior investigation, court documents said, the Associated Press reported.
“In my movies, everybody always dies,” the voice reportedly said during one video.
“What are my followers going to think of me? People need to know when they are being serial-killed.”
Henry was allegedly being beaten, strangled and had her neck stomped on in the video, according to The New York Times in 2019.