Highway to Hell

23. Albert Fish- New York City


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And here's the Albert Fish episode! Sorry every body I uploaded them out of order on accident. But here we are.

TW: Extreme child abuse and assault

Albert Fish (1870–1936) was an American serial killer, cannibal, and sadomasochist whose crimes in the early 20th century remain some of the most disturbing in U.S. criminal history. Raised in an abusive orphanage and plagued throughout his life by violent sexual compulsions and self-harm, Fish targeted children, abducting, torturing, and murdering several—most infamously twelve-year-old Grace Budd, whose case led to his capture after he sent her family a chilling letter detailing the crime. Known by monikers such as “The Gray Man” and “The Boogeyman,” Fish displayed extreme psychopathy, claiming to have felt moral justification for his actions and reporting pleasure in pain, including driving needles into his own body. He was arrested in 1934, found sane enough to stand trial, convicted, and executed by electric chair in January 1936, leaving behind a legacy of horror that continues to fascinate and appall criminologists, historians, and true-crime researchers.

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Albert Hamilton Fish. Radford, VA: Radford University. Newton, M. (2006). 

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The bogeyman’s gonna eat you – Albert Fish, the vampire of Brooklyn (Motion picture). United States of America: Mill Creek Entertainment. Schechter, H. (2012). Psycho USA. New York: Random House. Schechter, H. (2012, February 24). Cannibal 'Albert Fish' documentary [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orJiXNQeScs Schechter, H. (2003). 

The serial killer files. New York: Random House. Schechter, H. (1990). 

Deranged: The shocking true story of America’s most fiendish killer. New York: Simon & Schuster. Smith, D. J. (2003). 

100 most infamous criminals. New York: Sterling Publishing Company. Wilson, C., & Seaman, D. (2004). 

The serial killers: A study in the psychology of violence. London: Virgin Publishing. Vronsky, P. (2004). 

Serial killers: The method and madness of monsters. New York: Penguin

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