Years after he left the orphanage and working as a handyman and painter Albert Fish married. He and his wife had six children soon after though she left Fish for another man. This is where things seemed to turn for the worse. He believed that he was Abraham reincarnated and therefore should sacrifice his children for God cleansing himself of sin. He received his commands through hallucinatory visions and voices. Fish then satisfied his own urge as a masochist through rigorous practices such as beating himself with a spiked paddle, eating his own faeces and inserting needles into himself.
Fish then decided to live a nomadic lifestyle which would turn out to be America's worst dream, he preyed up hundreds of children then number which he killed and mutilated is estimated to be from 5 - 15. After sending a letter to one of his victims mothers (6 years after he killed 8 year old Grace Budd) detailing how he strangled her, cut up the body and then ate it. Clever detective work from Detective William King finally led to his arrest, Fish put up no resistance and gave more information than they asked, when they x rayed Fish, they found 29 needles inside his body broken off from his masochistic tendencies.
Though it was clear and agreed that Albert Fish was Insane the nature of his crimes over the years gave the judge no choice but to sentence him to death. He died in the electric chair in 1936.
