Brian Smith: Memory Card Murders | Carte Blanche | M-Net
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- 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟳 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.
It was a case out of Alaska in the United States that gained international attention back in 2019: the discovery of a memory card containing footage of a brutal murder. The man behind the horrific crime was South African, Brian Steven Smith, a newly naturalised US citizen who had documented himself strangling a native Alaskan woman to death in a hotel room. He’d later confess to the murder of another Alaskan woman a year earlier. In February, Smith was convicted on 14 charges, including two counts of murder. He now awaits his fate in a US jail. Carte Blanche tracks his journey from the streets of Komani in the Eastern Cape to his gruesome murders in Alaska.
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No free speech?
There is another Dr who had his license revoked in Australia and is now operating in Durban
@@freddierobberts7373 Soon.. Trump will have to draft up another that cannot be undone!
Can you imagine a South Africa without Carte Blanche & its high calibre investigative journalism?
No, it’s impossible. It’s been a part of my life since I could remember. Sunday evenings cuddled up on the couch to watch Carte Blanche.
Carte Blanche is my go to news outlet. Always delivering high quality content.
Same here... and I used to think that man, that man, he's passed on, my his soul rest in perfect peace, was Carte Blanche. This name suited him so well❤
It's extremely rare for a guy to start killing at 42. For sure he had other victims in SA that our cops never investigated nor linked.
Most of the time here in SA out cops & detectives don't really make an effort to solve cases. Sadly so
Even there he got away with it until someone saw what was on his memory card. Without the lady finding the memory card he would have gotten away with. You guys enjoy critisizing SA so much one would swear you get a kick from it.
@@lindelwahlela1851 Can't help them most even though they are born here they still view Africa with a Euro bias.
what do you expect from sa police? We all know they are useless
@DumaM-ir7rk hardly - he wasn't gone long
No doubt he committed similar crimes in SA. He probably left because he felt he might get caught eventually. He only married that poor US woman to get residency etc. A monster living among us, hiding in plain sight. He should never be released.
This guy hasç 100% unlived humans in south Africa no doubt what so ever
I mean, South Africa has 5% conviction rate so this is a playground for serial killers, but if the serial killer wants to be famous....the US is the place to go.
@@TheBibi0602 agree. Except, INFAMOUS
he actaully said that himself, that Alaska was the perfect place for a serial killer to predate. I am wondering if the army days he did unleashed soemthing in him? he definately aimed at going to Alaske where no one knew him, so he could fulfill his killing dreams.
She said that they lost the Brian they knew. They never knew him. Nobody knew him.
...the Brian they thought they knew
LOVE that I get to watch Carte Blanche here. It is and has always been excellent investigative journalism. Thank you!
Truth be told. No one knows another person, including your own
That is the hoenst truth!
Alaska can keep him. We disown him completely.
Disown him from where¿?? I'm sure he's not south African
@@farabathanmoalimmohamed8373 hes South Africa foktog he went to Queens College in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. What u talking about.
England
Nah he should be in a SA prison. Alaska is too comfy for him
Shocking. Excellent program well presented. I have been watching Carte Blanche for decades and you have maintained a winning team.
No mercy for him despite the fact that his families are so so sad and badly effected. He is a danger to society.
I knew him when he lived in Port Elizabeth, he had a calm, gentle demeanour but had dark wild eyes!!
Its always the quiet ones😅
Ohh😮😮 my word in Port Elizabeth, not long ago it was Boetie Boootur something, Port Elizabeth is serial killer's playground
@Iliketotalkokay That ain't true I'm quiet person nor did I think of murdering someone.
@@tokolloskosana3567 The statement from @Iliketotalkokay was stating that only quiet people do it. This is not the same as saying that all quiet people do it.
@tokolloskosana3567 this was not about you
This is spine chilling... every serial killer wants to get caught bcs they are exhibitionists, they want their "work" to be admired. So they will do things that they feel will lead them to get caught. Subconsciously, they want ppl to look at what they've done. Sick, sick, sick!
100% It is said that the want to be admired
Its the clear symptoms of a psyco.. once i met somebody and thought hes great untill hes tuning me things that put me off completely..so shocked that i received help. Then i learned about that symptoms as i wss warned !
Its absolutely horrific 😢 these poor women!
This is chilling to watch.... Thankfully he has been caught and convicted. In SA he would probably be back on the street waiting for the justice department to catch up....
That said, he sudden departure and need to leave could have been as a result of him having committed murders here and that was a great excuse to evade liability here.
This was one of the most disturbing videos I have ever seen in my life
It's how he's acting so confused, as if the case is about someone entirely different from him.
Its still puzzling me a lot to know that he has change to such a çruel murderer and seems he was like a psycopath enjoying his cruel acts..while grewing up in a Christian home without Any violence. The other part of family wrre also strict Christians so where does this criminality coming from its really shocking to a of all of us!!
@jacobameintjes6195 That is very horrifying and heartbreaking for his family members who have such deep faith. The human brain, the human phsyce, is such a mystery. How to figure things such as this (and others and their actions- alike) is mind-boggling. Alaskan women are lucky that, that female stole his phone, and he was ridiculous enough to make an actual sn♤ff video. RIP to all of the victims...here in America to South Africa and everywhere in between, that he has left victims behind. Rest easy.
Why you asking his family if they forgive him? They are not Brian's victims.
He betrayed trust of his own closest family members,friends
That leaves scars on them also,by association to them,and by not seeing him,for what he is.
Feeling guilty for not seeing that in him,and doing something about it.
Hi Carte Blanche, I trust all is well, Please advise why you guys removed the episode of the American Doctor that had his License revoked in America who moved to South Africa and is practicing here in South Africa. Kind Regards
@cartblanche
Hi, the episode is still available, posted a month ago. The title is Dr Tristram Horton. Hope this helps.
Princeshaun, no, it MUST STAY.
That Dr is endangering peoples lives.
Who do you think you are to request such a request?
Heban!
It's still available, you goofball
Whoah I didn't know about this story. Incredibly freaky evidence though. Those audio recordings are especially spine chilling. Glad justice caught up with him though, what a monster.
I would investigate his fingerprints and DNA with other murders in SA if they do that sort of thing in SA. We can also question why a man would marry a woman 20 years his senior overseas whom he met online. I love Carte Blanche as it keeps me in touch with home, sending love from New Zealand.
It often happens that when people move out of their comfort zone they turn to crime when bored. It can get real lonely in a new environment. It could explain him visiting prostitutes.
As for marrying someone 20 his senior, it happens all the time, people sometimes love each other and they're ages don't match, especially after their thirties. But this guy probably wanted citizenship, that's me speculating based on the creepy clip with lady.
End citizenship by marriage, you'll this sort of marriages drop overnight.
Look at his high school photo. A psychopath
Hi I really feel so shocked i cant believe..
There was no violence in there home and his mother a loving person...she wasnt false that i know fo sure...i would have know. His father died when they were still young kids. Feeling so sorry also fo these families who lost a dear member and so cruel!!😢
An absolute creep!
the best journalism
This is scary stuff, very likely in started his killing spree in his twenties or possibly earlier 🤔 my heart goes out to the families of the murdered women
SAPS must take a closer look!😮
08:25 If his IQ was so high, why was he in 7C not 7A? Queens, like most schools back then, streamed pupils according to how bright they were.
Because "back then" the subjects you took dictated which class you ended up in not your IQ. That was the same in all schools. You could be highly intelligent but if you took typing or woodwork you ended up in a C or D class.
Jesus please save and restore South Africa our land
This is so scary
And the thing is, there is no plausible reason for his horrific actions. I mean that is some scary s***
This is absolutely insane ….
226 years in prison . . .
We never truly know someone else, we can only hope to. All of us must eventually own up to the life we lived and what we've done
This is embarrassing as a country.. he had to be caught in another country 😮😮😮😮🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡
He was caught by chance...not because the authorities there were more competent.
Don't go after family members why do people do that they didn't commit the Crimes HE DID, sending death threats to family members is just wrong, ya all no where he is Sen your death threats to him..
Sadly when the tree is bad the roots must be removed😢😢
Yes why sending it to relatives when Hè shocked them all and in trauma...i know them well cos his mum was a dear loving..decent friendly hèlpfull person to me and kids. We were staying in the same sùbberb and visited as friends. There was nothing odd and unfamilliar happening. So now we feel very bad too for the victims fam.and so for his family who need to have still to be respected and hve their privacy. Its not their fault what he did !
We have big expectations on the quality of Carte Blanche's investigations. But when they cannot get the small facts right, how can we trust the bigger facts to be right.
Anchorage is not the capital of Alaska btw.
Carte Blanche is entertainment not news, facts don't matter.
How many women has he unalived, I wonder...its sad actually
Sad indeed
Apparently No one, except for his self confession
I think one or two & it was a woman/women of colour
The South African Police should start checking on other women who knew him or not, who disappeared, I believe he murdered more in S. Africa and then continued murdering others in Alaska and wherever else he was. I hope if someone does recognise him they will contact the police. He definitely has that 'wild man' look in his eyes.
You have to wonder if he commited murders in SA.
He is evil
This is so horrible! Monster! He didn't eat his victims but still Dahmer territory. Something about the human condition that drives men crazy but I guess we all crazy.
Thank you, CB, I have a theory about people inclined to cruelty having non-existing or extremely thin upper lip. 13:10 unfortunately you have not lost the Brian you know, you never knew the man, what he showed was not his true personality. He may still come out to be one of the worst serial killers in the world in my opinion. RIP to all victims.
Oh, they must just keep him there. Please dont send him back here. We have enough problems here.
The utterances that the victims had to endure being told that they are wasting his time by not dying. That is psychopathic. That picture of him in high school uniform says smart and uncanny
Sadly, Alaska does not have the death penalty - because he *should* get the chair, as he himself states in his police interrogation. (Side note: Juneau is the capital, not Anchorage.)
Unbelievable!
im sorry that this happend to the ladies how can u live with oneself when u hurt someone else this is so sad
Statistically South Africa has more "Serial Killers" per square kilometer than any other country in the world, so it is a most definite that he hunted there before moving state side...
Agree. And they have no M.O. Harder to trace.
Not true, not even by population size:
Ratios per square kilometer are:
UK - 0,0007774904
USA - 0,0003663498
Japan - 0,0003624578
South Africa - 0,000100734
@@MusehanaHur right. It isn't true...
Evil is among us.
Why do these criminals find South Africa to be a safe haven!? This is very worrying 😞💔
Mild-mannered and quiet to some, rude and suspicious to others. Always interesting to see how humans make decisions, especially demographic decisions. There are people who can away with anything, and they always choose wrong.
He did military training. Did he fight on the border? How many SA men lost their minds fighting on the border?
He is not the only one there is a lot of such guys who move abroad to commit crime
Was my post deleted? I thought the SA police are investigating in South Africa?
He killed a homeless woman but her family reported her missing and they in court😮
Homeless doesn't mean u don't have family bro...e.g Nyaupe boys
Wade Wilson must be his son
Only indigenous women?
@@natashaadonis2384 My thoughts too. 💔😢
I've never seen this kind of evil. It's about the torture for him.
Shoh, 226 year sentence,...hope he enjoys the cold!!
Behind the mask of sanity
Lurks a threat to
wild eyes!
My feeling is that he started his killing in Alaska.. Something happened in his mind to change him...Hopefully, he is getting medical attention in prison.. One day, he may realize the horrific acts that he committed..
This bra is crazy, geez I just wonder what else he did while he was in south africa
@CarteBlanche I'd lik to know why you removed the video of Enoch Mgijima Municipality, it was covered by the late Derek Watts, KFC money corruption.
South African foreigners and what they are doing 😮
Pure evil
I just earnestly wanna say my daer friends of Westbourne...u dont deserve this...and stl cant understand why this he was a loved child by his family...my heart is broken fo his mother and sisters sake!! I visited them a lot and dont know of any violence took place. My Quest is Why...what happen to him be like this! Jm
where is the take alot espisode?
Great 😮 going to be even harder for any of us who may want to live in the USA
We can forget about anchorage for a while that's for sure. Can't blame them tbh
We have an open border thanks to the current administration.
This is my home town, eKomani
@siyamthandatiyingwe394 yall should look around if ever they were ppl who went missing around the time he was there
Stutterheim, the cANCer just changed the name
Please investigate Joshlin Smith case.
What happened to him during conscription? Nobody talks about what went on during those two years.
Company called Golden security is in cape Town
Ey, what a privileged man. They even talking about his decent side?
I have more questions after watching this. This story was a but haphazard. Not well put together.
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How embarrassing this is an Native American (IYKYK) who got murdered by an South African who recently got USA citizenship that’s should tell you soo much
Live us out of this, to the best of our knowledge he never killed anyone here. He's a US criminal, stop associating him with us.
@@Mahlatse11 hai voetsek wena you don’t even get my point!🙄🙄 Haven’t you even seen the update theres an possibility that this guy might have done this ish back home too
You know how the police is
Isn't Junau the capital of Alaska?
What a waste😮
He killed a Mother of 4.😢😢
Guys plz investigate health department
The security company s that they are giving tenders
The same people leaving SA cause its unsafe.
Hete I thought South Africans never emigrate and when they do they are perfect and law abiding.
He looks crazy...
Not so clever is he !!!
Capital is Juno
I don't trust you anymore. You are bias.
Care to elaborate, instead of just making a nonsensical statement.
@@desertstar223 they report selective truth that support their narrative. Not the whole truth, because they do not investigate both side. They even participate in covering up truth. And that, I know for a fact.
@@riaan6421 if you knew Brian then you are as shocked as I am, but..... if you knew him you also knew that there was a secretive side to him too...
@@desertstar223 do some homework.
@@riaan6421 That's what you should do, instead of making unsubstantiated claims
The things we export to the world as a country sies!
They always have high IQ s
Everyone in eastern cape is evil 😂
voetsek
@@sirdon8883 then stay out of our province
@shaunmarais7698 belive me we will. You are welcome to come on vacation to the western cape every year as all of you do 🤣🤣🤣
I'm from there, left, came back and am beginning to wonder......😢
Aah Juju was right, by the looks of it the west should be worried about white South Africans folks immigrating to their countries 😮