The Sun
OF ALL the grim and twisted serial killers, few acted as heinously as the so-called “Brooklyn Vampire” Albert Fish.
The evil paedophile and serial killer confessed to the murder of three children and cannibalism of two, but bragged to authorities that he had abused or eaten a child “in every US state” – and claimed his victim count could be as many as 100.
Just before his execution on this day in 1936 at the age of 65, he wrote to his lawyer setting out the full details of his chilling crimes.
Attorney Jack Dempsey was so disgusted he refused to ever share them, describing them as “the most filthy string of obscenities” he had ever read.
Fish would rape, kill and cannibalism children – deriving sexual pleasure from pain and believing he was being spoken to by God.
Born in Washington DC in 1870, his father was 75 years old when he was born and died when he was just five years old, at which point the young Albert was sent to a state orphanage.
There, at St John’s Home for Boys in Brooklyn, New York, he was regularly beaten, while kids were even encouraged to hurt each other.
It was in this cruel establishment that Albert discovered his love for pain, which would shape his future wicked crimes.
He came to enjoy the punishments and associate them with pleasure, which later turned into sexual gratification.
By the time his mother brought him home from the orphanage in 1880, he had already been deeply damaged.
Two years later he began an unhealthy relationship with an older teenage boy who introduced him the sexual practices of consuming human waste, known as urolagnia and coprophagia.
He became obsessed with sexual mutilation and regularly embedded needles into his groin and abdomen, flogging himself with a nail-studded paddle.
A later X-ray of his pelvis revealed 29 needles stuck into his flesh.
In 1890, aged 20, he moved back to New York, where his sexual appetites turned into crime.
He began molesting young boys, luring them from their homes before raping and torturing them, often using a nail-studded paddle.
Shockingly, in 1898, he married a woman his mother had introduced him to, eventually fathering six kids with her.
Although there are no reports he abused his own kids, he continuing raping and torturing other children throughout this time.
In 1910, he began a sadomasochistic relationship with Thomas Kedden, after meeting him while working as a house painter in Delaware.
One day, he lured Kedden to an abandoned farmhouse before locking him inside, subjecting him to two weeks of sickening torture.
Fish mutilated his victim’s body, cutting off half of his penis, before leaving after giving him a 10-dollar bill.
He later recalled: “I shall never forget his scream, or the look he gave me.”
In 1917, his wife left him, after his severe mental illness became too much for his wife.
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