Prosecutors released images of the woman, allegedly found on Smith's cellphone, in court documents before his sentencing begins Friday.
A forensic artist’s sketch of a third possible victim in the Brian Steven Smith murder case. It’s a composite of images taken from one of Smith’s cell phones. was convicted in FebruaryThe images allegedly came from one of Smith’s cellphones and were included in a sentencing memorandum filed last week, just ahead of Smith’s sentencing, which is set to begin Friday morning.
The new images come from a cellphone Anchorage police detectives seized at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in 2019. Smith was on his way home from a vacation and police met him to interrogate him about growing evidence against him in the murder of Smith’s first known murder victim, Kathleen Jo Henry.
In an email, Anchorage District Attorney Brittany Dunlop said police have been trying to identify the woman since they discovered the photos, and they typically don’t release similar crime scene photos during an ongoing investigation. But in this case, Dunlop said, they were attached to the sentencing memo “to give the court a better picture of the full pattern of behavior.”
The woman might have been identified by now, had an artist’s sketch been released sooner, Livingston said, though he felt the prosecutors had gone too far in releasing actual photos of the woman. They show a lack of respect for the victim, Livingston said, and he questioned whether they would had been released if she were white.Smith’s defense attorney, Timothy Ayer, has also objected to the use of the images in the sentencing.
According to the defense’s sentencing memo, there is no functional difference between the two sentences – that both would keep Smith in prison for the rest of his life.In February, a jury convicted him on all 14 counts for which he was indicted, including first-degree murder, in the deaths of Veronica Abouchuk and Kathleen Jo Henry.
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