Albert Fish: The Vampire of Brooklyn

In 1920s, mutilated bodies of murdered children turned up in the streets of New York City. The crimes were so horrific that they were quickly attributed to a boogieman.

The truth was more mundane but much more disturbing - the murders were perpetrated by a man named Albert Fish, who aptly earned the nickname of the Vampire of Brooklyn:

At this time, Albert H. Fish was working at the nearby YMCA and the center for mentally challenged children. He was fired when “things about these children came out”. He was quoted as saying he “liked killing disabled and black boys because no one would miss them”.

February 11, 1927 Billy Gaffrey was snatched from a hallway in an apartment building. A witness said “it was the Boogieman that got him”. Albert Fish had taken the boy back to the boarding house he was staying at and got right to work. Using a saw, knife, and cleaver he dismembered and drained the blood of Billy Gaffrey. He drank the blood and saved the meat for food. He took the ears and face and made it into a stew with carrots and onions and his behind was roasted in the oven.

http://socyberty.com/crime/the-infamous-and-bizarre-vampire-of-brooklyn-albert-fish/

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by lannaxe96.


He puts Jeffrey Dahmer to shame. I wonder what happened to his own children? The letter to the girl's parents is awful. Amazing that a person's mind can get so distorted.
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that guy is messed up. the psychologist who was analyzing his fitness for trial said, in response to whether a man who ate children could even possibly be sane, that "there's no accounting for taste"
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Good ol' Albert Fish. "Apparently Schechter, while writing his book Deviant about Ed Gein, asked Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), "Why are people so fascinated by Ed Gein?" Bloch answered, "Because they haven't heard about Albert Fish." Schechter claims that Albert ate 15 children, not 5.
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Read this story before breakfast.
Bad move. ....Very bad move.... Made me lose my appetite completely. Only now a few hours later I feel compelled to comment.

Why -how- can humans get so distorted, so devilish?
I mean- Somehow I can understand that some people do not have any problems with plain and simple killing of other humans when those others are foes, enemies. In war, you kill. I can understand that.
But just savagely and happily torture and kill innocent people? And then children...?

And no please do not try to explain- I am very happy NOT -never- to understand some things in life...
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This story feels totally out-of-place and unnecessary on this site. If you need a reference for what I expect, use the "potato duck" post.
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Boo Hoo Hoo. Why is this on this site. Shut the hell up. Just because it involves death and torture doesnt mean it isnt neat. I find this kind of stuff WAY more interesting then "Rubber duck shaped potato."
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Reminder: This was voted up in the queue, so apparently a lot of people found it Neatworthy. I'm not sure which is older, people claiming "not neat", or dirt.
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Fish was not the first or the last murderer to use the common good as subterfuge. The men who ran Boys Town in the 70's would sometimes murder 20 children at a time after yearlong charades to convince their families that they had died of cancer or some other illness/accident.
Nobody ever went to prison for their direct involvement in what was really happening. There were a lot of cover-ups just to put a stop to it that compromised justice to this day.
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This story sounds terrifyingly similar to the excellent fiction book The Alienist by Caleb Carr.

http://www.amazon.com/Alienist-Novel-Caleb-Carr/dp/0812976142/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250386858&sr=1-1
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i wonder why the (usually brilliant) neatorama would feature a posting that is markedly shorter and less well written than the wikipedia article it is based on. not up to your usual standards, sorry.
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