'Grannyball Lecter': Woman murdered 14 people over 20 years, horrifically ate body parts

Tamara Samsonova was arrested carrying bag of body parts.

Woman charged with accounts of the grisly murder of 14 people, including her husband, documented in her diary, was arrested after being caught by a CCTV camera carrying a black plastic bag containing severed body parts of her recent victim. At age 68, Tamara Samsonova is dubbed "Grannyball Lecter," after being discovered to have committed a killing spree over 20 years. Authorities suspect she ate parts of her victims' dismembered bodies.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "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," wrote Samsonova in the diary where she documented what she did to 14 of her victims.

The pensioner was arrested after being caught on a CCTV video carrying a black plastic bag containing the dismembered body parts of her friend Valentina Ulanova, 79, allegedly after an argument over some dirty dishes. According to reports, she gave the woman some sleeping pills and then pieced her body while she was still alive using a hacksaw.

Samsonova admitted to the murder and explained she was not surprised at the arrest, but ashamed that her neighbors would learn of her killings, according to The Sun.

"I knew you would come. It's such a disgrace for me. All the city will know. I was getting ready for this court action for dozens of years. It was all done deliberately... There is no way to live. With this last murder I closed the chapter."

Police explained she scattered uneaten body parts of at least three of her victims across St. Petersburg. She is now being investigated for the dismembered parts found over the last 12 years and her husband's disappearance in 2005.

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