Hamilton Fish, also known as Albert Fish, was a serial killer and cannibal who tortured and murdered children in the early 20th century. He would lure children from their homes by gaining their trust, then torture and sexually assault them using implements like a nail-studded paddle before killing and sometimes cannibalizing them. Fish committed hundreds of murders across multiple states and was only caught after confessing to the murder of Grace Budd. At his trial he was found sane and guilty and was executed by electrocution in 1936.

1. By: Katelyn
Barrick

2.  He was a small, gentle looking
man, he appeared kind and
trusting, but once alone with
his victims his true monster self
was released
 His crimes were so perverse
and cruel they seemed almost
unbelievable
 Eventually he was executed
and rumors say that he turned
his execution into a fantasy of
pleasure

3. • Birth name is Hamilton Fish
• He was born on May 19th, 1870 in
Washington D.C.
• His family had a long history of mental
illnesses
• His father died when he was 5
• He was abandoned by his parents at a
young age and he was sent to an
orphanage
• Fish claims that at the orphanage he was
exposed to regular beatings and sadistic
acts of brutality
• At age 7 he was reunited with his
mother

4. • Had very little formal education
• Grew up learning to work more with his hands
then with his brain
 He fell from a cherry tree causing severe head
trauma
 After graduating from high school, he started
working odd jobs and traveling around the
country.
 This is when he began committing small crimes
 He also began calling himself “Albert,” discarding
the hated first name, which led classmates to tease
him, calling him “Ham and Eggs.”

5.  He married in 1898 and fathered six children
 His children had average lives up until 1917, when
his wife left him for another man
 After his wife left him his children recall him
occasionally asking them to participate in his sado-
masochistic games.
 One of these games he wanted them to play
included the nail laced paddle he once used on his
victims
 He would ask his children to paddle him with the
weapon until blood ran down his entire leg
 He would also find enjoyment in pushing needles
deep into his skin

6. Across state lines
 He developed a skill as a house painter and
worked in different states across the country
 Rumored that he selected states largely
populated with African Americans because he
believed the police would spend less time
searching for African American children then
Caucasian children
 Several of his victims were black children
selected to endure his labeled “Instruments of
Hell”
 They included the paddle, a meat cleaver and
knives.

7. Methods
 He would lure them away from their
homes, torture them in various ways
including using a paddle laced with sharp
nails, and then rape them
 As time went on his sexual fantasies grew
more fiendish and bizarre
 The crimes would begin ending in murdering
and cannibalizing his young victims

8.  He observed and experienced numerous acts of
perversions including forced masturbation in front of
other children
 He was abused
 These acts lead up to his further obsession with sado-
masochism.
 He was never in a stable environment

9.  Young children
 Race and gender did not matter

10.  The police traced the letter that was
anomalously written to the Budd family on
the case of their missing daughter back to
a flophouse were Fish was living
 He was arrested and immediately began
confessing about killing Grace Budd and
several hundred other children
 Fish would smile as he told the detectives
about the grizzly details of the tortures and
murders he committed
 He appeared to the detectives as the Devil
himself

11.  On March 11, 1935 his trial began and he
pleaded innocent for the reason of insanity
 He claimed that he had voices in his head
telling him to kill those children
 Despite the numerous physiatrists who
described him as insane he was still found guilty
 Charged with (look up what degree)
 The jury found him sane and guilty after only a
ten day trial
 He was sentenced to death by electrocution
 On January 16, 1936, fish was electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison
 Reportedly a process Fish looked upon as "the
ultimate sexual thrill" but later dismissed as just
rumor.

12. So difficult to spot?
 They blend in, camouflaged in contemporary
anonymity.
 They lurk in churches and malls, and prowl
the freeways and streets.
 Like all predators, they stalk their victims by
gaining their trust.
 They hide behind a mask of fake emotions

13. Organized : Disorganized:
 offense planned  spontaneous offense
 victim a targeted stranger  victim or location known
 personalizes victim  depersonalizes victim
 controlled conversation  minimal conversation
 crime scene reflects overall  crime scene random and
control sloppy
 demands submissive victim  sudden violence to victim
 restraints used  minimal use of restraints
 aggressive acts prior to
death  sexual acts after death
 body hidden  body left in view
 weapon/evidence absent  evidence/weapon often
 transports victim or body present
 body left at death scene

14.  I learned that there are people out there
that can cause them to do so much
damage in a life time
 Its just awful to learn how someone can
cannibalize children

15.  http://twistedminds.creativescapism.co
m/most-notorious/albert-fish/
 http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/alb
ertfish.htm