I swear I did not want to start the text with a "appearances can be deceiving", but who could imagine that an elderly woman would be responsible for a series of barbaric crimes that were taking place in St. Petersburg?

Tamara Samsonova

Tamara Samsonova killed, dismembered and ate at least 10 people until she was discovered by recording a surveillance camera from the street where she lived. In the video she appears carrying body parts wrapped in a plastic bag and her head in a bowl.

Tamara was caught on camera in her own building

The victim was 69-year-old Valentina Ulanova, and as soon as her remains were found, police issued a warning in search of the criminal, which led them to Tamara.

As soon as you were questioned by the police, you did not deny the murder and said you were a cannibal. At her home, officers found a diary where she detailed her crimes, even describing how she ate the victims. Police named the bizarre book "Nightmare on Dimitrova Street" and declined to disclose the entire content.

“Nightmare on Dimitrova Street"

Some of the pages contain information on crimes that occurred in different years, such as the case of a tenant she was reported to have killed in 2003 and even her husband's alleged disappearance in 2005 - the body has not been found to this day.

In the diary, Tamara also confessed to the murder of another 44-year-old tenant who lived in her house: “I killed Volodia, cut him to pieces in the bathtub with a cleaver, and stuffed the remains of his body into plastic bags. Then I got rid of him by dropping him in various parts of Frunzensky. ”

Body found

Police also found black magic books, knives, handsaw and blood in the residence's bathroom. Tamara was arrested in July 2015, sentenced to life imprisonment and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.