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Tool used for torture

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Confession letter to the mom of Grace Budd

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Confession letter to the mom of Grace Budd

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Albert Fish usually when choosing victims, would choose young African Americans. He knew that, because they were minorities, the police would spend less time searching in detail on that case then they would for a Caucasian child.
Albert Fish was also always a polite, gentle, trusting and he acted like a loving grandparent towards the children, gaining trust easily.

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Albert Fish best related to the differential association theory because others influenced him. An example is when the kid taught him about eating poop and drinking pee. However, labeling theory could be possible too because most of family had some mental disorder and maybe he forced himself to become part of that as well.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/albertfish.htm

http://www.the-line-up.com/american-boogey-man-albert-fish/

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I guess Albert Fish in a way was both positive and negative. He was negative because he obviously harmed many but he was positive in showing the world that there are crazy people and that you shouldn't trust everyone you meet.

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Was arrested in 1903 for grand larceny and sentenced to incarceration in Sing Sing
Got sentenced to the electric chair

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Albert was put into a orphanage until he was about nine when his mom was able to get a job and take better care of him. However when he was in the orphanage, he was brutally beat, but after awhile he began to enjoy the beatings....Beginning of a very messed up guy.
After he got out of the orphanage he began a strange friendship where this boy introduced albert to very messed up things, like drinking urine and eating feces. Didn't anyone socialize this boy to know that drinking urine and eating feces is DISGUSTING. It was just another norm Albert broke throughout his life.

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Drank urine and ate feces...yuck!

Molested young boys

Became obsessed with sexual mutilation

Began interesting ways of self harm

He killed many out of pleasure...

Deviated from the cannibalistic norm...

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His father was 43 years older then his mom and when Albert was born, his dad was 75 years old.

Many of his family members were diagnosed with mental illnesses. His uncle suffered from mania. A brother was confined in a state mental hospital. His sister was diagnosed with a "mental affliction". Three other relatives were diagnosed with mental illnesses, and his mother had "aural and/or visual hallucinations".

Albert's mom arranged a marriage for him and a woman who was 9 years younger then him in 1898. They had 6 children. In 1917 Fish's wife left him and their children and Fish had to raise the kids by himself. Also, according to Fish his wife took almost every possession the family owned. Around that same time, his auditory hallucinations began, he also began self harm and his interest in cannibalism spiked.