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Welcome to the serial killer podcast.

The podcast dedicated to serial killers.

Who they were, what they did, and how.

I am your host, Thomas Viborg Thune.

And in tonight's episode we travel back in time to take a closer look at a somewhat unknown string of murders committed by an elderly gentleman by the name of Albert Fish.

The Grey Man, the Werewolf of Wisteria, and the Brooklyn Vampire.

Names that brought the stuff of nightmare to life among parents and children alike, living in the roaring twenties in the Big Apple, New York, New York.

Although Albert Fish was never convicted of murdering more than three children, he is suspected, much due to his own confessions, of ending the life of at least ten young children.

He was a self-admitted, molester of more than four hundred children, during a span of twenty years, and in the words of one of the shocked psychiatrists who examined him, lived a life of unparalleled perversity.

In an era when serial murder was almost unheard of, with only a few notable exceptions such as Jack the Ripper and Belgunus,

Fish's crimes became a 1920s media sensation.

Fish was never ashamed of his actions, and willingly told of his exploits to anyone who would listen before his death.

So, let's look closer at this enigmatic elderly gentleman, praying on innocent victims living in an innocent time.

Hamilton, later in life called Albert, Fish was born on May 19th, 1870, in Washington, D.C., USA, in a family that had a long history of mental illness.

His parents abandoned him at a young age, and he was sent to the St. John's orphanage.

The orphanage was, in Fish's memory, a place of brutality where he was exposed to regular beatings and sadistic acts of brutality.

There he observed an experienced numerous acts of perversions, including forced masturbation in front of other children and brutal beatings.

Fish would become sexually aroused by these acts, which helped to further his obsession with sadomasochism, and Fish would later say, that place ruined my mind.

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