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