‘You live, you die’: Jury watches Alaskan woman tortured to death

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Court TV) —  Jurors knew the day was coming when they would have to watch the sadistic recordings of an Alaskan woman being savagely murdered on camera. Still, nothing could prepare them for what they would see and hear in that Anchorage courtroom.

Brian Steven Smith arrives in a courtroom after a break on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska, The double murder trial of Smith, who is accused of killing two Alaska Native women, began Tuesday more than four years after a woman turned in a stolen digital memory card that authorities say contained gruesome recordings of one of the killings. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Brian Steven Smith , a 52-year-old South African native, is standing trial after pleading not guilty to 14 charges, including first and second-degree murder, sexual assault, and tampering with evidence, in the deaths of two Alaska Native women , Veronica Abouchuk, 52, and Kathleen Henry, 30.

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