A 68-year-old Russian woman murdered and possibly ate people
Matthew LeePosted on
Reuters
Tamara Samsonova, a 68-year-old woman from Russia, is suspected of killing at least three people and possibly consuming parts of their bodies.
Samsonova was arrested in late July after security footage was recovered of her lugging away garbage bags containing pieces of her most recent victim’s body. Police found that one of the garbage bags contained the head of a 79-year-old woman Samsonova was a caretaker for.
“One diary snippet recounts a brutal confession of how she murdered a former lodger.”
“She wrote: ‘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.’
“Bizarrely sandwiched between accounts of her kills are regular updates of her day-to-day life, such as ‘slept badly’, ‘drank coffee’, ‘take medicines’ and ‘I do not eat.’”
Samsonova could face the death penalty if found guilty.
Check out a video from Reuters of Samsonova’s arraignment below:
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