Ex-SA man faces 99 years for Alaska murders, rapes
Durban - Former South African and suspected serial killer, Brian Steven Smith, who stands accused of killing two women in two separate incidents in Alaska, US, faces a possible 99 years behind bars. Smith, who grew up in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, is due back in court in Anchorage next month. He is facing 14 charges including murder in the first degree and second degree, sexual assault, tampering with physical evidence and “misconduct involving a corpse”.
This week, Assistant District Attorney, Sarah Park, from the Anchorage District Attorney’s Office, confirmed that Smith would be back in court next month for a discovery hearing. The case made international headlines in September after a passer-by found an SD card on an Anchorage street labelled “Homicide at Midtown Marriott”. The card, which was handed to police, contained graphic pictures and videos of a woman being brutally raped, beaten and murdered. The 39 images and 12 videos on the card were dated between September 3 and 5.
A detective reviewing the images recalled an earlier investigation of a man with the same unusual accent.
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