'Cannibal' from St. Petersburg: how an old woman became a serial killer
'12.06.2021'
Source: Inosmi.ru
Tamara Samsonova poisoned and dismembered a neighbor, and later confessed to committing two more murders. At the moment, the police still have not been able to establish the exact number of its victims, says Inosmi.ru.
It is hard to imagine that a small, fragile old woman can be a cruel serial killer. In 2015, the headless body of a 79-year-old woman was found in St. Petersburg. The killer turned out to be her neighbor, who was nicknamed "Kupchinsky the ripper. " The exact number of her victims has not yet been established.
The old woman looks like a dandelion of God. Slightly confused look, quiet voice. She smiled and blew kisses to everyone who gathered in court at the end of July 2015. The press called her Baba Yaga, like the well-known cannibal witch from fairy tales, and “Kupchinsky a ripper ”(she lived in a residential area of Kupchino in the south of St. Petersburg).
A 68-year-old pensioner told reporters in a confident tone: “This is a maniac upstairs neighbor. She raped me. She is a doctor. And she watered my hair, and bruises, and cuts, and broke my knees. There are thousands of witnesses to this. This was her great joy and sweetness. She's like a maniac Chikatilo. "
Then the old woman nevertheless admitted: they say, she is glad that she goes to prison, since she will no longer need to live alone. A small, fragile old woman in a red sweater too big for her and shapeless sweatpants - this is how Tamara Samsonova appeared before the court.
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An elderly woman without makeup, with a face covered with deep wrinkles and disheveled hair, detained by the police, confessed to the murder of 79-year-old neighbor Valentina Ulanova. A few days earlier, passers-by had found several trash bags with human remains nearby. The dogs quickly led the police to the victim's apartment, where they stumbled upon Tamara Samsonova and traces of blood. There was almost relief on her face.
Everything was planned
The investigation established that the murder was planned in the smallest detail. Tamara began by turning off the security camera at the entrance to the building. She then went to a pharmacist she knew who sold her a potent sleeping pill, usually a strictly prescription drug.
The next day, July 23, Samsonova prepared her favorite salad "Olivier" for the victim by mixing 50 crushed tablets into it. Valentina Ulanova died of an overdose. Then the pensioner turned into a butcher and began to dismember the body.
“She was too fat,” Tamara explained her actions.
Armed with a saw, she severed the head, then the torso and legs. The hands were welded. She wrapped the pieces in a shower curtain, and then put them in garbage bags, which she took out in bins near the house. The day was not chosen by chance: the scavengers arrive on Friday morning ...
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Nevertheless, Tamara Samsonova did not foresee that the camera would be repaired so quickly. Her seven trash bag runs were immortalized at two different angles from 2:20 am to 4:00 am. An old woman in a transparent raincoat carried them or dragged them with noticeable effort.
One time she had a saucepan in her hands, which she put on the floor to open the door. The investigation established that there were the victim's head and hands, which were never found afterwards.
Crazy
The former employee of the magnificent Evropeyskaya hotel in the center of St. Petersburg has not left her house at night for many years. The neighbors didn't like her. According to a neighbor, Marina Krivenko, she knocked on the radiators, swore at other people, walked barefoot in the stairwell and went out into the street in boots in winter and summer. In addition, Tamara mistreated her husband Alexei (he went missing), sometimes she even kicked him out the door.
"Crazy", sighs another neighbor Gennady Beglyaev.
In 2014, residents of the house wrote a joint appeal to social service... After that, the old woman was sent to psychiatry, but two months later she returned ...
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But why kill Valentina Ulanova, who generously received her in her two-room apartment? “I love Valya,” she wrote in her diary. Because after moving to a neighbor's house under the pretext of an alleged renovation, she stopped hearing voices, she explained to the police. Nevertheless, Valentina got tired of her and told her to come home. Tamara could not come to terms with this, according to her, she was scared, and she panicked. Then she decided to kill.
Real "Olivier"
Tamara also confessed to two more crimes: the murder of tenants with whom she had a falling out. The dismembered body of one of them, who came from Norilsk Sergey Potyavina, in 2003 was found nearby. The murder followed the same pattern. There was no head, hands or internal organs. The police did not even consider it necessary to interrogate the woman who had rented his room. Another victim was never found.
In Samsonova's cluttered apartment, investigators found an esoteric book with torn out pages, which were found in one of the bags with the remains Potyavin.
In addition, there was her diary in a mixture of English, German and Russian. In it, Tamara described in detail ten murders that she has committed since the 1990s. She claims to have eaten the organs of the victims. Madness?
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According to Russian press sources, the tattoo of one of the victims was accurately described there. The police have questions about the fate of Tamara's husband, who went missing in 2000. She herself told the neighbors "with a strange smile" that he had gone to another. Did he taste Olivier too? The Kupchinskaya Ripper prefers to keep silent about it.
The press recalls that many houses have been built in Kupchino over the past decades. Tamara could have hidden the remains there, since she has been living in the area since 1971. Five years after the murder of Valentina Ulanova, the exact number of victims of Tamara Samsonova has not been established. In 2016, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and admitted to a hospital in Kazan. Since then, she no longer hears voices.
