Outline+For+Serial+Killer+MES

Meghan Stallworth February 16, 2009 Crime Scene Science Serial Killer Project


 * Albert Fish Outline**

-Definition of a Serial Killer- A serial killer is someone who has killed typically more than three people over an extended period of time. Usually, serial killers get some kind of mental gratification from killing their victims. Sometimes the gratification is sexual in nature.

A.  Childhood - Born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C. -Fish’s family had a long history of mental illness; he was abandoned and sent to an orphanage where he was beaten regularly. -He associated pain with sexual gratification, often being made fun of by the other children for getting “overly excited” after being beaten.

B.  Work -Unskilled, uneducated. -Worked as a painter

C.  Description  -  Gentle, calm, trustworthy, sweet

D.  Hobbies  -  Sado-Masochistic games

E.  Victims -Pedophile - Black Children -Molested over 100 children in a 20 year time span Francis X. McDonnell, age 8, July 15, 1924 Billy Gaffney, age 8, February 11, 1927 Grace Budd, age 10, June 3, 1928 Yetta Abramowitz, age 12, 1927 Mary Ellen O’Connor, age 16, February 15,1932 Benjamin Collings, age 17, December 15, 1932
 * Victims**
 * Possible Victims**

F.  Cannibalism  -  He was a cannibal.

G.  Method/Pattern -His ways of getting children varied, he would lure them to the house with promise of work, or food. He would also simply take them. He would then kill them, typically by strangulation, and then eat them after cooking them. -In the case of Grace Budd he told her and her parents that he was going to take her to a child’s birthday party. The family saw him as a family friend and saw nothing wrong with this. They never saw Grace again.

H.  Evidence -Letter to Ms. Budd was traced back to his boarding house.

I.  Confession -Fish confessed to murdering Grace Budd, he continued to confess. He told police of other victims, describing times and locations.

J.  Death - Fish was executed at Sing Sing at age 65. He was the oldest man ever executed there. -He had to be shocked twice because all of the metal in his body caused a short circuit. -He is quoted of having been excited about being electrocuted. “It’ll be the supreme thrill, the only one I haven’t tried.”- Albert Fish