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A chance discovery led investigators right to a man they believe brutally beat and murdered an unknown woman in an Anchorage hotel room last month.
Anchorage police arrested Brian Steven Smith, 48, at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Tuesday afternoon as he was returning from a trip.
Smith has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the human remains found at mile 108 of the Seward Highway on Wednesday, Oct. 2.