In 2024, Brian Steven Smith was found guilty of murdering Kathleen J. Henry and Veronica R. Abouchuk
NEED TO KNOW
- Months after Alaska Native Veronica R. Abouchuk was reported missing in 2019, police found Kathleen J. Henry’s body
- Police arrested Brian Steven Smith after video and photo evidence of him attacking Henry was discovered on an SD card
- He admitted to also killing Abouchuk and was sentenced to 226 years in prison in 2024
Veronica R. Abouchuk and Kathleen J. Henry’s brutal murders were revisited in Investigation Discovery’s Lost Women of Alaska.
The documentary, which premiered on ID and HBO Max on Feb. 25, recounts the horrific crimes Brian Steven Smith inflicted on the two Alaskan Native women. Executive producer Octavia Spencer said in a statement that the project “confronts the devastating intersection of race and systemic failures that perpetuate violence against Indigenous women.”
Smith was arrested in October 2019 after police viewed footage on a memory card that a woman he was on a date with stole from his truck, The New York Timesand the Associated Press reported. The device contained graphic photos and videos of him attacking a woman who was later identified as Henry…