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Site Index

Every page in the Albert Fish Archive, grouped by section. Use this index to navigate directly to any primary-source document, biographical article, or reference page.

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.

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.
RSS / Atom feed — Dispatches.

Site Index

The Subject

The Victims

The Letters

The Case

The Archive

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