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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
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- Missing Since 08/07/2019
- Missing From Anchorage, Alaska
- Classification Missing
- Sex Female
- Race Native American
- Age 38 years old
- Height and Weight 4'11, 120 pounds
- Distinguishing Characteristics Native American female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Boskofsky may use the last name Boskofsky-Beaver. Her ears are pierced. She has a tattoo on her neck of a butterfly in faded blue and black ink, and scars on both knees.
Details of Disappearance
Boskofsky's last known contact with law enforcement was in Anchorage, Alaska on August 7, 2019. She had lived in the 1100 block of Bentree Circle. Although she struggled with alcohol and was sometimes in unstable living situations, and had lost all seven of her children, she always kept in touch with her family and the adoptive and foster parents of her children no matter what was going on in her life. Her family reported her missing in September.Boskofsky's family believes she may have been a victim of Brian Steven Smith, a South African national who in 2024 was convicted of killing two Anchorage women: Veronica Abouchuk in August 2018, and Kathleen Jo Henry in September 2019. He was sentenced to over 200 years in prison.
Smith would document his victims' deaths on photos and video. His cellular phone, taken from him after his arrest in October 2019, contained photographs of an unidentified bloodstained woman lying on the ground, apparently unconscious or dead. When asked about the photos, Smith said he had picked up a woman and she had passed out, so he left her alone outdoors.
In July 2024, Boskofsky's cousin filed a petition of presumptive death in Anchorage Superior Court, stating she recognized the woman in Smith's photos as Boskofsky. She recognized her cousin by the tattoo on her neck. Authorities have not confirmed that Boskofsky was one of Smith's victims, however, or even that the woman in the photos was actually dead.
Her case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.
