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Serial killer & rapist Albert Fish trial begins...
Serial killer & rapist Albert Fish trial begins...
Item # 720515
March 13, 1935
THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, March 13, 1935
* Albert H. Fish trial - creepy acts
* Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal
* "The Boogey Man" - "Gray Man"
* "Brooklyn Vampire" - "Werewolf of Wysteria"
The top of page 4 has a one column heading: "FISH TRIAL OPENS; TO PLEAD INSANITY" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 18 pages, light toning and some wear at the margins, generally good.
AI notes: On March 11, 1935, the trial of Albert Fish, one of the most infamous American serial killers, began in White Plains, New York, for the abduction and murder of 10-year-old Grace Budd, a crime he had committed seven years earlier. Fish, then 64, had been apprehended after sending a horrifying letter to the Budd family in 1934, describing in gruesome detail how he had killed and cannibalized their daughter. During the proceedings, Fish pleaded insanity, claiming that God had commanded him to commit his acts, while psychiatrists testified about his extreme sexual fetishes, sadism, masochism, and delusional religious mania. Despite these defenses, the jury concluded that he was sane and guilty of first-degree murder, leading to a death sentence. Fish was executed at Sing Sing Prison on January 16, 1936, with reports noting that the electric chair required two jolts, possibly due to needles he had inserted into his body, and his last words reportedly were, “I don’t even know why I’m here,” cementing the trial as a chilling and notorious moment in criminal history.
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