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May 3, 2025 30 mins
Step into the chilling world of one of America's most notorious serial killers—Albert Fish. Known as "The Gray Man", Fish’s gruesome crimes and twisted letters shocked the nation. In this episode, we unravel his disturbing past, examine his psychological profile, and uncover the terrifying details of his reign of terror in the early 20th century. Was he truly a product of his time, or a monster unlike any other?Join us as we explore the evidence, the trial, and the unsettling confessions that still haunt history. If you're fascinated by true crime stories, unsolved mysteries, and psychological profiles of infamous killers, this episode is a must-listen.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to another episode of Bloodstained Backstories. I'm your host, Jace,
and I'm your host Summer. Today's episode may have some
content that is disturbing for some listeners. Listener discretion is advice, Jace.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Have you ever heard of Albert Fish?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I think I borrowed a cup of sugar from him
one time.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, at least it was sugar and not any meat
by products. Okay. Born on May nineteenth, eighteen seventy, he
was given the name of Hamilton Howard Fish. He was
an American serial killer, rapist, child molester, and cannibal.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Did he eat their livers with fava beans and some
nice chiante?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, Jase, To be honest, he claimed to have made
roasts and stews with the meat, so you never know.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Sounds like a great dinner party to have, yep.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Exactly between July nineteen twenty four and June nineteen twenty eight,
he committed at least three child murders. Fish was a
suspect in at least ten murders during his lifetime. He
only confessed to three murders that the police were able
to trace to a known homicide. Fish also confessed to
stabbing at least two other people, and bragging at one

(01:14):
point that he had killed children in every state and
said his number of victims was about one hundred. It
is not known if his statement was truthful or if
he was referring to rapes in cannibalism. Jace, this sounds
like this is going to be a wild one.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Sure does what a train through the body parts of
a human being. Albert was born on May ninth, nineteen
seventy in Washington, d c. His father was forty three
years older than his mother, making him seventy five at
the time of Albert's birth. Well, at least his little
swimmers were going strong. Albert was the youngest of five siblings,

(01:52):
but only two lived, making him the youngest of three. Well,
I guess his little swimmers weren't so strong after all.
He wished to be called Albert after a dead sibling.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's a little bit strange in itself, but okay.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
The family had a history of mental illness. He had
an uncle that had mania, one of his brothers was
confined in a state mental hospital, a half brother suffered
from schizophrenia, and his sister Anne received a diagnosis of
mental affliction. His mother had oral and visual hallucinations, and

(02:29):
three other relatives were diagnosed with mental illnesses. On October sixteenth,
eighteen seventy five, Albert's father suffered a fatal heart attack.
His mother put the kids in an orphanage, where they
were frequently abused. Albert began to enjoy the physical pain
brought on by the beatings he received wall in the orphanage.

(02:50):
In eighteen eighty Albert's mother started working a government job
and was able to remove them from the orphanage.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, that was good that she was able to get
at them, mount that she remembered she had them there
and went and got them back. Then a lot of
the parents just left them in the orphanage. At age twelve,
which was in eighteen eighty two, Albert started a relationship
with a telegraph boy. The telegraph boy introduced him to
such practices as drinking urine and eating feces. Albert then

(03:22):
began going to public bathhouses so he could watch other
boys undress. He was spending a great portion of his
weekends on these visits. On and off throughout his life,
Albert would write obscene letters to women. He acquired the
names from classified ads and matrimonial agencies at the age

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of twenty. In eighteen ninety Albert moved to New York City.
While there, he engaged in male prostitution and began raping
and molesting little boys, most under the age of six.
Albert's mother arranged a marriage for him in eighteen ninety
eight to Anna Marie Hoffman, who was nine years older

(04:03):
than him. They had six children together, four boys and
two girls. In nineteen oh three, Albert was arrested for
grand larceny. He was convicted and incarcerated in sing Sing prison.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Some time later, Albert recounted an incident in which a
male lover took him to a wax museum. He was
totally fascinated by the bisection of the human penis and
became obsessed with sexual mutilation. Around nineteen ten, Albert was
working in Delaware and he met a nineteen year old
man named Thomas Bendin. The two began a sadomassachist relationship.

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It is unclear, though, whether the sado massacinm was consensual
on Thomas's part. Albert later admitted that Thomas was intellectually disabled.
He eventually took Thomas to an old farmhouse, where he
tortured him for over two weeks. Albert eventually tied him
up and cut off half his penis. Albert later recalled
that I will never forget the scream or the way

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he looked at me. His original intention was to kill Thomas,
cut him up, and take him home. The weather was hot,
and Albert feared that with it being so hot, it
would draw attention, so he poured peroxide over the wound,
wrapped it invate vasilene, a vasileine covered handkerchief, left him
ten dollars, and kissed him goodbye. He later recalled, I

(05:25):
took the first train back home and never went back
to him or found out what happened to him.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
I did try to find out something about Thomas, and
I couldn't find any record or any information on him.
Wonder if he made it. I wonder if he had
its own back on like pob it. January nineteen seventeen,
Albert's wife left him for a handyman who had stayed
with the family. Albert was forced to raise his children

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as a single parent. He told the newspaper that when
his wife left him, she took nearly every possession the
family owned. Albert began to have auditory hallucinations. At one time,
he wrapped himself in a carpet, saying he was following
the instructions of John the Apostle. At about this time
is when Albert began to indulge in self harm. He

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would embed needles into his groin and abdomen. After his arrest,
X rays that were taken showed that Albert had at
least twenty nine needles lodged in his pelvic region. Another
thing he would do was to repeatedly hit himself with
a nail and studded paddle. He would also insert wull

(06:38):
that was doused with lighter fluid into his anus and
set it on fire.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Wouldn't doing that give him like second degree burns or something.
I wonder how he avoided getting an affection or whatever.
But that raises so many questionestions.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
It sure does. I mean, Albert never or abused his children,
but the one thing he did do was to encourage
them and their friends to paddle his buttocks with a
nail studded paddle.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
That is weird even by today's dinnards. Can you imagine
that happening in the early nineteen twenty nineteen hundreds, Hey,
Let's go over to your house and play a game
of Monopoly and paddle your father. Sounds like a gay
old time right.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
That Yeah, that's wow.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
In Georgetown around nineteen nineteen, Albert stabbed an intellectually disabled boy.
Albert often chose his victims that were mentally disabled were
African American, explaining that he assumed these people would not
be missed when they were killed. Later on, Albert claimed
that sometimes he paid boys to get other children for him.
Albert were then torture, mutilely and murder of the children

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with his implements from hell, a meat cleaver, a butcher knife,
or a handsaw. On July eleventh, nineteen twenty four, Albert
found a little girl named Beatrice Keel, who was eight
years old, playing alone on her parents' farm in Staten Island.
Albert offered her money to help him look for some rhubard.

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Beatrice was about to leave with Albert when her mother
chased Albert away. Albert did leave, but he later came
back and hidden the Keel's barn trying to get some sleep.
He was discovered by the girl's father and chased away
once again. At fifty four years of age, in nineteen
twenty four, Albert, suffering from psychosis, felt that God was

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commanding him to torture and sexually mutilate children.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Albert attempted to test his implements of hell on a
ten year old that he had been molesting, named Cyril Quinn.
Cyril was outside playing ball with a friend when Albert
asked them if they had eaten lunch. When they replied no,
he invited them into his apartment for sandwiches. While the
children were wrestling on the bed, the mattress moved and
they discovered a knife a small handsf to meet Cleaver.

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They got scared and ran from the apartment.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
If they were so scared, why didn't they tell someone
when they ran away.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's a good question, I know. Maybe they were afraid
to get in trouble for being in the apartment. Now.
Albert never divorced his first wife, but even though he
was still married to her, he married Estella Wilcox on
February sixth, nineteen thirty, in New York. They divorced ready
for this after only a week.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
They were married in less time than Kim Kardashian.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, they were in May of nineteen thirty. Albert was
arrested for sending an obscene letter to a woman who
answered an ad for a maid. Following that arrest in
another nineteen thirty one, Albert was sent to Bellevue Hospital
for observation.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Albert saw a classified ad on May twenty fifth, nineteen
twenty eight, in a Sunday newspaper that read young man
eighteen wish his position in the country. Edward Budd, West
fifteenth Street. Albert was fifty eight years old when on
May twenty eighth, he visited the Bud family in Manhattan,
using the pretenses that he was going to hire Edward.

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Albert was a farmer from Farmingdale, New York, and his
name was Frank Howard. He promised he would hire Bud
and his friend and that he would send them in
a few days. Albert sent a telegram when he didn't
show up and apologize to the family and said a
later date. Albert did return about a day later to

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meet the Edwards little sister, Grace Budd, who was ten
years old. Albert's attention then shifted towards Grace. Thinking quickly,
Albert made up a story about having to attend his
niece's birthday party, and he persuaded her parents to let
Grace accompany him to the party. That evening, Albert took
Grace to an abandoned house he had previously picked out

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for use of the murder of his next victim. He
mutilated and strangled Grace to death, and then decapitated and
dismembered her body. He ate most of her remains over
the next several days. The police arrested a man named
Charles Pope after his estranged wife accused him of the crime.
He would spend one hundred and eight days in jails

(11:12):
for the arrest and trial on the se December twenty second,
nineteen thirty and was found not guilty.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
An anonymous letter was sent to Grace's parents in November
nineteen thirty four, and that led police to talk to Albert.
Grace's mom was illiterate, so she had her son read
it to her. The unaltered letter reads, my dear missus bud.
In eighteen ninety four, a friend of mine, Captain John Davis,

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shipped as a deckhand on the steamer Tacoma. They sailed
from San Francisco to Hong Kong, China. On arriving there,
he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When
they returned, the boat was gone. At the time, there
was a famine in China. Meet of any kind was

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from a dollar to three dollars a pound. So great
was the suffering among the very poor that all children
under twelve were sold for food in order to keep
others from starving. A boy or girl under fourteen was
not safe in the street. You could go into any
shop and ask the state chops of stew meat, part
of a naked body of a boy or girl would

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be brought out, and just what you want to cut
from it? A boy or girls behind, which is the
sweetest part of the body, and sold as a meal
cutlet brought the highest price. John stayed there so long
he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return
to New York, he stole two boys, one seven and

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one eleven, took them to his home, stripped of naked,
and tied them in a closet, then burned everything that
they had on several times a day and night, he
would spank them and torture them to make their meat
good and tender. First, he killed the eleven year old
eleven year old boy because he had the fattest ass,

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and of course the most meat on it. Every part
of his body was cooked and eaten, except for the head,
bones and guts. He was roasted in the oven. All
of his ass boiled, broiled, fried, and stewed. The little
boy was next and went the same way. At the
same time, I was living on East a hundred Street.

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He told me so how often, he told me often
how good human flesh was. I made up my mind
to taste it. On Sunday, January third, nineteen twenty eight,
I called on you at West fifteenth Street. I brought
you strawberries and fresh creamy pot cheese from my farm.
We had lunch. Gray sat on my lap and kissed me.

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I made up my mind then to eat her, on
the pretense of taking her to a party that you
said yes she could go to. That was there's your mistake.
I took her to an empty house, in which Westchester
I had already picked out. When we got there, I
told her to remain inside. She picked wild flowers. I

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went upstairs and stripped all of my clothes off. I
knew if I did not, I would get her blood
on them. When all was ready, I went to the
window and called her. Then I hid in a closet
until she was in the room. When she saw me
all naked, she began to cry and tried to run
down the stairs. I grabbed her, and she said she
would tell her mama. First I stripped her naked. How

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she did kick, bite and scratch. I choked her her death,
then cut her in small pieces so I could take
my meat to my rooms, cook and eat it. How
sweet and tender her little ass was bursted in the oven.
It took me nine days to eat her entire body.
I did not fuck her, though I could have if
I had wished. She died a virgin. Police did investigate

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the letter. The story concerning Captain David and the famine
Hong Kong could not be verified. There was the famine
parts of China around eighteen ninety four, and there had
been reports about cannibalism, but that it has never been
totally verified and further research would need to be done
on that situation.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
But part of the letter about the murder of Grace
was found to be accurate as far as its description
of the kidnapping and the events that happened. It was
impossible to confirm whether Albert had eaten parts of Grace's
body or not. The letter that was delivered to Grace's
mother was an envelope that had a small hexagonal emblem
with the letter's NYPCBA. Those letters represented the New York

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Private Chauffeur's Benevolent Association. A janitor that worked for the
company told police that he did make some of the
stationery at home, but that when he moved out of
their room, he left it behind the police went into
the rooming house to check out this story. The landlady
told police that Albert checked out of the room a

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few days earlier and that his son sent him some money,
and he did ask her to hold his next check
for him. The chief investigator of the case waited outside
the room until Albert returned. Albert did agree to go
to the headquarters for questioning. At this point, Albert brandished
a razor blade, but the investigators disarmed him and took
him to the police headquarters. Albert didn't attempt to deny

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the murder of Grace Bud. He told police that he
meant to go to the house to kill the brother Edward.
Albert also told police that it never entered his mind
to rape her, but later on told his attorney that
while kneeling on Grace's chest and strangling her, he did
have two involuntary ejaculations. This information was using the trial

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to make the claim of the kidnapping was sexually motivated,
and thus avoiding the mention of cannibalism.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
After Albert's arrest, additional crimes were discovered. On July fourteenth,
nineteen twenty four, Francis MacDonald, who was nine years old
at the time, was reported missing when he did not
return home from playing with some friends in Port Richmond,
Staten Island. People started searching for him, and his body
was found hanging by a tree in a wooded area

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near his home. He had been sexually assaulted and strangled
by his suspenders. His autopsy revealed that he had also
suffered extensive lacerations to his legs and abdomen. His left
hamstring had almost been entirely stripped of its flesh. At first,
Albert refused to claim responsibility for his death, but later

(17:31):
Albert stated that he intended to castraight the boy, but
fled when he heard someone approaching the area. The boy's
friends told the police that he was taken by an
elderly man with a gray mustache. A neighbor also reported
that he had seen the boy with a similar looking
man walking along a grassy path in the woods. The
boy's mother said she saw the same man earlier that day.

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The MacDonald murder remained unsolved until the murder of Gray Spud.
Several positively identified Albert as the odds stranger seen around
Port Richmond on the day of McDonald's disappearance. One of
those witnesses was Hans Keel, the man who chased Albert
away when he caught him sleeping in his barn. The

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Richmond District Attorney announced his intentions to seek an indictment
against Albert for Francis McDonald's murder. Alberta first denied the charges.
It wasn't until March nineteen thirty five that the conclusion
of this trial for Grace Budd and his confessions to
the killing of Billy Gaffney, which he admitted to the
rape and murder of McDonald. When Albert's confession was made public,

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a local newspaper wrote that the disclosure solidified Albert's reputation
as the most vicious child slayer in criminal history.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
On February eleventh, nineteen twenty seven, three year old Bully Beaten,
his twelve year old brother, and a four year old
Billy Gaffey playing in the hallway of the apartment that
they lived in, located in Brooklyn. The twelve year old
left and went back to his apartment, and the two
younger boys disappeared. Beaton was found later on the roof
of the apartment building, but Gaffney was nowhere to be found,

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and police asked little Beaton what happened to Gaffney replied,
the Boogeyman took him. Gaffney's body was never found. A
motorman on the Brooklyn trolley saw a picture of Albert
in the newspaper and identified him as the old man
he saw on February eleventh, nineteen twenty seven. He stated
that the man was trying to quiet a little boy
who was sitting on the trolley with him. The boy

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was not wearing a jacket and was crying for his mother.
Albert dragged the little boy off the trolley. Beaton's description
of the Boogeyman matched that of Albert. Police then matched
the description of the child to Billy Gaffey. Detectives were
able to establish that Albert was working as a house
painter on February nineteen twenty seven, and then he was
working only a few miles from where the boys were abducted.

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Billy's mother visited Albert when he was incarcerated at Sing Sing.
He was accompanied by the detective that worked the case.
She wanted to ask Albert about her son's death. Albert
refused to speak to her, but he did write a
letter to his attorney. I brought him to the riker
aven her dumbs. There is a house that stands alone,
not far from where I took him. I took the

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g boy there, stripped him naked, tied his hands and feet,
and gagged him with the piece of a dirty rag
I picked out of the dump. Then I burned his clothes.
I threw his shoes in the dump. Then I walked
back to the trolley to fifty ninth Street at two am,
and walked home from there. The next day, about two pm,
I took the tolls a good heavy cat, nine tails,

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homemade short handle. Cut one of my belts in half,
slit these half in six strips about eight inches long.
I whipped his bear behind until blood ran down from
his legs. I cut off his ears nose, slid his
mouth from ear to ear, gouched his eyes, and he

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was dead them. I stuck a knife in his belly
and held my mouth to his body and drank his blood.
I picked up four old potato sacks and gathered a
pile of stones. Then I cut him up. I had
a grip with me. I put his nose, his ears,
and slices his belly in the grip. Then I cut

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him through the middle of the body, just below his
belly button. Then threw his legs two inches below behind.
I put this in my grip with a lot of paper.
I cut off his head, feet, arms, hands, and the
legs below the knee. This I put in the sacks,
waded with stones tied to the ends of them, and
threw them in the pool of slimy water you will

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see along the road going to North Beach. The water
is three to four feet deep. They sank at once.
I came home with my meat. I had the front
of the body I liked best, his monkey and peewee's
and a nice little fat behind the roast in the oven.
I made stew out of his ears, nose, and pieces

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of space and belly. I put onions carrots, turnips, celery,
and salt and pepper. It was good. Then I split
the cheeks of his behind open, cut off his monkey
and Peewee's and washed them first. I put strips of
bacon on each of the cheeks behind and put them
in the oven. Then I picked four onions, and when

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meat had roasted about a fourth of an hour, I
poured about a pint of water over it and gravy
and put the onions at frequent invitols. I basted his
behind with a wooden spoon so the meat would be
nice and juicy. In about two hours it was nice
and brown, cooked through. I never ate any roast turkey
that tasted half as good as his that little behind it.

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I ate every bit of meat in the four days.
His little monkey was sweet as nut, but Peewee's I
could not choose. I threw them in the toilet.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Seriously, as a parent, I would want closure what happened
to my child. But I don't think as a parent
I would want to know all those details that he gave.
That was way too TMI. The Richmond County District Attorney
announced his intentions to seek an indictment against Alfred for

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Francis McDonald's murder. ALBERTA first denied the charges. It wasn't
until March nineteen thirty five that, after the conclusion of
his trial for Grace Bud, that his confession to killing
of little Billy Gafney and he admitted to the raper
murder of McDonald. When Alban's confession was made public, a
local newspaper wrote that the disclosure solidified Albert's reputation as

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the most vicious child slayer in criminal history. Albert's trial
for the murder of Grace Bud lasted ten days. Albert
did plead insanity. He claimed he heard voices from God
telling him to kill the children. Several psychiatrists testified about
Albert's sexual fetiship which included sadism and masochism, the derivation

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of pleasure from acts of, respectively inflicting pain or humiliation.
Flagellation the act of beating a human body with such
things as whips, rods, switches, etc. Exhibitionism the act of
exposing intimate body intimate parts of the body in a
public or semi public place. Voyeurism the sexual interest in

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or practicing of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviors
such as undressing, sexual activity or other private activity. Pictorism
sexual interest in penetrating the skin of another person with
soft objects. Cannibalism the act of act, or practice of

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humans eting the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. Copophagia,
simply put, is the consumption of feces. Europhilia sexual excitement
associated with urine, came telangia sexual interest in objects, situations,
or individuals that are atypical. Pediophilia a psychiatric disorder in

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which an adult or old adolescents has sexual attraction to
previous children. Necrophilia the sexual attraction or acts involving corpses,
and in fibulation, the ritual removal of the bulba and
its futuring. Albert's defense council noted that Albert was a

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psycheatric phenomenon, and that nowhere in legal or medical records
was there another individual who possessed so many sexual abnormalties.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
The defense chief expert witness was a psychiatrist with an
emphasis on child development. During two days of testimony, he
tried to explain Albert's obsession with religion, and specifically his
preoccupation with the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac. He
told the court that Albert believed that sacrificing a boy
would be penance for his own sins, and then even

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if the act itself was wrong, angels would prevent it
if God did not approve. Albert attempted to sacrifice once before,
but stopped when a cardrove passed. Edward Budd was the
next intended victim, but he was larger than expected, and
so he settled on Grace. He knew Grace was a female,
but it is believed that Albert perceived her body as

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a boy in Albert's mind, his cannibalism and association with communion.
In a statement with five hundred with fifteen hundred words long,
detail Albert's life and ended with the doctors being asked
how he is considered Albert's medical condition based on his life.
His answer was simple, he is insane.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
The first of four rebuttal witnesses were Menius Gregory, the
former manager of the Bellevue hospital where Albert was treated
during nineteen thirty. He testified that Albert was abnormal but sane.
Under cross examining, Dempsey asked if coprophilia, europhilia, and pediophilia

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indicated a sane or insane person. Gregory replied that such
a person was not mentally sick, and that these were
common perversions that are socially perfectly all right, and that
Albert was no different from millions of other people, some
very very prominent and successful, who had the very same perversions.

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Another was Albert's seventeen year old stepdaughter. She told how
Albert taught her and her brothers and sisters several games
involving overtones of masochism and child molestation.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
The jurors did not doubt that Albert was insane, but
they felt that he should be executed anyways. They found
him to be sane and guilty. The judge sentenced a
death by electrocution. Albert arrived at prison in March nineteen
thirty five, and he was executed on January sixteenth, nineteen
thirty six, in the electric chair at Sing Sing. He

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was buried in the sing Sing prison cemetery. It was
said that Albert helped the executioner positioned the electrodes on
his bodies. On his body, his last words were said
to be, I don't even know why I'm here. Albert's
lawyer held a meeting with reporters. After the execution, his
lawyer revealed that he had his client's final statement. It

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was several pages of handwritten notes that Albert penned in
the hours prior to his death. The reporters pressed him
to reveal the document's contents, The lawyer refused, stating, I
will never show it to anyone, as the most filthy
string of ubscendies that I have ever read.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
It will never be known the true count of Albert's victims,
but it is believed there are many more than what
he was charged for. Between nineteen twenty four and nineteen
twenty eight, we know he killed at least three children.
Francis McDonald eight on July fifteenth, nineteen twenty four, in
Long Island, New York, Billy Gaffne February eleven, nineteen twenty seven,

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New York City, and Grace Budd ten, New York City.
There were the murders of Yeda Abrahmowitz twelve. She was
strangled and beaten on the roof of a five story
apartment building in the Bronx. She died in the hospital
shortly after she was found. A man who has gone unidentified,
but matching Albert's description besided trying to lure several local

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girls into dark hallways and alleys on the date of
her death. Then there was the mutilated body of a
sixteen year old Mary Ellen O'Connor, whose remains were found
in the woods close to a house that Albert had
been painting in Far Rockaway, Queens in February fifteenth, nineteen
thirty two. Then last we have the possible victims. Albert

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didn't claim to have sexually assaulted at least one hundred boys.
The true count we will never know. Who knows. Maybe
Albert himself did not even know, but it is possible
that he was responsible for Emma Richardson's death five years
al on October third, nineteen twenty six, and Benjamin Collins
age seventeen December fifteenth, nineteen thirty two.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Back in those days, parents let their children, even as
young as five, go out and play unsupervised. Everyone trusted
everybody else. It would not have been unusual to see
two or three kids walking into the candy store without
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