jan 4, 1910 - Relationship with Thomas Kedden

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Around this time while working in Delaware Fish (40 years old at the time) met Thomas Kedden a 19 year old intellectually disabled man. The 2 began a sadomasochist relationship. That ended with Fish torturing Kedden at an abandoned farm house and cutting off half of his penis. Fish had plans to kill and harvest the body of Kedden but rather he treated the penial wound kissed Kedden and left town. Fish said in his confession "I shall never forget his scream, or the look he gave me,"

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