Documentary series highlights Alaska’s MMIP crisis and questions of justice
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By Corinne Smith
Published on March 1, 2026.
A new three-part series on HBO highlights the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples in Alaska, particularly Alaska Native women, through the case of serial killer Brian Steven Smith. The series, "Lost Women of Alaska," focuses on the case dubbed the "memory card murders" as the killer was exposed when graphic images and videos were found on his phone and turned in to the Anchorage Police Department in 2019. Smith, a South African national who married an Alaskan, was convicted in 2024 of murdering two Native women and is currently serving a 226-year sentence. The documentary details the case and questions about the police department's handling of the case, including that of Cassandra Boskofsky, a Native woman reported missing in Anchorage in 2019 and that of another woman, Smith confessed to killing someone a year before his arrest. The film also explores the ongoing issues of justice for victims and their families.
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