Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was a truly disturbed human being and one of the most
notorious serial killers of his time. His family had a history of mental disorders, which may have
influenced his behavior. When he was a young boy he was sent to an orphanage, he was whipped
and beaten there, this is where it was thought he obtained a love for pain especially when it was
inflicted on himself. He married to a woman and they had five children, his wife left him and
that's when his strange behavior started, he would sometimes scream into the sky I am Christ. He
also loved to ne whipped and paddled and x-rays later showed that he had stuck needles into his
body so deep he couldn't get them out. He soon developed a sort of bloodlust and started to get
into cannibalism, he confessed to killing and eating three children, one was Grace Budd; an
extensive investigation got him caught. His trial took ten days and the jury reached a verdict in
less than an hour of guilty, the judge sentenced him to death by electrocution, Albert thanked the
judge for this. On January 16th, 1936, he was taken to the chair; his last words were "I don't even
know why I am even here".
Albert Fish 3
Early Life
Hamilton Howard “Albert” Fish was born on May 19th
father was Randall Fish, he was a boat captain and he had religious mania, a severe mental
disorder. The Fish family was thought to have a history of extreme mental disorders and this
may have caused Albert to act the way he did. His father died of a heart attack in 1875, Albert
was only five years old. Albert’s mother put him an orphanage as she could no longer take care
of him at the moment. He was the youngest of the four children in his family; he had three older
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...n New York, Fish's Attorney would try to focus on how Fish was a good
father and never hurt his children, and how no sane person would eat a small child. But his
attorney was unable to prove if Fish actually ate any of those children, he then focused on
Fish sticking needles in himself and how he loved to get beaten. But after a ten day trial, the
jury took less than an hour to sentence Albert Fish guilty, the judge sentenced him to death
by electrocution, Albert wasn't at first happy with the sentence but was happy to die that way
and even thanked the judge after the trial. On January 16th, 1936, Albert Fish was taken to the
electrocution chair, although it was said the process took only three seconds, some thought that
the electric charge failed the first time due to all the nails in his body. His last words were "I
don't even know why I am here".
started to have second thoughts a little to late so he tried to starve himself
One of Gacy's earliest memories was of being beaten by his father at age four. He was beat when
He had difficulty controlling his demeanor and was upset to have been removed from his home. He refused to complete any chores the foster mother assigned to him.
His wife died also, and all of his possessions were taken from him. Furthermore, he contracted painful sores all over his body. As for J.B., his children died separately, one after the other. The oldest died in the army. Two were involved in a car accident.
himself in a defiant way and disobeyed all authority in his life. His brother Pete helped
could not bring himself to kill a innocent little boy so he gave him to a
Prior to Albert being born their family had gone through some struggles, like everyone, from the effects of The Great Depression. In his autobiography (2006) Bandura’s family suffered the loss of their daughter from the flu. Also because of a drought that hit the farm the family owned his father was forced to take part of the roof from the house in order to feed the livestock. Despite these hardships, after the birth of their son through the hard work of their family their father was able to add on to the farm, buy a car, and celebrate the time...
Through the course of the novel, Albert is an appalling husband, father, and person. He treats his wife, Celie as if she is his slave from the beginning of their arranged marriage; he expects her to cook three meals a day, and take care of his many children from his previous marriage. Albert does not begin to realize the pain he is causing, or at least try to make himself change until Celie leaves him. “You a lowdown dog is what’s wrong, I say. It’s time to leave you and enter into the Creation. And your dead body is just the welcome mat I need…” (Walker 207). It took words as powerful as these for him to become aware of the fact that he did not love or resp...
His parents were fed up with him and realized they had to do something to straighten him out. On June 13, 1902, his father took him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. This was a reformatory and an orphanage. His father signed over custody to the Brothers, who were the Missionaries that ran the school.
Albert Henry Desalvo was born on September 3, 1931 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Frank Desalvo and Charlotte. Desalvo was the third of six children. Desalvo father was an aggressive, violent, alcoholic fisherman from Newfoundland, Canada. Desalvo father would brutally beat up his wife and children with fists, belts, and pipes. When Charlotte was out of the house, Desalvo father brought prostitutes home and had sexual intercourse with them in front of the children. He was arrested repeatedly for refusing to support his wife and children. At a young age, Desalvo father taught Albert how to shoplift and encouraged him to steal.
In 1910, Fish committed his first murder in which he mutilated and tortured his victim. From that point on, he set his sights on children as he saw them as easy targets. Fish traveled from state to state in the 1920's leaving a trail of victims from molestation to cases of children disappearing. Fish would torture, mutilate and eventually murder his victims using what he called his "Implements of Hell" which consisted of a meat cleaver, a butcher knife, and a saw. Fish also like to inflict pain on himself; he would insert needles far into his body to where they would get stuck. He also liked to have people paddle him with a paddle that had nail sticking out of the end so that it would make him bleed.
unhappy childhood and how he was a Ritalin child. While others blamed it on his drug
...nizes the fish because, just like the fish, people fight daily battles to survive in life. This humanization of the fish enables the speaker to relate and respect him, and therefore, ultimately leads to his release.
his parents to show them he had hurt him self. At times they even felt
While at the orphanage, Oliver from Oliver Twist also experienced a great amount of abuse. For example, while suffering from starvation and malnutrition for a long period of time, Oliver was chosen by the other boys at the orphanage to request more gruel at dinner one night. After making this simple request, "the master (at the orphanage) aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle."3