
Albert would then start to act very strange after this. Fish stated that when his wife had left him, she had took nearly every possession that they had ever owned. The kids would recall that Albert Fish would ask them to play a sadomasochistic game with him which involved him asking the children to paddle him with a nail filled paddle until blood would run down his legs. So after she left with Straube, Fish would then have to raise their six children as a single parent. January of 1917, Fish’s wife would leave him for a John Straube whom was a handyman who boarded with the Fish family. Never heard what become of him, or tried to find out.” Fish would then be quoted to say, “Took first train I could get back home. So instead, he ended up pouring peroxide over Keddens wound, wrapped in a handkerchief that was covered in vaseline, left him with $10 and kissed him goodbye before he left. However, Fish would worry that the hot weather would draw attention to him. He had intended to kill Kedden and cut up his body so he could then take him home. Albert was quoted to say, “I shall never forget his scream, or the look he gave me”. Fish would tie up Kedden and cut off half of his penis. This torture took place over course of two weeks. After 10 days, Fish would then take Kedden to “an old farm house” this is where he would begin to torture him. It is said that Kedden was intellectually disabled. However, no one knows if this relationship was mutual or is Fish would force Kedden to have this relationship. After meeting Kedden, Fish would then take him to where he was staying and the two would begin a sadomasochistic relationship. This is where he would meet a man named, Thomas Kedden whom was 19 years old. In 1903, Albert was then arrested and convicted of grand larceny where he would serve his time in Sing Sing prison.Īround 1910, Fish was now working in Wilmington, Delaware. He stated that after this is when he became obsessed with sexual mutilation.

Later on, Albert would recount an incident of when a male lover would take him to waxworks museum where he grew fascinated by a bisection of a penis. Fish stated he still continued to molest children that were mainly boys that were younger than the age of six years old. All through 1898 he would work as a house painter. They would have six children together by the names of Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John and Henry Fish. The year of 1898, Fish’s mother would end up arranging a marriage for him with a girl by the name of Anna Mary Hoffman, whom was 9 years younger than him. At this point he became a prostitute and started raping younger boys. Through Fish’s life he would often write women obscene letters, he would find these women through classified advertising and matrimonial agencies.īy the age of 20 in 1890, he would arrive in New York City. He would actually spend a lot of his weekends doing this, almost like a hobby or addiction.

Soon, Fish would then start going to public baths so he could watch the other boys undress. This boy would introduce odd things to Fish such as urolagnia, which is drinking urine and coprophagia, which is eating feces. In 1882, at the age of 12 years old, Fish would start a relationship with a telegraph boy. In 1880, Fish’s mother ended up at a government job and was then able to remove Fish from the orphanage. Three other relatives of his were also diagnosed with mental illness and his mother would have “aural and/or visual hallucinations”. His Uncle would suffer from mania, one of his brothers was in a state mental hospital and one sister was diagnosed with “mental affliction”. However, Fish would soon begin to enjoy the physical pain from these beatings.Īlberts family would have a long history of mental illness. That orphanage was Saint Johns Orphanage in Washington where Fish would often be abused. He was the youngest out of his 3 living siblings and wanted to be known as “Albert” after a dead sibling, he also said he wanted to escape the nickname of “Ham & Eggs” that was given to him at an orphanage that he had spent most of his childhood at. In 1875, Randall died of a heart attack when Fish was still very young. His father was a riverboat captain and then in 1870 became a fertilizer manufacturer. Fish’s father was 43 years older than his mother and was 75 years old when Albert was born. Randall was American with English ancestry and Ellen was Scots-Irish American.

He was an American serial killer, child rapist and a cannibal.Īlbert was known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac and The Boogey Man.

Born as Hamilton Howard “Albert” Fish on May 19th of 1870 in Washington, D.C.
