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Albert Fish was a cannibal and a vampire who was believed to have killed, eaten, and drunk the blood of between 8 and 15 children. He somehow believed in his demented interpretation of the Old Testament that he was paying homage to Abraham’s near-sacrifice of his son, Isaac by actually completing the sacrificial acts. In addition, official estimates tallied that Fish had molested more than one hundred children and castrated a number of boys before his criminal career finally ended.

Born in 1870 in Washington, D.C., Fish came from an extremely dysfunctional family in which nearly every member was mentally deficient in some way. Systematically whipped and abused as a small boy, Fish later grew to become erotically stimulated by the cruel treatment.

Later, he justified his murders as an aspect of his religious mission. Fish said that he was Christ returned….

Later, he justified his murders as an aspect of his religious mission. Fish said that he was Christ returned, and he proclaimed that it was his divine duty to administer God’s vengeance upon a sinful and depraved humanity. His killings of the children, he explained, were actually sacrifices that spared the chosen children from living a life of depravity and sin that would have led to their eternal damnation.

For six years after one of his most heinous crimes—the murder, dismemberment, and eating of 10-year-old Grace Budd—Fish continued to send obscene letters to the girl’s parents, describing in perverse detail the sadistic acts that he had performed upon their daughter. It was this series of profane correspondence that led to Fish’s eventual capture.

The monster died in the electric chair without showing any signs of fear or an awareness of his own mortality. It was witnessed that he even helped the attendants adjust the straps and apparatus as he sat in the chair awaiting the moment when the warden pulled the lever.