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Albert Fish Research Paper

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Albert Fish was a real-life terror, who would go on to pray on children as if they were food. Fish was a very well-known serial killer, who was a known cannibal as well as a rapist. He was known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf od Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, also the Boogey Man. No matter how many aliases Fish had, his terror would run havoc around New York, as well as the Unites States. It was even said that after Fish was captured Fish admitted to molesting over 400 children. He would also admit to torturing and killing several others as well (Montaldo, 2018). In the article, Serial Killer Albert Fish Who Kidnapped Children and Then Ate Them, it was stated,

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He was a very perverse killer that his murders were seen as unbelievable to some (Montaldo, 2018).

In this paper, we will discuss Albert Fish's early childhood life and how it would impact the rest of his life. We will also discuss his criminal history which will include all cases in which Fish committed a crime. We will even discuss his psychological ailments, his trial, what his sentencing was, as well as what happened to Albert Fish including his execution.

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His parents were named Randall an Ellen Fish, Fish's family had a long history of mental illness (Montaldo, 2018). His uncle, brother, sister, and mother had all been diagnosed with some sort of mental illness (Montaldo, 2018). After his father died of a heart attack, Fish was sent to an orphanage, he was only five years old at the time. This would be the first time Fish would be exposed to violence (Webster, 2018). According to Fish's memory this was a "place of brutality where he was exposed to regular beatings and sadistic acts of brutality (Montaldo, 2018). It was aforementioned that he had looked forward to the beatings because he experienced enjoyment out of it (Montaldo, 2018). Anytime he talked about the orphanage he said, "I was there 'til I was nearly nine, and that's where I got started wrong. We were unmercifully whipped. I saw boys doing many things they should not have done." (Montaldo, 2018). After his mother got a governmental job she was able to remove him from the orphanage. He grew up with very little formal education and learned how to work more with his hands than he did with his brains. Not long after living with his mother Fish began to affiliate himself with another boy who introduced him to drinking urine and eating feces (Montaldo, 2018). Still in his early teens, Fish would spend his days in public bathrooms watching young boys get undressed (Webster, 2018). In 1890, he relocated to New

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