A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold to the Butchers to be cut up and sold for food in order to keep others from starving. Meat of any kind was from $1 to 3 Dollars a pound. At that time there was a famine in China. On arriving there he and two others went ashore and got drunk. They sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong China. “In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the steamer Tacoma, Capt John Davis. However, when he started exploring cannibalism he cooked meals of raw meat for himself, and at times the children. For the most part, his kids weren’t overtly harmed. He also encouraged his kids to paddle him. He also practiced lighting his anus on fire and paddling himself with a nail-studded paddle. A set of X-rays from when he was arrested, showed 29 needles inside his pelvic region.
He started self-harming, exploring his masochistic urges. Auditory hallucinations followed and had him convinced that John the Apostle was instructing him to do strange things like wrapping himself up in a floor rug. This could have contributed to his mental health decline. Fish was arrested for grand larceny in 1903 and was incarcerated in a Sing Sing prison.įish’s wife left him in 1917 and he was forced into single parenthood over their multiple children. Other legal trouble seemed to follow him around this time as well. After seeing a bisected penis his tastes grew to include sexual mutilation. His family life did not change him in the slightest, the opposite, in fact. This continued even after his mother arranged a marriage for him and they had started their family. He raped and molested many young boys, usually under the age of 6. At 20, he moved to New York City where he became a prostitute and a sexual predator. After this, he started going to pubic baths and watching the boys there. The boyfriend introduced him to practices like urolagnia and coprophagia . Sexual FetishesĪ few years later, when he was 12 years old, he had his first boyfriend. His mother got a job that enabled her to move him back home with her. Fish wasn’t in the orphanage for very long. While there, Fish was often beaten and whipped which he enjoyed…sexually. It can be assumed that the rough 1800’s conditions of the orphanage were not any help. From what we know today, thanks to psychology about trauma and certain mental illnesses being hereditary, it’s not very surprising. An older, deceased sibling was apparently named “Albert” and Hamilton decided to take his brother’s name to escape a nickname that was given to him when his mom made him spend time at an orphanage: “Ham and Eggs.”Īt the orphanage, Hamilton started showing some signs of mental illness. He was the youngest child of three living siblings, Annie, Edwin, and Walter. For starters, His mother was 43 years the junior of her husband. The family dynamic was rather interesting. Sitemap Page was generated in 0.Albert Fish was born Hamilton Fish in the late 1870s. Richard Speck, A New Kind of Mass Murderer.Timothy Jay Vafreades, The Vampire Trucker.Rodney Alcala, Winner of The Dating Game.Harpe Brothers of the American Frontier.Charles Ng & Leonard Lake, Family Slayers.Alexander Pichushkin, Chessboard Killer.Henry Howard Holmes, The Devil in the White City.Due to the perverse nature of his crimes, Fish is regarded as one of American history’s most infamous killers. The thrice-married Fish was a father of six himself. In 1936, New York State executed Fish via the electric chair, and the infamous child killer died at age 65. He often targeted young boys and girls, as well as mentally disabled teens. As a traveling house painter, Fish’s profession allowed him to commit crimes outside of New York City. Prior to his final arrest in December 1934, Fish had a criminal record dating back to 1903, when authorities arrested him on multiple counts of grand larceny.įrom 1924 to 1932, Fish terrorized American parents and children alike with the looming threat of The Boogeyman. Fish regularly engaged in self-harm and later developed a propensity toward torture and cannibalism. Mental health professionals determined that Fish, who had been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility in 1930, was a sadomasochistic and a pedophile. After her death, he penned a letter to her parents, detailing how he consumed her remains for the next week and a half. In 1928, Fish abducted and strangled the girl. Although he claimed to have 400 victims, Fish was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of 10-year-old Gracie Budd. 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.
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