Tamara Samsonova: The Granny Ripper
Tamara Samsonova: The Granny Ripper killing and cannibalism in a diary, which she wrote in Russian, English and German. According to the diary entries, she removed her victims’ lungs and ate them. Tamara Samsonova was born on April 25, 1947, in the city of Uzhur, now part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. After graduating from high school, she arrived in Moscow and entered the Moscow State Linguistic University. After graduating, she moved to St. Petersburg, where she married Alexei Samsonov. In 1971, she and her husband settled in the newly built panel house number 4 on Dimitrov Street. For some time she worked for the Intourist travel agency, in particular, in the Grand Hotel Europe. The amount of work experience Samsonova gathered at the time of her retirement was 16 years. In 2000, Tamara’s husband disappeared. She appealed to the police, but subsequent searches yielded nothing. Fifteen years later, in April 2015, she turned towards the authorities again, this time to the investigat...