Two women mysteriously disappeared in Alaska — until a leaked video exposed a horrific crime…

Kathleen Henry ; Brian Steven Smith ; Veronica Abouchuk.Credit : Kathleen Henry/Facebook ; Mark Thiessen/AP Photo ; Anchorage Police Department/Facebook

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 Times and the Associated Press reported. The device contained graphic photos and videos of him attacking a woman who was later identified as Henry.

During his interview with detectives, Smith confessed to also fatally shooting Abouchuck, who had been reported missing in February 2019, per the Associated Press.

In 2024, he was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, along with a slew of other charges, and sentenced to 226 years in prison.

Here’s what to know about Veronica R. Abouchuk and Kathleen J. Henry’s murders.

Abouchuk was reported missing in 2019

In February 2019, Abouchuk’s family reported her missing after having not seen her since the previous summer.

Five months later, the Anchorage Police Department issued a press release seeking information on Abouchuk’s whereabouts. The 53-year-old was without housing at the time of her disappearance.

Her last known location was listed as a service center for people without homes in Anchorage, Alaska, in October 2018. Three months before Abouchuk’s reported disappearance, police discovered human remains off a 19-mile highway that runs between Anchorage and Palmer, Alaska.

Smith was arrested after police discovered an SD card documenting his attack on Henry

A woman who went on a date with Smith turned over an SD card she stole from his truck that was labeled “homicide,” according to an affidavit of the criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE. The card had 39 images and 12 videos of a man with an English-sounding accent torturing, assaulting and murdering an unidentified woman.

“In my movies, everybody always dies,” the man stated in one of the videos, according to the Associated Press. “What are my followers going to think of me? People need to know when they are being serial-killed.”

Days after the SD card was turned in, human remains were discovered along a highway approximately 18 miles from the hotel seen in the videos and pictures, The New York Times reported.

Police later recognized the voice in the footage as Smith’s, a South African immigrant known to them from a prior investigation. He was arrested, and the woman in the video and the remains were identified as Henry. She was 30 years old when she was murdered, and had experienced homelessness like Abouchuk.

Smith later admitted to killing Abouchuk

While police were interrogating Smith about Henry’s murder, he admitted that he had killed before.

“With no prompting, he tells the troopers in the bathroom, ‘I’m going to make you famous,’ ” District Attorney Brittany Dunlop said during a court hearing in 2024, per the Associated Press. “He comes back in and says … ‘You guys got some more time? You want to keep talking?’ And then discloses this other murder.”

The other murder in question was that of Abouchuk. Smith confessed to shooting and killing her sometime between 2017 and 2018, according to Anchorage Daily News.

In 2018, Alaska State Troopers had incorrectly identified a different body as Abouchuk because her ID was found with the remains. However, Smith’s confession and Abouchuk’s dental records later confirmed that a skull bearing a bullet wound was hers.

Police believe Smith may have killed a third woman

Months following Smith’s February 2024 conviction of first-degree murder in the deaths of Henry and Abochuck, Alaskan prosecutors sought the public’s help in identifying a third victim.

Alaska Public Media released photographs found on the killer’s cellphone of a woman, possibly another Alaskan Indigenous woman, splattered with blood and dirt while lying on the ground. She appeared to be either dead or unconscious.

Police discovered the images when they arrested Smith in 2019, but have been unable to identify the female in them.

“While the images are disturbing given the blood and her positioning, she is clothed in the images,” Dunlop said in a press release. “I felt it was important for the court to see them when rendering a sentence, as these images were discussed by Smith in his interview with the police that was played in court. My hope remains that she can be positively identified.”

The family of Cassandra Boskofsky declared her legally dead in September 2024 after seeing the photos from Smith’s phone, per Anchorage Daily News. Though police have not confirmed the match, her loved ones were certain she was one of his victims.

Smith was sentenced to 226 years in prison in 2024

In July 2024, Smith was sentenced to 226 years behind bars for Henry and Abochuck’s murders. A crowd of people donning red handprints on their faces — a symbol to spread awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls — attended the hearing, KTUU reported.

“As long as I’ve been doing this work, I still believe that most people are good and there are very, very few truly evil humans in the world. Mr. Smith is one of them,” Dunlop said at his sentencing hearing, per ABC News. “He is a person that should never be permitted to walk among us.”