Alaska News Nightly: Friday, July 12, 2024

a composite sketch
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. (From APD)

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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:

A judge sentences Brian Smith to 226 years behind bars for murdering two Alaska Native women. Also, an advocacy group in Anchorage calls for a new police review board. And there’s been another sighting in Fairbanks of a mass of gnat larvae that looks like a snake.

Reports tonight from:

Rhonda McBride and Liz Ruskin in Anchorage
Jack Darrell in Ketchikan
Tim Ellis in Delta Junction
Dan Bross in Fairbanks

This episode of Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, with audio engineering from Chris Hyde and producing from Tim Rockey.

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Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him atcgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Caseyhere

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