It turned out Grace would be much more suited to his evil appetite. As Fish set up his trap though, he spotted Edward’s ten-year-old sister. He planned to mutilate and kill Edward after luring him to do non-existent farm work. Fish spotted this in an advertisement and decided to pay the family a visit. This would eventually be his downfall.Įdward Budd was an 18-year-old boy looking for farm work. He developed a technique of abducting young people looking for work in the newspaper. Fish would target homeless or black children in order to ensure they were people the public didn’t notice missing. It is unclear whether he was referring to how many he ate or how many he sexually abused. When that wasn’t enough, he began abducting young children whom he would abuse, then consume.įish claimed to have “had” children in every state in the U.S. Like many budding cannibals, he began by eating raw meat. Other children were not so lucky.įish started to become preoccupied with the idea of cannibalism. Luckily, they claim that the worst Fish ever did to them was teach them mildly sadomasochistic games. Fish had regular auditory hallucinations and his children noticed his odd ways. He had six kids with a woman who later left him for a boarder of theirs once Fish became unable to conceal his mental illness. Some say this is when Fish’s homicidal urges began to emerge.Īlbert Fish develops a taste for cannibalismĭespite his deviant habits and growing signs of mental disturbance, Fish did marry. Fish wrapped Kedden’s penis in a Vaseline-lined handkerchief, tossed him a ten-dollar bill for his trouble, and kissed him goodbye. Then, just like that, Fish decided he’d had enough for the day. He tortured Kedden and even cut off half of Kedden’s penis. Ten days into their relationship, Fish locked Kedden into an abandoned farmhouse. In 1910 Fish began a sadomasochistic relationship with a house painter named Thomas Kedden. He became curious about what inflicting unwanted pain on others would be like. In 1882 his relationship with a telegraph boy led him to learn he got sexual pleasure from eating human feces and the sight or thought of urination.įish’s sexual preferences were deviant to say the least, and soon devolved into extreme BDSM gone wrong. Another fun pastime Fish had was flogging himself with a nail-studded paddle.
A favorite practice of his was to embed needles into his groin and stomach. The sexual deviance and masochism of Albert Fishįish began experimenting with sexual self-mutilation. Fish’s mother suffered regular visual hallucinations. The list went from uncles, to brothers, to sisters, to his own mother. Fish became a bonafide masochist (no pun intended).įish’s family had a long history of mental illness. When his mother eventually took him back he even administered self-afflicted beatings in his spare time, soon developing a psycho-sexual fixation on the correlation between pleasure and pain. Unlike most children, Fish grew to enjoy these beatings. Caretakers often beat the children there and they would even encourage the children to hurt each other (a tradition Fish would later bring into the lives of his own children). His mother wasn’t able to take care of Fish or his siblings, so Fish ended up in a cruel orphanage. Prepare yourself.įish’s father was 75 years old when Fish was born and died shortly after. After watching and reading about him, you may find he becomes regularly featured in your nightmares. Hamilton Howard “Albert” Fish was known by all of these ghastly names.įish was a heartless fiend of a man who raped and ate children for pleasure. If you do decide to learn more about Albert Fish, read his story with the lights on.The Gray Man, Werewolf of Wysteria, Brooklyn Vampire, Moon Maniac, The Boogey Man. If you find a good answer to my questions, do let me know. As of today, it's the #2 best-selling single on Amazon and if you're interested you can f ind it in all its formats here. In other words, I did eventually decide to write the story of Albert Fish and it was released this week as a single published by The Atavist. And they've haunted me - I still find myself wondering what decision I would have made if I'd sat on that jury and heard this tale of a madman's journey.
#ALBERT FISH SERIAL KILLER IMAGES TRIAL#
They haunted both attorneys and psychiatrists involved in the trial for decades. And here was the central question - was he crazy enough to be put away in a mental institution or did we want him to be sane enough to go to the electric chair? And what side should the scientists who study madman take in a case like this - if they take a side at all? All of those ethical complications and more rise like ghosts out of the story of Albert Fish.
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