Murder, Mystery & Makeup
Grandma is secretly a serial killer and CANNIBAL?? The shocking crimes of the Granny Ripper
Tue, 18 Mar 2025
Hi friends, happy Tuesday! Looks can be deceiving... and deadly. And that's why you never judge a book by its cover. Because if you judged Tamara Samsonova by her cover... you'd think she's just this sweet, lil Russian grannie who makes after-school snacks for the kiddos. But in reality... Tamara was anything but sweet. And instead of preparing after-school snacks... she was preparing flesh... human flesh... to eat. This woman's story is wild and the crazy part is she documented everything. Also, let me know who you want me to talk about next time. Hope you have a great rest of your week, make good choices and I'll be seeing you very soon. xo Bailey Sarian I sometimes talk about my Good Reads in show. So here's the link if you want to check it out. IDK. lol: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/139701263-bailey ________ FOLLOW ME AROUND Tik Tok: https://bit.ly/3e3jL9v Instagram: http://bit.ly/2nbO4PR Facebook: http://bit.ly/2mdZtK6 Twitter: http://bit.ly/2yT4BLV Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2mVpXnY Youtube: http://bit.ly/1HGw3Og Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3cC0V9d Discord: https://discord.gg/BaileySarian RECOMMEND A STORY HERE: [email protected] Business Related Emails: [email protected] Business Related Mail: Bailey Sarian 4400 W. Riverside Dr., Ste 110-300 Burbank, CA 91505 _________ Check out at https://www.shopify.com/makeup and learn how to create the best retail experiences without complexity. Personal styling for everyone—get started today at https://www.stitchfix.com/makeup.
Chapter 1: Who is the Granny Ripper, Tamara Samsonova?
Hi friends, how are you today? My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday, which means it's Murder, Mystery, and Makeup Monday. Okay, so let me tell you a little bit, a little introduction for you. Quiet city of Petersburg, Russia. Now, police, they made a chilling discovery in 2015 that would shock the nation and earn one elderly woman the infamous title of the killer granny. Oh yes, oh yes.
What was her name, you ask? Tamara Samsonova, an unassuming, soft-spoken senior known to her neighbors as a polite and gentle woman. But behind her kind face lurked a horrifying truth, one that would eventually reveal her as a suspected serial killer with a taste for murder, dismemberment, and dark ritual. I know.
I mean, imagine like opening a dusty old diary and finding pages upon pages describing brutal killings written by the very grandmother who lived down the hall. Today we dive into the twisted mind and gruesome acts of Tamara Samsonova. I mean, what drove her to commit these heinous crimes? And how did she manage to go unnoticed for decades?
So buckle in, kitty cats, because today's story is just like, what? What? Grandma? Grandma! No! So Tamara was born on April 25th, 1947 in the city of Auger. I think is how you say Augur, which is a government town in central Russia. Now it wasn't like a super big place back then. From what I understood online was that like 20,000 people were living there at the time that she was living there.
Chapter 2: What was Tamara Samsonova's early life like?
Tamara grows up there, but there's really not like much else that we know about her childhood, but it is Russia. So, you know, I'm sure it wasn't. rainbows and lollipops, but that's just my assumption. So Tamara, when she graduates high school, she ends up moving like 14 hours across the country to attend college in Moscow. So in Moscow, Tamara, she enrolls at Moscow State linguistic university.
So she's like learning languages. She's living the city life and she seems to be good at it. Learning languages. I wish I could. And then once she graduates from college, she moves to Leningrad, which eventually turns into St. Petersburg. So we'll just call it St. Petersburg because that's what it is now. So at this time, it's the early 70s and she's living in St. Petersburg. It's a big city.
Chapter 3: How did Tamara Samsonova meet her husband Alexei?
There's like almost 4 million people who live there. And you know, amongst all these people out there, she meets a guy named Alexei, not the one who invented Tetris. Do you know that story? Should I tell you the history of Tetris? Because it's actually really interesting, but I... I am distracted, I had a Red Bull. So the two hit it off and she eventually marries. She marries Alexei.
So the newlyweds soon move into a newly built panel house in the Kupchina area. Okay, shut up, I'm trying. But panel houses were like these low cost buildings that popped up all over the Soviet Union after World War II. They were cheap and easy to build. So when the city was growing, they built these quickly to accommodate the growing population. So she gets into one of those.
After that, she ends up getting a job working as a travel agent. She was putting her linguistics degree to good use. So she's working as a travel agent. She's great with people. She's a sweet, nice lady who speaks, again, a lot of languages. So people just like her. Then she gets a job working at the Grand Hotel Europe, which was like this fancy hotel that got a lot of foreign visitors.
And it turns out Tamara was like really good at this fancy hotel job because she ended up working there for 16 years before retiring. So she retires and nobody really knows what she was up to at this time. But what we do know is that shortly after she retired, Tamara's husband, Alexi, he just like goes missing.
Chapter 4: What led to the disappearance of Alexei Samsonova?
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Like, I don't know what to do. And then she tells him, I think he ran off with another woman. Yeah. She tells the police that Alexi ran off with some other lady. So there wasn't much urgency to go looking for him because like, that sounds like a marital problem. You know, they don't really care.
So now that Alexi is gone, Tamara, she decided to start renting out her room in her apartment, you know, extra income. That's great. But it turns out she had like a really hard time keeping them around. I wonder why. It was said that Tamara was kind of difficult to live with. Her neighbors actually would later say they remembered hearing a lot of like loud banging on the radiator.
They would hear yelling and all sorts of just like loud noises coming from her apartment pretty often. So as soon as like a new roommate would come in, they would quickly move out. As a neighbor, they're like, of course they're watching. They're like, this lady's crazy, watch. I give him five days, he'll be out. But Tamara, she didn't just like let her feelings out on her roommates. No, nay nay.
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Chapter 5: How did Tamara Samsonova's relationship with Valentina Nikolaevina unravel?
She also kept like details of her life in her diary. She was, she had diaries for years, but she would write in her diaries in like Russian, English, and sometimes German. It was just like where she expressed her thoughts on life. And you know, she'd like write down things things like she slept badly, she drank coffee, took medicine, normal diary stuff. And Tamara, she had like a lot of interests.
She liked writing songs, music. Apparently she had lots of like books about black magic and astrology. Like she loved that shit. Okay. So a few years go by and it's like 2014. Tamara decides to renovate her apartment. And it was great timing because she had just been introduced to 79-year-old Valentina Nikolaevina. Nailed that. Valentina, she's almost 80, right?
So she was looking for someone to like move into her place who could help around with chores and around the house or whatever. Tamara at this point is 68 and Tamara tells Valentina she'll move in and like help her with the housework and whatever. So it's like great arrangement. While Tamara's apartment's getting renovated, she can stay with this lady. Well, it turns out like, what's her name?
Tamara. She like really loved this new little setup she had going on. She loved Valentina's place. Unfortunately, the feeling was not mutual. I guess like over time, the relationship between Tamara and Valentina started to just go south and Valentina like asked Tamara to move out. And Tamara's like, no, I'm not moving out actually. That's crazy.
Crazy you bring that up because that's not happening. Valentina told her that she was pretty much tired of her. It's like, she wasn't really keeping up with housework or anything like that. She was just pretty much being a squatter. Okay. Either way, Valentina was like, please leave. And Tamara just like kept refusing. Then in July of 2015, they got into a bad fight over unwashed dishes. I get it.
No one likes doing the dishes. So apparently neither of them wanted to clean the dirty dishes, which is fair, you know, except the whole reason that Tamara was living there was to help Valentina with her housework. So it was, you know, annoying, right? Tamara couldn't keep up with the bargain. And once again, she was just being an inconvenience to Valentina.
So instead of Tamara moving out, like, you know, she was asked, Tamara decides, I need to get rid of Valentina. She's a problem. So she decides, Tamara, she decides she's going to poison her. I know, big, big jump here. I was like, okay, all right. She was about to get aquatiphonied. So Tamara, she later said that she panicked because she was scared to live at her home, which I was like, okay.
And if she killed Valentina, she could live in peace for another five months because that's when the renovation would be done. So, okay. All right. So anyways, the two of them fight over unwashed cups and Tamara, you know, she's had enough. So she goes out and she buys some drugs for the poisoning.
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Chapter 6: How did Tamara Samsonova commit her crimes?
She drives to a nearby city and she somehow convinces a pharmacist to sell her a prescription drug called which according to the internet is like a Xanax type of drug. It has a very calming effect, make you, knock you out, I guess. This drug was actually developed in Russia to treat neurological disorders like insomnia and anxiety. So the pharmacist ends up handing over 50 pills to Tamara,
She's like, thank you. And she goes back to Valentina's. When she's back at Valentina's tomorrow, she ends up cooking one of Valentina's favorite meals, an Olivier salad, which I guess is like a traditional Russian dish. I'm sorry if I butchered the name, but it's made with peas, potatoes, carrots, onions, pickles, eggs. and like some sort of meat and they mix it all together with mayo.
So it was like the perfect meal to sprinkle in some pills. And by sprinkle in, I mean, Tamara literally put all 50 pills into the salad.
and then she served it to poor valentina who had no clue what was going on so tamara gives valentina her food and then go ends up like going to bed waiting for the pills to kick in but around 2 a.m tamara she wakes up and she goes down to the kitchen and that's where she finds valentina's body just laying on the kitchen floor
Now, this is where reports get a little wonky, but some say that Valentina was still alive when Tamara found her. But either way, it didn't stop Tamara from doing what she did next, dismember Valentina. Tamara later told police she did all of this in the kitchen because Valentina was too heavy to carry into the bathroom.
So it's unclear what Tamara did with the body parts and the organs, but we do know she wrapped the rest of the body parts in pieces of a, um, like a shower curtain. Yeah. And then she placed them in plastic bags before dumping them in a pond near her neighborhood. CCTV footage actually caught Tamara dragging plastic bags to the pond seven different times. I mean, okay, all right.
Now it's about three days later, it's like July 26, 2015. And there's a couple who's out walking their dog, just minding their own business by the pond. And this dog became very interested in a bag that had, you know, come ashore. So the couple, they decide to open the bag. What's in the box? Only to see a headless and limbless torso. Could you imagine? No.
So of course they called the police right away. And police actually, the night of Tamara's murder, they got a phone call from someone who saw Tamara out by the pond, dropping bags into the pond. So that person called the police. So now the police are like, oh shit, something's going on here. Right. Hoping that they're putting the pieces together.
And then on top of that, talk about a bad day to murder someone because a social worker had stopped by to see Valentina to make sure everything's okay, you know, and Tamara had refused to let her into the apartment. So all the pieces are coming together very quickly. The other day I hit a wall. I was invited to this party that I was super excited for.
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Chapter 7: How was Tamara Samsonova caught?
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so the police come out they start to question people in the neighborhood and realize that nobody had seen valentina in days so um police they also they go out to the pond they collect the bags they do all that stuff and one day after uh finding these body parts police were able to link them to valentina so police they head back to Valentina's house.
They go to Valentina's house and then they knock on the door and guess who answers? Tamara answers. Of course she does. She's like, this is my house now. Apparently Tamara was very welcoming. She told the police officers to come on in. Don't be shy. Come on in. So once the police get inside, you know, police are looking around as they do.
And they find traces of blood in the kitchen and the bathroom. And then they realized, hey, wait a minute. The shower curtain has been torn off. Hmm. That's a little odd, ma'am. So the investigators, they confronted Tamara and they were like, look, babe, listen. There's blood, there's blood, there's evidence. Plus no one has seen Valentina in days.
And without hesitation, Tamara was like, okay, you got me. Like she didn't even try and deny, which is good because you know, they didn't have to like chase her down, I guess, the bright side here. She told the officers like I murdered Valentina. It was I. So the police, you know, they obviously arrest her. They're like, okay, great. Thank you for confessing.
So once she's arrested and in custody, she tells the police the whole fight over the dishes, which must've just sounded ridiculous, right? She tells him about buying the drugs at the pharmacy and putting like all 50 pills in her salad. And the police then, you know, they searched Valentina's apartment and that's where they ended up finding Tamara's diary.
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Chapter 8: What were the consequences of Tamara Samsonova's actions?
All the answers are here. After her arrest, Sergi's business card and traces of his blood were also found in her apartment. So it just really solidified the situation. In her diary, she wrote about how much she loved Valentina. So I don't know, but you know, that didn't work out. There were also things written in the diary that made it sound like Tamara had like eaten her victims.
Allegedly, she liked cutting out their lungs and eating them based on him.
diary but they were never officially reported like in the media or i don't know they were never like officially reported on so it's like hard to know if that's true or not but police also never released information about possible cannibalism because there was no physical evidence to prove that tamara actually ate her victims because she ate the evidence
You know, so they don't really know, but Tamara told the police that her diary entries were real. So she's like, yeah, that happened. And maybe she did. She seems like she tells her diary everything. So at this point, sure. I believe it. So according to her, she would eat parts of the lungs, legs, and pieces of the head. of her victims before disposing everything else.
What was she making, like some kind of soup or something? Was she giving it to other people? That's what I was like, I don't know. Go over to grandma's house for dinner and she's giving you head? Oh. Sorry, not like that, actual head. You know, sorry, flagged, it's over for me. Grandma's not giving you a head, sorry. I am having a day.
So on July 29th, 2015, Tamara is taken to the Fruensee District Court of St. Petersburg. And they actually put her in a cage in the courtroom. She's like, I'm being treated like an animal. It's like, girl, you ate people. It's valid. I think you need to be in a cage. Even though Tamara's in a cage, she's still able to talk to journalists.
So she turns to the media and she's telling them kind of like, I knew this day would come. I don't know why she has a southern accent, but she does, in my mind. She doesn't, she's a Russian. Okay, and that it's such a disgrace that the whole city will know what I did. but she also told reporters that she was being haunted by a maniac upstairs who forced her to kill.
People were assuming she meant that she was hearing voices in her head, but not fully sure there. There was no clarification. Most of the time in court, she was behaving Quite strangely, they said. I wonder why. She either had her head in her hands and she'd be like hiding from the camera. I think she was more ashamed of being caught. Like, oh my God, everyone's gonna know.
Like she was embarrassed of that. Or there were other times when she was crying, which again, I just think like she was embarrassed to be caught and like have her name ruined, which is like, Okay, then why'd you do it, girl? But then there were other times where she'd be sitting up proudly and even flirting with the court and the media.
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