Russian ‘cannibal couple’ confess to murdering and eating 30 victims, police say
Gruesome cellphone photos show the body parts of alleged victims of couple, who are also suspected of putting human flesh in the food of soldiers at the military base where they worked
Investigators believe a Russian couple knocked their victims out with sedatives, then skinned them alive. Afterward, police say, they ate parts of their victims, froze the remains or packed them in jars filled with saline solution.
At times, the couple tried to turn soldiers at the military academy where they worked into unwitting cannibals, slipping “canned human meat” into their food.
And the people in the city of Krasnodar may never have known about any of that if not for a broken cellphone lying on a city street, authorities say.
City police have arrested the couple – Natalia Baksheeva and her husband, 35-year-old Dmitry Baksheev – who authorities say may be responsible for the death or disappearance of as many as 30 people in the city of 750,000 in the southwestern tip of Russia, about five hours from Sochi. So far, Baksheev has been charged with one count of murder, and the investigation is ongoing.
The investigation started on September 11, according to the Moscow Times, when crews repairing a road found a discarded cellphone. It still worked, so they swiped through the photos.