Why Is Mister Fish Considered A Serial Killer?

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Albert Fish, serial killer, and sexual deviant who preyed on extremely young children and sadisticly inclined cannibal, also known as, the grey man, the werewolf of wysteria and the vampire of Brooklyn. What could drive a mortal man to such great unspeakable acts of sin as these? Mister Fish's story begins on May nineteenth 1870 as one Hamilton Howard Fish he was born in Washington district of Columbia to a father of English descent and a mother of scot-irish ancestry. He was born the youngest in his family to three older siblings whose names were Walter, Annie, and Edwin Fish. When Hamilton grew older he wished to be known as Albert in the memory of a dead sibling as well as to escape the nickname his many childhood bullies had so harshly branded him with when he lived in the cold often times …show more content…

"I shall never forget his scream, or the look he gave me," Fish was quoted as saying while he was locked up tightly in prison. Albert Fish said that he had originally planned to kill the mentally unstable Kedden cut his body into a great many tiny pieces and take it back with him to his other home in new York city but he was growing increasingly worried about the hot temperature and the increasing suspicion that this would put on him when people would smell the rot from the inside of his farm house. So instead of leave Kedden there to die or just butcher his body and eat it he soaked a rag in hydrogen peroxide and Vaseline and wrapped it around his former lover's severed member turned began walking out the door and almost as if it were an afterthought he put down a ten dollar bill gently upon the table "Took first train I could get back home. Never heard what became of him, or tried to find out," Fish left Kedden and no one really knows what became of Kedden but it's safe to assume he

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