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Hamilton Howard " Albert Fish " was an American serial killer, cannibal, child rapist and kidnapper. He was also popularly known as The Moon Maniac, The Werewolf of Wysteria, The Gray Man, The Brooklyn Vampire and The Boogey Man. His family had an intense history of mental illness, like his mother suffered from hallucinations and other members of his family struggled with severe mental illnesses. At least two of his family members died in asylum, even Albert was no exception from such mental disorders.
After his arrest, Fish confessed all his brutal crimes, each one of them more depraved than the last. The sinister serial killer could easily have been a believable villian in a horror movie but this was all in reality.
Albert Fish confessed his own crime to be around 100 mostly associated with killing, abducting, raping and cannibalistic serial kill to children in 1920s. He had a way with children, being kind to children and offering them candy and then lure children away from their homes, torture them in various ways, rape them and often end up eating them.
Edward Budd was an 18-year-old boy looking for farm work. Fish spotted this in an advertisement and decided to pay the family a visit. He planned to mutilate and kill Edward after luring him to do non-existent farm work. As Fish set up his trap though, he spotted Edward’s ten-year-old sister. It turned out Grace would be much more suited to his evil appetite.
Fish had visited the Budd household under the false name of Frank Howard. He told Grace’s parents that he was planning on going to his niece’s birthday party and was wondering if dear Grace would like to join him. Her poor parents consented, not knowing that watching Grace walk in hand with Fish was the last time they would ever see her.
Fish brought her to one of his houses in upstate New York and told Grace to play outside for a while. Fish undressed himself while she played, so as not to get his clothes dirty with blood, and then beckoned from a window for Grace to come inside. When Grace beheld Fish naked she began to cry and told Fish she would tell her mother. She tried to run, but Fish trapped her in a room where he proceeded to torture and kill her.
Even though Fish’s victim of choice was actually young boys, it would be this little girl who would lead to his capture. Police investigated Grace’s disappearance for six years before they found a lead. They would never guess the lead would come from Fish himself. Fish sent a gruesome letter to Grace’s mother detailing the events of her death.
He said in the letter, “First, I stripped her naked. How she did kick, bite, and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take the meat to my rooms, cook, and eat it. . . It took me 9 days to eat her entire body.”
Albert Fish confessed his own crime to be around 100 mostly associated with killing, abducting, raping and cannibalistic serial kill to children in 1920s. He had a way with children, being kind to children and offering them candy and then lure children away from their homes, torture them in various ways, rape them and often end up eating them.
Albert Fish was a suspect in at least five murders during his lifetime. He confessed three of his brutal murders that police were able to trace a known homicide, he also confessed to killing at least two other people.
Fish was arrested on December 13, 1934 and was put on a trial for the kidnapping and killing of Grace Budd. He was convicted and executed by electric chair on January 16, 1936 at the age of 65. His crimes were dramatized in the 2007 film " The gray man ", starring Patrick Bauchau as Albert Fish. Not surprisingly he was the inspiration for many fictional characters including Hannibal Lecter.
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