When Octavia Spencer, the narrator and executive producer of Investigation Discovery’s three-part docuseries Lost Women of Alaska, decided to get involved in telling the story of indigenous women living on societal fringes who were targeted and murdered by serial killer Brian Steven Smith, she had a key goal in mind: “Restoring the dignity of these women in solidarity with these women and their families.”
“I can’t imagine having a family member disappear and not knowing what happened to them,” Spencer said during the show’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary event. “So we want to provide closure – in some cases, justice. … There’s a number that’s really stuck out for me that there were over 1,300 missing indigenous women. 1,300. But that’s an alarming number that the very opening line is, “Alaska is a serial killer’s playground.”
Executive producer Matt Robins says the story takes a deep
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