Who is Albert Fish?
Albert Fish was born in Washington DC, May 19th, 1870. He was one of the most famous serial killers who was also a cannibal and a pedophile. Albert was known as the Grey Man and Werewolf of Wisteria, possibly also the Brooklyn Vampire. During his lifetime he only confirmed a few crimes that he had committed, but the estimated total was much more. After being caught, everyone who had known him all said he looked like a very nice old man, they couldn’t believe he would commit so many such terrible crimes. Finally, Albert's life ended on January 16, 1936.
How did Albert Fish became a serial killer?
Albert Fish's father was 43 years older than his mother, and he had three other siblings. When he was young, under the influence of his previous experiences in his childhood, he began to fall in love with a telegraph boy, who introduced paraphilic practices to him, such as urolagnia and coprophagia. He began to enjoy going to the public bathhouse to watch the boys undress. At the age of 20, he set off for New York, where he committed his first crimes. In New York, he started raping young boys, we don't have a definitive number. He married Estella Wilcox in 1930, but they divorced in one week. Later he married three more times, but sources mentioned he didn’t really divorce with his first wife, so the other three marriages were illegal. But even though he was married, he didn't have any change and still continued to commit more crimes. The kind-faced demon uses the name "Frank Howard" to approach Budd's family, abduct their daughter, then kill and eat her.
How many people did he murdered in total?
Albert Fish is a convicted murderer who likes to lie so much that he boasted that he had children in every state. This may or may not be true, but if it's true, then he killed over 100 children. To date, Albert has confessed to only five crimes: the murder of Grace Budd, Billy Gaffney, Francis X. McDonnell, and two others that were stabbed by him.
Where and why did he mutilate the victims?
According to Albert’s words, he didn't even know why he committed those horrible crimes, he said “you know, I never could account for it." After Albert spoke with a doctor for three hours, Albert Fish was called “psychopathic personality without a psychosis.” The old man used his kind appearance to deceive those innocent children and even the adults, lured them away with him, then brutally killed them and ate them.
What was Albert Fish's ending and how was he caught?
It was a letter Albert sent to Grace Budd's mother after he killed her that gave the police a clue. Since Albert gave Grace's parents a false address and name before he took her away, the police didn't have a clue at first who Frank Howard was. But the police used his handwriting on the letter and a small hexagonal emblem that was on the letter that had the letters NYPCBA to identify and eventually caught him. Albert is finally executed by electrocution at Sing Sing prison.