The Terrifying Truth About Albert Fish
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By Allen McDuffee/Feb. 15, 2021 4:21 pm EDT
From the time Albert Fish was a young boy growing up in Washington, D.C., he seemed fated for a life of horrors. Many in his family — including both of his parents and at least one sibling — suffered severe mental illness. And when his father died in 1875, his mother left him in an orphanage, where he (and many of the other children) were severely abused physically, psychologically, and sexually. "I was there 'til I was nearly nine, and that's where I got started wrong," Fish later recalled, according to