The Serial Killers Collection: The serial killers, #4

By rodney cannon

Albert Fish was a rapist, a child killer and a cannibal who not satisfied with the torture and murders of his young victims would write to the parents to detail all of the vile things he did to the children. One such letter in this book. Albert Fish may have been the sickest serial killer to ever live. He would keep his young victims alive for days and beat them constantly to tenderize their flesh for cooking.
John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown, who raped and murdered young men then buried their bodies beneath his home.
The Hillside Stranglers were a pair of cousins who for months terrorized the state of California. These two sadistic creatures would kidnap women, rape them and then strangle them to death before dumping their bodies along hillsides. No one would be safe from them, prostitutes, students, and children would be targeted by them. Rarely in the history of the world has two men worked so effectively together as killers.

Carl Panzram bragged about murdering twenty-one men. He claimed to have raped over one thousand men and boys. This evil creature promised to kill anyone who bothered him and by keeping that promise with the murder of a fellow inmate finally got him the death penalty that he deserved.

The Boston Strangler Albert Henry DeSalvo terrorized a major America city. The rapes and murders that were committed between 1962-64 are legendary. Thirteen women were sexually assaulted and strangled between the ages of 19 -85 years of age.

Russian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo murdered at least fifty-two women and children. This Russian madman had free rein for almost two decades to prey on the innocent because he lived in a country that until he came along refused to believe that a serial killer could exist there.

H.H. Holmes is considered by many to be America's first serial Killer. This man confessed to twenty-seven murders, but the actual number could be over two hundred murders. Men, women, children, his family members, his children, friends and enemies, no one was off limits to this man who actually earned a degree as a medical doctor.

The second volume of my series on serial killers will introduce you to the women who committed serial killings. These evil women are every bit as cruel and ruthless as their male counterparts. There is a myth that men are the only ones who engage in this type of behavior, sadly that is only a myth as you will learn after reading about only a few of the women who have committed serial killings.

I am going to introduce you to a few well known killers such as Elizabeth Bathory, A.K.A, the countess of blood.

Aileen Wuornos a woman who inspired the film Monster.

Leslie Van Houten, a woman who committed murder for Charles Manson.

Jane Toppan, a nurse, who killed dozens of her patients.

Amelia Dyer, the baby farm murderer, killed hundreds of newborns. Yes I said hundreds.

Also we will explore the possibility that Jack the Ripper was perhaps a woman. Maybe Jack the Ripper was really Jane the Ripper?

This book will explore the the lives of some of the worlds most prolific serial killers who happened to be women.

In Volume 3 of my Serial Killers series, The Serial Killers Butchers and Lunatics, you will be introduced to some of the most vicious and disturbed Serial Killers. In Butchers in Lunatics we are going to explore the crimes and lives of men such as Ted Bundy, killer of at least 36 woman and perhaps more than 60.

• Language: English
• Publisher: cannon books and media
• Release date: Aug 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386113386

rodney cannon

Mr. Cannon is a well known blogger in the areas of screenwriting and low budget film making. He operates blogs on the subjects of iphone film making, digital film making, found footage and micro budget film making. 

Book preview

CHAPTER ONE  ALBERT FISH

- I like children they are tasty.- Albert Fish

Why would a killer take the time and accept the risk of capture by writing a letter to a parent of one of the children that he murdered? That questioned puzzled me before I finished my research into the life and crimes of Albert Fish. The answer that I found was the most obvious. Albert Fish was a sadist. This sadistic monster got off on inflicting pain in any and all ways possible. He would keep his child victims alive for days, beating them to tenderize their meat so that they would taste better when he butchered and ate them. Telling a parent what he did was just one more way for him to dine on tears.

This is a letter that he wrote to the mother of one of his victims.

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"My Dear Mrs. Budd,

In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the steamer Tacoma, Captain John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong, China. On arriving there he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned the boat was gone. At that time there was a famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1-3 dollars a pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all the children under 12 were sold to the butchers to be cut up and sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could got to any shop and ask for steak-chops or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or a girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. A boy or girl's behind which is the sweetest part of the body and sold as veal cutlet brought the highest price. John stayed there so long he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return to N.Y. he sold two boys one 7 and one 11. Took them to his home stripped them naked tied them in a closet. Then burned everything they had on. Several times every day and night he spanked them—tortured them—to make their meat good and tender. First he killed the 11 year old boy, because he had the fattest ass and of course the most meat on it. Every part of his body was cooked an eaten except head - bones and guts. He was roasted in the oven (all of his ass), boiled, broiled, fried, stewed. The little boy was next, went the same way. At that time I was living at 409 E. 100 St. near—right side. He told me so often how good human flesh was I made up my mind to taste it. On Sunday June the 3—1928 I called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheese—strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her. On the pretense of taking her to a party. You said Yes she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wildflowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her blood on them. When all was ready I went to the window and called her. Then I hid in the closet until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run down stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mamma. First I stripped her naked. How did she kick—bite and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take the meat to my rooms. Cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did NOT fuck her tho I could have had I wished. She died a VIRGIN."

Albert Fish is known as one of the most violent and most evil serial killers ever. Not only did he kill and rape children, he practiced cannibalism as well. Albert Fish was born on May 19, 1870, and was executed in January of 1936. Over this time he created a reign of terror that is still studied yet not understood today.

Fish's mental issues can be traced back to his childhood. His parents were older when he was born. His father was 75 years old by the time Albert was born. His father was 43 years older than his mother. During the majority of his childhood, he was raised in an orphanage.

Fish's family has a history of mental illness. His uncle was diagnosed with mania and he had a brother that was committed to a mental institution. His sister has what was referred to as a mental affection. Even his mother was said to suffer from hallucinations.

When Fish reached the age of 12 his mother was able to take him home from the orphanage. At this time he and a teen boy practiced some strange behaviors. They would drink urine and eat feces. Fish started going to public bath houses to watch other boys in various stages of undress.

In 1890 Fish moved to New York City and earned a living as a prostitute. When he was not working he would rape teenage boys. Due to an arranged marriage he took on a wife and they ended up having six children but this did not stop Fish. While he got a legitimate job he continued molesting young boys. He also became fascinated with sexual mutilation. In 1903 he was sent to Sing Sing Prison on charges of grand larceny.

Fish got out of prison and began a sexual relationship with a 19-year-old man. A couple days after meeting the man Fish let his evil intentions take over. He tortured him over a two week period. Fish cut off the man's penis, tied a handkerchief around the wound and left for home. He never found out what happened to the man.

In 1917 Fish's wife left and he was a single parent raising six children. He remarried another woman and never got an official divorce from his first wife. He began to harm himself by inserting needles into his stomach and his groin. He had at least 29 needles that were discovered in his pelvic area by a later x-ray. While there is no evidence that he molested his own children, he did ask their young friends to spank him with a paddle that had nails inserted into it.

By 1919 Fish killed his first child. He killed an intellectually disabled boy after torturing him. A couple of years later he saw Beatrice Kiel, playing alone. She was eight years old. Luckily for this young girl, her parents chased him away. He tried to abduct two other boys but they were able to escape as well. During this time Fish stated that the hallucinations began in his mind. He started to hear voices that told him to rape and to kill children.

In 1928 Fish was reading the newspaper and saw that the Budd family was looking for help. There he saw young Grace Budd. He asked her parents if Grace could go with him to a family member's birthday party. They let Grace go and she never returned. Another man was arrested for the crime. Fish then sent her parents a detailed letter of how he molested and killed Grace. The police were able to use that letter to track Fish down and arrest him.

After Fish was arrested the horror of his crimes came out. He admitted to eating part of Grace. He also killed Francis McDonnell who was only 9 years old. He tortured and raped the boy before he finally died.

Billy Gaffney was 4 years old when Fish kidnapped and murdered him. The boy's body was never recovered. According to Fish he stripped and bound the young boy. He then made cuts on his stomach and drank the blood. He cut the body