Man who filmed torture-murder while teasing victim that 'everybody always dies' in his movies learns his fate

Brian Steven Smith sits in a courtroom waiting for his arraignment to start in Anchorage, Alaska, on Oct. 16, 2019 (AP/Mark Thiessen). Left inset: Kathleen Jo Henry (Facebook); right inset: Veronica Abouchuk (Anchorage Police Department).

A man heard saying, “Everybody always dies,” while videotaping himself torturing and killing an Alaska Native woman will spend the rest of his life in prison for that murder and the murder of a second Alaska Native woman.

Brian Steven Smith, 53, was sentenced to 226 years in prison for the murders of Kathleen Jo Henry, 30, and Veronica Abouchuk, 52, prosecutors announced in a news release .

“It’s a relief knowing that the defendant will rot. I hope he is swarmed with guilt someday knowing he stalled so many people’s joy,” Kristy Grimaldi, Abouchuk’s daughter, said at the hearing, ABC News reported. “To me, he will always be an unintelligent, sick human being who couldn’t comprehend the meaning of life.”

Anchorage District Attorney Brittany Dunlop said at the hearing that she believes Smith is one of the “very, very few truly evil humans in the world,” the outlet reported.

“He is a person that should never be permitted to walk among us,” she said. “He should spend the rest of his life in jail, and your sentence should make a statement that the women’s lives that he stole so brutally mattered.”

Smith was convicted in February of 14 counts, including two counts of first-degree murder. A jury also found him guilty of second-degree sexual assault, tampering with physical evidence and misconduct involving a corpse.

Alaska Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby said the murders were “the stuff of nightmares,” The Associated Press reported.

“Both were treated about as horribly as a person can be treated,” he said.

The case came to light for the Anchorage Police Department on Sept. 30, 2019, when a woman stole Smith’s cellphone from his truck and found the gruesome footage of Henry’s murder at a hotel in Anchorage on Sept. 4, 2019.

“In the hotel room, it showed her 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,” that informant, Valerie Casler, testified, Alaska’s News Source reported.

Smith can be heard narrating in the video.

“In my movies, everybody always dies,” the voice says in one video, the AP reported. “What are my followers going to think of me? People need to know when they are being serial-killed.”

Authorities found Henry’s remains on Oct. 2, 2019, at milepost 108 of the Seward Highway.

Smith was arrested on Oct. 8, 2019, at the Ted Stevens International Airport.

As Law&Crime reported, Smith denied remembering he killed Henry, but he acknowledged seeing his stomach, hand, arm, and foot in the murder pictures and video.

“I am convinced I have done this,” he said. “That is me. I’m not denying that.”

He also admitted to police that he fatally shot Abouchuk in August 2018 as she rested on his couch and dumped her body off a highway.

Alberto Luperon contributed to this report.

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