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September 27, 2017 A couple in Russia have been arrested for allegedly drugging, killing and eating at least 30 people.
According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald, the couple allegedly skinned the victims alive after giving them high doses of sedatives. Following this, they ate body parts of the victims and stored some in deep freezer.
A couple has been accused of murdering and eating 30 people in south-east Russia after pictures of dismembered bodies were found on a phone belonging to one of the suspects.
Dmitry Baksheev, 35, and his wife Natalia, 42, were arrested in the southern region of Krasnodar.
The investigation started Sept. 11, when crews repairing a road found a discarded cellphone. It still worked, so they swiped through the photos.
What they found made them dash to a police station. On the phone were “photos of a man with different parts of a dismembered human body in his mouth,” the Russian Minister of Internal affair said in a statement.
Around the same time that investigators were poring over the phone, officers found the dismembered corpse of a 35-year-old woman near the state-run aviation academy where the couple lived,
The couple lives in the Military Aviation Academy, owned by the Russian Defence Ministry, where they both work as support staff.
At first Baksheev denied killing the woman, claiming he had found the remains and taking photographs of himself with them before losing the phone but later admitted the murder along with another in 2012.
His wife reportedly later admitted murdering 30 people since 1999.
The couple reportedly drugged their victims with a substance called Corvalol to subdue them before killing them. Their apartment reportedly smelt of the drug.
Police discovered eight frozen body parts and flayed skin at the couple’s home along with 19 remains of human skin and a cache of footage called “video lessons for cannibals” and images.
One image, dated 29 December 1999, appears to show a human head served as “Christmas dinner”.
A source told RIA Novosti that “at the moment, law enforcement had discovered a glass jar with a canned hand”.
A fellow worker at the academy said: “Each time we tried to enter their room, they started wild shouting and crying. Natalia is a scandalous woman, aggressive, so we did not risk it.”
Russian news stations released video of a police search, apparently from the couple’s home.
The footage showed a messy, disheveled room, with trash, debris and clothes scattered on the floor and draped over furniture. There were also wigs on top of a small freezer and dozens of pictures on a bed.
