Several years later, around 1910, Fish was working in Wilmington, Delaware, when he met a 19-year-old man named Thomas Kedden. X-ray of Fish's pelvis and perineum, introduced as evidence at his trial, demonstrating more than two dozen self-embedded needlesįish later recounted an incident in which a male lover took him to a wax museum, where he was fascinated by a bisection of a human penis and subsequently became obsessed with sexual mutilation.
In 1903, Fish was arrested for grand larceny, convicted, and incarcerated in Sing Sing. They had six children: Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John, and Henry Fish. In 1898, Fish's mother arranged a marriage for him with Anna Mary Hoffman, who was nine years his junior. There he engaged in male prostitution and began molesting and raping boys, mostly younger than six years old. 1890–1918: Early adulthood and criminal historyīy 1890, at age 20, Fish moved to New York City. Throughout his life, he would write obscene letters to women whose names he acquired from classified advertising and matrimonial agencies.
Fish began visiting public baths where he could watch other boys undress, spending a great portion of his weekends on these visits. The youth introduced Fish to such practices as urolagnia (drinking urine) and coprophagia (eating feces). In 1882, at age 12, he began a relationship with a telegraph boy. īy 1880, Fish's mother secured a government job and was able to remove Fish from the orphanage. Fish began to enjoy the physical pain that the beatings brought. Fish's mother then put her son into Saint John's Orphanage in Washington, where he was frequently physically abused.
Congressional Cemetery records show that he died on October 16 and was buried on October 19, in grave R96/89. įish's father, a fertilizer manufacturer and former river boat captain, suffered a fatal heart attack at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in 1875. Three other relatives were diagnosed with mental illnesses, and his mother had "aural and/or visual hallucinations". His uncle had mania, one of his brothers was confined in a state mental hospital, a paternal half brother, Lafayette (1824-1871) suffered from schizophrenia, and his sister Annie was diagnosed with a "mental affliction". įish's family had a history of mental illness. He wished to be known as "Albert" after a dead sibling and to escape the nickname "Ham & Eggs" that he was given at an orphanage in which he spent much of his childhood. Fish was the youngest child and had three living siblings: Walter, Annie, and Edwin. His father was forty-three years older than his mother and aged 75 at the time of his birth. Fish's father was American, of English ancestry, and his mother was Scots-Irish American. Early lifeĪlbert Fish was born in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 1870, to Randall (1795 – October 16, 1875) and Ellen (née Howell 1838– c. He was convicted and executed by electric chair on January 16, 1936, at the age of 65.
#BLOBERT FISH TRIAL#
įish was apprehended on December 13, 1934, and put on trial for the kidnapping and murder of Grace Budd. However, it is not known whether he was referring to rapes or cannibalization, nor is it known if the statement was truthful. Fish once boasted that he "had children in every state", and at one time stated his number of victims was about 100. He confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide, and he confessed to stabbing at least two other people. įish was a suspect in at least five murders during his lifetime. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man.
#BLOBERT FISH SERIAL#
Hamilton Howard " Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester, and cannibal who committed at least three child murders from July 1924 to June 1928.
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