WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Police say she is being investigated in connection with up to 14 murders, but how many victims the so-called Granny Ripper truly claimed may never be known

There's a horror movie trope which shows elderly women as frightened, frail, and at risk of becoming the monster's prey . But what happens when they themselves are the monster?

In the case of Russian pensioner Tamara Samsonova , that's exactly what happened. Earning the nicknames “Granny Ripper” and even “Baba Yaga” , after the terrifying witch of Slavic folklore, Samsonova may have looked like a quiet grannie, but this blood-thirsty pensioner turned out to be one of Russia's most gruesome and prolific killers.

Now in her late 70s, Samsonova was born in the harsh region of Siberia in 1947, with Russia

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