'Cannibal' killer warning signs exposed in new report with release plan already in motion

New situation documents amusement that Tyree Smith, who has been dubbed the "Connecticut Cannibal," exhibited convulsive behaviour down bars and was a "serious menace to life" successful situation earlier helium was granted release, according to a quality report.

Smith confessed to the 2011 sidesplitting of a stateless man, Angel Gonzalez, successful Connecticut, and helium admitted to eating the victim's assemblage parts successful a cemetery.

In 2013, a three-judge sheet recovered Smith not blameworthy by crushed of insanity successful the decease of Gonzalez. However, helium was committed to Connecticut Valley Hospital for 60 years.

Smith was granted a conditional merchandise by the Nutmeg State’s Psychiatric Security Review Board successful February 2025, which allows him to permission Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. However, Smith volition stay nether supervision and volition proceed to person intelligence wellness services, according to WTNH.

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Tyree Smith was arraigned successful Superior Court successful Bridgeport, Conn., connected Feb. 1, 2012. (Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, File)

For months, Smith has been staying full-time astatine a assemblage installation with strict conditions, attraction and around-the-clock supervision, CBS News reported aft the merchandise from the infirmary was granted.

Smith's doc said the cannibal slayer has been rehabilitated and is taking medications to assistance with psychosis and voices successful his head, WTNH reported.

"To punctuation the manager there, helium is simply a joy. He is considered a enactment to the different radical there," forensic psychiatrist Caren Teitelbaum said. "Once helium was stable, helium was a truly calming beingness for different patients."

"He has maintained objective stability. Adhered to the medications and continued to prosecute successful radical and substance maltreatment treatment," Teitelbaum added. "He besides denied ocular hallucinations and a tendency to harm others oregon himself."

However, caller situation documents obtained by WTNH from the Connecticut Department of Correction suggest otherwise.

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Tyree Smith was granted merchandise nether supervision. (Lynn Haven Police Department)

The documents, which the outlet described arsenic revealing a much convulsive and darker broadside of Smith, outline respective altercations helium had with different inmates portion serving a information of his sentence.

In April 2013, the study shows, Smith was held astatine the Garner Correctional Facility erstwhile helium was archetypal charged with murder, wherever his choler appeared with nary warning, and a combat took spot wrong the prison, WTNH reported.

Smith had to beryllium separated from the remainder of the situation colonisation and admitted to an serviceman that the different inmate had "talked trash to him," truthful Smith deed him successful the look and shoved him to ground, according to the report, which noted that the inmate had not fought back.

Talitha Frazier, Gonzalez’s sister-in-law, told WTNH that the combat was much impervious that Smith was unhinged and a menace to society.

"It angers me, and it shocks me, due to the fact that the full clip you’re successful jail, you’re pleading insanity but yet you’re inactive doing thing convulsive to different person," Frazier told the outlet.

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Connecticut authorities Sen. Paul Cicarella and chap Republican authorities Senators Henry Martin, Heather Somers and Stephen Harding called the determination to merchandise Tyree Smith "outrageous" and "mind-boggling." (Getty Images)

Authorities determined that Smith was excessively unsafe to instrumentality to the wide inmate colonisation pursuing the brawl. As a result, Smith was placed into segregation, and his record was stamped with a informing saying, "The inmate’s beingness poses a superior menace to life, property, different inmates, oregon installation security."

In January 2012, a period aft helium had been hacked to death, Gonzalez's mutilated assemblage was recovered successful a vacant flat successful Bridgeport, Connecticut, 65 miles northeast of New York City, the Associated Press reported. One of Smith’s cousins, Nicole Rabb, testified that Smith had told her helium had eaten portion of Gonzalez’s encephalon and an eyeball portion drinking sake.

Smith had warned his relative that helium was going to termination someone, hours earlier Gonzalez was murdered, Rabb antecedently told police.

"I mean, I've heard of Hannibal Lecter, but I ne'er thought I could person idiosyncratic successful my household who would really devour someone," Rabb said. 

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Following the February announcement of Smith's release, critics, including Republican authorities Sen. Paul Cicarella, argued that Smith should not beryllium released and should stay nether adjacent ticker successful a hospital.

"Murder and cannibalism and merchandise successful the aforesaid sentence. That’s a problem. That's concerning to me," helium told WFSB.

Cicarella and chap Republican authorities Senators Henri Martin, Heather Somers and Stephen Harding called the determination "outrageous" and "mind-boggling."

"This idiosyncratic killed and ate portion of his unfortunate and was recovered not blameworthy by crushed of insanity," the lawmakers said successful a statement. "His victim’s household raised objections astir his release. What astir THEM? Where is the justness for THEM? This unspeakable determination puts nationalist information successful jeopardy and is yet different unspeakable connection to nonstop to CT convulsive transgression victims and their families. This idiosyncratic should ne'er beryllium out. We are dumbfounded astatine this injustice. In what beingness is this OK?"

The Connecticut Department of Corrections did not respond to a petition for comment.

Fox News Digital's Landon Mion contributed to this report. 

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