Serial Killers at Home

The Killer: Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870-January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer and child molester who killed at least three children and was suspected of ten additional murders. Born into a family with a history of mental illness, Fish was physically abused. By the age of 12, he had grown to enjoy the pain inflicted upon him. At the age of 20, Fish moved to New York City where he married a woman his mother had picked for him. Together, the couple had six children. When his wife left him in 1917, Fish began embedding needles into his groin and abdomen. By 1927, Fish was employed as a house painter by a Brooklyn real estate company and, in 1928, answered a newspaper ad stating that a young man named Edward Budd wanted to find work in a rural part of New York. Fish visited the Budd family under the pretence of hiring Edward and, after meeting Edward's younger sister, 10-year-old Grace Budd, lied about having to attend a niece's birthday party. Af...