Tyree Smith is arraigned in Superior Court in Bridgeport, Conn., on Feb. 1, 2012. ( AP Smith’s doctor said the cannibal killer has been rehabilitated and is taking medications to help with ...

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

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — The “Connecticut Cannibal” Tyree Smith will be released from prison soon, a decision that has caused a lot of controversy across the state. News 8 has obtaine… ...

Family members of Angel Gonzalez were upset when a state panel agreed to grant a conditional release to Tyree Smith, who killed Gonzalez and ate part of him in Bridgeport in 2011.

Tyree Smith, 35, was found not guilty by reason of insanity after he was accused of brutally killing Angel Gonzalez with an axe and eating parts of his body in December 2011.

In this News 8 digital extra, News 8 investigative reporter Jeff Derderian sits down with Ryan McGuigan, a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, to discuss the Bridgeport cannibal case.

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Angel Gonzalez was allegedly murdered by a cannibal in Bridgeport 12 years ago. Channel 3 sat down with Gonzalez’s family after his alleged murderer, Tyree Smith, was found ...

After Tyree Smith, a Connecticut man who admitted to eating parts of a Bridgeport man in 2011, was granted release from a maximum-security psychiatric hospital, local politicians questioned why ...

In 2013, Tyree Smith was sentenced to 60 years in Whiting Forensic Hospital for the murder of Angel Gonzalez, whose mangled corpse was discovered in a vacant Bridgeport apartment in January 2012 ...

Tyree Smith, dubbed the “Cannibal Killer” by local journalists, was granted a “conditional release” on Friday by the Psychiatric Security Review Board in the northeastern US state ...