The Subject
- Biography — Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish — life 1870–1936, the wandering years, arrest, trial, execution.
- Chronology — dated timeline from 1870 birth to the 1936 Sing Sing execution.
- The Press-Given Names — Gray Man, Boogeyman, Brooklyn Vampire, Werewolf of Wysteria, Moon Maniac, Frank Howard.
- The Pelvic X-Ray — Trial Exhibit 7, the 29 self-inserted needles.
- Psychiatric Record & Diagnosis — Wertham, Jelliffe, Lambert, and the paraphilic disorder cluster.
- The Fish Family — Anna Mary Hoffman, the six biological children, descendants.
- Estella Wilcox — disputed "second wife" claim from secondary true-crime sources, not corroborated by the primary record.
The Victims
- Victims — overview — confirmed, suspected, and disputed.
- Francis McDonnell — Staten Island, 15 July 1924.
- Billy Gaffney — Brooklyn, 11 February 1927.
- Grace Budd — Westchester, 3 June 1928.
The Letters
- Letters — overview — the three principal letters in the case.
- The Grace Budd Letter (1934) — the letter that identified Fish.
- The Billy Gaffney Letter — Brooklyn DA case file.
- The Confession Statement — Westchester trial Exhibit 12.
Reference & Reading
- Serial Killer Handwriting — forensic document examination and the Fish letter that broke the case.
- Serial Killer Quotes — documented words versus apocryphal ones, centred on Albert Fish.
- Serial Killer Books — the nonfiction reading list, anchored by Schechter's Deranged.
- Famous Criminals in History — Albert Fish among history's most notorious criminals, gangsters and outlaws.
- Serial Killers Who Were Never Caught — unsolved cases, and the letter that solved the Fish case.
- Serial Killer Nicknames — famous aliases and their origins, with Albert Fish.
The Case
- Wisteria Cottage — Westchester, June 1928.
- The Arrest — 13 December 1934 — how Fish was caught: the NYPCBA letterhead trace and Detective King.
- Execution — Sing Sing, 16 January 1936 — the death-house, the witnesses, the autopsy.
- Documentary record — film, television and radio treatments of the case.
The Archive
- Sources & Bibliography — court records, psychiatric files, press archives, principal secondary works.
- About the Archive — editorial standards, corrections policy, framing note.
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