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The serial-killing ‘Granny Ripper’ who confessed to 11 murders in a gruesome diary may have eaten her victims, police in Russia have said.
Tamara Samsonova, 68, is thought to have beheaded and dismembered her victims in a reign of terror that lasted two decades.
The pensioner dubbed the ‘Granny Ripper’ entered details of her secret life in diaries which she kept in Russian, English and German, alongside black magic and astrological books.
She was arrested last week after being filmed by CCTV cameras near her home in St Petersburg removing the body of her latest victim in black plastic bag.
Now detectives suspect that the former hotel worker also ate some body parts she removed from the people she killed, chopping off their heads, arms and legs.
In particular, Samsonova had a penchant for gauging out and eating lungs, it is claimed. Asked if she was a cannibal, a police source said: ‘It is not excluded.’
The self-confessed killer gave her final victim, Valentina Ulanova, 79, an overdose of sleeping pills
before dismembering her body with a hacksaw while she was still alive.
She was detained after the headless body of Ulanova – for whom she was a carer – was found near a pond on Dimitrova Street in St Petersburg.
Samsonova killed her after a quarrel over unwashed cups, she told police investigating the murder.
Senior investigator in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Timoshatov, said: ‘Tamara Samsonova says that at first she made her friend [Ulanova] sleep – and then cut her into pieces.’
Police are now comparing her elaborate diary entries with known cases of unsolved murder cases where victims were dismembered, and body parts packed in bags strewn around the city.
A headless, armless and legless man’s body was found on the same street 12 years ago, and evidence found in her flat, including a business card for the victim, links her to the crime.
Samsonova is also suspected of murdering her husband, who she reported missing in 2005. He was never found, dead or alive.
The ‘Granny Ripper’s’ diary excerpts include a chilling confession of murdering one of her former lodgers.
‘I killed my tenant Volodya, cut him to pieces in the bathroom with a knife, put the pieces of his body in plastic bags and threw them away in the different parts of Frunzensky district,’ she wrote.
Detectives in Russia are refusing to release details of her diary until the multiple murder investigation is completed.
Later she blew a kiss to reporters. When judge Roman Chebotaryov asked her to address the court, she replied: ‘It’s stuffy here, can I go out?’
She then added: ‘I was getting ready to this court action for dozens of years. It was all done deliberately… There is no way to live. With this last murder I closed the chapter.’
The judge said: ‘I am asked to arrest you. What do you think?’
She replied: ‘You decide, your honour. After all, I am guilty and I deserve a punishment.’
When he announced she would be held in custody, she smiled and clapped her hands.
A police source said that, despite her admission to murdering her latest victim, detectives can’t force her to say where the missing head is hidden.
When Samsonova was questioned by the police last week, she admitted to committing the crimes but without going into detail, say reports. And in her flat, police found a saw, a knife, and blood spots in the bathroom.
A source from the investigation said: ‘She’s either much more stupid, or much smarter, than she seems.’
The serial-killing ‘Granny Ripper’ who confessed to 11 murders in a gruesome diary may have eaten her victims, police in Russia have said.
Tamara Samsonova, 68, is thought to have beheaded and dismembered her victims in a reign of terror that lasted two decades.
The pensioner dubbed the ‘Granny Ripper’ entered details of her secret life in diaries which she kept in Russian, English and German, alongside black magic and astrological books.
She was arrested last week after being filmed by CCTV cameras near her home in St Petersburg removing the body of her latest victim in black plastic bag.
Now detectives suspect that the former hotel worker also ate some body parts she removed from the people she killed, chopping off their heads, arms and legs.
In particular, Samsonova had a penchant for gauging out and eating lungs, it is claimed. Asked if she was a cannibal, a police source said: ‘It is not excluded.’
The self-confessed killer gave her final victim, Valentina Ulanova, 79, an overdose of sleeping pills
before dismembering her body with a hacksaw while she was still alive.
She was detained after the headless body of Ulanova – for whom she was a carer – was found near a pond on Dimitrova Street in St Petersburg.
Samsonova killed her after a quarrel over unwashed cups, she told police investigating the murder.
Senior investigator in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Timoshatov, said: ‘Tamara Samsonova says that at first she made her friend [Ulanova] sleep – and then cut her into pieces.’
Police are now comparing her elaborate diary entries with known cases of unsolved murder cases where victims were dismembered, and body parts packed in bags strewn around the city.
A headless, armless and legless man’s body was found on the same street 12 years ago, and evidence found in her flat, including a business card for the victim, links her to the crime.
Samsonova is also suspected of murdering her husband, who she reported missing in 2005. He was never found, dead or alive.
The ‘Granny Ripper’s’ diary excerpts include a chilling confession of murdering one of her former lodgers.
‘I killed my tenant Volodya, cut him to pieces in the bathroom with a knife, put the pieces of his body in plastic bags and threw them away in the different parts of Frunzensky district,’ she wrote.
Detectives in Russia are refusing to release details of her diary until the multiple murder investigation is completed.
Later she blew a kiss to reporters. When judge Roman Chebotaryov asked her to address the court, she replied: ‘It’s stuffy here, can I go out?’
She then added: ‘I was getting ready to this court action for dozens of years. It was all done deliberately… There is no way to live. With this last murder I closed the chapter.’
The judge said: ‘I am asked to arrest you. What do you think?’
She replied: ‘You decide, your honour. After all, I am guilty and I deserve a punishment.’
When he announced she would be held in custody, she smiled and clapped her hands.
A police source said that, despite her admission to murdering her latest victim, detectives can’t force her to say where the missing head is hidden.
When Samsonova was questioned by the police last week, she admitted to committing the crimes but without going into detail, say reports. And in her flat, police found a saw, a knife, and blood spots in the bathroom.
A source from the investigation said: ‘She’s either much more stupid, or much smarter, than she seems.’
