Murder, Mystery & Makeup
Grandma is secretly a serial killer and CANNIBAL?? The shocking crimes of the Granny Ripper
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.
Full Episode
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.
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.
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.
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