Brief Story Of Hamilton Albert Fish

Remember those dark nights from your childhood when you were afraid of the boogeyman? He never did come out of your closet, but that doesn’t mean all monsters are make-believe. Meet Albert Fish: a real-life nightmare, who preyed upon children as if they were food.

Hamilton Howard Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C. He spent most of his childhood in an orphanage, his mother putting him there because she could not support him financially at the time. Fish was often beaten and treated sadistically at the orphanage and began to enjoy the pain. It had been known that the Fish family has a history of mental illness. By the age of 10,Albert was pulled out of the orphanage by his mother after getting a better job. By the age of 12 he

Fish was married in 1898 to a women whom his mother had arranged for him to marry. They had 6 children. He continued to rape and molest young children, mostly boys, after getting married. Fish was first arrested in 1903, because of grand larceny.

Unfortunately for Fish’s children, by 1917, Fish became a single father when his wife dumped him for another man. Later, his children said that Fish would have them beat him with a nail paddle for his enjoyment at about this time. Fish occasionally made his children eat raw meat for dinner. Fish’s early victims were usually mentally handicapped or black, whose disappearances would not be as publicized.

Fish used his “ Implements of Hell” on these victims, which consisted of a butcher knife, a small handsaw and a meat cleaver, which he would torture, mutilate and murder children with. Fish was arrested again in 1930 for writing one of his obscene letters to a woman. After his wife left him, he also began to engage in sadomasochistic acts and eventually inserted 29 needles into his pelvic

The 8 year old was reported missing by his parents. McDonnell’s friends and neighbor both saw him leave with an elderly man with a gray mustache. The body of Francis McDonnell was found hanging from a tree by his suspenders. The lower half of the body contained severe lacerations and most of the flesh on the left hamstring was missing. Fish later claimed that he was planning on castrating the boy, but could not continue because he heard somebody coming. The case was unsolved for many years, only resurfacing after the Grace Budd murder.

The Case of Billy Gaffney

On February 11, 1927, 4 year old Billy Gaffney disappeared while playing in an apartment hallway with a 3 year old neighbor. Initially, both were missing but the younger neighbor was found on the roof, uninjured.The neighbor, when questioned about Gaffery, said that “the boogeyman took him”. Although Gaffney’s body was never recovered, Fish admitted to the murder by writing a letter to his attorney. The letter stated that Fish raped and ate Billy. Fish said with the uneatable parts he flushed down the toilet.

The End of Albert