country conviction birth_place birth_date victims beginyear article_title endyear name
russia murder russia 1946 or 1947 13 + 1995 tamara samsonova
 2015 tamara samsonova
tamara samsonova

tamara samsonova -lrb- ; born 1947 or 1948 -rrb- 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 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 . ''
-lrb- translated from russian to english -rrb- .
her husband disappeared in 2005 and she is now a suspect in that case .
samsonova is probably a schizophrenia sufferer and was admitted to mental hospitals three times .
