I received a letter from Mr Fentresses lawyer Dawn Mulder, asking if I would remove Mr. Fentress’s address from the site. She also stated that he is unable to write to me due to his “complex legal situation” She asked that he not receive unsolicited mail. I chose to remove his address in accordance with those wishes. Please don’t write him.

A Suffolk County jury decided that Albert Fentress, a former school teacher who has spent the last 20 years in psychiatric hospitals after the torture, killing and cannibalization of a Poughkeepsie teen-ager, is no longer a danger to society and should go free. ‘The man is a cannibal’ Mr. Grady said. ‘It is an utter outrage that a killer who is still mentally ill will be released into a community without supervision to wander about freely. It is beyond my comprehension.’

Mr. Masters, an 18-year-old high school student, was killed on a Sunday evening in August 1979 after wandering into Mr. Fentress’s backyard. Mr. Fentress, then a middle-school teacher, confessed to the crime the day it happened. He told officials that with scenes from the movie ‘Deliverance’ playing in his head, he lured the teen-ager into his basement, tied him to a post, sexually abused and mutilated him, shot him twice in the head, and cooked and ate parts of his body.

Mr. Fentress, 57, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1980 in the killing of the teen-ager, Paul Masters, was returned after the court proceedings to his room at Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, where he will wait while Judge Harry E. Seidell of State Supreme Court considers a motion by prosecutors to overturn the jury’s decision. After deliberating for more than six hours over two days, the six-person jury came back with the answers to two questions posed by the court: Is the petitioner, Albert Fentress, presently suffering from mental illness, where he requires care, treatment and rehabilitation? The jury answered yes, by a vote of 6 to 0.
In effect, the jury decided that Mr. Fentress was still mentally ill, but not so ill that he had to be committed, Mr. Darrow said. Mid-Hudson psychiatrists Dr. Khin Myo and Dr. Muthaiah Chandrasekahara testified that Fentress still suffers from sexual sadism, pedophilia and personality disorder.