Albert fish

Fish was a small, gentle-looking man who appeared kind and trusting, yet once alone with his victims, the monster inside him was unleashed, a monster so perverse and cruel that his crimes seem unbelievable. He eventually was executed and, according to rumors, turned his execution into a fantasy of pleasure. Roots of Insanity Fish was born on May 19, 1870, in Washington, D.C., to Randall and Ellen Fish. His family had a long history of mental illness. His uncle was diagnosed with mania,his brother was sent to a state mental institution, and his sister was diagnosed with a "mental affliction." His mother had visual hallucinations. Three other relatives were diagnosed with mental illness. His parents abandoned him at a young age, and he was sent to an orphanage, a place of brutality, in Fish's memory, where he was exposed to regular beatings and sadistic acts of brutality. It was said that he began to look forward to the abuse because it brought him pleasure. When asked about the orphanage, Fish remarked, "I was there 'til I was nearly nine, and that's where I got started wrong. We were unmercifully whipped. I saw boys doing many things they should not have done." Leaves the Orphanage By 1880 Ellen Fish, now a widow, had a government job and soon removed Fish from the orphanage. He had very little formal education and grew up learning to work more with his hands than his brains. It wasn't long after Fish returned to live with his mother that he began a relationship with anoth...

Bettmann/Getty Images Details on the envelope of Albert Fish’s letter to the family of Grace Budd led directly to his arrest. While plenty of Americans spent the Roaring Twenties at wild parties, Albert Fish developed a taste for human flesh. Known as the “Brooklyn Vampire,” he lured children into abandoned homes to kill them. Grace Budd was 10 years old when she disappeared in 1928. Her family was baffled — until Albert Fish’s letter to her parents arrived. It had been six years since she vanished, but her family recalled it well. A man who called himself Frank Howard had materialized on their doorstep to offer 18-year-old Edward Budd a job. A supposed farmer, Howard would fully ingratiate himself with the family — and charm them enough to take Grace to his niece’s birthday party. Grace Budd would never be seen again. Only the arrival of a macabre letter for Grace Budd’s mother in 1934 would detail her murder and gruesome cannibalization. While the envelope it came in would lead police to identify its sender as the Brooklyn Vampire himself, Albert Fish’s letter had only provided a mere glimpse at his unspeakable crimes. The Early Crimes Of Albert Fish Fish was the youngest of his living siblings but became a burden for his afflicted mother when her 80-year-old husband died of a heart attack in 1875. Financially struggling, she would abandon Fish at Saint John’s Orphanage. For five long years, he would be sadistically beaten by his caretakers and peers. Wikimedia Commons F...

The Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac. Whatever you want to call him, Albert Fish was one of the most perverted and sadistic serial killers to have ever lived. Not only was he a child murderer, cannibal, and pedophile, but Fish also had a penchant for extreme torture and mutilation – on both himself and others. While Fish is mostly known for his murder of Grace Budd, his crimes – and his bizarre antics – actually extend much further. The life of Albert Fish, from his abusive childhood right up to his execution, was rife with shocking occurrences that seem even too strange for fiction. Here are 15 horrifying Albert Fish serial killer facts that might just keep you up at night. 1. A Childhood Straight Out Of A Nightmare Born Hamilton Howard Albert Fish to parents Randall and Ellen Fish in 1870, Fish was thrust into a life of misery the moment he left the womb. His mother was 32 years old when Fish was born, but his father, a riverboat captain, was 75. Only five years later, Fish’s father passed away, and so Fish’s mother was forced to place her son in care due to a lack of finances. She sent Fish to Saint John’s orphanage in Washington, where he was exposed to scenes that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Fish was subject to harsh discipline at the hands of cruel orphanage owners and claimed to have been “mercifully whipped” during his time there. This exposure to violence and pain helped mold him into the serial killer Albert Fish eventuall...

Bettmann/Getty Images Serial killer Albert Fish claimed to have murdered a child in every state. By November 1934, 10-year-old Grace Budd had been missing for six years. There had been no promising clues or developments regarding her disappearance. That is, until her mother Delia Flanagan Budd received an anonymous letter. “Dear Mrs. Budd,” it read. “On Sunday June the 3 — 1928 I called on you at 406 W. 15 St. Brought you pot cheese — strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her.” The bizarre, rambling letter that Mrs. Budd received on that cold November evening began with the tale of a deckhand who developed a taste for human flesh and ended with a harrowing description of Mrs. Budd’s daughter being murdered — and roasted in the oven. Although the written confession was unsigned and nameless, it was the beginning of the end for cannibalistic serial killer Albert Fish. How his exorbitant madness and murderous bloodlust came to be, however, is a tale as macabre and unimaginable as the death of Grace Budd itself. Albert Fish, The Gray Man, Is Born Charles Hoff/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Albert Fish was a slight, frail man, often described as gray-faced and inconspicuous. Born on May 19, 1870, in Washington, D.C., to Randall and Ellen Fish, Hamilton Howard “Albert” Fish had many names: the Brooklyn Vampire, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Gray Man. Small, quiet, and unassuming, he had a face that blended in with the cro...

Prolific 20th-century American serial killer Albert Fish is known by many names - The Boogeyman, The Gray Man, The Werewolf of Wysteria, The Brooklyn Vampire, and The Moon Maniac. Although he claimed to have Mental health professionals determined that Fish, who had been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility in 1930, was a sadomasochistic and a pedophile. Fish regularly engaged in self-harm and later developed a propensity toward torture and From 1924 to 1932, Fish terrorized American parents and children alike with the looming threat of Photo: Fish was a sadomasochist, meaning that he craved feeling pain as well as inflicting it, and he did so for sexual gratification. Fish reportedly developed the tendency for sexual sadism throughout his At first, he would drive them in and pull them out again, but eventually, he started driving them in so far that he couldn't get them back out. After he was arrested and examined by a doctor, an X-ray showed In 1898, when he was 28, Fish wed 19-year-old Anna Mary Hoffman in a marriage his mother arranged. Hoffman had One of Fish's sons, Albert Fish, Jr., recounted the story of an afternoon where his father ruined a family outing in upstate New York during his 1935 testimony. In 1922, Fish, who reportedly suffered from hallucinations, climbed the hills of Westchester, threw his fists to the sky, and continually screamed: “I am Christ!” His erratic behavior then escalated to include a Albert Fish, Jr.reportedly knew that his father was me...

Albert Hamilton Fish was one of the most ruthless American pedophiles. Born in 1870, he was marginalized and abused from an early age, and even developed a fascination with sadomasochism. But it was as an adult that he began his crimes. His favorite victims were children from 6 to 10 years old, who suffered abuse, mutilation, and dismemberment. In the end he used to eat his victims, in an act of cannibalism. ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER ADVERTISEMENT Albert Fish’s Childhood Albert Fish’s childhood was disturbing. His father was 43 years older than his mother; when Albert was born his mother was 32 and his father was 75. In addition, his family had a huge history of mental illness. His father was a fishing boat captain, but in 1870 he was working in a fertilizer manufacturer, and during this period he died of a heart attack. Fish’s mother was left in misery, and the only way out was to send the boy to an orphanage when he was only five years old. During his time in this institution Albert was very badly treated, abused, and frequently beaten. However, the brutal and sadistic practices developed a certain fascination in Fish, and at one point he began to take pleasure in being beaten. Two years later, his mother was financially stabilized and able to take care of Albert again, but the marks of the violence suffered during her time in the orphanage were not easy to erase. At the age of nine he fell from a tree, suffered a traumatic brain injury that caused him severe headaches and...

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1 Albert Fish was also known as the Grey Man, Werewolf of Wysteria and the Boogey Man Credit: Getty Who was Albert Fish aka 'The Grey Man'? Hamilton Howard 'Albert' Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C, the youngest child of Randall and Ellen Fish. Randall was 75-years-old at the time Albert was born and 43 years older than his mother, Ellen. He spent much of his childhood in an orphanage after his father passed away, in which he was abused, until his mother could remove him in 1880. At the age of 20, Fish was married in a relationship arranged by his mother and had six children. PURE EVIL Everything we know about cannibal Andrei Chikatilo Over the next two decades he molested countless children, mostly boys under the age of six, as well as being arrested for grand larceny - for which he was incarcerated in the very prison he would die in. His crimes began to escalate when he started a relationship with a man named Thomas Kedden - Fish ended up cutting half of Kedden's penis off and tying him up for two weeks. In his confession, Fish explained that he did not kill Kedden for fear of unwanted attention, so he covered the wound with peroxide and a handkerchief and left Kedden $10. Fish's wife had left him by 1917, his mental wellbeing had deteriorated and he was having auditory hallucinations. Who was Albert Fish's victim? Fish began eating raw meat after becoming preoccupied with the thought of This quickly escalated into abducting and eating children - he claime...