The True Crime Hour

Known as “Granny Ripper” and “Baba Yaga.”

Background

She was born on April 25, 1947 – in the city of Uzhur (is now part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia.

After graduating from high school, she reached in Moscow and set foot into the Moscow State Linguistic University. After graduating, she made a move to St. Petersburg, where she married Alexei Samsonov. In 1971, she and her husband established in the anew built panel house number 4 on Dimitrov Street.

In 2000, her husband disappeared. She pleaded to the police, but searches submitted not a thing.

Murders

After her husband’s vanishing, she leased out a room in her apartment. On September 6, 2003 (during a argument), she killed her tenant Sergei Potanin (he was a 44 year old citizen from Norilsk). She dismembered his dead body and get rid of it on the roads of St. Desyhis Way.

In March 2015, a common friend asked (79 year old) Valentina Nikolaevna Ulanova (who also lived in Dimitrv Street) to refuge Tamara for the time being while Tamara’s apartment was being refurbished. She lived in Valentina’s apartment for multiple months (while assisting with the housework). The bond between the two worsened, and when Valentina asked Tamara to vacate – she declined to move out.

Tamara made a trip to Pushkin (is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the civil city of St. Petersburg, Russia) and convinced a pharmacist to sell her the medication phenazepam (is a benzodiazepine medicine; it is utilized to tend of several mental disorders – such as psychiatric schizophrenia and anxiety; it can also be utilized as a antecedent dose before surgery as it increase the results of anesthetics). She puts the medication into an Olivier salad (also known as Russian salad; it is a standard salad dish in Russian Cuisine), a special food of Valentina’s, and gave it to her.

On the night of July 23^rd, Tamara found Valentina’s body sprawled on the kitchen floor. She cut up the body with two knives and a saw and filled up the pieces. She abandons pieces of Valentina’s body dispersed about as she made numerous trips to sweep all of the bags out of the apartment.

Valentina’s dismembered body was swaddled in a bathroom cover; it was discovered on the evening of July 26^th, near a pond at house number 10 on Dimitrov Street. The bag had not captivated attention for multiple days, until a resident took attentiveness in its contents.

The identity of the deceased was determined on July 27^th after a study of apartment residents. When police officers knocked on Valentina’s apartment, Tamara unlocked the door. The police found signs of blood in the bathroom, and the lock from the tore-off curtain. Tamara was arrested.

Investigation and compulsory treatment

On July 29, 2015, Tamara was escorted to the Frunze District Court of St. Petersburg. A forensic psychiatric examination set on November 26, 2015, that she was jeopardy to society and to herself, and she was settled into a specialized institution until the conclusion of the investigation.

On December 2015, Tamara was settled for compulsory psychiatric treatment in a restricted hospital in Kazan.

She is being investigated with reference to 14 murders.

Police discovered a diary including facts of some of the murders. One entry affirms that she: “killed my tenant Volodya, cut him into pieces in the bathroom with a knife and put the pieces of his body in plastic bags and threw them away in the different parts of Frunzensky District.”