"Albert Fish - Nel peccato trovò la salvezza" (Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation) è un docufilm del 2007 diretto da John Borowski. Il lungometraggio ricostruisce la vera storia di Albert Fish, uno dei serial killer, sadomasochisti e cannibali più efferati e disturbati della storia americana, attivo nella New York degli anni '30.
Il film esplora la mente contorta di Fish, un uomo che celava dietro l'aspetto di un innocuo vecchietto una serie di parafilie estreme e pratiche demoniache, arrivando a rapire, torturare e uccidere diversi bambini. La sua psicosi si spingeva fino all'autolesionismo e al cannibalismo, elementi che l'assassino giustificava attraverso visioni e deliri religiosi.
La pellicola unisce interviste e documenti d'archivio ad una cruda ricostruzione filmata.
#AlbertFish #Mostro #Cannibale #SerialKiller #Crime #TrueCrime #Delitti #Misteri #Killer #SerialKiller #ColdCase #Cronaca #CronacaNera #Mistero #Delitto #Documentari #Documentario #Docu #Doc #DivinumCrime
Il film esplora la mente contorta di Fish, un uomo che celava dietro l'aspetto di un innocuo vecchietto una serie di parafilie estreme e pratiche demoniache, arrivando a rapire, torturare e uccidere diversi bambini. La sua psicosi si spingeva fino all'autolesionismo e al cannibalismo, elementi che l'assassino giustificava attraverso visioni e deliri religiosi.
La pellicola unisce interviste e documenti d'archivio ad una cruda ricostruzione filmata.
#AlbertFish #Mostro #Cannibale #SerialKiller #Crime #TrueCrime #Delitti #Misteri #Killer #SerialKiller #ColdCase #Cronaca #CronacaNera #Mistero #Delitto #Documentari #Documentario #Docu #Doc #DivinumCrime
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00:00:12In sin he found salvation.
00:00:21There are few human beings who are remembered for having led lives of unparalleled perversion and wickedness.
00:00:29After his capture in 1934, New York authorities were shocked to discover that this elderly gentleman, from
00:00:37'innocent air, he was suspected of having kidnapped and killed several children in and around Manhattan.
00:00:44No one knew yet that in the following years the gray man would haunt the lives of the inhabitants of New York, embodying
00:00:52a parent's worst nightmare.
00:00:54Sadomasochist, child killer and cannibal.
00:01:00That's what Albert Fish was.
00:01:32Sadomasochist, child killer and cannibal.
00:01:37Sado masochist, child killer and commissioning Corinthians neighborhoods.
00:01:38Sadomasochist, child killer and inventor.
00:01:43Sadomasochist, child killer, and Obama.
00:01:50Sado masochista, irresponsi familiare cheva deveug seatulare.
00:02:02Thank you all.
00:02:33The kidnapping racket has now reached epidemic proportions in America.
00:02:37The recent Lindbergh case has called attention to this alarming national crisis,
00:02:41but this is not a new problem.
00:02:43Grace Budd, a 10-year-old girl taken from her home by an elderly man in 1928,
00:02:48it was never found again.
00:02:49The strangest thing is that his kidnappers didn't ask for any ransom.
00:03:02On December 13, 1934, six years after abducting the little girl from her home,
00:03:08Albert Fish was arrested for the kidnapping of Grace Budd.
00:03:12By the age of 64, Fish had been incarcerated several times in prisons and psychiatric hospitals.
00:03:17without anyone ever suspecting the gravity of his crimes.
00:03:23Ended up behind bars again,
00:03:26public opinion would finally become aware
00:03:28of the horrendous end of little Grace Budd.
00:03:58Ended up behind bars again,
00:04:12On November 12, 1934, Grace's mother, Delia Budd,
00:04:19received a letter from Elder Albert Fish,
00:04:22which went down in history as the most horrific confession ever written.
00:04:29Dear Mrs. Budd, June 3, 1928, a Sunday,
00:04:35I paid her a visit at 406 West Fifteenth Street.
00:04:39I brought her some fresh cheese and strawberries.
00:04:42We had lunch together.
00:04:44Grace sat on my lap and kissed me.
00:04:47I made the decision to eat it, with the excuse of accompanying her to a party.
00:04:51She said yes, that she could come with me.
00:04:56I took her to an abandoned house I had previously chosen in Westchester.
00:05:01When we got there, I told her to stay outside.
00:05:07She began to pick wildflowers.
00:05:10I went upstairs and stripped completely.
00:05:13I knew if I didn't, I'd get blood on my clothes.
00:05:17When I was ready, I looked out the window and called her.
00:05:20Grace, come inside and go up to the second floor!
00:05:24Then I hid in the closet until he came into the room.
00:05:28When he saw me all naked, he started crying and tried to run downstairs.
00:05:32I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mom.
00:05:36I'll tell mom!
00:05:41First I undressed her.
00:05:44He kicked, bit and scratched.
00:05:49I strangled her.
00:05:55And then I cut her up into little pieces so I could bring her meat to my house to cook and
00:06:02eat it.
00:06:04How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven.
00:06:08It took me nine days to eat his entire body.
00:06:12But I didn't fuck her, even though I could have done it if I wanted to.
00:06:17She died a virgin.
00:06:27After only one year of service at the New York Missing Persons Bureau,
00:06:31Detective William King was assigned to find Grace Budd.
00:06:37For six years he searched for Frank Howard, the name Fisch used to kidnap Grace.
00:06:46On June 4, 1934, the New York Daily Mirror published a photo of a teenager posing with sailors.
00:06:56In Brooklyn, a housewife cut out the photo and mailed it to the police department with a note that read
00:07:04“This girl is Grace Budd.”
00:07:07The girl turned out not to be Grace, but the episode of the cropped photo six years after her abduction
00:07:14made Detective King realize that he wasn't the only person who hadn't forgotten Grace Budd.
00:07:22King tried to play it smart, asking gossip columnist Walter Winchell
00:07:28to publish a bait article in his column.
00:07:31King's efforts paid off when he received the written confession mailed to Elijah Budd.
00:07:38During a short stay at Frieda Schneider's guesthouse, Fisch found an envelope with a letterhead
00:07:45which he tried to hide with scribbles.
00:07:50Shortly before leaving the boarding house, Fisch used the envelope to mail his confession to the Budds.
00:07:57It took King four weeks to trace the title.
00:08:01It belonged to an employee who had rented the room before Fisch.
00:08:04With the cooperation of Frieda Schneider, King set a trap to arrest Fisch.
00:08:12On December 13, 1934, Fisch showed up at his former landlady's to collect his mail.
00:08:19A moment later, King entered and arrested him.
00:08:23Six years of great perseverance and dedication by Detective King finally led to the capture of Albert Fisch.
00:08:33After his arrest, Fisch confessed to several crimes and described in detail the events of the day he
00:08:40Grace Budd died.
00:08:42On the night of the arrest, Detective King got into the car with Albert Fisch to drive to Westchester County.
00:08:58That night, Albert Fisch led the police to Wisteria Cottage.
00:09:06Fisch knew the area well, having lived just 500 meters from the Glicini villa years before.
00:09:14Long abandoned and dilapidated, the cottage was the place chosen by the old and diabolical predator to kill his
00:09:22little victims.
00:09:24On that cold December night, the police were unable to conduct a thorough investigation.
00:09:30However, he found one crucial piece of evidence.
00:09:33In the area indicated by Fisch was the skull of Grace Budd.
00:09:47The investigations in the villa resumed the following day.
00:09:56Inside, on the second floor, where Fisch had killed Grace,
00:10:01The police found blood spatter on the walls and floor.
00:10:08Outside, half-buried, the police found a rusty cleaver stained with blood.
00:10:16He also found a saw and about 80 bone fragments.
00:10:21which were identified as belonging to a 10-year-old girl.
00:10:28The skull, after verification of the dental record, was attributed to Grace Budd.
00:10:41The vampire's lair, the murder house, the death farm.
00:10:45These are the names given to the wisteria cottage in Westchester, New York.
00:10:49Here Grace Budd met her terrible fate at the diabolical hands of an ogre,
00:10:5464-year-old Albert Fisch in white.
00:11:01Grace Budd's kidnapping did not happen on the street,
00:11:04but it was a well-calculated, chilling plan.
00:11:09It appears that Fisch wanted to kill eighteen-year-old Edward Budd,
00:11:13who had placed an ad in the New York World.
00:11:19See Edward Budd's ad in World?
00:11:22I often find leads this way.
00:11:24So I showed up at the house and said my name was Frank Howard.
00:11:29In a telegram sent to Edward Budd,
00:11:32Fisch arranged a visit to his family
00:11:35to explain what work was needed on a non-existent farm.
00:11:39When he arrived at the Budds' basement apartment,
00:11:42Fisch realized that Edward was a sturdy boy.
00:11:46which could have easily overwhelmed him.
00:11:49He decided not to take the boy.
00:11:51However, when Fisch saw Grace,
00:11:54he was immediately struck by his masculine appearance
00:11:56and his masculine ways.
00:11:59In the eyes of Delia and Albert Budd,
00:12:02Fisch seemed like a harmless, well-off old man
00:12:04looking for an energetic farm helper.
00:12:09To erase one's tracks,
00:12:11Fisch took back the telegram
00:12:13which he had sent to Budd a few days earlier.
00:12:15Then he made up a story about having to go to his niece's birthday party.
00:12:19that same afternoon
00:12:20and asked permission to take Grace with us.
00:12:23I'm sure Grace will enjoy it.
00:12:26Albert and Delia struggle to support a family of seven.
00:12:30Fisch's eccentric attitude,
00:12:32his display of money,
00:12:34it affects them so much that Albert gives Grace permission
00:12:37to go to the party with Fisch.
00:12:39The party was supposed to be on 137th Street
00:12:43and Columbus Avenue.
00:12:45Fisch promised the Budds that Grace would be back at nine o'clock that evening.
00:12:49The Budds didn't know that Columbus Avenue
00:12:52it doesn't reach as far as 137th Street,
00:12:55it ends at the one hundred and tenth.
00:12:57The address given by Fisch does not exist.
00:13:05Fisch took Grace by the hand and they left.
00:13:09She had the white confirmation dress
00:13:12and Fisch looked like a gray, shabbily dressed grandfather.
00:13:17On June 3, 1928,
00:13:20Albert Fisch conducted Grace Budd
00:13:23towards his tragic fate.
00:13:40Fisch stopped first at a newsstand
00:13:43to get a package with knives
00:13:45previously hidden that same day.
00:13:49Both parents agreed.
00:13:52Initially the mother did not want her to go to the party,
00:13:55but Grace's father said
00:13:57«He doesn't have many opportunities to have fun,
00:14:00let her go,
00:14:01she's always locked in this dark basement."
00:14:06Then the mother gave her consent.
00:14:09So how can this be considered kidnapping?
00:14:13As soon as the train stopped at the station,
00:14:16I got out and held out my arms for her to throw herself around my neck.
00:14:20I didn't think about the tools.
00:14:23It was she who remembered that I had a package.
00:14:28Seeing my empty hands, he said
00:14:30«He forgot his package!»
00:14:33and ran back to where we were sitting to get it.
00:14:37If she had thrown herself into my arms when I told her to,
00:14:42instead of going to look for the package,
00:14:44the train conductor would have given the signal to the driver
00:14:47and the train would have started again,
00:14:50taking my tools away.
00:14:52The little girl would be at her home
00:14:55and I wouldn't be where I am.
00:15:02We're almost there.
00:15:05I'm sure they'll have some cake and ice cream for you.
00:15:22Over time, the original of the written confession
00:15:25he ended up in the strangest place,
00:15:27but perhaps even more suitable.
00:15:36I am very proud of this letter.
00:15:42What I have always called the Magna Carta
00:15:46of the artefacts of crime,
00:15:48This is Albert Fish's letter,
00:15:51it is the most tragic and painful document
00:15:55of a monster
00:15:57that was ever written.
00:16:03And I have the honor of having it.
00:16:09I always thought that
00:16:11the objects
00:16:15have wishes,
00:16:18come here voluntarily.
00:16:30When I make paintings
00:16:32on the horrors of the world,
00:16:36I don't pretend to
00:16:41improve.
00:16:42No, my paintings
00:16:44they do not have this purpose.
00:16:46My paintings exorcise
00:16:48the pain of the world.
00:16:52It seems like I came into the world
00:16:54to pay attention
00:16:55to the things that most
00:16:58of the people
00:16:59he prefers
00:17:01forget.
00:17:02He wishes they had never happened.
00:17:08I was doing some research
00:17:10on Fish's life
00:17:11and I wanted to draw
00:17:12from the police archives.
00:17:15I went to Westchester.
00:17:16I was trying to have
00:17:18a copy of the letter,
00:17:19the infamous letter
00:17:21that Albert Fish
00:17:22wrote to Grace Budd's mother,
00:17:24I didn't want anything else.
00:17:26I just wanted a photocopy
00:17:28of the letter
00:17:28for my research.
00:17:30But fate
00:17:31he wanted the secretary
00:17:35took the letter,
00:17:37there...
00:17:40photocopied it,
00:17:44come back to me
00:17:45and give me the original.
00:17:48I looked at her.
00:17:52She left
00:17:53with the photocopy,
00:17:54he put it in the file
00:17:55which he put back in the archive.
00:17:58I looked around
00:17:59and he understood that Fish
00:18:00he wanted her to wear it.
00:18:04it evokes many sensations
00:18:07incredible and terrifying,
00:18:10subconscious sensations.
00:18:14I believe the letter
00:18:16have a life of its own
00:18:17and that when
00:18:19it was in the archive
00:18:21the story was
00:18:24suffocated,
00:18:25he couldn't speak,
00:18:27while here
00:18:29the auditorium
00:18:30speaks
00:18:31and tells
00:18:33his story
00:18:34and you are forced
00:18:36faces
00:18:37every person
00:18:38that comes
00:18:38And
00:18:41he manages to
00:18:42speak
00:18:43to the people
00:18:44which is formed
00:18:45one's own opinion
00:18:46on the case.
00:18:48Here
00:18:48at least
00:18:49the letter speaks
00:18:50and is surrounded
00:18:52from
00:18:53from
00:18:56ears
00:18:57ready
00:18:58to listen to me.
00:19:05Was
00:19:07a story
00:19:07Really
00:19:08horrible
00:19:08And
00:19:09everyone knows
00:19:10the horror
00:19:11of the victim
00:19:12but
00:19:14the horror
00:19:14of the guilty
00:19:15And
00:19:17equally
00:19:18terrible.
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00:26:46First, in an instant he was naked.
00:26:49Second, his victims would only see him in overalls.
00:26:53and if they met him on the street or in civilian clothes they would not have recognized him.
00:27:00Often, after a particularly brutal episode,
00:27:03he changed address or moved from one end of the city to another
00:27:07or from one city to another.
00:27:09He never returned to the same neighborhood.
00:27:12From New York to Montana I have had children in every state.
00:27:18I've always managed to cover my tracks.
00:27:24Sadomasochism applied to children, particularly males,
00:27:28took over his regressive sexual development.
00:27:31His mind was only focused on getting painful reactions from others.
00:27:36I've always had the desire to cause pain to others
00:27:42and that others would do it to me.
00:27:46I've always liked everything that hurt.
00:28:00In St. Louis, Albert Fish met a sixteen-year-old named Kedden.
00:28:07Fish saw the boy, picked him out, and took him to his home in St. Louis,
00:28:11giving him money and clothes.
00:28:21The desire to cause pain, that's the most important thing.
00:28:32For a period of two to four weeks, if not longer,
00:28:36they practiced all kinds of mutual sadomasochistic sexual perversions.
00:28:41He forced the boy to urinate on him,
00:28:44he whipped him and forced him to do all these things to him too.
00:28:52Fisch began to go into a trance for five or six days
00:28:55and he wouldn't come out until he completed the sadomasochistic activities with an orgasm.
00:29:29Sous-titrage ST' 501
00:29:59Sous-titrage ST' 501
00:30:24At the end of these practices he made the boy get an erection,
00:30:29he took a knife and cut off part of his penis.
00:30:40He intended to kill him,
00:30:42but he told me that when he saw the boy's look he couldn't stand it.
00:30:46He left him a $10 bill and left town.
00:30:51Those acts replaced sexuality, they were his sexuality.
00:30:56For him, hurting children was a much more intense experience
00:31:00than just having sex with them.
00:31:14What started the most serious things I've done in the last 15 years
00:31:19were the problems I had in 1917 with my wife and that man,
00:31:25John Straub.
00:31:29When Fish was 53, his wife left him after 19 years of marriage.
00:31:36She left him with her six children and ran away with another man.
00:31:40taking away everything they had.
00:31:44Fish raised her children and cared for them for the rest of her life.
00:31:48I heard the children crying in the kitchen and went in.
00:31:52The room was completely empty, not even the stove was there anymore.
00:31:57I walked around the house like a blind man.
00:32:00It was like being blinded.
00:32:02Where there had been a house, I could no longer see anything.
00:32:07This freed me.
00:32:09He freed me from my chains.
00:32:11It opened my eyes to the fact that no pact lasts.
00:32:14and that only madmen repress themselves.
00:32:19After that I was entitled to all the fun
00:32:22that I could get or grab.
00:32:30He took it very badly.
00:32:32It hurt me a lot.
00:32:34I've done everything a man can do
00:32:36to take care of my family.
00:32:39For some things children are a consolation
00:32:43and I love and have loved them all without distinction,
00:32:47but they are no consolation for the loneliness that afflicts a man
00:32:51when fate causes the pleasure in his life to end.
00:32:56I closed myself off in those years
00:32:59after the earthquake destroyed my house.
00:33:05I had strange dreams that helped me get through the nights.
00:33:24Albert Fish always led a religious life.
00:33:29One of his daughters, Gertrude De Marco,
00:33:33he once described him as a man who always went to church
00:33:36and knew all the books of the Bible
00:33:38and he always said the prayer before eating.
00:33:41Fish was a custodian of the Presbyterian church
00:33:43in the town of Terry, New York,
00:33:46where even if he was just a house painter,
00:33:48they asked him to paint angels on the ceiling of the church.
00:33:53I identified with Albert Fish
00:33:56because I received a Catholic education,
00:34:01Irish Catholic,
00:34:02which for me has a pagan basis in its Catholicism
00:34:07and I sensed that Albert Fish's Christianity too
00:34:12had a pagan basis.
00:34:14The first thing that interested Albert Fish about Christianity
00:34:19it was the pain and suffering.
00:34:21Saint Sebastian,
00:34:23pierced by arrows.
00:34:26Saint Peter,
00:34:28crucified upside down.
00:34:31John the Baptist,
00:34:34beheaded.
00:34:35It is the mutilations that make them saints.
00:34:38These images had a profound effect
00:34:41on the sick psyche of Albert Fish.
00:34:47The result was that he followed the word of God.
00:34:49rigorously and to the letter,
00:34:51without conscience or compassion,
00:34:54and became very dangerous to others.
00:35:02Fish embodies this type of pathology
00:35:07who sees something beautiful and holy in suffering
00:35:13and something ugly and disgusting in sex.
00:35:18In fact, he spared Grace Budd this terrible crime.
00:35:21and kept repeating
00:35:24of not having desecrated it.
00:35:26She died a virgin.
00:35:29And I know, because of my Catholic upbringing,
00:35:33that there is some truth in what he says
00:35:35that all Catholics know.
00:35:38Cutting that little girl to pieces
00:35:40and doing this terrible thing to him,
00:35:43Albert Fish turned it into martyrs.
00:35:46He turned her into a creature
00:35:50that she would go to heaven.
00:35:54The fact that he didn't rape her
00:35:58it means that the erotic part
00:36:00it was in cutting it into pieces.
00:36:03He liked to consume it and have it inside himself,
00:36:07somewhat like in the biblical sacrifice.
00:36:11And so the sacrifice got him
00:36:13satisfaction and well-being.
00:36:16Now he had the grace of God within him.
00:36:22I knew this little girl would be outraged,
00:36:26tortured and so on.
00:36:28And so I had to sacrifice her.
00:36:30to prevent it from being insulted in the future.
00:36:34The only way I can interpret this thing
00:36:38is that in this way she would have been saved.
00:36:43This is a human being
00:36:47that absorbs these thoughts
00:36:50on the sanctity of suffering,
00:36:59of pain and redemption
00:37:02and takes them literally.
00:37:04As if its existence had been pre-ordained.
00:37:10these things continue to be preached
00:37:14and you find yourself with this person
00:37:17who believes everything we've been told
00:37:20and who decides to live his life that way.
00:37:24And then what do you expect to happen?
00:37:27Society gets the criminal it deserves.
00:37:33Unlike most people,
00:37:37he takes these things literally.
00:37:38Like a cliché, a cliché.
00:37:41It's a stupid cliché,
00:37:42but that man takes it literally.
00:37:59At all YMCA locations,
00:38:02the Christian Men's Youth Association,
00:38:04There are large swimming pools.
00:38:06If a man or a boy wants to take a bath,
00:38:09you have to undress and swim naked.
00:38:11You know what girls do
00:38:12to come in and see the show?
00:38:15They put on their brothers' clothes,
00:38:17a hat and then they go to the association.
00:38:19Often a boy comes out of the water
00:38:21and he finds himself so close to a girl dressed as a boy.
00:38:24She can touch his naked body and she does.
00:38:29The things he believed in became a way of life.
00:38:34The story of Abraham and Isaac
00:38:36describes blind faith
00:38:38which devout followers of the Bible must adhere to.
00:38:43Albert Fish was obsessed with the idea of sacrifice.
00:38:47He saw himself as both Abraham in the Bible,
00:38:50in the Old Testament,
00:38:51be like Christ in the New Testament.
00:38:55He went in and out of religious psychosis several times.
00:38:58in which he identified with these figures.
00:39:02Abraham, take your son,
00:39:05your only son whom you love, Isaac.
00:39:07He goes to the territory of Moria
00:39:09and offer it as a burnt offering on a mountain that I will show you.
00:39:13Then Abraham stretched out his hand
00:39:15and took the knife to sacrifice his son.
00:39:19But the angel of the Lord called to him and said,
00:39:23«Do not lay a hand on the boy
00:39:25and do him no harm.
00:39:27Now I know that you fear God.
00:39:29and you did not refuse me your son,
00:39:32your only son."
00:39:36Abraham was ordered to kill his son
00:39:39which he loved more than anything else
00:39:40and Albert Fish loved Grace Budd deeply.
00:39:49He wouldn't have been able to do all those things
00:39:51if he hadn't loved her,
00:39:53but it's too scary to admit.
00:40:02«Because you have not withheld your son from me,
00:40:05I will bless you."
00:40:08The fact that Abraham offered his son Isaac
00:40:12in sacrifice gave me an idea.
00:40:15I had always thought that I would have to offer a child as a sacrifice.
00:40:19to purify me from wickedness,
00:40:22from sins and abominations in the sight of God.
00:40:28What I did must have been right,
00:40:31like the angel who stopped Abraham in the Bible.
00:40:35If it had been wrong,
00:40:37an angel would have stopped me.
00:40:49I could imagine killing people.
00:40:58Albert Fish chose to live in New York,
00:41:01renting rooms and living with one of his daughters.
00:41:06He also worked as an administrator of several apartments,
00:41:10together with his son who acted as his assistant.
00:41:21He worked for several institutions.
00:41:24In YMCAs, in tuberculosis homes,
00:41:27in any institution where there were children
00:41:29or where he thought he would find children.
00:41:32In all these places he set up his headquarters.
00:41:35in the cellar or basement.
00:41:37He was often fired suddenly
00:41:39because something about children came up.
00:42:00It was often fired at children.
00:42:37When bloodlust took over,
00:42:40Fish took the children to the cellar
00:42:42or in another dark, isolated place.
00:42:45He strangled them and tortured them with his so-called
00:42:48tools of hell.
00:42:49A knife, a saw and a cleaver.
00:43:00The concrete jungle of the city
00:43:03it was a perfect place to hide
00:43:05and go hunting for the gray man.
00:43:17Moving on foot, by bus, by subway and by train,
00:43:21he searched on the streets, in the alleys, on the roofs and in the cellars,
00:43:25his next victim.
00:43:30Several witnesses described Albert Fish
00:43:32like a ghost that for a moment dragged itself along the street
00:43:36and a moment later he was gone.
00:43:46In the early decades of the twentieth century
00:43:49America's innocence shone
00:43:51and parents let their children
00:43:53they played unsupervised
00:43:55nor protection on the streets of New York.
00:44:04Among the poor there was no concept
00:44:06of unknown equal danger
00:44:08because it was thought that no one would target
00:44:11the children of those who could not pay a ransom.
00:44:13However, the children continued to disappear.
00:44:22He felt he had to torment and kill children.
00:44:25Sometimes he gagged them, tied them up and beat them.
00:44:28even if he preferred not to gag them
00:44:31if circumstances allowed
00:44:32because he liked to hear them scream.
00:44:50Almost all of his victims
00:44:52they were of poor extraction.
00:44:56He told me that he chose above all
00:44:58children of color
00:44:59because the authorities didn't pay much attention
00:45:01if they disappeared or if they were harmed.
00:45:04He held a black child prisoner
00:45:06in a shack in Potomac
00:45:07in Washington state
00:45:09for several weeks.
00:45:10She undressed him, took his clothes
00:45:12and held him prisoner.
00:45:14He told me he intended to kill him
00:45:16but for some reason
00:45:18things didn't go that way.
00:45:42In 1924, while painting a house in Staten Island,
00:45:46Albert Fish convinced Francis McDonnell
00:45:49to go into the woods and give him grapes.
00:45:52Francis!
00:45:53Francis!
00:45:55Francis!
00:45:57Despite the frantic searches,
00:46:00Francis was not found.
00:46:02The next day,
00:46:04a group of boy scouts
00:46:05who participated in the research
00:46:07found the child's body,
00:46:10half-naked under a pile of leaves and branches.
00:46:14begging to find her son's killer,
00:46:17Mrs. McDonnell was able to describe Fish
00:46:19only as he saw it that tragic day.
00:46:24Find the man who stopped by our house on Monday afternoon
00:46:27and who peeked in through the window.
00:46:29I saw it,
00:46:30I remember it.
00:46:31He is over 50 years old,
00:46:34thick gray hair,
00:46:35gray mustache,
00:46:36a faded blue shirt,
00:46:38a stiff white collar that is too tight,
00:46:41a shabby hat,
00:46:42khaki velvet trousers
00:46:44and a rough black overcoat.
00:46:47Find the gray man.
00:46:50Find the gray man.
00:46:52Find the gray man.
00:47:00Another horrifying revelation
00:47:02of the cannibal of benevolent aspect,
00:47:04Albert Fish.
00:47:06It was 1927
00:47:08when Bill Gaffney,
00:47:10four years,
00:47:10he was kidnapped from this building
00:47:12at number 99
00:47:13of Brooklyn's Fifteenth Street,
00:47:16in New York.
00:47:17Taken from this skylight
00:47:19and carried towards his destiny,
00:47:21Billy was never seen again.
00:47:24When they asked him
00:47:25that he had taken the child,
00:47:26another child present
00:47:28described an old man
00:47:29with hairs on the lips.
00:47:31He said it was the garden.
00:47:33Currently in prison,
00:47:34Albert Fish
00:47:35has been identified
00:47:37like Bill Gaffney's kidnapper
00:47:38by former taxi driver George Seth Henrich
00:47:41who took Fish on board
00:47:42and little Billy
00:47:43in Times Square
00:47:44February 11, 1927.
00:47:47The taxi driver clearly remembers
00:47:49the baby's crying
00:47:50and the metallic noise
00:47:51of a bag
00:47:52which contained,
00:47:53said Fish,
00:47:54his tools.
00:48:08There is a public landfill
00:48:10on Reich Revenue
00:48:12in Astoria.
00:48:13They've been throwing you for years
00:48:14all kinds of garbage.
00:48:19I took the child there,
00:48:21I stripped him,
00:48:22I tied his hands
00:48:23and the feet
00:48:24and I gagged him
00:48:25with an old rag
00:48:26that I had found
00:48:27in the garbage.
00:48:30Blessed
00:48:31who will grab
00:48:32your little ones
00:48:33and he will beat them
00:48:34against the stone.
00:48:46He had visions
00:48:47of Christ
00:48:47and angels.
00:48:48He saw Christ
00:48:49who muttered words
00:48:50that he didn't understand.
00:48:53He heard him say words
00:48:54like stripes,
00:48:56reward
00:48:56and joy.
00:48:59Stripes
00:48:59it means to whip them.
00:49:02The whips
00:49:03the nest butt
00:49:04until the blood
00:49:05it didn't flow with him
00:49:06down the legs.
00:49:07He connected these words
00:49:09to the verses
00:49:09of the Bible
00:49:10and processed them
00:49:11in a specious manner
00:49:12with his sadistic desires.
00:49:16I gouged out his eyes,
00:49:19I put the words together
00:49:20and he understood
00:49:21what they meant.
00:49:24I cut them
00:49:25the ears,
00:49:26the nose,
00:49:27he opened his mouth
00:49:28from ear to ear,
00:49:30then I invented myself
00:49:31the rest
00:49:31mixing things up
00:49:32that I had read.
00:49:34blessed
00:49:35he is the man
00:49:36that corrects
00:49:37his own son
00:49:38favorite
00:49:38with stripes
00:49:39because big
00:49:40it will be his reward.
00:49:48I put them
00:49:49the knife
00:49:50in the belly,
00:49:52I supported you
00:49:52the mouth
00:49:53and drink
00:49:55his blood.
00:50:05Fisch was guilty
00:50:06of having strangled
00:50:07four girls
00:50:08from Brooklyn
00:50:09at the start
00:50:09of 1933
00:50:11including
00:50:12Helen Sterling
00:50:13six years old
00:50:14whose body
00:50:15was found
00:50:16in the cellar
00:50:17of the council house
00:50:18where he lived.
00:50:21Why the blood
00:50:22blow
00:50:23as it is life.
00:50:39like the flagellants
00:50:41that march
00:50:41and they sing
00:50:42religious hymns
00:50:43while they whip each other
00:50:45Albert Fisch
00:50:46he was looking for
00:50:47penance
00:50:48and the atonement
00:50:48of the blood
00:50:49through
00:50:50the mortification
00:50:51of one's own flesh.
00:51:00Why this?
00:51:01it's my blood
00:51:02of the alliance
00:51:03poured for many
00:51:05in redemption
00:51:06of sins.
00:51:10poured for many
00:51:36Fish practiced both cannibalism and vampirism.
00:51:41He ate their flesh and drank their blood.
00:51:47Often those who practice these acts derive sexual pleasure from introducing parts of the victim into their own body.
00:51:57It gives them a sense of power, makes them feel like God.
00:52:05There is something supernatural about the flesh and blood of their victims becoming part of their
00:52:12flesh and blood of them.
00:52:17I believe that, given the delusions that Eva had, he continued with this ritual because he knew that they would always be with him.
00:52:25him, because they have become part of his body and his blood.
00:52:30Albert Fish was obsessed with cannibalism.
00:52:33He mentioned that his brother had come back from the navy with a lot of bad stories that Fish himself
00:52:40they caused uncontrollable urges.
00:52:43A friend, Captain John Davis, also told similar stories.
00:52:47Whether Fish actually had a friend or even a brother who told him these stories is unknown.
00:52:52But the beginning of the letter in which he confesses to the murder of Grace Budd recalls his fantasies and atrocities
00:52:58which he did to the children.
00:53:07In 1894, Captain John Davis, a friend of mine, was a sailor on the steamer Tacoma.
00:53:15They were traveling from San Francisco to Hong Kong, China.
00:53:18At that time there was a great famine in China.
00:53:21Meat of any kind cost from $1 to $3 a pound.
00:53:25The poor suffered so much that all children under 12 were sold to the butcher to be
00:53:33cut up and resold as food.
00:53:37Parts of naked bodies of boys or girls were displayed so that you could choose exactly which part you wanted to buy.
00:53:44The rear end of a little girl or boy.
00:53:48The sweetest part, sold as veal, was the most expensive part.
00:53:53When he returned to New York, he kidnapped two children, one aged 7 and one aged 11.
00:53:59Several times a day he spanked and tortured them to make their meat tastier and more tender.
00:54:05He killed the 11-year-old boy first because logically he had the fattest and most fleshy bottom.
00:54:11He cooked every part of his body except the head, bones, and entrails.
00:54:16He roasted it in the oven, cooked the whole butt, boiled it, grilled it, fried it and stewed it.
00:54:24He told me so often how good human flesh was that I decided to try it.
00:54:36He told me that he had eaten Grace Budd's flesh.
00:54:40I asked him what it tasted like and he said it tasted like veal.
00:54:44He told me he cooked it with carrots, onions and sauce
00:54:48and that for nine days he lived in a state of total excitement
00:54:52where he ate his flesh during the day and masturbated thinking about it at night.
00:55:00When you eat someone, they become a part of you.
00:55:11Fish associated drinking Grace's blood and eating her flesh with the idea of Holy Communion.
00:55:18This directly refers to the Last Supper, when Jesus said to the apostles
00:55:27to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
00:55:30Remain in me and I and you.
00:55:33Take and eat.
00:55:34This is my meat.
00:55:42Then he passes the wine and says, drink, this is my blood.
00:55:54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
00:56:05In the letter in which he confesses to the murder of Billy Gaffney,
00:56:08Fish gives his perverse recipe for cooking baby flesh.
00:56:16I came home with the meat.
00:56:19I had the front part of my body that I prefer.
00:56:23The little willy, the balls and the penis and a nice fat butt to roast and eat.
00:56:31I made a stew with the ears, nose, and pieces of the face and belly.
00:56:37I put onions, carrots, radishes, celery, salt and pepper.
00:56:42It was good.
00:56:44Then I opened her little ass cheeks.
00:56:48I cut off the testicles and the little penis and washed them.
00:56:52I put everything in a pan.
00:56:54I turned on the gas and put it in the oven.
00:56:58I put some bacon slices on the buttocks and put the whole thing in the oven.
00:57:03Then I took four onions, I roasted the meat for about a quarter of an hour
00:57:08and I poured a pint of water over it to make gravy and added the onions.
00:57:15At frequent intervals, I hit my bottom with a wooden spoon
00:57:19to make it more tender and juicy.
00:57:22After about two hours, it was a nice brown color, fully cooked.
00:57:36I ate all the meat in about four days.
00:57:41I've never had a roast turkey half as good as that sweet fat little bottom of hers.
00:57:54I will make them eat the flesh of their children.
00:57:57It's the daughters' flesh.
00:58:00And each will devour the flesh of his friend.
00:58:09At the beginning of the twentieth century, the New York City police force
00:58:12They were not prepared to deal with a cunning and chameleon-like criminal like Albert Fish.
00:58:17During the summer of the Bud murder, Fish was arrested three times for theft,
00:58:22but the sentences were suspended.
00:58:27In 1930, Fish was arrested six times for vagrancy, theft,
00:58:32violation of probation and for sending obscene letters.
00:58:38He was also arrested on numerous occasions in and around New York City for corruption of minors.
00:58:44But no complaint was ever filed.
00:58:47In some cases, authorities said he looked so innocent.
00:58:54After Fish's arrest, authorities learned the value of the old adage,
00:58:59Looks can be deceiving.
00:59:04In 1928, there was no FBI.
00:59:08There was no crime lab in America.
00:59:10There was no database to help link one type of crime to another.
00:59:15or to find criminals.
00:59:16They didn't know about sex maniacs as we know them today.
00:59:21If a child disappeared, they could only trace him back to the person who had seen him last.
00:59:29It was very difficult for investigators to figure out where Fish might have gone.
00:59:34and what he might have done.
00:59:36For this reason it took them six years to find it.
00:59:40and they were only able to track him down because he wrote a letter.
00:59:48Albert Fish wrote letters compulsively,
00:59:51searching through newspaper ads
00:59:53a companion who shared his same sadomasochistic fantasies.
00:59:58We know how to find each other and how to have fun together.
01:00:02We use dating agencies and Wanted ads.
01:00:06But there are hundreds of other methods.
01:00:09We have our own language, a kind of code.
01:00:12Using pseudonyms such as John W. Pell, Robert Hayden and Thomas Sprague,
01:00:19Albert Fish wrote obscene letters to women
01:00:22who had placed advertisements in New York newspapers.
01:00:30And now we continue with classical music class.
01:00:37My dear Mrs. Shaw, I have just received your lovely letter.
01:00:42I'm very glad to hear that she's not embarrassed in the slightest.
01:00:46of having to undress Bobby and bathe him naked.
01:00:49Times have changed and so have people.
01:00:52What was once considered indecent has now become normal.
01:00:56Remember that it is for Bobby's own good that you have to beat him.
01:01:00Three or four spanks a day on his bare bottom will do him good.
01:01:04because it's nice and fat in that spot.
01:01:06Tell me you won't hesitate to hit him with a shovel
01:01:09or with the cat o' nine tails when he needs it.
01:01:13As for Mr. Pell or Jimmy, he is not crazy at all.
01:01:18His hobby is getting whipped, whipped, whipped.
01:01:22I want you to spank Bobby on his bare bottom to show him what it feels like.
01:01:27Sometimes Jimmy imagines himself as a boy going to school,
01:01:31He was naughty and needs to be spanked.
01:01:34He will say, teacher, hit me.
01:01:36You know I feel partly responsible,
01:01:39I feel guilty for the condition Bobby is in.
01:01:42My conscience tells me I should be whipped for this.
01:01:46in the same way and in the same place where she will whip Bobby.
01:01:50And will I get my spankings?
01:01:53Oh, I hope so.
01:01:54P.S.
01:01:55If Jimmy kicks or protects himself with his hands when you spank him,
01:01:59you tie his hands.
01:02:00She won't need toilet paper to clean her nice, sweet, fat ass.
01:02:04because I will eat everything
01:02:06and then I'll lick it and clean it with my tongue.
01:02:09I wish he could see me now.
01:02:11I'm sitting on a chair naked.
01:02:13Pain in the back just above the buttocks.
01:02:16When he undresses me he will see a perfect shape.
01:02:18His, his, sweet treasure of my heart.
01:02:21I taste his piss, his sweet shit.
01:02:24He has to pee in a glass,
01:02:26so I'll drink it to the last drop while he looks at me.
01:02:29Tell me when you need to poop.
01:02:31I'll put her on my knees,
01:02:33I'll pull up her clothes,
01:02:34I'll pull down her panties,
01:02:35I'll put my mouth under her sweet ass
01:02:37and I'll eat his peanut butter
01:02:39while it comes out nice, fresh and warm.
01:02:45So, if you're interested,
01:02:47tell me how to get to your house by car.
01:02:50Robert Fish.
01:02:52His relationships with women
01:02:54were as abnormal as were her relationships with men.
01:02:58In fact, he selected them for this very reason.
01:03:02He insured himself with letters
01:03:03that they would do all these things.
01:03:07He liked the feeling of control
01:03:10that he had on people
01:03:12because he knew they would probably be disgusted
01:03:16and he felt that way too.
01:03:20He was disgusted with himself
01:03:22and this was erotic too.
01:03:25Accused of writing obscene letters,
01:03:28December 15, 1930,
01:03:31Fish was sent to the Bellevue clinic,
01:03:33in New York,
01:03:34for his first psychiatric visit.
01:03:36he was examined by 11 psychiatrists,
01:03:39declared healthy
01:03:40and released after three weeks
01:03:42with a six-month suspended sentence.
01:03:46It was easy to release
01:03:48a person like Fish,
01:03:49which seemed pretty normal
01:03:51and that gave the impression
01:03:53of not being able to do harm
01:03:54neither to himself nor to others.
01:03:57He hadn't confessed anything,
01:03:59he had not admitted any
01:04:00of the fantasies he had had,
01:04:03he did not talk about episodes of paraphilia.
01:04:08And based on appearances
01:04:10and his calm demeanor,
01:04:13it was predictable
01:04:14that he be discharged from that clinic.
01:04:19he suffered from a disorder
01:04:20known as disorder
01:04:23of personality
01:04:23of a schizoid type.
01:04:26It is a disorder that involves
01:04:30superstition,
01:04:32eccentricity,
01:04:34but also the ability
01:04:35to pass as normal
01:04:37and move naturally.
01:04:40He wasn't that psychotic
01:04:42from not being able to plan things
01:04:45or to shock people.
01:04:47This is why I want to delve deeper
01:04:50the idea that his hallucinations
01:04:51they were simply part of
01:04:53of a personality disorder
01:04:56sexually deviant
01:04:57which did not require
01:04:58that he be interned
01:04:59in an institution.
01:05:01It wouldn't be like that today either.
01:05:06Christ!
01:05:14We're almost there.
01:05:16I'm sure there will be
01:05:17some cake and ice cream for you
01:05:19to eat.
01:05:21To eat.
01:05:23Grace.
01:05:27Grace.
01:05:33Him, no!
01:05:35Grace.
01:05:37Grace.
01:05:45Grace.
01:05:54In an attempt to accredit
01:05:56his own insanity,
01:05:58Fish wrote to Detective King
01:05:59describing the worst
01:06:01of torture
01:06:01that he inflicted on himself.
01:06:04I stuck five needles in myself
01:06:06in the belly,
01:06:07in the legs
01:06:07and in the side.
01:06:08Sometimes I suffered
01:06:10terrible pain.
01:06:11You can see them
01:06:12with an X-ray.
01:06:14They're still inside me.
01:06:16I put them on
01:06:16under the spine.
01:06:18I only removed one needle.
01:06:20The others didn't succeed.
01:06:23I slipped one in
01:06:24in the scrotum.
01:06:25But I couldn't stand the pain.
01:06:29if the pain
01:06:31it wasn't so painful.
01:06:34After his arrest,
01:06:35Fish was brought
01:06:36in a hospital
01:06:37where an x-ray
01:06:38of the pelvic area
01:06:39showed that he had
01:06:41twenty-nine needles
01:06:42in the abdomen.
01:06:43Some voices
01:06:44they told me
01:06:45to atone
01:06:46my sins
01:06:47with self-torture.
01:06:49This is it
01:06:49which induced me
01:06:50to pierce me.
01:06:51When I can't
01:06:53to pierce myself,
01:06:54I like to torture
01:06:56the others
01:06:56with needles.
01:06:59Some needles
01:07:00they were found
01:07:01in his body
01:07:02for seven years.
01:07:05Some
01:07:06they were so deep
01:07:08to be
01:07:08in dangerous spots,
01:07:09just above
01:07:10or next to
01:07:11to the descending colon.
01:07:13Other fragments
01:07:14they were found
01:07:15near the rectum,
01:07:16others
01:07:16in the region
01:07:17of the bladder.
01:07:18These x-rays
01:07:19they are unique
01:07:20in history
01:07:20of science.
01:07:32All my problems
01:07:33they go back
01:07:34to that day
01:07:3518 years ago
01:07:36when I came home
01:07:37and I found you,
01:07:38my children,
01:07:39without a mother.
01:07:40Since then
01:07:41I am no longer
01:07:41It was the same.
01:07:44The six children
01:07:45by Albert Fish
01:07:46they made a life
01:07:47terrible.
01:07:49They lived the experience
01:07:50to be sent
01:07:50at the cinema
01:07:51from the mother
01:07:51and to find
01:07:52on the way back
01:07:53the empty house
01:07:54without her.
01:07:59They saw the father,
01:08:00the only one
01:08:00who was in charge
01:08:01of them,
01:08:02to destroy oneself mentally,
01:08:03showing those
01:08:04that then
01:08:05they interpreted
01:08:06as signs
01:08:06of senility.
01:08:12They saw the father
01:08:13to commit acts
01:08:14atrocious
01:08:14on your body.
01:08:17Gertrude De Marco,
01:08:18the daughter
01:08:19thirty-year-old from Fish,
01:08:20he said that once
01:08:21his father
01:08:22he confessed to her
01:08:22to have slipped in
01:08:24needles in the body.
01:08:27The eldest son
01:08:28by Fish
01:08:29which bears his name,
01:08:30the thirty-five year old
01:08:31Albert Junior,
01:08:32remember that
01:08:33when he lived
01:08:34with his father
01:08:34he had found
01:08:35a shovel
01:08:36covered
01:08:36of nails
01:08:37bloody.
01:08:40I use it on myself.
01:08:42Sometimes
01:08:42I have some feelings
01:08:44and when it happens
01:08:45I have to torture myself.
01:08:46The fact is that
01:08:47the pain
01:08:48makes you resilient
01:08:49and you have to invent it
01:08:51something
01:08:51what face
01:08:52more and more bad.
01:09:01For his children
01:09:03Fish was a father
01:09:04and a mother
01:09:05at the same time.
01:09:08He had never beaten them
01:09:09or spoke to them
01:09:10with harshness.
01:09:12There are people
01:09:13who might suffer
01:09:15of these disorders
01:09:16extremes of personality
01:09:17and hide
01:09:18perfectly
01:09:19what they do.
01:09:22The first time
01:09:23that lit up in him
01:09:24the face
01:09:24it was when he spoke
01:09:25of the first granddaughter.
01:09:27He is twelve years old
01:09:29and he's in second grade.
01:09:31She is a very good dancer.
01:09:33I love her.
01:09:34She will dance in the theatre.
01:09:37I love children
01:09:38and I am one
01:09:39tender-hearted.
01:09:41Killing was not
01:09:43inside me.
01:09:44It never was.
01:09:47Fish's sex life
01:09:49it was a perversion
01:09:50unmatched.
01:09:52He soaked some pieces
01:09:53cotton
01:09:54in alcohol,
01:09:55he inserted them into his rectum
01:09:57and set it on fire.
01:09:59there is no act of perversion
01:10:01known that he has not
01:10:02practiced
01:10:02and re-practiced
01:10:03frequently.
01:10:04I made a list
01:10:05special for the court.
01:10:06There are 18 acts of perversion.
01:10:17I believe
01:10:18that he identified himself
01:10:19with those children
01:10:20as if he were himself
01:10:21to be sacrificed.
01:10:23Sometimes you could see it
01:10:25like the person
01:10:26which he implemented
01:10:27the sacrifice.
01:10:28Other times
01:10:29he identified himself
01:10:30with the victim
01:10:31of sacrifice.
01:10:33It was part of
01:10:34of his erotic fantasies
01:10:36why the sacrifice
01:10:37and the punishment
01:10:37for him
01:10:38they were an ecstasy.
01:10:46I am Christ!
01:10:52I am Christ!
01:10:56I am Christ!
01:11:02I am Christ!
01:11:30In 1922
01:11:33Albert Junior
01:11:34he saw his father
01:11:35on a hill
01:11:36who was screaming
01:11:36claiming to be Christ.
01:11:39I am Christ!
01:11:41I am Christ!
01:11:44Fish told me
01:11:45which often
01:11:46he had visions
01:11:47which he called
01:11:48visits
01:11:49in which he saw
01:11:50the face of Christ
01:11:52or the entire body
01:11:53of Christ
01:11:53with the signs
01:11:54some nails
01:11:55on the hands
01:11:55and on the feet.
01:11:57he says that often
01:11:58he saw the blood
01:11:59to come out from the side
01:12:00of Christ.
01:12:03Generally
01:12:03when he had
01:12:04a visit
01:12:05he saw the lips
01:12:06of Christ
01:12:06that were moving
01:12:07and they spoke to him.
01:12:08They gave him
01:12:09precise messages.
01:12:11Fish told me
01:12:12that had been given to him
01:12:12ordained by God
01:12:13to sacrifice
01:12:14a virgin.
01:12:15He identified himself
01:12:16with Jesus
01:12:17and often
01:12:17he thought he was.
01:12:19Me too
01:12:20I felt
01:12:21Like this
01:12:21but this
01:12:22it's not a sign
01:12:23of madness
01:12:24Why
01:12:25if you read
01:12:26the sacred scriptures
01:12:27the only way
01:12:27to find Jesus
01:12:29it's inside you.
01:12:30It means
01:12:31which is inside
01:12:32each of us
01:12:33and this
01:12:34makes beautiful
01:12:35the story.
01:12:38He drinks the blood
01:12:39by Billy.
01:12:41In part
01:12:41it was due
01:12:42to his idea
01:12:43of being a vampire
01:12:44to his thirst
01:12:46of blood.
01:12:47Not only
01:12:48he liked it
01:12:48eat meat
01:12:49of those children
01:12:51but also
01:12:52drink their blood
01:12:53I gave him
01:12:53a great satisfaction.
01:12:57This too
01:12:58it was connected
01:12:59to the imagination
01:13:00religious
01:13:00that he
01:13:01he had taken
01:13:02from the Bible
01:13:02with blood
01:13:03of Christ
01:13:04because not only
01:13:05Christ was bleeding
01:13:06but the idea
01:13:08of the body
01:13:08and blood
01:13:09of Christ
01:13:09it was a way
01:13:10to sanctify
01:13:11a person
01:13:12and prepare it
01:13:14to donate
01:13:14his soul
01:13:15to God.
01:13:16In a certain way
01:13:17drink the blood
01:13:19of those innocents
01:13:20it was a way
01:13:22for Fish
01:13:22to purify oneself
01:13:24and to vote for each other
01:13:25to God
01:13:26and to be God.
01:13:30It's so confusing
01:13:31regarding the issue
01:13:32of the punishment
01:13:33of sin
01:13:34of atonement
01:13:35of religion
01:13:36and torture
01:13:37that fails
01:13:38to understand the difference
01:13:39between the good
01:13:40and evil.
01:13:42On the contrary
01:13:42it's even worse
01:13:43because he is perverted
01:13:46disturbed
01:13:47has a perception
01:13:48altered
01:13:49of the good
01:13:49and evil
01:13:50his abilities
01:13:51intellectuals
01:13:52they are not compromised
01:13:53and this is true
01:13:54for the most part
01:13:54of people
01:13:55mentally ill.
01:13:57Albert Fish
01:13:58he believed
01:13:59and somehow
01:14:00was in contact
01:14:01with the divine.
01:14:05I will be hated
01:14:06for saying this
01:14:07but I believe
01:14:08which was like
01:14:09a shaman
01:14:10not a good shaman
01:14:11there are many shamans
01:14:13bad guys
01:14:13that come in
01:14:14in the human psyche
01:14:17they need
01:14:18to search
01:14:19in this area
01:14:21dark zone
01:14:23and they think
01:14:25that the only thing
01:14:26that will prevent him from doing so
01:14:27both to be arrested
01:14:28and killed
01:14:29or be physically
01:14:31stop
01:14:31from someone else
01:14:32otherwise
01:14:33they will continue
01:14:34to stay
01:14:35in this dark area
01:14:36of the human soul
01:14:37which is in all souls.
01:14:40he is a shaman
01:14:41an American shaman
01:14:43he's one of ours
01:14:44dark gods
01:14:45And
01:14:49maybe God
01:14:50he doesn't bless it
01:14:52but someone does it
01:14:54and his voice
01:14:55should be listened to.
01:14:58Let us pray
01:14:59Our Father
01:15:01who art in heaven
01:15:02let him be sanctified
01:15:04your name.
01:15:06I am a man
01:15:08of passion
01:15:11Come to your kingdom
01:15:13let it be done
01:15:14your will
01:15:15like the sky
01:15:16and so on earth.
01:15:18The fire follows you
01:15:20and when it reaches you
01:15:22it gets into your blood.
01:15:25You leave them to us
01:15:26our debts
01:15:27like us
01:15:28we put them back
01:15:29to our debtors.
01:15:34and from that point on
01:15:36it's the fire
01:15:38who is in control
01:15:39not the man.
01:15:42Lead us not into temptation
01:15:44but deliver us from evil
01:15:45for yours is the kingdom
01:15:47the power
01:15:48and the glory
01:15:49of the centuries
01:15:50of the centuries
01:15:55blame the fire
01:15:56of passion
01:15:57for what he did
01:15:58Albert Fish.
01:16:07The Albert Fish Trial
01:16:09for the kidnapping
01:16:10and the murder
01:16:11by Grace Budd
01:16:11took place in White Plains
01:16:14in New York City
01:16:15March 12th
01:16:16of 1935.
01:16:20Many witnesses
01:16:21they introduced themselves
01:16:22to say
01:16:22who had seen Fish
01:16:24in the areas
01:16:24in which they had occurred
01:16:25the murders
01:16:26of the children
01:16:27or to say
01:16:27who had witnessed
01:16:29to Fish's advances
01:16:29towards their children.
01:16:31Maybe out of pure embarrassment
01:16:32or out of fear
01:16:33to be cited
01:16:34in a newspaper
01:16:34no witnesses
01:16:36he had come forward
01:16:37to make a statement
01:16:38official
01:16:38before Fish
01:16:39was arrested.
01:16:41If one of these witnesses
01:16:42had come forward
01:16:43even just
01:16:44because he had an intuition
01:16:45that Fish was the culprit
01:16:46maybe the lives
01:16:48of other children
01:16:48they would have been spared.
01:17:05During the process
01:17:06in the prison cell
01:17:08Albert Fish sharpened
01:17:09a chicken bone
01:17:10on the floor
01:17:11of the cell
01:17:12and he put it on
01:17:14in the flesh.
01:17:18Fish was atoning
01:17:20his sins.
01:17:28The jury declared
01:17:29Albert Fish
01:17:30guilty of murder
01:17:31first degree.
01:17:33He was sentenced
01:17:34to the electric chair.
01:17:35the execution took place
01:17:37in prison
01:17:38by Sing Sing.
01:17:40The psychiatrists
01:17:42that they had
01:17:42witnessed
01:17:43for the prosecution
01:17:44saying that it was
01:17:45they know of mind
01:17:46they were right.
01:17:48They managed to demonstrate
01:17:49their own theses
01:17:50precisely with the behavior
01:17:52by Fish
01:17:52which showed
01:17:54advance planning
01:17:55clarity of thought
01:17:57and awareness
01:17:58to do something
01:17:58of illegal
01:17:59and wrong.
01:18:03It wasn't
01:18:05a fair sentence.
01:18:06You see,
01:18:07they are not
01:18:08really healthy
01:18:09of mind.
01:18:10And my poor
01:18:11children
01:18:12what will they do
01:18:14without my guidance?
01:18:21The parents
01:18:23they will feel
01:18:23lift up
01:18:24from today onwards
01:18:24after
01:18:25the killer
01:18:26of children
01:18:26Albert Fish
01:18:27it was brought
01:18:28to prison
01:18:29by Sing Sing
01:18:29pending
01:18:30of his execution
01:18:31on the electric chair.
01:18:55What a thrill
01:18:57die
01:18:57on the electric chair
01:19:00it will be the emotion
01:19:02bigger
01:19:03the only one
01:19:07that I haven't tried yet.
01:19:31Three minutes later
01:19:33Albert Fish
01:19:34he was declared dead.
01:19:38An imaginative tale
01:19:40of his execution
01:19:41gave rise to
01:19:42to the myth
01:19:42that the needles
01:19:43in Fish's body
01:19:44had created
01:19:45a short circuit
01:19:46on the electric chair.
01:19:48The myth
01:19:50became
01:19:50a well-known urban legend.
01:19:53I'm the professor
01:19:55Theodore Bernstein
01:19:56professor of merit
01:19:57of engineering
01:19:58electric
01:19:58and computerized
01:19:59at the university
01:20:00of Wisconsin
01:20:01Madison.
01:20:03When people
01:20:04he asks me
01:20:04if during
01:20:05the execution
01:20:06by Albert Fish
01:20:07the fact
01:20:07who had
01:20:08some needles
01:20:08in the body
01:20:09could do
01:20:10some differences
01:20:11I answer
01:20:12that I don't understand
01:20:13why they think so.
01:20:14Threaded needles
01:20:15at different points
01:20:16of the body
01:20:16influence
01:20:17on the direction
01:20:18of the current
01:20:19but the current
01:20:20she is not attracted
01:20:21from the needles
01:20:22it just changes
01:20:22the way
01:20:23where it passes
01:20:23through the body.
01:20:25The fact
01:20:25that the execution
01:20:26it lasts three minutes
01:20:27indicates that
01:20:28they didn't have
01:20:28no effect.
01:20:31Robert Elliot
01:20:32Fish's Executioner
01:20:33tale
01:20:34the execution
01:20:35saying
01:20:36there was speculation
01:20:38Very
01:20:38on that
01:20:38that could
01:20:39happen
01:20:39when the current
01:20:40would have hit him.
01:20:44Some
01:20:45they were expecting
01:20:45to see
01:20:46sparks
01:20:47in every direction
01:20:47but it didn't happen
01:20:49nothing strange.
01:20:53In the end
01:20:54Albert Fish
01:20:56he died as
01:20:57all beings
01:20:57humans.
01:20:59Fish
01:21:00he is the man
01:21:01older
01:21:01what ever
01:21:02was executed
01:21:03on the electric chair.
01:21:04He was 65 years old.
01:21:09Albert Fish
01:21:10there had to be.
01:21:12The existence
01:21:12by Albert Fish
01:21:13it was necessary.
01:21:15This is one thing
01:21:16that we need to understand.
01:21:17I have reasons
01:21:19so I think
01:21:20that he had to
01:21:21live
01:21:22but
01:21:23the fact that
01:21:24he lived
01:21:25and all aspects
01:21:26of his life
01:21:27they should
01:21:30to be studied.
01:21:32When people
01:21:33he tells you
01:21:34No
01:21:34I don't want to know
01:21:36kill that bastard
01:21:37and that's it
01:21:37this is the thing
01:21:38worse
01:21:39that can be done.
01:21:40The company
01:21:42tends to see
01:21:43serial killers
01:21:44as beings
01:21:45so monstrous
01:21:46not to be similar
01:21:47to no one else.
01:21:49It is true
01:21:49that few people
01:21:50they look like him
01:21:51but this
01:21:52it does not free us
01:21:53from responsibility
01:21:54to understand
01:21:55who are human beings
01:21:56and that their impulses
01:21:58they are human
01:21:59and that the capacity
01:22:01to do certain things
01:22:02it's closer
01:22:04to many people
01:22:04how much
01:22:05we don't believe it.
01:22:09The pain
01:22:10will increase.
01:22:12You can swallow
01:22:13the whole world
01:22:14if you don't face it
01:22:16until you are
01:22:17willing
01:22:18to look at it
01:22:19and not to ignore it
01:22:21you will always be
01:22:22a victim.
01:22:24The more we know
01:22:25certain personalities
01:22:26the less vulnerable we are
01:22:28towards them.
01:22:32This man
01:22:33he wandered around
01:22:34in basements
01:22:35and cellars
01:22:35for 50 years.
01:22:37There have been
01:22:38so many crimes
01:22:39that I can't tell you
01:22:40how many there were.
01:22:43there was some
01:22:44one after the other
01:22:45for decades.
01:22:48I have arrived
01:22:49at the conclusion
01:22:50that he was guilty
01:22:51of a series
01:22:52of murders
01:22:53and missing children
01:22:54and remained resolved
01:22:55in New York
01:22:56and surroundings.
01:22:57In my opinion
01:22:57Fish killed
01:22:59at least 5 children.
01:23:01A judge
01:23:02he had informed me
01:23:03from reliable sources
01:23:04that Fish
01:23:05he was involved
01:23:05in 15 murders.
01:23:08I believe
01:23:09that he was a man
01:23:10that could not be cured
01:23:11nor rehabilitated
01:23:13but not even punished.
01:23:15Given the compulsive nature
01:23:18of his behavior
01:23:19and the relationship
01:23:21between behavior
01:23:22and sexuality
01:23:23the number of cases
01:23:25that the doctor
01:23:26Wirtam
01:23:26he provided us
01:23:27according to which
01:23:28they would have been
01:23:29harassed
01:23:30at least 100 children
01:23:31and there would be
01:23:33were killed
01:23:3315
01:23:34it's probably
01:23:36inferior
01:23:36to reality.
01:23:41by Albert Fish
01:23:43only remain
01:23:44the nightmares
01:23:47the nightmares
01:23:48of a cannibal
01:23:49metropolitan
01:23:50the nightmares
01:23:51of a human being
01:23:52who lived
01:23:53the most despicable life
01:23:54of torture
01:23:55of pain
01:23:56and suffering.
01:24:00The people
01:24:01time passes
01:24:02having fun
01:24:03to make words
01:24:04Crusades
01:24:05and playing cards
01:24:06but the problem
01:24:08is that the vitality
01:24:09not always
01:24:09it gets lost
01:24:10at the right time.
01:24:13There are thousands
01:24:15probably
01:24:15millions
01:24:16of the elderly
01:24:17around
01:24:17that have been
01:24:19set aside
01:24:19but I'm still
01:24:21very vital.
01:24:23When I started
01:24:25to search
01:24:25in recent years
01:24:27people like me
01:24:28I discovered
01:24:29that the world
01:24:29it's simply
01:24:30invaded by people
01:24:32of both sexes
01:24:33which according to the calendar
01:24:35they are too old
01:24:36because they are over 50 years old
01:24:38but they still have some
01:24:40at least 20 in front
01:24:42and the mind
01:24:42full of fantasies.
01:24:46The desire
01:24:48of being young
01:24:49and beautiful
01:24:49it does not decrease
01:24:51over time
01:24:51but it always becomes
01:24:52bigger
01:24:53as time goes by
01:24:54of the years.
01:24:57What
01:24:57can it be done?
01:24:59I must have found
01:25:00the answer
01:25:01wrong.
01:25:03God
01:25:04still has
01:25:05of work
01:25:05for me.
01:25:16God
01:25:32God
01:25:34God
01:25:47Thank you all.
01:26:13Thank you all.
01:26:34Thank you all.
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