The gray wolf, the moon maniac, the cannibal of New York, the werewolf of Wysteria, Albert Fish was one of the most sadistic child molester and cannibal of his time. Born in 1870, Fish was born into a family with three older siblings. Sometime after his mother put him up for adoption in the orphanage. Fish was born to a different name which was Hamilton but decided to be called Albert to avoid being teased and bullied in the orphanage where he grew. Fish was often beat and whipped, to which he often enjoyed the physical pain it brought him. He states that he blamed his later vices on the cruelties he experienced there (Serial Killers 98). When Albert was whipped, he experienced erections towards which the orphans teased him about (Blanco). As an adult, Fish married and had six children. In 1917 his life came crashing down due to the fact that his wife left him for another man, Fish became abnormal, deviant, and absolutely strange. Being a nonconformist that Fish was, he was never able to conform to the life everyone else was experiencing and enjoying. Not being able to follow the culture but rather had the eagerness to experience his abnormal behavior and urges. “Not content with self-flagellation, he encouraged his children and their friends to beat him on the buttocks using a paddle which he had made himself, studded with inch-and-a-half nails” (Martingale 43).