Grandma is secretly a serial killer and CANNIBAL?? The shocking crimes of the Granny Ripper
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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.
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.
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.
What led to the disappearance of Alexei Samsonova?
Now listen, him and Tamara had been together for like 30 years at this point and then suddenly poof, he's gone. Do you guys remember that feeling when you were a kid and you were walking into the mall? It was so cool. I was like, well, you know? I mean, yeah, I only had like $8 in my pocket, but I could go to Claire's really quick and like get some barrettes.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is the Granny Ripper, Tamara Samsonova?
0:00–1:58
2
What was Tamara Samsonova's early life like?
1:58–2:54
3
How did Tamara Samsonova meet her husband Alexei?
2:54–4:40
4
What led to the disappearance of Alexei Samsonova?
4:40–8:02
5
How did Tamara Samsonova's relationship with Valentina Nikolaevina unravel?
8:02–11:33
6
How did Tamara Samsonova commit her crimes?
11:33–15:51
7
How was Tamara Samsonova caught?
15:51–21:43
8
What were the consequences of Tamara Samsonova's actions?
21:43–34:43
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