Smith confessed to the 2011 killing of a homeless man, Angel Gonzalez, in Connecticut, and he admitted to eating the victim’s body parts in a cemetery.

In 2013, a three-judge panel found Smith not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of Gonzalez.

However, he was committed to Connecticut Valley Hospital for 60 years.

Smith was granted a conditional release by the Nutmeg State’s Psychiatric Security Review Board in February 2025, which allows him to leave Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown.

However, Smith will remain under supervision and will continue to receive mental health services, according to WTNH.

For months, Smith has been staying full-time at a community facility with strict conditions, treatment and around-the-clock supervision, CBS News reported after the release from the hospital was granted.

Smith’s doctor said the cannibal killer has been rehabilitated and is taking medications to help with psychosis and voices in his head, WTNH reported.

“To quote the director there, he is a joy. He is considered a support to the other people there,” forensic psychiatrist Caren Teitelbaum said.

“Once he was stable, he was a really calming presence for other patients.”

“He has maintained clinical stability. Adhered to the medications and continued to engage in group and substance abuse treatment,” Teitelbaum added.

“He also denied visual hallucinations and a desire to harm others or himself.”

However, new prison documents obtained by WTNH from the Connecticut Department of Correction suggest otherwise.

The documents, which the outlet described as revealing a more violent and darker side of Smith, outline several altercations he had with other inmates while serving a portion of his sentence.

However, new prison documents obtained by WTNH from the Connecticut Department of Correction suggest otherwise.

In April 2013, the report shows, Smith was held at the Garner Correctional Facility when he was first charged with murder, where his anger appeared with no warning, and a fight took place inside the prison, WTNH reported.

Smith had to be separated from the rest of the prison population and admitted to an officer that the other inmate had “talked trash to him,” so Smith hit him in the face 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 fight was more proof that Smith was unhinged and a threat to society.

“It angers me, and it shocks me, because the whole time you’re in jail, you’re pleading insanity but yet you’re still doing something violent to another person,” Frazier told the outlet.

Authorities determined that Smith was too dangerous to return to the general inmate population following the brawl.

As a result, Smith was placed into segregation, and his file was stamped with a warning saying, “The inmate’s presence poses a serious threat to life, property, other inmates, or facility security.”

In January 2012, a month after he had been hacked to death, Gonzalez’s mutilated body was found in a vacant apartment in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 65 miles northeast of New York City, the Associated Press reported.