BRIDGEPORT — Every month for five years after Tyree Lincoln Smith was found not guilty of a cannibalistic killing because he was insane at the time, Talitha Frazier said she called the state’s secure mental hospital in Middletown to make sure Smith still was locked up.
Smith used an ax to kill Frazier’s brother-in-law, Angel “Tun Tun” Gonzalez, in a burned-out Bridgeport apartment in 2011, then carried one of the dead man’s eyeballs and part of his brain to a local cemetery, where he ate them with a bottle of sake. A three-judge panel found Smith, age 35 at the time, not guilty by reason of insanity in July 2013 and committed him to Whiting Forensic Hospital pending further evaluation.
Frazier celebrated the verdict that day in court, saying, “I don’t care where he serves the rest of his life as long as it’s behind locked doors.”…