AFTER SIX YEARS
MURDERER TRACKED KIDNAPPING OF GIRL (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) NEW YORK, Dec. Hi. ,Six years’ unrelenting detective work resulted to-day in the solution of one of New York’s most baffling kidnapping mysteries. On June 3, 1928, Grace Budd, then aged .10 years, left her parents’ home in a West Side tenement with a stranger who offered to take Her to a party, but she never returned. To-day the stranger was arrested by a detective, who lias d'one practically nothing else for six years than follow clues in the case. The man identified himself as Albert Fish, (55, a house painter, and confessed to kidnapping and murdering the child. He took the police to a desolate section near by Westchester County, where in a shallow grave the remains of the body were found. In the full confession, which is not published, the police said Fish admitted attacking the girl and choking her to death, after which he disposed of the body.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18581, 15 December 1934, Page 16
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