Albert Fish

May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936

Put on trial and executed for the murder and cannibalization of Grace Budd, it is believed that Albert Fish committed at least 5 other murders, and molested and tortured over 100 children.

Art by Countess Carcass

He was obsessed with sexual mutilation and cannibalism, and enjoyed such practices as urolagnia (drinking urine) and coprophagia (eating feces) from the age of 12. He developed an intense sexual enjoyment of pain during his time growing up in an orphanage and became a highly sadomasochistic adult – so at least he tortured himself as much as anyone else. He enjoyed inserting thorny rose stems in his urethra, putting alcohol-soaked cotton balls in his anus and lighting them on fire (a pleasure he introduced to the children he abused), and burying long needles in his pelvis through his perineum – 33 of these needles were still imbedded and visible in an X-ray after his arrest. Though he never molested or abused his own children as they grew up, he often played a game with them where they would sit on his back while he knelt on all fours and beat his buttocks with a nail-studded paddle.

Albert Fish's Pelvic X-ray

He kidnapped Grace Budd by telling her parents he was taking her to a birthday party, and as he seemed so king and harmless, they willing let her go with him. Originally he intended to abduct her older brother, but as soon as he saw the little girl, immediately decided he would eat her. He took her to an empty house where he strangled her (but claims he did not assault her sexually) and cut the meat from her body to eat. He later sent her parents a letter describing in detail what had become of their missing daughter, telling them it took him 9 days to eat her entire body. He was caught through envelope used to send the letter, and sentenced to death.

He was sexually excited by the idea of being executed by electrocution, looking forward to it with pleasure - saying it was the only pleasure he had not yet tried. After his execution, other victims of the Grey Man were discovered as well.