Carl Wayne Anderson

Deaf-mute

Can read and write, doesn’t know ASL

Homeless

Vietnam war veteran

19 when he served

Once beat an officer with a shovel when asked to dig a ditch

Discharged from the army for psychiatric reasons after a breakdown

Spent six years in a veterans hospital

Contracted spinal meningitis, became deaf, and suffered a traumatic speech loss.

Had a wife named Caroline, divorced due to his illness

Arrested in 1978 for assaulting a congressional aide

In jail for six months for beating a man for stealing his shoes

During the movie:

Broke into a woman’s car to sleep in

Assaulted an officer while being arrested

Accused of murder

Assaulted his appointed lawyer

While in jail had three incidents in two months of beating an officer

Refused medically treatment, not letting the doctor touch him

Improvement in this since he is shown with cut hair and a shave