Early Years
A boy named Hamilton Fish was born to a respected family in Washington, D.C. It was later found that many of his relatives were diagnosed with metal disorders in the years before his birth. Fish's father died when Fish was only five years old. It was after his father's death that his mother placed him in an orphanage, because she was not able to support him. Fish was sent to St. John's orphanage in Washington D.C. It was here that Fish began to be treated poorly. He was later quoted as saying that, "That place ruined my mind." It was in this orphanage that Fish experienced brutal beatings as well as witnessing the brutal beating of the children around him. he soon found himself to be sexually aroused by these experiences. These experiences furthered his obsession with sadomasochism (when one experiences pleasure due to inflicting pain on others or experiencing it themselves.). At the age of 7, when Fish's mother had a steady job and was able to support him, he was reunited with her. After Fish graduated from high school, he began acquiring various jobs to work as well as traveling around the country. It was at this point in his life that he began to call himself "Albert" in order to lose childhood nicknames. By the age of twenty-eight, he was making a living as a painter and a handyman. He soon married a woman nine years younger than him, with whom he has six children. They settled down in a cottage in Westchester County, New York. His wife later left him for another man, and left Fish a single father of six children. he was a loving father, but he soon began to act strangely. He soon realized that he found more and more pleasure in witnessing and experiencing pain. In order to satisfy these desires he often had his children as well as neighborhood children paddle him until he bled. The paddle he usually used was studded with inch-and-a-half nails. It was later found that he also inserted a large number of needled into his body as well as burning himself with hot irons. It was soon after this behavioral change that Fish began to seriously research cannibalism. Before Fish became a danger to others, he was examined on many occasions. However, each and every time he was deemed to be a disturbed man, but sane.