A family from Ouzinkie believes their missing relative is the third victim of convicted murderer Brian Smith.
The 38-year-old, originally from Ouzinkie, had been a presence in the lives of her aunt and cousin for years, checking in by phone, text or Facebook message even when her own life was unstable. They saw her one last time in August of that year. Then the contact stopped altogether.convicted in February
In the petition, she wrote that an Anchorage Police Department detective contacted her on July 6 and showed her photos that he said had been extracted from Smith’s phone after his arrest in October 2019. Police and district attorneys “care about bringing closure to any victim’s families,” she said. “That’s important to the detectives and myself.”
The photos were never mentioned at Smith’s murder trial, and only written about in passing in the attorney’s filings with the court. “We saw the photos and were just floored,” Commack said. As an MMIP activist, Boskofsky’s disappearance had been on Commack’s radar, she said. She’d wondered if Smith had been involved. And as soon as she saw the photos, she felt sure — the woman in the pictures and Boskofsky both had a distinctive tattoo of a butterfly on their neck, in faded black and blue ink.
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