The Middletown Council voiced their opposition to David Messenger's conditional release from Connecticut Valley Hospital in a meeting held Monday night.
Messenger beat his pregnant wife Heather to death in front of their five year-old son while inside their home in 1998.
He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to CVH for twenty years. After serving half of that sentence, his doctors think he's ready to re-enter society.
Last month Middletown Mayor Daniel Drew sent a letter to the psychiatric review board opposing Messenger's release, “Aalthough he's convinced psychiatrists that he's fit for reentry and he convinced a jury that he was innocent, I'm not convinced it's a safe fit or that he should be back in our community," Mayor Drew said.
Doctors are recommending that Messenger attend the Capitol Regional Mental Health Center in Hartford with a CVH employee three days a week.
After three months, messenger would then move into a residential treatment center in the Hartford area where he would have a 10 p.m. curfew and would be subject to random drug tests.
Several residents who attended the meeting also opposed Messenger’s release after believing that he is still a threat, "I want him under supervision in a confined area where they can control the possibility, I don't care if it's one in ten thousand probability that one time if it's going to be my daughter, my son, or myself, I don't think it's worth it," said Earl Roberts of Middletown.
The Psychiatric Review Board is scheduled to have their next meeting on December 9th.
