Tamara Samsonova
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25 April 1947
"Baba Yaga"
Tamara Samsonova | |
|---|---|
Тама́ра Самсо́нова | |
 Tamara Samsonova (29 July 2015) in the Frunze District Court of St. Petersburg. | |
| Born | Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova 25 April 1947 |
| Other names | "The Granny Ripper" "Baba Yaga" |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Linguistic University |
| Spouse |
Alexi Samsonov (m. 1971–2000) |
| Conviction | Murder |
Capture status | Sentenced to psychiatric hospital |
| Details | |
| Victims | Known:
Presumed:
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Span of crimes | 2000–2015 |
| Country | Russia |
| Location | St. Petersburg |
| Killed | 2 proved (14 suspected[1]) |
| Weapons | Knife, poison |
Date apprehended | 27 July 2015 |
Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova (Russian: Тама́ра Митрофа́новна Самсо́нова; born 25 April 1947), known as Granny Ripper and Baba Yaga,[2][3][4] is a Russian murderer and suspected serial killer who was arrested in July 2015.[5][6] She has been hospitalized three times in psychiatric hospitals and may be schizophrenic.[3]
Samsonova was born on 25 April 1947, in the city of Uzhur, now part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai.[2]
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.[2][7]
For some time, she worked for 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.[8]
In 2000, Samsonova's husband disappeared. She appealed to the police, but searches yielded nothing. Fifteen years later, in April 2015, she contacted the investigative unit of the Fruzensky District in St. Petersburg and gave a statement about her husband's disappearance.[4][9]