ALAMOSA, Colo. -- The state mental hospital in Pueblo has asked a judge to grant more freedom to a woman accused of killing, dismembering and cannibalizing her former boyfriend.

The Colorado Mental Health Institute wants to grant conditional release to Jane Lynn Woodry, 54.

A judge has scheduled a Jan. 2 hearing on the request.

Woodry, who changed her name from Carolyn Gloria Blanton in 1999, was found not guilty by reason of insanity after the 1993 slaying of 51-year-old Peter Green of Alamosa.

Green was reported missing in late 1993. A tip led Alamosa sheriff's deputies to Woodry, who was arrested about a month later.

Deputies found pieces of Green's body in Woodry's apartment after someone reported bones in the trash bin outside the complex. Deputies also found cookware containing parts of Green's body, as well as some of his pickled body parts, in Woodry's apartment.

Green's legs were found in a trash bin near Woodry's home.

"The flesh and the meat were off the legs," Sheriff's Captain Les Sharff testified during the trial. "They had been totally cut away from the bones themselves, from the ankle up."

Green's torso was found in a closet at his home and his head was found in a remote area.

Pieces of evidence brought up during the trial ranged from a .25-caliber pistol and ammunition to a cooking pot, bowl and spoon that contained bite-size chunks of human flesh.

Woodry was committed to the state hospital in 1994 but has gradually won more freedom since then.

In 2005, Alamosa County District Judge Pattie Swift allowed her to move into an apartment off the state hospital campus in Pueblo. She was closely supervised and has had twice-monthly injections of a drug to control symptoms of her schizophrenia, and three meetings a week with her case manager, some of which were surprise visits at her work, home or other locations.

Swift said she was not totally comfortable with the situation but made her decision based on the recommendations of the experts involved.

During the 2001 hearing that allowed Woodry more off-campus privileges, her psychiatrist at the time testified that she did not see Woodry as a danger to the community. She said she believed Woodry was stabilized on medication for schizophrenia and stressed that it was important she continue taking her medication.

She testified that Woodry was very open about what she did to Green and made no effort to deny it.

The psychiatrist added at that time, "We are not curing her. She will have a mental illness that will have to be monitored and she will have to monitor it the rest of her life."