![]() ![]() When Billy Beaton was asked by the police what happened to Gaffney, he said "the boogeyman" took him. ![]() On February 11, 1927, he abducted Billy Gaffney, 4, while he was playing hide-and-seek with his three-year-old friend, Billy Beaton, and Beaton's 12-year old brother. On October 5, 1926, some sources state that he killed a 5-year old girl named Emma Richardson (this particular murder is very undocumented and isn't mentioned in many sources). On July 15 the same year, he committed his first confirmed murder, abducting and killing Francis X. He approached her and asked for her help in picking rhubarbs, only to be chased away by Mrs. On July 11, 1924, Fish attempted to abduct Beatrice Kiel, 8, from her parents' farm on Staten Island. ![]() On February 26, 1924, he married an Estella Wilcox, though the marriage only lasted a week and wasn't legal since he and his first wife hadn't filed for divorce. His growing obsession with pain manifested itself as self-harm, most infamously pushing needles into his groin, eventually pushing them so deep inside that they couldn't be retrieved.Īfter Fish's eldest son, unable to put up with his father's bizarre behavior any longer, threw him out, he became a drifter and was arrested several times for minor offenses such as vagrancy and petty theft and also for sending his usual obscene letters. When at the family summer house in Westchester, he would climb to the top of a mountain, shake his fist at the sky and declare himself Christ before asking his children to hit his buttocks. He began hearing voices and suffering from religious delusions. In 1917, his wife ran off with John Straube, a handyman who had done work at the family home, and his behavior became increasingly irregular. He had extramarital relationships with men, among them a mentally retarded man whom he tried to castrate. In 1903, he went to prison for the first time, being sentenced to time in Sing-Sing for grand larceny. Working as a house-painter, Fish later claimed to have continued molesting children, mostly boys under the age of six, during this time and to have committed his first murder in Delaware in 1910, fatally stabbing a child named Thomas Bedden. They had six children together: Albert Jr., Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John, and Henry. He also claimed to have started raping young boys at this age and to have kept doing so even after he, after an arrangement made by his mother, married a woman five years younger than him in 1898. By 1890, the Fish family had moved to New York City, where Albert claimed to have become a male prostitute. He would go on to stay in this line of work for the rest of his life. He left school at the age of 15 and became a painter and decorator, proving to be extremely skilled at it. He also became a prolific writer of obscene letters to women, finding targets in classified ads. He began spending his weekends at local public baths, where he would watch boys younger than himself undress. In 1882, a twelve-year-old Fish began a relationship with a telegraph boy who introduced him to coprophagia (consumption of feces) and urolagnia (drinking urine). Fish got a government job and took back Albert, aged nine. He became a bed wetter and frequently escaped, only to end up back at the orphanage again every time. He wanted to be named "Albert" after a dead relative, in part to escape his nickname "Ham and Eggs", and later adopted the name as his own. This only led to the other boys bullying him more. Because of this treatment, Fish developed a taste for sadomasochism and would get erections and even derive pleasure from the beatings. She left him at the Saint John's orphanage in Washington, where the teachers regularly punished the boys living, thereby making them strip naked and whip and beat them in front of each other. When Randall Fish died of a heart attack, aged 80, when Fish was five, his mother was left without her husband's financial support and couldn't afford to care for her youngest son. Secretary of State, to whom he was allegedly distantly related. His mother told him that he was named after Hamilton Fish, the then-U.S. His father Randall was a boat captain who operated on the Potomac River and suffered from religious mania. The others were named Walter, Annie, and Edwin. Fish was born the youngest of four children on May 19, 1870, in Washington, D.C. ![]()
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