Tamara Samsonova

Tamara Samsonova (Russian: Тамара Самсонова; born 5 February 1947) is a Russian woman from Saint Petersburg accused of being a serial killer.

She has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 79-year-old woman and dismembering her body. She is being investigated in connection to a total of 14 murders.

According to media reports, police found a diary which contained details of some of the murders. One entry, translated from Russian to English, read: “I killed my tenant Volodya, cut him to pieces in the bathroom with a knife and put the pieces of his body in plastic bags and threw them away in the different parts of Frunzensky District.”

Her husband disappeared in 2005 and she is now a suspect in that case. Samsonova is possibly a sufferer of schizophrenia and was admitted to psychiatric hospitals three times.