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The serial killer I chose is Albert Fish. Hamilton “Albert” Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C. to Randall and Ellen Fish. His father died of a heart attack when Albert was five. After, his mother put him and his three siblings in an orphanage so she could work. While living in the orphanage Fish experienced and watched brutal beatings, which soon helped him discover he enjoyed physical pain and began his obsession with sadomasochism. Eventually his mother got a government job and was able to take care of him. According to Murderpedia he began a homosexual relationship at the age of twelve; around the same time he would spend a lot of his weekends at public baths watching boys undress. His family had a history of mental disorders. …show more content…

Albert Fish showed up to the Budd’s to offer Edward a job. He went by Frank Howard to cover his tracks. Frank Howard told the Budd’s about his wife leaving him and his six kids and that he needed “help on his farm”. He offered jobs to Edward and his friend Willie and explained that he’d be over in a few days so they could begin work. During Howard’s next visit he met Gracie Budd and convinced her parents to let Gracie join him to a birthday party. Gracie never returned home. Seven years passed and she was still not found until the Budd’s received a letter from Fish, in the last paragraph of the letter he described what he had done to the ten-year-old …show more content…

His test was that if it had been wrong he would have been stopped, as Abraham was stopped, by an angel." I believe there were many factors that played a role in Dr. Wertham’s view of Albert Fish. His self punishment, the times he beat himself with a nail-studded paddle. His obsession with young boys, and children in general. Especially his belief that he did nothing wrong. Though there was much proof that he wasn’t anywhere close to mentally healthy, he was deemed “sane and having full knowledge of right and wrong”. Though he had seen a few mental institutions he didn’t get much of any

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