Albert fish

1. Albert Fish Famous C riminal Presentation By: Karen Jimenez Forensic Science, Period 3 Bellflower High

2. Interesting Facts Albert Fish (1870 – 1936) - Know for most vile pedophile and killer His family came from a background of mental illness. Movies, books, magazines All the children he killed

3. Background on Albert Fish Was a house painter Started killing when he was at his 60’s - Met his victim’s father for a wanted job in NYC Enjoyed pain Killed children - Mostly molested

4. Crime & Scene Who? - Victims: Grace Budd, Billy Gaffney, and Francis McDonnell What? - Francis was the first to get killed. Albert took him to the woods and strangle him with his suspenders. - Billy was the second and his body wasn’t ever found. - Grace was last and she was taken to a “party” but instead into a empty house and killed her and ate her. “ It took me nine days to eat her entire body.” – Albert Fish When? - Francis: July 1924 - Billy: Feb. 11, 1927 - Grace: June 3, 1928 Where? - Francis: Staten Island - Billy: none - Grace: Westchester

5. Forensic Evidence: Evidence found Anonymous letter Information November 11, 1934 Grace’s mother got the letter with detail information of the murder and cut pieces and eating of her daughter.

6. Legal Aspects of Albert Fish Fish was arrested and on March 11, 1935 his trail began. - “he plead innocent by the reason of insanity. He said it was voices in his head telling him to kill children that made him do such horrendous crimes .” January 16, 1936, Fish was electrocution at Sing Sing prison.

7. References: Veloso, Bryan. Dead Silence . July 20, 2006. The Serial Killer Blog. April 24 , 2012. http://deadsilence.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/albert-fish / Rawlins, Heather. The Life of a Cannibal . 2003. April 25, 2012. http:// iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/spring03/rawlins/fishvict.htm M ontaldo, Charles. Serial Killer Albert  Fish . The New Y ork T imes Company. April 24, 2012 http:// crime.about.com/od/serial/p/albertfish.htm