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The Dark Truth About a Man Accused of Unthinkable Crimes · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, you beautiful little butterfly.
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Speaker 1: You're so beautiful, I love looking at you and hearing
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Speaker 1: about you and... I guess I don't hear about them.
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Speaker 1: I just wanna say that and preface that because I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about some pretty disgusting stuff today. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna get pretty gross up in here, all right? And also,
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Speaker 1: as you can see, I am in a new space.
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Speaker 1: I'm in my new studio. I'm finally in it. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna have a different background and stuff. I literally haven't
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Speaker 1: changed my background really since I started on YouTube, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: you still got Pete and whatever and my sign and whatever, whatever.
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Speaker 1: And we got Bob Ross and my bear, but whatever.
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Speaker 1: I'm in a green room and it makes me very
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Speaker 1: happy and I got a fireplace. So it's cozy. It's
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Speaker 1: all warm and cozy for me to tell you about
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Speaker 1: the most disgusting human being that's ever existed, basically, and
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Speaker 1: that is Albert Fish. This sick, twisted individual wasn't just
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Speaker 1: a murderer. He was a cannibal. And today we will
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Speaker 1: be deep diving into his life. Who was he? Why
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Speaker 1: was he the way he was? Why was he the
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Speaker 1: way he was? Does that make sense? Yeah. And what
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Speaker 1: led him to become such a prominent murderer? And those
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Speaker 1: are the questions we're gonna be answering today. So without
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Speaker 1: further ado, let's unbuckle our seat belts, go Mach 5
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Speaker 1: down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust through
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Speaker 1: this windshield into this disgusting murderer case together. Hamilton Howard
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Speaker 1: Fish was born in Washington, D.C. on May 19, 1870.
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Speaker 1: And his father was named Randall and his mother, Ellen Howell.
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Speaker 1: And their age difference was 43 years, which is a lot.
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Speaker 1: We're starting off with some crime. Straight out the gate, basically.
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Speaker 1: But when... Albert was born, his mother was 32, and
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Speaker 1: his father was 75. Man swimmers had walkers, if you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But Albert Fish came from a
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Speaker 1: lineage that wasn't all there. His uncle had mania with
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Speaker 1: complete lack of control over his emotions and outbursts. Just
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Speaker 1: sounds like your typical woman if you ask me, am
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Speaker 1: I right? But not much is well known about his
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Speaker 1: lineage and specific mental illnesses. Mostly because mental health was
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Speaker 1: just not considered as important as it is today. It
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Speaker 1: was just very stigmatized and not well documented. Basically, if
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Speaker 1: you complained about being sad, they just throw you in
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Speaker 1: the loony bin, so it just wasn't worth it. However,
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Speaker 1: his mother supposedly experienced frequent hallucinations, both auditory and visual.
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Speaker 1: And this would obviously make her life very difficult because
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Speaker 1: she couldn't seek the proper help, especially suffering with hallucinations. Like,
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine having that happen and then not having
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Speaker 1: any help. She was probably literally going crazy. And on
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Speaker 1: top of that, one of his brothers was in a
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Speaker 1: state mental hospital. And his half-brother was suffering from schizophrenia,
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Speaker 1: and his sister Annie was diagnosed with a mental affliction
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Speaker 1: as well. So just right out the gate. This family
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Speaker 1: is just full of mental illness and a lot of
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Speaker 1: things that are going to hold them back in life.
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Speaker 1: So he's not coming into a family that's, you know,
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Speaker 1: very stable, to say the least. And since his father
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Speaker 1: was an old man by the time he had Albert, again, 75,
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Speaker 1: this could explain his life troubles afterward due to the
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Speaker 1: fact that having a child at this age presents a
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Speaker 1: lot of health risks. And it didn't help that his
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Speaker 1: mother struggled with her mental health. and had three different
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Speaker 1: siblings that struggled with mental health as well. And in
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Speaker 1: the 1870s, it was rough. It was a rough life.
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Speaker 1: And the family struggled to meet financial demands left and right.
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Speaker 1: And Randall worked as a fertilizer manufacturer and was an
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Speaker 1: ex-riverboat captain which sounds kinda cool. But the income he
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Speaker 1: brought was barely enough for the family. And after his
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Speaker 1: father passed on, his mother really, really struggled financially. Providing
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Speaker 1: for her children after her husband was gone was an
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Speaker 1: insane challenge, having almost no support. So like I said,
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Speaker 1: Albert's father died when he was only five years old. Albert,
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Speaker 1: that is not his dad. His dad was 75. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: you get it. And his mother was just overwhelmed and struggled.
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Speaker 1: Being widowed in the 19th century was just a nightmare.
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Speaker 1: And eventually, her isolation was just too much. And due
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Speaker 1: to these difficulties, she decided to place Albert into St.
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Speaker 1: John's Orphanage in Washington, D.C. And being placed into an
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Speaker 1: orphanage at such a young age, once from a home
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Speaker 1: with lack of discipline to a place with harsh routines,
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Speaker 1: which include physical beatings, is rough to say the least.
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Speaker 1: But supposedly, Albert Fish secretly enjoyed these physical beatings and
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Speaker 1: harsh forms of abuse, which later down the line could
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Speaker 1: have confused his perception of pain and pleasure being blurred.
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Speaker 1: Which it does, and we'll see that. And the disciplinary
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Speaker 1: measures at the orphanage were honestly Incredibly brutal. It was
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Speaker 1: documented that teachers would shred the children's clothes off, beat them,
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Speaker 1: whip them, and force other students to watch in a
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Speaker 1: humiliation-like ritual. So this skewed his view of the world
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Speaker 1: for sure. And maybe seeing the other boys getting beatings
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Speaker 1: and receiving them himself points to where he probably had
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Speaker 1: this pain, pleasure, confusion, sadomasochism beginnings. And at around 10
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Speaker 1: years old in 1880, his mother was finally able to
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Speaker 1: secure a job, one being in the government sector, which
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Speaker 1: allowed her to pull Albert out of the orphanage. But
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Speaker 1: at this point, it was already too late. This guy was...
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Speaker 1: way too far gone. And maybe it was already in him.
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Speaker 1: I think it was a little bit already in him,
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Speaker 1: especially since his, his, uh, family history of mental health.
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Speaker 1: But I think this just solidified it being in this
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Speaker 1: orphanage where they literally just beat kids senselessly. But in
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Speaker 1: 1882 at 12 years old, he would begin a relationship
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Speaker 1: with a boy who was a telegrapher. You know, those little,
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Speaker 1: those little things that people use for Morse code, this
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Speaker 1: little book that beep, beep, But this boy introduced Albert
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Speaker 1: Fish into drinking urine and eating feces. We're not even
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Speaker 1: scraping the surface yet, so stay with me. And this
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Speaker 1: introduction to this hobby, I guess, just, just ruined his
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Speaker 1: image of pleasure. And later he would begin to visit
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Speaker 1: public baths where other boys would undress watching them for
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Speaker 1: pleasure as well. So he's just very secretive, very obviously
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Speaker 1: was into other boys and men, um, which is no
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Speaker 1: problem at all, but the whole eating feces, drinking urine,
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Speaker 1: watching people without their consent, he just, he just barrel
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Speaker 1: rolls down the hill with all of this and it
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Speaker 1: gets just a lot worse. So although stability would somewhat
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Speaker 1: return to his family, his mental capacity had declined and
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Speaker 1: learning to reintegrate into being in a family was extremely
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Speaker 1: hard for him. And he had been emotionally scarred by
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Speaker 1: what he had experienced at the orphanage and had a
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Speaker 1: hard time fitting in with a normal family dynamic. And
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Speaker 1: it also didn't help that his mother was still suffering
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Speaker 1: with her mental health and running a family solely by
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Speaker 1: herself was a very large financial burden. And Albert was
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Speaker 1: also known to wet the bed until he was about
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Speaker 1: 11 years old, which is linked to, uh, other serial
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Speaker 1: killers or other murderers or people with violent tendencies, which
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Speaker 1: obviously they didn't know back then, but we know now,
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Speaker 1: along with hurting animals or, you know, injuring children and
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Speaker 1: that kind of thing, or setting fires. That's another one.
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Speaker 1: And at the age of 15, he graduated from public
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Speaker 1: school and had been ridiculed during his childhood by kids
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Speaker 1: using his legal name, Hamilton. And to bully them, they
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Speaker 1: use the term ham and eggs from Dr. Seuss, which
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Speaker 1: I think is kind of cute. But he really didn't
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Speaker 1: like it, so he used the name Albert instead. So
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Speaker 1: he didn't like emotional humiliation, but he loved physical humiliation,
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Speaker 1: as we will see. And Fish would continue to decline
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Speaker 1: in his mental health, committing crimes like petty theft and
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Speaker 1: experimenting more with his self-harm fantasies. At some point in
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Speaker 1: his life, he fell from a cherry tree and suffered
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Speaker 1: a really bad concussion. And this would continue to influence
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Speaker 1: his decline in mental health as well, with the frequent headaches, dizziness,
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Speaker 1: and even developing a stutter. And going back to things
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Speaker 1: that are very similar to other people that have violent
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Speaker 1: tendencies or even serial killers, it's wetting the bed, starting fires,
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Speaker 1: hurting animals, and also There has been proof that head trauma,
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Speaker 1: certain head trauma, especially to the frontal lobe, is known
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Speaker 1: to boost that tendency to be violent. So who knows?
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Speaker 1: Who's to say if it actually happened for Albert? But
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it didn't do him any good. And he
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Speaker 1: would also be arrested for forgery at 19 years old
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Speaker 1: with a bail. of a thousand dollars, which was a
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Speaker 1: lot of money compared to today's coin. And his early
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Speaker 1: adult years would become more sick and twisted. In 1890,
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Speaker 1: at the age of 20, he would relocate to the
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Speaker 1: Big Apple, New York City. But with a lack of education,
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Speaker 1: he restored to male prosta you-know-what. And it was kind
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Speaker 1: of up his alley because he liked to do all
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Speaker 1: that stuff, and then some, if you will, but Sejual
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Speaker 1: gratification just wasn't enough in this business for him. So
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Speaker 1: he began to delve into the darker side of it
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Speaker 1: and he would also start to target younger boys. So
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Speaker 1: his MO would be to lure the boys away, grape
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Speaker 1: them and molest them and do all sorts of horrible,
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Speaker 1: horrible things to them, enjoying it, doing to them and
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Speaker 1: doing it to himself. And one of the things he
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Speaker 1: used a lot was a nail paddle. which if you
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Speaker 1: don't know what that is, we'll put it up. But
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Speaker 1: it's basically, for any listeners, just a giant wooden paddle
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Speaker 1: with literal nails sticking out of it. So he would
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Speaker 1: use that on himself and on the boys as well.
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Speaker 1: And he would just gain so much gratification from it. Um,
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Speaker 1: just so, so sick. But unfortunately it would get even worse.
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Speaker 1: And in 1998, at the age of 27, his mother
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Speaker 1: decided to arrange a marriage for him with a woman
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Speaker 1: by the name of Anna Mary Hoffman. And she would
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Speaker 1: be about nine years younger than him, which, you know,
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Speaker 1: At that time, not too bad, not the whatever it was,
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Speaker 1: like 42, 43 years that was between his parents, which
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Speaker 1: is just crazy. Can't wrap my head around that. And
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Speaker 1: he would actually go on to have six children with
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Speaker 1: her named Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John, Henry. And his
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Speaker 1: family life did not matter to him at all because
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Speaker 1: he had his eyes set on other things, much more
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Speaker 1: horrible things. And unfortunately, or probably fortunately, his wife would
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Speaker 1: leave him for another man around 1917. And I'm sure
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Speaker 1: she left him for a lot of reasons, but one
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Speaker 1: of the main reasons, according to his testimony later down
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Speaker 1: the line, was that he would ask his children to
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Speaker 1: paddle him with a nail-filled paddle, like I showed before,
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Speaker 1: until he was dripping blood down his legs, which is
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Speaker 1: just absolutely disgusting, like... But the paddles, like I said before,
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Speaker 1: were only the beginning. It would actually be shown in
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Speaker 1: court later on as well, that he would enjoy... This
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Speaker 1: one's rough, it makes me sick. He would enjoy shoving
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Speaker 1: needles into his skin. Specifically... between his anus and testicular area.
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Speaker 1: Just let you sit with that for a minute. You
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Speaker 1: all right? I'm going to keep going. All right. An
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Speaker 1: x-ray later on revealed the absolute insane amount of needles
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Speaker 1: stuck in his pelvis and still in his pelvis. And
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Speaker 1: he also would reportedly strick alcohol dredged rags into his
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Speaker 1: butt and light them for pleasure, which is just, sadomasochism
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Speaker 1: that's what it is it's just sadomasochism and i'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna pretend that i'm It's, it's, everything's fine. It's not fine.
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Speaker 1: It's terrible. It's absolutely terrible. And like, you gotta have
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Speaker 1: some serious things happen in your life for this to
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Speaker 1: be a thing. But I digress. Let's continue. But before
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Speaker 1: his wife would leave him, Fish would admit a relationship
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Speaker 1: with a 19-year-old man named Thomas Bedden, where he would
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Speaker 1: enjoy his sadomasochist relationship. And it was unknown if it
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Speaker 1: was consensual. Some reports say that it is, and some
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Speaker 1: reports don't know, so I'll just say that it The
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Speaker 1: relationship itself was consensual, but I'm positive probably some of
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Speaker 1: it wasn't because of the following. The man was apparently
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Speaker 1: intellectually disabled, so I think you can't be able to
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Speaker 1: consent to everything when you aren't fully there. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: Fish would eventually go a step too far with Thomas,
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Speaker 1: and he would torture Thomas for two weeks straight, even
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Speaker 1: cutting off his... his member while he was still alive.
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Speaker 1: And Albert really wanted to keep the body afterward, but
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Speaker 1: he didn't want to get found out. So instead he
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Speaker 1: would just pour peroxide over Thomas's wound and leave a
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Speaker 1: $ 10 bill on the table and kiss him goodbye and
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Speaker 1: just leave. Because at this point, Thomas wasn't dead. He
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Speaker 1: was still alive and just bleeding out. And Albert literally
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Speaker 1: just slapped a tenner down and said, that was fun.
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Speaker 1: See you next Tuesday. And a quote from Fish remembering
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Speaker 1: his screams state, I shall never forget his screams or
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Speaker 1: the look he gave me. However, this was only the
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Speaker 1: start of what a soon to be sick and twisted legacy.
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Speaker 1: So because of his complete disregard for human life and
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Speaker 1: his confusion, of pleasure and pain, it would just elevate
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Speaker 1: and continue to spiral and he would just want to
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Speaker 1: keep going further and further. And later on Fish would
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Speaker 1: state that he would target intellectually disabled as they were
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Speaker 1: easier to lure and those who were African American as well.
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Speaker 1: And his whole thought process was that they wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: missed after they were killed and the police just wouldn't
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Speaker 1: bother looking for him, which unfortunately and heartbreakingly was very
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Speaker 1: prevalent at the time, which is just horrible. And in 1919,
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Speaker 1: he stabbed a disabled boy in Georgetown. And he would
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Speaker 1: go on to mutilate and torture more young boys with
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Speaker 1: horrible tools, such as a meat cleaver, a butcher knife,
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Speaker 1: and even a handsaw. And he would also pay young
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Speaker 1: boys to find and gather other children for more of
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Speaker 1: his sick fantasies, which we've found with A lot of murderers,
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Speaker 1: they like employ kids to get other kids. I think
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Speaker 1: it was actually the first video I ever did, the
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Speaker 1: first True Crime Deep Dive with Dean Corll, the Candyman,
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Speaker 1: the Candyman killer. He used other boys to get other
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Speaker 1: boys to kill and it's just, And one story was
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Speaker 1: that of Beatrice Kiel on July 11th, 1924. He would
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Speaker 1: encounter her playing alone on her family farm, approaching her
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Speaker 1: and offering her money to help him gather rhubarb in
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Speaker 1: the nearby fields. Before she could join him, her family
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Speaker 1: stopped him and chased him away, thankfully. And he would
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Speaker 1: later return and be found that evening hiding in their barn,
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Speaker 1: where her father again forced him to leave. And this
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Speaker 1: saved Beatrice from a horrible end that so many had
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Speaker 1: experienced already. Like, children were vulnerable enough, and Fish would
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Speaker 1: just use this to his advantage. And we don't really
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Speaker 1: know how many children were abducted or disappeared because of Fish,
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Speaker 1: which is unfortunate. But at least according to his claim,
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Speaker 1: he stated at least a hundred. But when he says
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Speaker 1: a hundred, it's unclear if he meant, you know, like,
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Speaker 1: torturing them or straight up murdering them. But regardless, both
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Speaker 1: still just terrible and disgusting. And he would first allegedly
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Speaker 1: target a victim by the name of Francis McDonald at
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Speaker 1: the age of eight years old from Long Island, New York.
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Speaker 1: And the boy would be found in July, 1924, hanging
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Speaker 1: from a tree after a search party would find him.
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Speaker 1: And the autopsy would reveal that he was SA'd and
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Speaker 1: strangled with his own suspenders. And there were portions of
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Speaker 1: his flesh removed from him and lots of cuts across
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Speaker 1: his legs and stomach. And witnesses claimed they had seen
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Speaker 1: an elderly man with a gray mustache mumbling to himself,
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Speaker 1: a description that led him to be called the Gray Man.
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Speaker 1: And the case for this would go cold for a
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Speaker 1: really long time until Fish was eventually arrested. And another
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Speaker 1: child by the name of Billy Gaffney was only four
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Speaker 1: years old in Brooklyn. And he would disappear in February
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Speaker 1: of 1927, along with his three-year-old friend, Billy Beaton. And
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Speaker 1: Beaton's older brother had left the two boys for a bit,
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Speaker 1: and they would just disappear seemingly out of nowhere. And
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Speaker 1: Billy Beaton would be found on a roof near where
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Speaker 1: they were playing earlier. However, Gaffney was nowhere to be seen.
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Speaker 1: And were asked where Gaffney was, Beaton's older brother would
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Speaker 1: say that the Boogeyman got him. And this would be
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Speaker 1: how he received the other nickname, the Boogeyman. And Gaffney's
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Speaker 1: body would never be found, but Fish later admitted to
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Speaker 1: his mother what he had done. And it was... brutal.
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Speaker 1: He would talk about how he killed the boy and
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Speaker 1: then go into detail about what he did with the
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Speaker 1: corpse afterwards, and it just shows how far fish had fallen.
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Speaker 1: He would describe whipping him until he bled, then cutting
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Speaker 1: off his ears and nose. He would take out his
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Speaker 1: eyes and he would also drink his blood. And after
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Speaker 1: he was done, he would cut the boy up into
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Speaker 1: pieces and dump the parts that he didn't want, keeping
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Speaker 1: his quote unquote, rump, which refers to the boy's bottom,
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Speaker 1: which he would roast in the oven, making a stew
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Speaker 1: with smaller pieces. And he described the stew he made,
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Speaker 1: adding onions, gravy, and more to the dish. And he
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Speaker 1: ate it all over the period of four years. So
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Speaker 1: Fish was a cannibal at this point, and has truly
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Speaker 1: just fallen in love with horrible, disgusting, monster-like tendencies, and
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Speaker 1: he would not stop there. The most well-known use of
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Speaker 1: his predatory tactics he used was an ad that he
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Speaker 1: had in the paper, which eventually led to his downfall,
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Speaker 1: and that would be a young girl by the name
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Speaker 1: of Grace Daly. In 1928, Fish would answer an ad
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Speaker 1: sent out by Edward Budd, an 18-year-old looking for some
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Speaker 1: part-time work. So Fish responded to the ad and later
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Speaker 1: that week would head to his address. And under the
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Speaker 1: name Frank Howard, he visited the Budd family at their
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Speaker 1: house in Manhattan, who was there to interview Edward for
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Speaker 1: the job he made in the paper. And the original
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Speaker 1: plan we learned later from Fish was that he wanted
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Speaker 1: to kill young Edward, but changed his mind when his
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Speaker 1: eyes stumbled upon his younger sister, Grace Budd, who was
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Speaker 1: only 10 years old. So Fish said he would be
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Speaker 1: back later to start Edward's workday the following week. But
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Speaker 1: when the date came around, he was a no-show. And
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Speaker 1: he later apologized in a telegram to Edward, stating he
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Speaker 1: would return at a later date that he provided. And
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Speaker 1: when he finally did show, he gave gifts to the
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Speaker 1: Budd family, including pot cheese and strawberries. And he would
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Speaker 1: state that, unfortunately, today wouldn't work either, claiming his sister
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Speaker 1: was having a birthday party in an apartment house on
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Speaker 1: 137th Street on Columbus, which we know now is just
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Speaker 1: a fictitious address that he made up. And Fish would
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Speaker 1: somehow convince this family to let Grace join him to
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Speaker 1: his sister's party, stating that he would bring her back
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Speaker 1: afterwards safe and sound. And this is just so heartbreaking,
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Speaker 1: because I know it's a different time, but this is
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Speaker 1: a man you don't know, and why would you let
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Speaker 1: your daughter go with him? It's just terrible. Oh, it
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Speaker 1: just gets so much worse. So after dressing her for
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Speaker 1: her Sunday's best, the two set off and that would
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Speaker 1: be the last time they would see their daughter alive.
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Speaker 1: Grace was never returned back home, so the Buds got
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Speaker 1: the police involved and gave them an address. And they
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Speaker 1: learned that there was no such thing as Frank Howard,
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Speaker 1: nor the address he said he would be at. And
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Speaker 1: the entire fabrication stumped the police. So they sent out
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Speaker 1: publications of a description of Fish and Grace so that
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Speaker 1: if someone found or knew anything about their whereabouts, they
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Speaker 1: could help. And after years and years of searching for
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Speaker 1: clues and evidence, It wasn't until November of 1934 that
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Speaker 1: a new piece of evidence would appear in the form
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Speaker 1: of a horrifying letter. And this letter is barbaric and
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Speaker 1: the most disgusting thing I've ever read in my life.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not going to read it on here. If
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Speaker 1: you do want to read it, you can maybe... Go
20:31
Speaker 1: look for, I mean, it's, it's everywhere. You can see
20:32
Speaker 1: it anywhere. If you want to go read it yourself,
20:34
Speaker 1: I wouldn't recommend it. It made me nauseous. I'm sure
20:37
Speaker 1: it will make you as well, but essentially, uh, he's
20:40
Speaker 1: talking about a story of a friend named John who
20:43
Speaker 1: developed a taste for human meat. And then he describes
20:46
Speaker 1: how delicious the. ass fat is to cook and eat
20:50
Speaker 1: up in stews or by itself. And then Fish gets
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Speaker 1: really specific, talking about how he brought her pot cheese
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Speaker 1: and strawberries. And on the day that he had lunch
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Speaker 1: with them and Grace sat on his lap, he decided
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Speaker 1: he would eat her. Like the second time he went
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Speaker 1: over and gave them all those things, he literally decided
21:08
Speaker 1: to eat her after she sat on his lap. And
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Speaker 1: he stated that he lied about the party and took
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Speaker 1: her to an empty house where he would take off
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Speaker 1: her clothes, cutting her into small pieces so he could
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Speaker 1: cook her and eat her. And he would describe how
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Speaker 1: she was delicious and how it took him nine days
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Speaker 1: to eat her whole body and ending it with how
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Speaker 1: he never did anything sejual to the body and that
21:35
Speaker 1: she died a virgin. Like that made what he did
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Speaker 1: any less awful. It's just vomit inducing. And the letter
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Speaker 1: was just too descriptive to be a lie with the
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Speaker 1: pot cheese and lying about the birthday party being memorable
21:50
Speaker 1: to the day they lost their daughter. And the descriptions
21:52
Speaker 1: of the man were all too familiar to his now
21:55
Speaker 1: famous nickname, the gray man. And by following the clues
21:58
Speaker 1: in the letter, They found out his old place of residence,
22:01
Speaker 1: which was 200 East 52nd Street. And when detectives would
22:05
Speaker 1: talk to the landlady, she was shocked by the description
22:07
Speaker 1: they gave of this older gentleman, Frank Howard, who had
22:11
Speaker 1: only checked out of the residence recently. However, the name
22:14
Speaker 1: Frank Howard wasn't familiar to the woman, as she knew
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Speaker 1: him as Albert Fish. So with Detective King on the case,
22:21
Speaker 1: he learned from the landlady that Fish supposedly would receive
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Speaker 1: a letter from his son who worked for the Civilian
22:27
Speaker 1: Conservation Corps in North Carolina and that it contained money.
22:30
Speaker 1: So letters coming into the post office were then monitored
22:33
Speaker 1: to see if Fish would come back for his letter
22:35
Speaker 1: and they would be right. So on December 13th, 1934,
22:38
Speaker 1: the landlady called the detective stating that Albert Fish was
22:41
Speaker 1: there looking for his letter. And when King opened the door,
22:44
Speaker 1: he was greeted by an older looking gentleman sipping from
22:47
Speaker 1: a teacup. And he asked him if he was Albert
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Speaker 1: Fish to which the man nodded in response. However, out
22:52
Speaker 1: of nowhere, Fish pulled out a razor blade and tried
22:55
Speaker 1: to attack Detective King, but he was weak and just
22:59
Speaker 1: fucking useless. And he was easily subdued because he's a
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Speaker 1: weak piece of shit. He's a weak, feral piece of shit.
23:07
Speaker 1: And when he was brought to the station, there was
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Speaker 1: no hesitation at all, being entirely upfront about what he
23:12
Speaker 1: had done to Grace Budd, even the cannibalism part. And
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Speaker 1: he wouldn't go to trial until March 11th, 1935. And
23:18
Speaker 1: the trial would last about 10 days with Fish claiming,
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Speaker 1: insanity and stating he heard voices from God telling him
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Speaker 1: to kill children. And multiple psychiatrists studied his mindset, even
23:29
Speaker 1: claiming that there had not been a single person with
23:31
Speaker 1: a medical history with so many sejual abnormalities as Fish had.
23:36
Speaker 1: He was literally an anomaly. But the guy had psychosis,
23:41
Speaker 1: obviously delusions of voices telling him to kill children is
23:46
Speaker 1: not normal. And on top of that, we already know
23:49
Speaker 1: also he was insanely sadomasochistic, spanking himself with needles and
23:54
Speaker 1: inflicting heavy pain on others to get sexual gratification. And
23:58
Speaker 1: of course, who could forget the most important messed up
24:01
Speaker 1: of all the paraphilitic disorders? From PDF-elia to necrophilia to
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Speaker 1: cannibalism to pee, and poo and just the whole nine yards.
24:14
Speaker 1: And something interesting about some of the psychiatrists that analyzed
24:18
Speaker 1: him said that he was insane, but he was not
24:21
Speaker 1: legally insane. He knew what he was doing and that
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Speaker 1: it was wrong, but did it anyway. So it didn't
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Speaker 1: constitute as legally insane. And they used Fish's letter in
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Speaker 1: the trial detailing his confession and insanity describing all of
24:34
Speaker 1: his actions and thought process. And the defense obviously really
24:37
Speaker 1: wanted him to get the insanity plea, probably because it
24:40
Speaker 1: would save his life because the death penalty was very
24:42
Speaker 1: prominent at this point. However, the jury would hear all
24:46
Speaker 1: of this f * * * ing disgustingness and obviously
24:49
Speaker 1: would find him guilty of the murders. And on top
24:51
Speaker 1: of that, declare him not insane, which I agree, he
24:55
Speaker 1: knew what he was doing the whole time. Do I
24:57
Speaker 1: think there's a lot wrong with him? F * *
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Speaker 1: * yes, I do. But he deserves it. To burn
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Speaker 1: in hell. I don't know how many times I can
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Speaker 1: say that. So he would be incarcerated in a prison
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Speaker 1: in New York and be sentenced to death in 1935.
25:09
Speaker 1: Womp womp. And he would be isolated from the other prisoners,
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Speaker 1: probably because he had kind of an insane nature and
25:16
Speaker 1: there was worries that he would just go on a
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Speaker 1: killing spree. And or a lot of prisoners liked to
25:22
Speaker 1: kill people that hurt children because for some reason people
25:25
Speaker 1: in prison have this moral compass, which is good, I guess,
25:28
Speaker 1: that they don't like people that hurt kids. So... Again,
25:32
Speaker 1: womp womp. And we would learn other things about his
25:35
Speaker 1: crimes after his sentencing, where in interviews he would tell
25:38
Speaker 1: of other victims and the number of which he claimed
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Speaker 1: was in the hundreds of boys that he did bad
25:45
Speaker 1: stuff to and murdered. But again, this was just never
25:49
Speaker 1: verified because he was already sentenced to death. death at
25:52
Speaker 1: this point. And at this point, they just didn't have
25:54
Speaker 1: any motivation to find out if he actually did these
25:57
Speaker 1: things to all these boys. And finally, on January 16th, 1936,
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Speaker 1: he was put on the electric chair and electrocuted to death.
26:07
Speaker 1: And there was a rumor that they actually had to
26:10
Speaker 1: shock him twice due to the number of needles stabbed
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Speaker 1: into himself, causing the chair to literally short circuit. Although
26:17
Speaker 1: this claim is definitely unverified and doesn't really hold any
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Speaker 1: truth But it's still horrifying to know that he did
26:24
Speaker 1: have dozens of needles shoved into himself that he, in fact,
26:28
Speaker 1: put into himself. And that it's also funny that he
26:31
Speaker 1: had to get re-electrocuted so many times. But I don't
26:34
Speaker 1: like the fact that he might have enjoyed that. So
26:37
Speaker 1: either way, it's a win. He's dead. And his last
26:39
Speaker 1: words would be, I don't even know why I'm here.
26:42
Speaker 1: Which is crazy if he genuinely believed he had nothing, like,
26:47
Speaker 1: wrong that he did, but I don't think he did.
26:49
Speaker 1: I think he was just trying to act crazy for
26:50
Speaker 1: like the one last time to get out of it
26:52
Speaker 1: and he couldn't. But what's truly horrifying is James Dempsey,
26:58
Speaker 1: Fish's lawyer who reported that he had Fish's final statement,
27:02
Speaker 1: but refused to share it stating that he'd never show
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Speaker 1: anyone because it was the most filthy string of obscenities
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Speaker 1: that he had ever read. I don't even want to know.
27:13
Speaker 1: Usually I have this weird curiosity I don't even want
27:16
Speaker 1: to know. He's dead. I'm done. Okay. In conclusion, Albert
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Speaker 1: Fish is remembered as one of the most infamous and
27:23
Speaker 1: disgusting serial killers of all time. And I, for one,
27:27
Speaker 1: am glad that he is hopefully burning in hell if
27:30
Speaker 1: you're into that kind of thing. But yeah, I know
27:33
Speaker 1: a lot of you requested this video. I hope I
27:35
Speaker 1: did it justice. I did shorten it a lot. We
27:38
Speaker 1: could have been sitting here for like eight hours. There's
27:40
Speaker 1: a lot of information on him. If you guys want
27:42
Speaker 1: me to do like a really, really deep dive, like
27:45
Speaker 1: to do a three, four hour video, let me know
27:47
Speaker 1: and let me know what that would be. I'm totally
27:49
Speaker 1: down to do it, but obviously I need to make
27:51
Speaker 1: a lot of videos so I can only do so
27:53
Speaker 1: many of those. But I hope you enjoyed the video
27:55
Speaker 1: or you probably didn't, sorry. But you know, I hope
27:58
Speaker 1: you learned something from the video, I guess. Let me
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28:02
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28:05
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