1. Albert Fish
(May 19, January 16,1936)

2. Early Life Born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C.
Named Hamilton originally, but requested to be called Albert after a dead sibling to escape his nickname “Ham and Eggs”
He had three siblings : Walter, Annie, and Edwin
In 1875 his father died of a heart attack and his mother put him in an orphanage
He was frequently whipped and beaten at the orphanage and he discovered he enjoyed physical pain
His mother got a job and took him back in 1879
By 1890 he had moved to new York city, become a male prostitute, and started raping young boys
In 1898 his mother arranged for him to marry a woman and they had six children
Then He started working as a painter
In 1917 His wife left him for their border, John Straube

3. Warning Signs
In 1875 fish was placed in an orphanage and was frequently whipped and beaten
At the age of 12 he started a homosexual relationship with a telegraph boy
His boyfriend introduced him to practices like drinking urine and coprophagia (eating feces)
Fish started visiting public baths so he could watch boys undress
In 1890 he moved to new York and became a male prostitute and started raping young boys, which continued even after his marriage
He was arrested in1903 for grand larceny
After 1903 he was arrested six more times for sending obscene letters and petty theft
He established a relationship with a mentally disabled man and attempted to tie him up and castrate him but the man got scared and ran
After this fish began frequenting brothels so he could be whipped and beaten
He played a “game” with his children where they would spank him with a wooden plank
After his wife left he started hearing voices – ex. He would wrap himself in a carpet and say he was following the instructions of John the Apostle

4. Crimes Committed Billy Gaffney Grace Budd
Fish pretended he had a farm and hired Edward Budd and took his 10-year- old little sister to a party
She was never seen again
Seven years later he sent a letter to the Budds describing how he murdered and ate her
Fish later took the police to her body
Billy Gaffney
4-year-old Billy and a friend were playing in the hallway outside of his apartment when they disappeared
The friend was found alive on the roof
When asked where Billy was he said, “ The Boogey Man took him.”
A Motorman came forward and identified Fish
The body was never recovered

5. Grace Budd

6. Capture
In November 1934, seven years after Grace Budd’s disappearance a letter was delivered to the Budd household
It included every detail of Grace’s murder
The letter came in an Envelope that had a small hexagonal emblem accompanied by the letters N.Y.P.C.B.A
The Police tracked this to the “New York Private Chauffeur's Benevolent Association”
A janitor that worked there said he had left some of their stationary at a boarding house he used to live at
The lead investigator waited outside the house until he returned and asked him to go in for questioning
Fish pulled razor blades on him and was arrested

7. Evidence
The letter sent to The Bud Family led back to Fish’s residence
Billy’s friend provided a description of Fish
Joseph Meehan, a motorman on a Brooklyn trolley, saw a picture of Fish in the newspaper and identified him as the old man that he saw February 11, 1927 struggling to control Billy
Fish took the police to the remains of Grace Budd
Fish’s confession after sentencing to the murders of Grace, Billy, and Francis

8. Convictions Crime Date Victim(s) Punishment
1st Degree Murder in White Plains,
New York
March 21st 1935
Grace Budd
Death by Electrocution

9. Confessions
After receiving the death sentence, Albert Fish confessed the following things
when he answered Mr. Budd’s add for employment Mr. Budd was his original target and he was going to lure him somewhere remote, castrate him, and let him bleed to death. But after he saw Grace he was overcome by his “blood Thirst” and had to kill her
He also raped and killed 8-year-old Francis X. McDonnell
However, he didn’t confess to killing Billy Gaffney until his mother pleaded with him to tell her what happened to him…
He told her that he whipped him until the blood ran down his legs, cut off his ears and nose, gouged out his eyes, and slit his mouth ear to ear before Billy finally died
Then he cut him into small pieces and threw those into small pools of water beside the road so no one could ever find him
After he finished telling Billy’s mother what he did to him, Fish told her that he was the tastiest Jerky he’d ever had

10. Quotes

11. Nicknames
The Gray Man The Brooklyn Vampire The Boogeyman The Werewolf of Wysteria

12. Cultural References Movies: Songs: “Fish” – by Tyler, The Creator
“27 Needles” – By John 5
“Smell The Children” – By Evil Anger
“Human Consumption” – By Necro: “Albert Fish his fetish for individual mastarcation was his equivilant to masturbation they're looking for people to kill essentially for drills”
Trailer:
Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)

13. Theory Of Deviance
Albert Fish follows the Differential-Association Theory of Deviance. This Theory states that people’s behavior is largely determined by the company they keep. This means that the illegal behavior they are practicing was learned from interaction with others. Although Albert Fish is an inhumane, cruel man, his behavior was learned from others. Fish began learning criminal behavior in the orphanage. He was regularly beat at the orphanage, which taught him it was okay to abuse children. Later in Life, this theory continues when Fish had a boyfriend that encouraged him to practice Coprophagia and drinking urine. This ultimately proved to him that food can be derived from the human body. However, one of the greatest influences on him was shown to us in a letter he wrote to Mrs. Budd. He says he has a friend who went to China in Food was scarce over there so people started selling and eating children under fourteen years old. Fish continues on to say that his friend stayed so long in China that he developed a taste for human flesh. His friend kept saying hoe good it was so Fish decided to go out and try it. Overall, All these influences on Fish helped mold him into one of the most horrible criminals in history.