Albert Fish Early Life

Albert Fish was born in Washington D.C. on May 19, 1870. Fish was the youngest child and he had three living siblings. His christened name was Hamilton Fish but went by Albert, the name of a dead brother. Fish spent from the day he was born, lived at an orphanage until his mother picked him up at the age of ten. Two years later, things changed for Albert Fish at the age of 12. He was in a secretive relationship with a boy who was the one that introduced him into paraphilia. By the age of twenty he moved to New York, and became a prostitute, but in his free time he would sexually assaulted young boys whenever he could. In 1898 things settled down when his mother had arranged a marriage for him. Once married Albert and his wife had six children
Fish went and visited the family home in Manhattan. He introduced himself as a farmer and asked for Edward. At this time Albert had planned to lure away and slaughter Edward and his friend that offered to help out at the farm, but Albert quickly changed his plans to then kill them both, however, when he met young Grace Budd all of that had changed. Grace was only 10 years old, so Albert asked if he can take Grace to his niece's birthday party when in reality he was taking her away to kill, but her parents didn't know so they agreed to letting her go. It took about six years just to find out what happens when a letter showed up talking about a past, but then halfway through the letter it starts talking about Grace and what that author did to her. There is no reason to why the author would come out and say this. With this letter the police opened the case and went looking to find where this letter came from. The police traced the address on the letter back to where Albert Fish was living, and they arrested him. Here is an excerpt of the letter to the Budd's
Albert actually confessed to killing Grace Budd. Later on while waiting for trial, they found another letter that describes the killing of Billy Gaffney in very descriptive detail. Here is an excerpt of the account of eating Billy Gaffney. “Next day about 2 P.M., I took tools, a good heavy cat-of-nine tails. Home made. Short handle. Cut one of my belts in half, slit these halves in six strips about 8 inches long. I whipped his bare behind till the blood ran from his legs. I cut off his ears -- nose --slit his mouth from ear to ear. Gouged out his eyes. He was dead then. I stuck the knife in his belly and held my mouth to his body and drank his blood.” this is from paragraph two of the letter. After Albert's trial, he also made another confession which led the police to finding another