Albert
Fish, also known as The Gray Man, Werewolf of Wysteria and The Brooklyn
Vampire, is a sado-masochistic serial killer with crimes involving
sexual perversion, cannibalism, coprophilla, urophilla, pedophilla and
masochism.
His family's background in mental illness, which includes religious psychosis, as well as the death of his father, led to Fish's placement in the orphanage. It was in the orphanage where he was frequently physically abused. The abuses contributed to his enjoyment for physical pain, possibly started when he chooses to enjoy as a form of a coping mechanism.
At the age of 12, he got into a homosexual relationship where his partner introduced Fish to practices such as consuming urine and faeces. From this time, Fish explored in the areas of sexual perversion like watching boys undress, raping boys and was even involved in prostitution himself. Even as he enter adulthood, he continued molesting children, mostly boys under the age of six.
Fish's obsession with inflicting pain on himself and others grew further when one of his male lover brought him to a waxwork museum where he encountered and got fascinated by a bisection of a penis. It is from here that he got obsessed with the idea of castration - In one of his relationship with a mentally retarded man, Fish attempted to castrate him after tying him up but failed. Fish also increased his number of visits to brothels where he could be whipped and beaten more often.
From his early years, he was extremely fascinated by the bible. But as he grew older, his religious interests blew up into a full-fledged mania. He said he heard voices which led him to interpret divine commandments to go ahead to torment and kill. He tortured and killed children in response to these delusions and subjected himself to masochistic torments in atonement for his sins. One of the most famous, talked about torment that he did to himself was to shove sewing needles into his groin so deep that they remained embedded around his bladder.
Fish's first offical attack started in 1910 with 3 confirmed victims and multiple possible victims. His methods of killing included strangulation or stabbing before consuming his victims. For the hopelessly demented Fish, his form of cannibalism had religious overtones as well. He told a psychiatrist who examined him in prison that he associated the eating of the child's flesh and the drinking of the blood with the "idea of Holy Communion".
After a 10 days trial, Fish was sentenced to death by electrocution. The prospect of being electrocuted appealed to him. A Daily News reporter wrote, "his watery eyes gleamed at the thought of being burned by a heat more intense than the flames which he often seared his flesh to gratify his lust."
Fish thanked the judge for his sentence of death by electrocution. He was finally executed on January 16, 1936.
Fun fact: The first jolt of electricity of over 3000 volts did not kill Fish. All that happened was blue smoke appeared around him. This failure was probably caused by the amount of needles that he put into his body, causing a short circuit. After the second jolt of over 3000 volts, Fish was finally pronounced dead.
His family's background in mental illness, which includes religious psychosis, as well as the death of his father, led to Fish's placement in the orphanage. It was in the orphanage where he was frequently physically abused. The abuses contributed to his enjoyment for physical pain, possibly started when he chooses to enjoy as a form of a coping mechanism.
At the age of 12, he got into a homosexual relationship where his partner introduced Fish to practices such as consuming urine and faeces. From this time, Fish explored in the areas of sexual perversion like watching boys undress, raping boys and was even involved in prostitution himself. Even as he enter adulthood, he continued molesting children, mostly boys under the age of six.
Fish's obsession with inflicting pain on himself and others grew further when one of his male lover brought him to a waxwork museum where he encountered and got fascinated by a bisection of a penis. It is from here that he got obsessed with the idea of castration - In one of his relationship with a mentally retarded man, Fish attempted to castrate him after tying him up but failed. Fish also increased his number of visits to brothels where he could be whipped and beaten more often.
From his early years, he was extremely fascinated by the bible. But as he grew older, his religious interests blew up into a full-fledged mania. He said he heard voices which led him to interpret divine commandments to go ahead to torment and kill. He tortured and killed children in response to these delusions and subjected himself to masochistic torments in atonement for his sins. One of the most famous, talked about torment that he did to himself was to shove sewing needles into his groin so deep that they remained embedded around his bladder.
Fish's first offical attack started in 1910 with 3 confirmed victims and multiple possible victims. His methods of killing included strangulation or stabbing before consuming his victims. For the hopelessly demented Fish, his form of cannibalism had religious overtones as well. He told a psychiatrist who examined him in prison that he associated the eating of the child's flesh and the drinking of the blood with the "idea of Holy Communion".
After a 10 days trial, Fish was sentenced to death by electrocution. The prospect of being electrocuted appealed to him. A Daily News reporter wrote, "his watery eyes gleamed at the thought of being burned by a heat more intense than the flames which he often seared his flesh to gratify his lust."
Fish thanked the judge for his sentence of death by electrocution. He was finally executed on January 16, 1936.
Fun fact: The first jolt of electricity of over 3000 volts did not kill Fish. All that happened was blue smoke appeared around him. This failure was probably caused by the amount of needles that he put into his body, causing a short circuit. After the second jolt of over 3000 volts, Fish was finally pronounced dead.