A sex worker stole a man’s phone containing gruesome images and videos, including a self-recorded homicide, leading to the man facing trial for murder.
The videos showed the man, Brian Steven Smith, carrying a beaten woman’s body.
“In my movies, everybody always dies,” a man says in one video. “What are my followers going to think of me? People need to know when they are being serial killed.”
The victims were identified as Kathleen Henry and Veronica Abouchuk.
Smith pleaded not guilty to the charges.
“The videos and other images in general show a woman’s final 35 or so minutes of life,” presiding Judge Kevin Saxby stated. “They show her being strangled to death. She’s obviously already been severely beaten by the point the videos are being taken, and she’s being tortured and played with while she’s dying.
“And in addition to being robbed of her life, she’s being robbed of her dignity. And I’ve concluded that I have a duty not to make the court system complicit in that,” Saxby said.
Detective Brendan Lee explained the content to jurors.
The trial, involving disturbing evidence from a memory card labeled “Homicide at midtown Marriott,” is ongoing in Alaska.
The videos depict the women’s final moments in a graphic and sadistic manner.
Valerie Casler testified about the evidence she found on the phone, detailing the brutal scenes of violence.
Mushroom pickers discovered Abouchuk’s skull, and Smith confessed to her murder during questioning about Henry’s death.
“In the hotel room, it showed (Kathleen Henry) laying on the ground — on the rug — and she was, like, all beat up. I mean, her face was not even recognizable, and he was hitting her and telling her she isn’t going to leave the hotel alive, that he’s killing her,” Casler said.
″He’s propping her up and posing her in different ways and playing with her,” Casler said.
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