Albert Fish

"The Moon Maniac"

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Born in 1870 Albert Fish was sent to the orphanage at the age of 5 after his father died. In there he was considered a problem child since he wetted the bed up to the age of 11 and tried many times to escape. He got married but his wife left him and his 6 children. By the time he started having hallucinations and got obsessed with religion, sacrifice and sin, particularly with the story of Abraham and Isaac. He forced his children to flog him in the butt while he was praying. He also turned into an obsessed sado-masochist who enjoyed harming himself in all kinds of ways Some of the thing he did was inserting needles into his groin and some of them (actually 29) remained embedded inside his body. He also liked to stick rose stems into his urethra and look at himself naked in the mirror, after that he would remove the rose and eat it. Some other thing he also enjoyed doing was flagellating himself, eating his own excrement and inserting cotton balls dipped in alcohol into his ass and setting them on fire. By that time he started molesting kids and praying on them, usually through paper ads. After taking his victims to a remote place he would kill them, sometimes castrating them and letting them bleed to death. After that he would cut the corpse in pieces and prepare a meal with the flesh. His last murder was that of Grace Budd. After her brother placed an ad in a newspaper where he was looking for a job Albert got in touch with the kid with the intention of turning into a victim but his plans changed after he saw the boys' 12-year-old sister Grace. In 1928, after befriending her parents Albert asked for permission to take the girl to his niece birthday party and their parents accepted. He took the girl to a remote place in New York where he strangled her, cut into pieces and took most of her flesh to his house. In there he prepared a bowl of soup with her flesh that lasted for 9 days in which all he did was eat and masturbate. In 1934 he sent a letter to Grace's parents where he described what he did to their daughter but he got arrested after the police was able to track the letter. In 1935 he was found guilty and sentenced to electrocution. He was finally electrocuted in Jan 16, 1936 at the age of 65. At the time of electrocution he had to be shocked twice after the chair short-circuited the first time because of the needles inside his body. "What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill, the only one I haven't tried" -Albert Fish Albert Fish's letter to Grace Budd's parents: My dear Mrs. Budd, In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the SteamerTacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco for 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 of was from $1-3 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 a girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go to any shop and ask for steak--chops-or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or a 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 and 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. near--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 wildflowers. 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 mamma. First I stripped her naked. How did she 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 fuck her tho I could of had I wished. She died a virgin.