In march of 2015…. 68 year old Tamara Samsona was having renovations done to her home in the St. Petersburg Russia . A friend of hers, 79 year old valentina Olanova had heard about tamara’s renovations and she approached her and said – “do you want to stay with me while that’s getting done? “Tamara was very thankful, immediately said yes and as soon as she moved in she immediately started picking up the slack by cleaning up the house and doing the dishes and made sure she always cooked food for her friend because she wasn’t able to pay rent.
After a couple of weeks, the renovations on Tamara’s home were complete but Tamara didn’t want to leave, she was really enjoying living with Valentina and so she asked valentina would it be okay if she stayed a little bit longer… Valentina was a little bit reluctant but did ultimately say okay that’s fine, a couple of months go by and Tamara is showing no sign that she plans on leaving valentina’s home anytime soon and Valentina is getting increasingly frustrated with that.
Finally, in late july 2015, Valentina confronts Tamara and says you gotta go and Tamara just says no i’m not leaving. This causes a huge fight but at the end of it Tamara still doesn’t leave so for a couple of days the women just do not speak to each other, the silence is finally broken on july 23rd when the women get into a fight about some empty cups in the sink that one of them was supposed to clean but they didn’t and they thought about whose responsibility it was to do the dishes and then of course the whole subject comes up again of Valentina saying you shouldn’t even be here, you need to leave and Tamara’s like no i’m not gonna leave and so another big blowout fight happens but at the end of this fight Tamara finally concedes and says okay i get it, i need to leave just give me a couple of days and i’ll be out of your hair.
Immediately the tension is gone in the room they’re no longer fighting and Valentina is happy that she’s finally gonna get her apartment back and Tamara says look i’ll make us dinner tonight i’ll go out and get some food. Tamara leaves the apartment and goes to a pharmacy and gets a whole bunch of sleeping pills and then she gets the ingredients to a particular salad that she knows Valentina really likes, she goes back she starts making dinner and as she’s making this salad she crushes up the sleeping pills and mixes
the powder with the salad dressing and gives that to Valentina and Valentina who’s very hungry eats the whole salad and doesn’t notice anything is wrong. And as soon as Tamara was sure Valentina had eaten the entire salad, Tamara just goes up to a room and goes to bed. A couple hours later, at about 2 in the morning she goes back down to the kitchen and she sees Valentina is passed out on the ground Tamara goes up to her and sees that she’s still breathing which was a disappointment because she wanted her to die from taking all these sleeping pills but it doesn’t matter she takes out her hacksaw that she had borrowed from the neighbor earlier in the day and proceeds to butcher Valentina and she makes special care as she’s cutting her into pieces to remove her lungs and not damage them because Tamara had a taste for human lungs. It was actually her favorite food she took Valentine’s head and she put it into a big pot of water and began boiling that to eat it, the rest of her was cut up into as small of pieces as she could get them and then wrapped in a shower curtain and placed in various bags .
As Valentine’s head and lungs are being cooked on the stove top, Tamara begins making dozens of trips from the apartment down the stairs out the front door all the way down to a lake that was near their property where she would dispose of the body parts before coming back and getting more Valentine’s hips and legs were apparently too heavy to haul all the way down to the lake so she took them to a nearby forest.Tamara’s final trip sees her carrying a big silver pot inside of which is Valentine’s head or at least whatever is left of it after Tamara was done eating most of it, 4 days later, on july 27th a young couple that was living in the same apartment complex as Tamara and Valentina were out for a walk with their dog out near that lake and as they’re walking their dog takes off running and stops in front of this huge bag that it’s sniffing and pawing and trying to open and the owners of the dog try to call it back but they can’t get it to get away from this bag and so the owners walk over and they kind of poke the bag they can see it’s pretty heavy and they open it up and they find a human torso and it’s valentina’s when the police show up the first thing they do is they go to valentina’s apartment and they’re surprised to find Tamara living there.. they’re kind of sensitive with her and they say your friend your relative was just found deceased and we need to look around the apartment Tamara was completely indifferent she did not care.
They had just discovered her body and she didn’t care that they were searching the apartment it was like she knew someday this was gonna happen during the search the police officers quickly find blood all over the bathroom and in the kitchen they even find the hacksaw she used that’s got blood on it and they find tamara’s diary that’s sitting next to this book about black magic and the police are horrified when they see that the diary contains meticulous notes that Tamara had kept of all of the ritualistic killings she had perpetrated over the past 20 years and there was 14 of them and almost all of them were motivated by Tamara’s desire to cast spells that she apparently was reading about in these black magic books she had and virtually all of these spells required human flesh or other human components and so she would kill these people she would use their bodies to cast these spells and then afterwards she would consume them not because that had anything to do with the spell but because she liked the way human flesh tasted, in particular, human lungs. The police arrest Tamara who doesn’t put up a fight, she says yup you got the right person I did all this.
While Tamara was on trial, she seemed like she was in a great mood she told the judge i hope you give me a really severe punishment i expect to die in prison she was seen blowing kisses to reporters it was like she was just totally out of touch or maybe she literally knew this was going to happen and just didn’t care anymore tamra who would be nicknamed the granny ripper by newspapers over the course of this trial was given a life sentence and to this day she is still sitting in jail..
