The Granny Ripper: Tamara Samsonova’s Diary of Murder
July 2015. Saint Petersburg CCTV catches a 68-year-old woman dragging heavy bags from her apartment. Inside one of them, police say, is a cooking pot—and a human head.
Hours earlier, Tamara Samsonova had laced her friend’s Olivier salad with fifty sleeping pills. Then she took a saw. They called her the Granny Ripper. Baba Yaga. In her kitchen sat a diary, written in Russian, English and German, calmly listing how she had cut tenants to pieces and scattered them across the city.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of the hotel worker, the vanished husband, the two proven murders, and the…
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