Biography
A man known to the world named Albert Fish was the first officially recognized serial killer, sexy maniac and cannibal. The desire to cause and experience the pain was pushed by Washington's native to bloody crimes, victims of which in the 1910-1930s, according to unconfirmed information, were from 100 to 500 children, but only 3 cases remain proven until now.The trial and execution on an electric chair became a landmark event for the inhabitants of the United States. Subsequently, the story of Fisha was lit in the gray man's art film and the television series "ALENIST", created based on the Caleb Caleb book of the same name.
Childhood and youth
Biography Albert Fish began in Washington on May 19, 1870. At birth, the boy appeared in the family of a 75-year-old father and a 32-year-old mother, received the name Hamilton, which in childhood he absolutely did not like.
After the death of the parent who worked as captain of the river shipping, a boy, the former younger of four children, was placed in the orphanage of St. John. There he often suffered violence and received a humiliating scrambled egg with ham, which pursued him for many years. Suddenly, Fish began to enjoy pain himself and the lessons specifically answered wrong, seeking different types of corporal punishments.
By 1880, the mother, who buried her husband in the grave at the Washington Cemetery and gained a job in a state-owned company, discovered auditory and visual hallucinations, and later other family members were diagnosed with mental disorder. This did not prevent the reunion with the son, which she gained bad habits in the shelter and delivered relatives a lot of trouble.
Alberta began to take the use of human excrement and peeping behind bare boys, mowed in a public bath near the house. In addition, he wrote obscene letters to women, the names and addresses of which recognized from a newspaper column of marriage agencies, and entered into sexual relationship with the young men who worked by the postal service courier.
Crime
The family, formerly not perfect, hurried to get rid of his son with such inclinations, and in 1890, Hamilton, who changed his name to Albert, moved to New York. There, earning a life of prostitution, the young man first began to pester the boys and committed several sexual crimes. And after an unsuccessful meeting with the cropped partner Fishe, the passion for applying the injury.In the early 1900s, the obscene activity of Albert took a cover, and he got a job as a handyman and a malarier. In 1903, a man was arrested for theft of property from a warehouse, on which he performed the responsibilities of the loader and the storekeeper.
Once in the Sing Sing prison, Fish did not have a shortage of attention from other prisoners and could satisfy his own needs in the way to which it was used yet in his youth. For 2 years, the offender changed a dozen partners and, having passed on the will, immediately felt the spiritual and physical emptiness.
Until 1910, Albert was not observed in anything reprehensible, although, knowing about his inclinations, it was difficult to believe in it. Most likely, the homosexual continued to rapt the boys, but the victims preferred to silence about what happened and did not appeal to the police.
The criminal himself spoke about bullying over the 19-year-old Thomas Kedden, who was a mental disabled person and at first voluntarily engaged in Sadomazochist relations with a 40-year-old partner. But this was not enough, and Fish took a young man to the farm and after torture, which lasted 2 weeks, a sharp knife cut off half the penis of the bound victim. On this "bloody novel" ended, and Albert was brought away from the crippled body of a young man.
At the end of the 1910s, auditory hallucinations began at Fish, the need caused pain to themselves. Following the instructions of the Apostle John, he stuck in the body of the needle and slapped on the buttocks of the studded board. Following this, there was a craving for cannibalism, satisfied by the preparation of dishes from raw meat.
However, this did not compensate for the passion for living people, and in 1919 Albert committed the following from famous murders. The sacrifice was the mentally backward guy from Georgetown, severely coated with a meat knife. In the hope that no one will declare the disappearance of a disabled person, FISH has developed a scheme according to which he chose an infallible people and preferred "to anyone not necessary African Americans." Sometimes he gave money to children from prosperous families, and they led to a massacre of street street boys.
Subsequently, sex victims ceased to matter, and the maniac began to hunt the daughters of farmers in the nearby surroundings of New York. In the summer of 1924, Fish from the second attempt was kidnapped by the girl Beatris Kil and killed her with the help of a knife and saws, which were regarded as "instrument guns."
In 1928, the bloody list was replenished with a 10-year-old Grace Badd, which parents themselves went for a walk with the unfamiliar Farmer Frank Howard, in fact that the serial killer and maniac. In the abduction, the manager of Charles Edward Poor was suspected, and Albert escaped his pursuit and, as always, was released dry from the water.
Personal life
The personal life of Albert Fish is represented by a few facts, according to which his first wife was 19-year-old Anna Mary Hoffman, who became the mother of the maniac's six children. In 1917, the woman traded the criminal at the neighbor in the house, and Albert had to bring up minor sons and daughters alone.
By fulfilling his father's debt, Fish rather gently did his own offspring and only occasionally asked the boys and their friends to spank his board, covered with nails. And after the killer became a cannibal, the children began to receive dishes from raw meat of unknown for lunch.
Externally, the life of an inferior family seemed quite decent and did not cause suspicion of homeowners and neighbors around the apartment. Albert was an ordinary elderly man, and from his side could be taken for a clerk, accountant or secretary. In 1930, this image deceived a woman named Estela Wilcox, and she remained with a murderer in the status of a legitimate spouse during the week.
Investigation and conclusion
7 years after the crime, FISH wrote a letter to the luckless parents and in all details described the last day of the life of the baby Grace, who died from suffocation, and then was cut into parts and eaten.By the luck of the circumstances of the police, the police managed to attack the trail of the cruel killer and cannibal, and in 1935 the authorities arrested the Fisha recently freed from psychiatric hospital, where he was due to a ridiculous obscene letter.
The criminal voluntarily drove into the site, at the entrance itself attacked a police officer, but during the interrogation did not renounce the murder of Grace Budd. Enjoying a story about the crime, Albert said that he planned to return to the older brothers of the girl and would definitely fulfill the conceived if not an unexpected arrest.
The police learned about the rest of the victims after the publication of the Manyak photography on the first pages of American newspapers. Journalists dubbed the Fish with different nicknames, the most common of which was the gray ghost, Visteria Visteria, Bougi and Brooklyn vampire.
Relatives of missing children got acquainted with the information and went to law enforcement agencies to give testimony on these cases. It turned out that in 1924, Fish raped, I was overworked and hung Francis H. McDonnell, and in 1927, Bill Gaffni became his victim, the body of which detectives did not find it.
Court and death penalty
The trial in the case of the serial killer began on March 11, 1935, the meetings took place within 10 days. Albert confessed to the murder of Grace Budd, but rejected accusations in other crimes.
Referring to mental disorder and auditory hallucinations, the maniac hoped that he was recognized as insane, but the jury and judge Frederick P. Clouz did not leave a chance to salvation and sentenced the Fish to the death penalty on an electric chair.
In the last word, Albert admitted to McDonnell and Gaffni murders and spent the rest of his life in a single Sing Sing Prison Camera. On January 16, 1936, the verdict was carried out, and the cause of the death of the serial maniac began to stop the heart under the action of alternating electric current.
The last days of the criminal are mentioned in the documentary film "Albert Fish: in sin he found salvation", where in addition to real history, an interview with experts from Joe Coleman and Catherine Ramsland were used.
Victims
Proved
- 1924 - Francis McDonelle (8 years old)
- 1927 - Bill Gaffni (4 years)
- 1928 - Grace Budd (10 years old)
Estimated
- 1927 - Yetta Abramovich (12 years old)
- 1932 - Mary Ellen O'Connor (16 years old)
- 1932 - Benjamin Collings (17 years)