No, Albert Fish was not a real vampire. Of course, he did not sleep in a coffin, was not afraid of crosses and did not even drink blood. And yet, all the vampires ever invented by writers look like just a funny fantasy compared to the bloody activities of this psychopath. During the 1920s and 1930s, Albert Fish roamed the United States of America as an insane executioner, torturing and eating his victims. The police got on his trail too late - it can be considered that he led his career as a maniac very successfully. Here is a dark, difficult and confusing story of a man who was nicknamed the Brooklyn Vampire for a reason.
Poor orphan
Albert Fish ended up in an orphanage despite the fact that his mother was still alive. The poor woman was simply unable to raise the child herself, because her husband, Randall Fish, died without leaving any inheritance. Albert was sent to the St. John Orphanage, where violence and cruelty reigned.
Young and early
Ellen Fish could not forget her child. She miraculously got to her feet and took nine-year-old Albert from the orphanage, but this tale has no happy ending. The atmosphere of his home for some reason provoked the development of the boy's strange and unnatural sexual inclinations. Albert's behavior turned from alarming to frightening after meeting with a telegraph clerk. The strangest of these newly acquired habits was the tendency to urolagia and coprophagia. In addition, a very young Albert got into the habit of spying on men's baths.
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First kill
The maniac started hunting in 1910. Albert entered into a relationship with a young vagrant, Thomas Caddon. A month later, Fish lured an unsuspecting victim into an abandoned barn. The torture lasted two weeks. Finally, the maniac cut Thomas's genitals and left him to die of blood loss.
Bloody streak
More than a hundred people became victims of the cruel executioner. Crimes were committed throughout the United States. Did Fish get the attention of the police? Never. The psycho spent a lot of time in jail for sending obscene letters, for theft and other petty crimes. But no detective has ever linked the quiet middle-aged man to sexual assault on children. Most likely, the police did not even suspect the number of victims: the Brooklyn vampire chose African Americans, orphans and the mentally retarded. This proves that the maniac thought out his actions well and planned in advance.
Vampire phenomenon
In the police investigation, Fish has long figured under the nickname "The Gray Man." Then, after a wave of cannibalism in New York, a new nickname appeared: the maniac turned into the Brooklyn vampire. In fact, Fish never drank the blood of a victim. He tried to devour everything whole.
Productive killer
Albert Fish's true scope will never be known exactly. At the trial, the maniac confessed to three murders and named three dozen cases when he left the still living victims to bleed. All this is very far from reality. After the arrest, the remains of at least 50 people were found in Fish's house, and after all, the psychopath operated throughout the country! Modern researchers believe that the true number of victims of the Brooklyn maniac has exceeded one and a half hundred.
Executioner and victim
Subsequently, it turned out that Fish was experiencing an irresistible craving for masochism, and in its worst form. Most of all forensic doctors were shocked by a thorough examination of Albert: it turned out that he had driven huge needles into his pelvic and groin areas, leaving them there for months. X-ray revealed 29 needles.
Religious clouding
With age, Albert's mind suffered more and more. At times, the maniac considered himself Jesus Christ, showed up in public places and shouted, frightening passers-by. If the police at that time had paid attention to the madman, he would never have begun his bloody harvest. Already at the trial, Fish declared in his defense that God had sent him to kill.
The end of the psychopath
The police tracked down the maniac on May 25, 1928. Fish lured an 18-year-old boy, Jerry Budd, with the promise of a job. Jerry brought his little sister with him, as there was simply no one to leave her with. The sight of little innocent Grace inflamed the maniac's blood thirst. The body of the poor thing was found a few months later, and then they went to the Brooklyn vampire himself, who brazenly remained to live in the same district.