Know as "The Gray Man," "The Werewolf of Wystoria," and “The Brooklyn Vampire,"
Albert Fish abused, ate, and murdered three children in New York City from 1924 to 1928, with several more suspected victims. In a letter to 10-year-old victim Grace Budd's family, Fish stated it took him "nine days to eat her entire body" as well as saying she tasted "sweet and tender."
Albert Fish’s life was marked by a childhood of hardship and abuse. Born Hamilton Howard Albert Fish to parents Randall and Ellen Fish in 1870, his father, a riverboat captain, passed away when Fish was only five years old. His mother, unable to support him financially, sent Fish to Saint John’s orphanage in Washington, where he was subjected to harsh discipline and cruelty. This exposure to violence and pain at such a young age played a significant role in shaping the serial killer he would become.
Fish’s sadistic tendencies began to manifest at a young age. When he was 10 years old, his mother managed to withdraw him from the orphanage after securing a job. However, the trauma Fish had endured had already left an indelible mark on his psyche.
He began to associate pain with pleasure, resorting to self-mutilation as an outlet for his misery. This psychosexual fixation on the correlation between pleasure and pain would later become a defining characteristic of his heinous crimes.
Mental illness was prevalent in the Fish family, with at least seven members identified as suffering from severe mental disorders, and two of them reportedly dying in mental asylums. Fish’s uncle suffered from regular bouts of religious mania, and his mother experienced extreme visual hallucinations. This familial predisposition to mental illness, combined with Fish’s traumatic childhood experiences, contributed to the development of his warped mind.
The following is the letter that Fish sent anonymously to Grace Budd’s mother after killing and eating the little girl. This is the document that eventually led to the murderer’s arrest.
It was pretty difficult to read the whole thing. It was one of the most fucked up things I have ever read.
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