Albert Fish’s real name is Hamilton Howard “Albert” Fish. He was born on May 19,1870. He was a serial killer. He enjoyed rapping little boys and eating them, he had a child in every state. Every member in his family suffered from severe mental illnesses and so did he also. His father was 43 years older than his mother and was 75 years old when Albert was born.

He lived a very rough childhood. He was in an orphanage until the age of nine. Albert had gotten beaten daily and once he started enjoying the pain that is what triggered what he did. When he was 10 years old his mother had a government job that helped him get out of the orphanage. He was the youngest out of three: Walter, Annie, and Edwin. Everyone in his family had a history of a …show more content…
The man's name was John Straube and he was a handyman who boarded with the Fish family. That left Albert to raise all his children all on his own. She had taken everything the family had owned and after that he started to have hallucinations. After having all these hallucinations, he started to harm himself; he embed needles inside of into his groin and abdomen. When this was happening he started to develop a taste for raw meat. which he would eat for dinner. This is what opened his final perversion of cannibalism. He would whack himself with a nail paddle and even drenched with lighter fluid into his …show more content…
He tortured, mutilated, and killed the young children with his so called thing”implements of hell”: a meat cleaver, a butcher knife, and a very small handsaw. In one case, Albert, 52 years old, answered an ad from Mr. Dudd, who was looking for some work in the country. Then he had visited the family in Manhattan, which he introduced himself as the farmer. Once he had settled in, he asked for Edward on who he planned to kill. All of his plans changed when he met Edward’s daughter, Grace. Albert offered to take 10 year old Grace to his niece’s birthday party. He left with Grace and they were never heard from again. About six years later, the Dudd family received a letter in the mail describing this man's desire for cannibalism and some other crimes he had done with younger children. Later on in the letter this anonymous person was talking about the death of Grace Dudd and consuming her flesh. the Dudd family had no evidence that it was from the killer of their daughter. But the police had traced it down to some house, where Albert was