Adrian 3/19 Criminal justice 9 th Albert Fish Between July 1924 and June 1928, Hamilton Howard Albert Fish, an American cannibal, rapist, serial killer, and child molester, killed at least 10 children. In addition, he went by the nicknames of: The Boogey Man, The Brooklyn Vampire, The Werewolf of Wysteria, and The Gray Man. Fish was born the youngest of four children on May 19, 1870, in Washington, D.C. The others were Walter, Annie, and Edwin. His 75-year-old father Randall was a boat captain who operated when Randall Fish died of a heart attack, aged 80, when Fish was five, his mother was left without her husband's financial support and couldn't afford to care for her youngest son. She left him at the Saint John's orphanage in Washington, where the teachers regularly …show more content…
His 32-year-old mother told him that he was named after Hamilton Fish, the then-U.S. Secretary of State, and that he was distantly related.In the orphanage they would of punished the boys living, thereby making them strip naked and whip and beat them in front of each other. Because of this treatment, Fish developed a taste for sadomasochism and would get erections and even derive pleasure from the beatings. This only led to the other boys bullying him more. He wanted to be named "Albert" after a dead relative, in part to escape his nickname "Ham and Eggs' ', and later adopted the name as his own. He became a bedwetter and frequently escaped, only to end up back at the orphanage again every time. In 1880, Mrs. Fish got a government job and took back Albert, aged nine. In 1882, a twelve-year-old Fish began a relationship with a telegraph boy who introduced him to coprophagia (consumption of feces) and urolagnia (drinking urine). He began spending his weekends at local public baths, where he would watch boys younger than himself undress. He also became a prolific writer of obscene