SIR!  NO SIR! -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

That in itself was a trauma. Then once he was arrested for this crime he didn't commit, they put him in isolation.

MILDRED PARKER, BILLY DEAN SMITH'S SISTER: One or two months, and he was only out one hour a day out of 24.

Solitary. You sitting up there that long, you're going to automatically go crazy looking at yourself and your hands and fingers and toes, and that's it.

And he got back to the United States, but his health has been destroyed. His mind has been destroyed.

LOUISE MONACO, BILLY DEAN SMITH DEFENSE TEAM: Periodically he gets medicated.  Periodically he's been hospitalized.  But without pretty constant supervision, he stops taking the medication, and then reverts to the terrors.

In 2004, Billy Dean Smith was living on the streets of Los Angeles.

He is currently serving 10 years in a California State Prison.

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