Cannibal family’ from Krasnodar in Russia confesses to eating at least 30 people

Alleged cannibal Natalia Baksheeva made ‘pies’ of suspected human meat and supplied them to local restaurants, it has been claimed.

The 42 year old and husband Dmitry Baksheev, 35, are detained amid urgent police investigations into her confession that the couple killed and ate 30 or more victims.

Cut-up human remains were found in their fridge and freezer, and elsewhere in their home at a hostel in a military academy in Krasnodar, southern Russia

One victim was waitress Elena Vashrushev, 35, who lived close to Natalia and her husband. Others are feared to be women who joined dating websites before vanishing.

Neighbours say former nurse Natalia made and sold pies to boost her income, boasted to cafe owners that she could supply ‘meat’ and may have worked as a chef.

‘I bake pies,’ she told one local. Asked what she filled them with, she replied: ‘Whatever is around.’

‘People are trembling when recalling such exchanges,’ reported newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets today.

She is believed to have sold to military trainees including student pilots attending the academy where she worked.

She offered to supply meat to at least one cafe in the city and also sought a job as a chef, the newspaper revealed.

Cafe owner Vitaly Yakubenko said: ‘It was in 2010.

‘She was very active, asked lots of questions but mainly about where we buy our meat and fish and how fresh it is. She made clear she could supply meant. I said that we work only with certified suppliers.’

The cafe owner added: ‘The police should look now where this woman may have worked as a chef and if she tried to push her products there too.

‘For sure these cannibals were looking for places to sell their meat. It sounded to me like her main motive when she was looking for a job.

‘Natalia told me she had experience working as a chef.’ The owner refused to work with her saying she looked ‘vulgar’.

‘She never came back,’ he said. Police are investigating how the couple were allowed to live for years in the grounds of a military academy run by the Russian Defence Ministry.

One officer said: ‘We are a serious educational institution and now because of a drunk street cleaner (Baksheev) and a nurse we are in this scandal.’

A woman official said: ‘Nobody will speak to you here. The bosses are in the state of shock, many fear losing their jobs.’

Lyubov Baksheeva, second wife of Vladimir, Dmitry’s adoptive father, said the alleged cannibal’s natural parents had been ‘drug addicts’.

He was in an orphanage before Vladimir and his first wife adopted him.

As he grew up, je was jailed several times in his teens for robbery and theft, said Lyubov.

‘We knew that this woman Natalia influenced him in a bad way,’ she said.

‘I saw her three times and she was also drunk, aggressive and shouting. They were even fighting with each other.’

State investigators are seeking to verify the claims about dozens of victims of the sinister pair from Krasnodar who were detained after seven bags of body parts were found in their fridge and freezer.

At least one jar with pickled human remains, and 19 slices of skin were also discovered in the macabre flat.

Many cans with steamed meat were found in their kitchen,

A police source said: ‘Going through the photographs, the woman has recognised more than 30 victims that they killed and eaten together with her husband.

A psychologist was sent from Nizhny Novgorod to make her talk.’

Separate reports say Natalia was checked by a psychiatric hospital and found to be ‘mentally healthy’.

‘In their home, many mobile phones of their victims were found, and also video lessons on how to cook meals from human meat,’ said the police source.

‘This woman had been working in the military academy as a nurse and supposedly she was sharing these cans of steamed human meat with student pilots.’

It was yesterday alleged that Dmitry Baksheev used dating sites to recruit women who he and his wife then killed and ate.

At least one jar with pickled human remains, and 19 slices of skin were discovered in the couple’s flat.

Many cans with steamed meat were found in their kitchen, a source told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

It was claimed that wife Natalia Baksheeva, 42, had taken her 35 year old orphan husband in as a teenager and wed him when he turned 18.

Police fear that Baksheev found victims by setting up meetings on dating websites.

His wife is reported to have been shown the faces of missing women in southern Russia and identified dozens who she claimed were their victims.

A police source said: ‘Going through the photographs, the woman has recognised more than 30 victims that they killed and eaten together with her husband.

‘A psychologist was sent from Nizhny Novgorod to make her talk.’

Separate reports say Natalia was checked by a psychiatric hospital and found to be ‘mentally healthy’.

‘In their home, many mobile phones of their victims were found, and also video lessons on how to cook meals from human meat,’ said the police source.

‘This woman had been working in the military academy as a nurse and supposedly she was sharing these cans of steamed human meat with student pilots.’

But so far police have concrete evidence of only two women who were allegedly killed and eaten, it is understood.

Baksheev was originally detained after a man found his mobile in the street in regional capital Krasnodar and saw images of him posing for selfies with a woman’s body parts.

‘He took a selfie with the hand in his mouth, at the same time he put the fingers of the dead hand into his nose,’ said a police report.

‘Then he cut one finger with a knife.’

A police source added: ‘The earliest date of their culinary experiment is 28 December 1999 – the date on one of the photographs.

‘We can see a cooked human head at the big plate surrounded by mandarins.

‘They put olives into the eyes and attached a lemon to the nose.’

A police search found body parts in a rubbish container near the hostel where the pair lived, and a red-haired woman’s head in a metal bucket, with human skin nearby.

More human remains were found in a cellar.

The husband confessed to throwing away the body parts, telling police: ‘I did a stupid thing.’

The woman was identified as Elena B, who lived in the same military academy where the alleged cannibal couple resided.

It is believed she was killed in a forest nearby and her dismembered remains were carried to his home by Baksheev in a backpack.

Both suspects have been detained pending further investigations.

A local shopkeeper remembers him coming to top up his mobile and walking away with blood dripping from a cooler bag he was carrying.

Natalia was fired as a nurse because of her drinking habit, according to reports.

Road worker Roman Khomyakov found Baksheev’s Samsung mobile phone and noticed the hideous photographs.

‘We were working near Gastello street, putting asphalt on the road, when I found the phone,’ he said.

‘I opened the photo album and looked only at two pictures.

‘At first I did not even understand what was there, it looked like a head and a hand. I thought pictures were real.’

Baksheev came looking for the phone, the road worker explained.

‘The man looked homeless. He said: “I lost my phone.”

‘I recognised him from the pictures in the phone.

‘So I did not return the phone, we said we knew nothing. He left.

‘Soon a road police car came passed, and I gave them the mobile phone.

‘I said: “It’s your job, sort it out”.’

Police have established that Baksheev was an orphan from Siberia who was adopted by a childless couple.

He was in his teens when his mother Svetlana died of cancer – and his adoptive father threw him out of the family home even though he was underage.

Some reports say Natalia took him in and married him when he was 18.

Others say that she had other partners and the pair did not wed until four years ago.

His father – who was not named – said: ‘Before moving out of our flat he set fire to his room.’

‘He was convicted four times for stealing things. He took loans and gave my name as a trustee.

‘I had to switch off my phone because banks kept calling me. I had tried to help him, I found jobs for him several times but what could I do?

‘It is useless talking to him. His eyes are made of glass. He is looking through your body and does not listen.’

Yesterday it was reported the alleged ‘cannibal family’ had admitted to killing and eating at least 30 people over a period of 18 years.

Police are understood to have found eight body parts, and are checking for more human remains to assess the veracity of the confessions.

Mash initially identified the pictured woman as his cannibal wife but local sources in Krasnodar insisted she was a recent victim.

In their home, ‘video lessons for cannibals’ were found, according to local news source Livekuban.ru

Since her detention, Natalia has undergone psychiatric tests and was judged to be ‘mentally healthy’, according to Mash, part of a one of Russia largest media empires, closely linked to the Kremlin.

Source: DailyMail Uk