Editing Albert Fish (section)

{{short description|American serial killer, child rapist, and cannibal (1870–1936)}}
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{{Infobox serial killer
| name              = Albert Fish
| image             = Albert Fish 1903 crop.jpg
| alt               = <!-- Man with gray hair and brown eyes -->
| caption           = Fish's [[mugshot]] after his arrest for grand larceny in 1903
| birth_name        = Hamilton Howard Fish<ref name="ReferenceA" />
| alias             = {{hlist|Frank Howard|Thomas A. Sprague|Robert Hayden|John W. Pell}}
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1870|05|19}}
| birth_place       = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1936|1|16|1870|5|19}}
| death_place       = [[Sing Sing|Sing Sing Prison]], [[Ossining (village), New York|Ossining, New York]], U.S.
| cause             = [[Execution by electrocution]]
| conviction        = [[First degree murder]]<br>[[Grand larceny]]
| victims           = 3+
| country           = United States
| states            = New York
| beginyear         = 1924
| endyear           = 1932
| apprehended       = December 13, 1934
| sentence          = [[Capital punishment in New York (state)|Death]]
| motive            = {{hlist|[[Sexual sadism]]|[[pedophilia]]|[[human cannibalism|cannibalism]]}}
}}
'''Hamilton Howard''' "'''Albert'''" '''Fish'''<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book |last1=Frasier |first1=David K. |title=Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century: Biographies and Bibliographies of 280 Convicted Or Accused Killers |date=1996 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786401840}}</ref> (May 19, 1870&nbsp;– January 16, 1936) was an American [[serial killer]], [[Rape|rapist]], [[child molestation|child molester]] and [[human cannibalism|cannibal]] who committed at least three [[child murder]]s between July 1924 and June 1928. He was also known as the '''Gray Man''', the '''Werewolf of Wysteria''', the '''Brooklyn Vampire''', the '''Moon Maniac''', and the '''Boogey Man'''.<ref name="katekray">{{cite book |last1=Kray |first1=Kate |title=The World's Twenty Worst Crimes - True Stories of 10 Killers and Their 3000 Victims |date=2007 |publisher=John Blake Publishing |isbn=9781784184360 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MI_lBgAAQBAJ&q=The+World%27s+20+Worst+Crimes%3A+True+Stories+of+20+Killers+and+Their+1000+Victims}}</ref> Fish was a suspect in at least ten murders during his lifetime, although he only confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known [[homicide]]. He also confessed to [[stabbing]] at least two other people.

Fish once boasted that he "had children in every state",<ref name="katekray" /> and at one time stated his number of victims was about 100. However, it is not known whether he was referring to rapes or cannibalization, nor is it known if the statement was truthful.<ref>{{cite book|last=Doidge|first=Christina|title=Profile of Serial Killers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ3V1zE2R6UC|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|year=2012|isbn=978-1475050905}}</ref> Fish was apprehended on December 13, 1934, and put on trial for the [[kidnapping]] and murder of Grace Budd. He was convicted and executed by [[electric chair]] on January 16, 1936, at the age of 65.<ref name="pay" /><ref name="wife" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Stone |first1=Michael H. |last2=Brucato |first2=Gary |title=The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime |date=2019 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=9781633885332 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csdkDwAAQBAJ | pages= 167–171}}</ref>