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Albert Fish

Intro

Common nicknames

  • Gray Man
  • Werewolf of Wysteria
  • the Brooklyn Vampire
  • the Moon Maniac
  • the Boogey Man

Childhood

Born in Washington D.C. on May 19, 1870 to Randall and Ellen Fish

  • Abandoned by parents at a young age
  • Abuse at the orphanage
  • Enjoyment from the beatings
  • Met friend at orphanage who introduced odd behaviors
  • Left the orphanage at age 9
  • Father had died while he was living as an orphan

Orphanage

Relationship

  • Arranged marriage with Anna Mary Hoffman, 9 years younger, who had 6 children together
  • 19 year old Thomas Kedden
  • Maried to Estella Wilcox for 1 week

Children

  • Forced the children into sadistic acts such as striking him with a nail-filled paddle
  • Enjoyed the pain of needles in his skin
  • Led to his self harm behaviors of impaling himself with needles

Work Life

  • Moved to New York to make a living by prostitution while molesting younger boys
  • Later became a house painter
  • Primarily African-American neighborhoods

Killings

  • Fish mainly targeted African Americans or mentally disabled children

Billy Gaffney

  • Billy was 4 years old when he was kidnapped, murdered, and never found again
  • Police didn't pay much attention
  • Francis was out playing when his friends noticed him wander
  • Found soon after in the woods brutally beaten and hung by his own suspenders

Francis McDonnell

Grace Budd

  • 10 year old Grace Budd is Fish's most notorious killings
  • Fish ofference Grace's brother, Edward a job
  • Introduced himself as Frank Howard
  • Offered to bring Grace to a child's birthday party
  • Afterwards Fish would kidnap and murder her

Backstory

Outcome

  • The search of Grace lasted 6 years with no breaks in the case
  • Letter was received by Grace's mother from Fish which described what he did with her daughter

Letter

Capture

  • The letter was able to be traced back to Albert Fish
  • Trial was on March 11, 1935
  • Attempted to plead guilty by reasons of insanity, claiming the voices and God was telling him to commit these crimes
  • During the trial he claimed to have molested or murdered over 400 victims
  • Was sentenced to death and died by electrocution 10 days after trial
  • While being x-rayed before his electrocution, there 27 pieces of metal logded into his pelvic region

Timeline

1890

Moved to New York

1910

Albert Fish committed his first attack on Kedden

November 1934

Albert Fish was arrested fro murder of Grace

January 16, 1936

Albert Fish's exocution

Timeline

Born

May 19, 1870

1898

Married Anna and had 6 kids

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