Albert Fish

Youth

Albert Fish was born Albert Hamilton Fish the May 19th 1870, with Washington D.C, from Randall Fish, was born in the Maine, and from Ellen Fish, born in Ireland. Albert Fish will declare later that its family had a long past of mentally ills. It is youngest of the four children of the couple, Walters, Annie and Eldwin. Randall died in 1875 with Washington D.C. Albert will say later that his/her mother, incompetent to deal with him, put it in an orphanage where he was whipped and beaten.

In 1890, Albert Fish will settle with New York, where he becomes house painter. It Marie in 1898 with Anna, nine years its junior. The couple will have six children: Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John and Henry. It Marie also in 1930 with Estella Wilcox, to divorce one week later.

He is stopped in May 1930 to have " envoy a letter obscene with a black woman who had answered an advertisement to be woman of ménage".

Psychiatric profile

It is sent between 1930 and 1931 to the psychiatric hospital of Bellevue for observation, because of the reasons for its arrests. Albert Fish claims to have wandered through the the United States, assassinating at least a person in each twenty-three state which he visited, as other victims which he crossed at the time of his voyage, although this declaration is not supported by the known documents of its life.

The doctors having examined it declared that it was sadomasochistic: he delivered himself to the Auto-mutilation, was introduced needles into the body, most of the time around his genitals. Albert Fish says that it had tried to put a needle in his Scrotum but that they were too painful, and it had needles inserted in the basin. It introduced also balls of cotton soaked with gasoline into its Rectum for then putting fire at it. He also whipped himself to blood with a truffée board of nails. During its execution, the authorities had to be caught there with twice because the first made trip the chair because of the needles in its posterior.

It was said that it consumed not only the flesh of its victims, but also their urine, their blood and their excrements. One allotted these tendencies to the ill-treatments which it accepted during childhood. He also declared that God gave him “missions” to kill.

Its murders often included/understood a long torture before the setting with died of its victim. He attached the children and whipped them with a belt cut to half with nails stuck inside for " to tenderize the flesh for the cuisine". He called his instruments (Scie, Hachoir, various Couteau X) the " instruments of the Hell ".

Crimes

Budd grace

The May 28th 1928, Albert Fish returns visit in Budd to Manhattan. He answered an advertisement of hiring of a 18 year old young man, Edouard Budd. With the apartment of Budd, Albert Fish finds Edouard perfect, but then it meets his young 10 year old sister, Grace.

Albert Fish promises to rent Edouard and to send it for him in a few days, and while waiting he convinces Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let Grace accompany it with an organized festival the evening even at his place. He leaves with Grace the very same day, but will never return.

In November 1934, an anonymous letter is sent to the parents of Grace, who had already carried out the police force towards Albert Fish. The letter here is the translation, the spelling errors and the grammatical errors made by Albert Fish are corrected there:

“Dear Mrs Budd. In 1894, one of my friends embarked on the Tacoma vapor of the captain John Davis, energy of San Francisco to HongKong. While arriving, it left enivrer in company two friends. On their return, the boat had left. The famine prevailed at that time. The meat cost $1-3 per book. The famine was such as the poor sold their child of less than 12 years like butcher's meat. A 14 year old young person was not in safety in the street. All the shops sold this roasted meat or pulp. Members of the child were brought and you could choose the part which was appropriate to you. The buttocks were the parts more the appraisals and sold out of escalopes were most expensive. John remained in these places so much a long time that it developed a taste for the human flesh. On its return to New York, he kidnapped two young boys of 7 and 11 years. He attached them at his place of locking up them in a wall cupboard. Then it burned all their clothing. Several times per day, he tortured them in order to tenderize their flesh. He killed the 11 year old boy, because he had the fleshiest buttocks. He cooked and ate all the parts except for the bones of cranium and the entrails. He roasted with the furnace (buttocks), was boiled, roasted, fried, and prepared out of soup. The same fate waited young person. At this period, I lived to the 409 Is 100e street. He so much often praised me the delights of the human flesh that I decided to taste some. On Sunday, June 3, 1928, I called you to the 406 West of the 15th street. I brought a pot of strawberry to you to the cream. We lunched together. Grace sat down on my knees and embraced me. I fixed my choice on it. To the pretext to take it along of to a festival, you said that it could go there. I took it along in a house to Westchester which I had just rented. I asked him to remain outside. It gathered flowers. I am assembled on the floor and removed my clothing. If I did not do it, I knew that blood was going to stain them. When any ready barrel, I called it by the window. Then I hid in the wall cupboard until it enters the room. When it my considering naked, it started to cry and tried to flee by the staircase. I caught it, it says that it would complain with its mom. Initially, I stripped it. As it gave kicks, bit and scratched, I strangled it, then cut out of small pieces so that I can take along the meat in my rooms. I cooked it and ate. Its small buttocks were tender after having been roast. That took 9 days to me to eat it in entirety. I did not kiss it, even if I regretted it. She died virgin. ”

A great number of specialists in the behavior are leaning on this existence out of the commun run and all consider this individual, initiate with the Masturbation as of the 5 years age, and attracted by the Sadomasochisme two years later, like one of the largest perverts of the history of the crime. Its sadomasochistic behavior extreme (it fit pins in the testicles…) perhaps from a damage to the frontal Lobe of its brain resulted.

Among its hobbies, he said that he wanted to eat human flesh the days of full moon, he was introduced carrots and sausages in the Anus before eating them, he was also introduced there the cottons soaked with gasoline before putting fire at it.

Method of criminal

One does not know exactly how much victims it has with its credit. Itself acknowledged a hundred with the investigators of it. Although he was judged only for sixteen proven crimes, the examining magistrate charged with its file regarded this figure as highly probable.

Its psychiatrist of the time, Dr. Fredric Wertham, with which Albert Fish tied relationships of trust real and major, thinks that this number exceeded four hundreds, which, in this case, would propel this cannibal eater of children to the row of the largest criminal of all times.

Its technique is about always the same one. It allures the children in their offering candies or some coins. Its capacity of seduction on the children is real and it takes them along without too much difficulty in given up cellars, houses, withdrawn places located in advance, and of course, at his place when it is possible.

It reduces them to the impotence either by attaching them, or by mutilating them before violating them, beating them, and finally to kill them. Often he tortures them several days of continuation before completing them.

He muzzles them only when he considers his safety concerned, because says he, “I prefer much to hear them howl of pain and terror. ”. He preferably chooses his small victims among the black population of the ghettos because he noticed that the authorities hardly worry about the disappearance of black children.

Crimes

Among the multitude of atrocities which are shelled with the wire of the audiences, let us raise certain cases,

- extract of a letter sent to the parents of Billy Gaffney, one of its victims: " I whipped it until blood runs on its legs, I cut the ears and the nose, increased the mouth from one ear to another, left the eyes of the orbits. (...) Inserted the knife in the belly and placed my mouth there to drink blood. Then, I dismembered it, and I cut the trunk above the navel, and the legs with approximately five centimetres in lower part of sound behind. After I sliced the head, the feet, the arms and the legs above the knee. (...) I returned at home by carrying meat, my pieces preferred, his sex, his kidneys, and delicious small behind good grassouillet to roast it with the furnace and to devour it. I prepared a ragout with his ears, his nose, of the pieces of face and the belly. I put at it onions, carrots, turnips, celery. They was good! The buttocks, I cut them into two, and put on a dish with on each thin strap of bacon. (...) I poured one half-liter of water for the juice of sauce before putting onions at it. (...) With regular intervals, I sprinkled juice its behind with a spoon out of wooden so that the meat is juicy. (...) Jamais I did not eat a roast turkey which was the half also excellent only this delicious small bottom grassouillet. (...) I ate some during four days. On the other hand, its small testicles were too hard. I was not able to chew them. I threw them in the toilets. (...) "

- Budd Grace, 10 years:

It " emprunte" the young girl with her parents, making them accept a festival of birthday, they will never re-examine again their child.

He takes along the young girl with him to the station and both take the train for Westchester. Arrived at destination, they go to Greenbourgh. Albert Fish has located for a long time there a house with the variation, close to a wood, given up for several years.

Since the morning, it carries on him a package. It is what it calls " itself; instruments of the enfer" : a saw, a mincer and a knife to bone butcher.

While the young girl picking some flowers in the garden, it goes up to the first, strips herself to avoid the splashes of blood and calls it by the window. It goes up. Immediately, it seizes, beats it, strangles it then bleeds it.

It collects the blood which squirts throat in an old can of twenty liters. It divides then the body in three: the head, and the trunk divided into two on the level of the navel. It takes a few pieces of flesh on the front armlevers and returns at his place to prepare them with carrots and potatoes, not without to have added a bubble in cube.

During more than one week, it will turn over the every day to the abandoned house to restock itself with human flesh and organs, which it brings back to its residence and eats after preparation, lengthened on its bed. At the end of a few days, the scattered corpse of the little girl starts with faisander and of the hundreds of flies make their works there. No importance, it ceases varying the receipts. " These meals put to me in a state of orgasm perpétuel."

It will send a letter at the éplorée mother of the victim describing her motivations and the origin of its taste for the human flesh.

Arrest and revelation of the crimes

The spokesperson of the police force admits that Albert Fish was questioned on several occasions on disappearances of children, but that it forever really suspecté. " It was routine, it had the so inoffensive air… " " This man is not insane, not dangerous for the company with premium accesses, even if it has a personality psychopathe to sexual character… "

The newspapers break out: " Not dangerous, this man who walks while howling: " Happy is that which crashes to pieces cranium of small the enfants" or " One needs that I sacrifice children, like Abraham his son Isaac, to make me forgive my pêchés."

The occupation of psychiatrist knew during a few months in the United States a strong fall of consideration. In spite of the obvious traces of its complete mental disorganization, it was carried out on the electric chair the January 16th 1936 and one due to begin again itself there with 2 times because of short-circuits caused by the needles which it had planted in its body.

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