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The story of one of America's most reviled yet little-known serial killers comes to the screen in this true crime thriller tracing the hunt for Albert Fish. When ten year old Grace Budd's parents allowed their daughter to attend a children's birthday party with a grandfatherly old man named Albert, they never suspected it would be the last time they saw their little girl alive. Six years later, authorities were finally able to capture Fish and hold him accountable for Grace's kidnapping, but the horrors they discovered soon thereafter would come as a shock to even the most hardened inner-city police detective. This is the story of a monster in a man's body, a bloodthirsty cannibal whose frail and kindly appearance belied his sickening true nature as the most nightmarish predator imaginable.