"I
told her to remain outside. She picked wild flowers. I went upstairs
and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her
blood on them."
Grace Budd had been missing for
six years when her mother received this disturbing note in the mail. It
detailed exactly how her 10-year-old daughter had been abducted,
murdered, and then roasted like a turkey. Though the letter was
unsigned, investigators were eventually able to trace it back to a
gray-haired old man named Albert Fish.
See the
shocking photos including an x-ray showing over 20 needles stuffed into
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Albert fish would literally roast his
victims mostly children , and send letters to the parents with full
details on how their kids were eaten , it was easy for Albert because to
be honest he looks like our average old wise Grandpa ,
I'll be updating tonight , Boom let's go!
Hamilton
Howard "Albert" Fish[1] (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an
American serial killer, child rapist and cannibal. He was also known as
the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon
Maniac, and The Boogey Man.[2] Fish once boasted that he "had children
in every state",[2] and at one time stated his number of victims was
about 100. However, it is not known whether he was referring to rapes or
cannibalization, nor is it known if the statement was truthful
Fish
was a suspect in at least five murders during his lifetime. He
confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known
homicide, and he confessed to stabbing at least two other people. Fish
was apprehended on December 13, 1934, and put on trial for the
kidnapping and murder of Grace Budd. He was convicted and executed by
electric chair on January 16, 1936, at the age of 65.[4][5][6] His
crimes were dramatized in the 2007 film The Gray Man, starring Patrick
Bauchau as Fish.
Childhood
Albert
Fish was born in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 1870, to Randall (1795 –
October 16, 1875) and Ellen (née Howell; 1838–c. 1903[7]) Fish. Fish's
father was American, of English ancestry, and his mother was Scots-Irish
American.[8] His father was 43 years older than his mother[9] and 75
years old at the time of his birth. Fish was the youngest child and had
three living siblings: Walter, Annie, and Edwin. He wished to be known
as "Albert" after a dead sibling and to escape the nickname "Ham &
Eggs" that he was given at an orphanage in which he spent much of his
childhood.
Fish's family had a history of
mental illness. His uncle suffered from mania, one of his brothers was
confined in a state mental hospital, and his sister Annie was diagnosed
with a "mental affliction". Three other relatives were diagnosed with
mental illnesses, and his mother had "aural and/or visual
hallucinations".[10][11]
Fish's father Randall
was a river boat captain and, by 1870, a fertilizer manufacturer.[9] The
elder Fish died in 1875 at Washington's Sixth Street Station of a heart
attack. The Congressional Cemetery records show that he died on October
16, 1875, and was buried on October 19, 1875, in grave R96/89. Fish's
mother then put her son into Saint John's Orphanage in Washington, where
he was frequently abused. Fish began to enjoy the physical pain that
the beatings brought.[12] Of his time at the orphanage, Fish remarked,
"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."
By 1880, Fish's mother
had a government job and was able to remove Fish from the orphanage. In
1882, at age 12, he began a homosexual relationship with a telegraph
boy. The youth introduced Fish to such practices as urolagnia (drinking
urine) and coprophagia (eating feces). Fish began visiting public baths
where he could watch other boys UnCloth and spent a great portion of his
weekends on these visits.[12] Throughout his life, he would write
obscene letters to women whose names he acquired from classified
advertising and matrimonial agencies
1890–1918: Early adulthood and criminal history
By
1890, Fish arrived in New York City, and he said at that point he
became a prostitute and began raping young boys. In 1898, his mother
arranged a marriage for him with Anna Mary Hoffman, who was nine years
his junior.[11][13][14][15] They had six children: Albert, Anna,
Gertrude, Eugene, John, and Henry Fish.[11]
Throughout
1898, Fish worked as a house painter. He said he continued molesting
children, mostly boys younger than age six. He later recounted an
incident in which a male lover took him to a waxworks museum, where Fish
was fascinated by a bisection of a penis. After that, he became
obsessed with sexual mutilation.[13][16] In 1903, he was arrested for
grand larceny, convicted, and incarcerated in Sing Sing.
In
about 1919, Fish stabbed an intellectually disabled boy in Georgetown,
Washington, D.C..[19] He chose people who were either mentally
handicapped or African-American as his victims, explaining that he
assumed these people would not be missed when killed.[20] Fish would
later claim to occasionally pay boys to procure him other children.[21]
Fish tortured, mutilated, and murdered young children with his
"implements of Hell": a meat cleaver, a butcher knife, and a small
handsaw.[22]
On July 11, 1924, Fish found
eight-year-old Beatrice Kiel playing alone on her parents' farm on
Staten Island, New York. He offered her money to come and help him look
for rhubarb. She was about to leave the farm when her mother chased Fish
away. Fish left but returned later to the Kiels' barn, where he tried
to sleep but was discovered by Beatrice's father and forced to leave.
During 1924, the 54-year-old Fish, suffering from psychosis, felt that
God was commanding him to torture and sexually mutilate children.[11]
Shortly
before his abduction of Grace Budd, Fish attempted to test his
"implements of Hell" on a child he had been molesting named Cyril Quinn.
Quinn and his friend were playing box ball on a sidewalk when Fish
asked them if they had eaten lunch. When they said that they had not, he
invited them into his apartment for sandwiches. While the two boys were
wrestling on Fish's bed, they dislodged his mattress; underneath was a
knife, a small handsaw, and a meat cleaver. They became frightened and
ran out of the apartment
Fish remarried on
February 6, 1930, in Waterloo, New York, to Estella Wilcox but divorced
after only one week.[24] Fish was arrested in May 1930 for "sending an
obscene letter to a woman who answered an advertisement for a maid."[25]
Following that arrest and one in 1931, he was sent to the Bellevue
psychiatric hospital for observation
Murder of Grace Budd
Grace Budd (1918–1928)
On
May 25, 1928, Fish saw a classified advertisement in the Sunday edition
of the New York World that read, "Young man, 18, wishes position in
country. Edward Budd, 406 West 15th Street." On May 28, Fish, then 58
years old, visited the Budd family in Manhattan under the pretense of
hiring Edward; he later confessed that he planned to tie Edward up,
mutilate him, and leave him to bleed to death. Fish introduced himself
as Frank Howard, a farmer from Farmingdale, New York. He promised to
hire Budd and his friend Willie, and said he would send for them in a
few days. Fish failed to show up, but he sent a telegram to the Budd
family apologizing and set a later date.
When
Fish returned, he met Edward's younger sister Grace Budd. He apparently
changed his intended victim from Edward to Grace and quickly made up a
story about having to attend his niece's birthday party. He convinced
the parents, Delia Flanagan and Albert Budd I, to let Grace accompany
him to the party that evening. The elder Albert Budd was a porter for
the United States Equitable Life Assurance Society. Grace had a younger
sister, Beatrice, two older brothers, Edward and George, and a younger
brother, Albert Budd II. Grace left with Fish that day but never
returned.[27]
The police arrested 66-year-old
superintendent Charles Edward Pope on September 5, 1930, as a suspect in
Grace's disappearance, accused by Pope's estranged wife.[5] He spent
108 days in jail between his arrest and trial on December 22, 1930.[28]
He was found not guilty.
Letter to the mother of Grace Budd
In
November 1934, an anonymous letter was sent to Grace's parents which
ultimately led the police to Fish. Mrs. Budd was illiterate and could
not read the letter herself, so she had her son read it to her.[29] The
unaltered letter (complete with Fish's misspellings and grammatical
errors) reads:[11]
''My dear Mrs
Budd, In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the steamer
Tacoma, Capt John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong
China. On arriving there he and two others went ashore and got drunk.
When they returned the boat was gone. At that time there was a famine in
China. Meat of any kind was from $1 to 3 Dollars a pound. So great was
the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold
to the Butchers to be cut up and sold for food in order to keep others
from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You
could go in any shop and ask for steak – chops – or stew meat. Part of
the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you
wanted cut from it. A boy or girls behind which is the sweetest part of
the body and sold as veal cutlet brought the highest price. John staid
there so long he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return to N.Y.
he stole two boys one 7 one 11. Took them to his home stripped them
naked tied them in a closet then burned everything they had on. Several
times every day and night he spanked them – tortured them – to make
their meat good and tender. First he killed the 11 yr old boy, because
he had the fattest ass and of course the most meat on it. Every part of
his body was cooked and eaten except Head – bones and guts. He was
roasted in the oven, (all of his ass) boiled, broiled, fried, stewed.
The little boy was next, went the same way. At that time I was living at
409 E 100 St, rear – right side. He told me so often how good human
flesh was I made up my mind to taste it. On Sunday June the 3 – 1928 I
called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheese – strawberries. We
had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat
her, on the pretense of taking her to a party. You said Yes she could
go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked
out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wild
flowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I
did not I would get her blood on them. When all was ready I went to the
window and called her. Then I hid in a closet until she was in the room.
When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run down
stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mama. First I
stripped her naked. How she did kick – bite and scratch. I choked her to
death then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms,
cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the
oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not Bleep her,
though, I could of [sic] had I wished. She died a virgin.''
Wow those were his real words , .....
Police
investigated the letter. The story concerning "Capt. Davis" and the
"famine" in Hong Kong could not be verified. The part of the letter
concerning the murder of Grace, however, was found to be accurate in its
description of the kidnapping and subsequent events, although it was
impossible to confirm whether or not Fish had actually eaten parts of
Grace's body.
Capture
The letter was
delivered in an envelope that had a small hexagonal emblem with the
letters "N.Y.P.C.B.A." representing "New York Private Chauffeur's
Benevolent Association". A janitor at the company told the police he had
taken some of the stationery home but left it at his rooming house at
200 East 52nd Street when he moved out. The landlady of the rooming
house said that Fish checked out of that room a few days earlier. She
said that Fish's son sent him money and he asked her to hold his next
check for him. William F. King was the chief investigator for the case.
He waited outside the room until Fish returned. Fish agreed to go to
headquarters for questioning, then brandished a razor blade. King
disarmed Fish and took him to police headquarters.
Fish
made no attempt to deny the murder of Grace Budd, saying that he meant
to go to the house to kill Grace's brother Edward.[33] Fish said it
"never even entered [his] head" to rape the girl,[34] but he later
claimed to his attorney that, while kneeling on Grace's chest and
strangling her, he did have two involuntary ejaculations. This
information was used at trial to make the claim the kidnapping was
sexually motivated, thus avoiding any mention of cannibalism
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Reforma reports seeing in one of the other videos, the child being killed when the dynamite was detonated
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