 Smith was arrested in 2019 when a sex worker stole his cell phone from his truck and found the gruesome footage of Henry's torture and murder. The images were eventually copied onto a memory card and she turned it over to police. Smith eventually confessed to killing Henry and Abachuk, whose body had been found earlier but was misidentified. Both Alaska Native women were from small villages in western Alaska and experienced homelessness when living in Anchorage.