Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was a truly disturbed human being and one of the most notorious serial killers of his time. His family had a history of mental disorders, which may have influenced his behavior. When he was a boy he was sent to an orphanage, there he was whipped and beaten, it was there that he was thought to have acquired a love for pain especially when it was inflicted on himself. He married a woman and they had five children, his wife left him and that's when his strange behavior began, sometimes shouting to the heavens, "I am Christ." He also enjoyed being whipped and beaten and X-rays later showed that he had needles stuck so deep in his body that he could not get them out. He soon developed a sort of bloodlust and began to engage in cannibalism. He confessed to killing and eating three children, one being Grace Budd; a thorough investigation led to his capture. His trial lasted ten days and the jury reached a guilty verdict in less than an hour, the judge sentenced him to death by electrocution, Albert thanked him for this. On January 16, 1936 he was taken to the professorship; his last words were "I don't even know why I'm here." Albert Fish 3 Early life Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was born on May 19, his father was Randall Fish, he was a boat captain and had a religious mania, a serious mental disorder. The Fish family was thought to have a history of extreme mental disorders and this may have caused Albert to act the way he did. His father died of a heart attack in 1875 and Albert was only five years old. Albert's mother placed him in an orphanage because she could no longer take care of him at the time. He was the youngest of his family's four children; had three older children... half of the document... in New York, Fish's lawyer would try to focus on how Fish was a good father and had never hurt his children, and how no person in her right mind she would have eaten a small child. But his lawyer couldn't prove whether Fish had actually eaten any of those children, so he focused on whether Fish had stuck needles in himself and how he loved being beaten. But after a ten day trial, the jury took less than an hour to find Albert Fish guilty, the judge sentenced him to death by electrocution, Albert wasn't happy with the sentence at first but he was happy to die that way and also thanked the judge after the trial. trial. On January 16, 1936, Albert Fish was taken to the electrocution chair, although the process was said to last only three seconds, some thought the electric charge failed the first time due to all the nails in his body. His last words were: "I don't even know why I'm here".