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Альберт ФишАмериканский серийный убийца и каннибал.
Дата рождения: 19.05.1870
Страна:  США |
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America's Serial Killer and Cannibal
Albert Hamilton Fish (May 19, 1870 - January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer and cannibal. He was also known as the "Moon Maniac," "Gray Man," and "Brooklyn Vampire." Fish was charged with over a hundred cases of child molestation (although he claimed there were around four hundred). The exact number of his victims is unknown and ranges from seven to fifteen. He was also accused of the murder of Grace Budd. He was found guilty and executed by the electric chair.
Early Life and Family
Fish was born in Washington, D.C. to Randall Fish (1795-1875) and was given the name Hamilton. His father was forty-three years older than his mother, and Hamilton was the youngest in the family. At the time of his birth, he had two brothers (Walter and Edwin) and a sister (Annie). He wanted to be called "Albert," but he acquired the nickname "Ham and Eggs" in the orphanage, which stuck with him for a long time.
Many members of Fish's family suffered from mental disorders and religious mania. His father was a riverboat captain but became a fertilizer manufacturer in 1870. Randall Fish died from a heart attack at the "Sixth Street" station of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1875, and his mother sent five-year-old Albert to an orphanage. There, he was frequently beaten and whipped. Soon it was discovered that physical pain brought him pleasure, and the beatings caused him erections, which became the subject of mockery by other children. In 1879, his mother got a government job, and she could now look after her son. However, the experiences in the orphanage left an indelible mark on him. At the age of twelve, in 1882, he engaged in homosexual relationships with a young mailman who delivered telegrams. Around the same time, he began drinking urine and practicing coprophagia. Fish started to frequent public baths, where he could freely observe naked boys. This became his main leisure activity on weekends.
Adult Life and Crimes
In 1890, Fish arrived in New York to engage in prostitution, as he admitted. He also confessed to raping young boys. He continued the sexual assaults even after his mother arranged for him to get married. In 1898, he married a woman nine years younger than him. They had six children: Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John, and Henry. In 1903, he was arrested for embezzlement and sent to Sing Sing prison. During his time in prison, he engaged in sexual activities with other men.
Fish committed his first murder with Thomas Bedden (or Cadden) in Wilmington, Delaware in 1910. Later, in 1919, he killed a mentally disabled boy in Georgetown, Virginia. On July 11, 1924, Fish targeted eight-year-old Beatrice Keel, who was playing on her parents' farm on Staten Island. He promised to pay her if she accompanied him to the neighboring fields to search for rhubarb. However, Beatrice's mother prevented Fish from taking the child. He left but soon returned to the Keels' barn to spend the night. Hans Keel discovered him and ordered him to leave.
On May 25, 1928, Edward Budd placed an advertisement in the Sunday edition of the "New York World": "Young man, 18, wishes employment in the country. Edward Budd, 406 West 15th Street." On May 28, 1928, fifty-eight-year-old Fish arrived at the Budd family in Manhattan, New York, pretending to be Frank Howard, a farmer from Farmingdale, New York, looking to hire Edward. There, he met ten-year-old Grace. Fish promised to hire Budd and convinced her parents, Delia Flanagan and Albert Budd, to let Grace go with him to her sister's birthday celebration. Grace had a sister named Beatrice and two younger brothers, Albert Jr. and George. Fish left with Grace that day and never returned. On September 5, 1930, the police arrested Charles Edward Pope on suspicion of kidnapping the child. This sixty-six-year-old caretaker was accused by his own wife, with whom he was living separately. He spent one hundred and eight days in custody until his trial on December 22, 1930.
