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.
Natalia Baksheeva (left) and husband Dmitry Baksheev (right), 35, are detained amid urgent police investigations into her confession that the couple killed and ate 30 or more victims
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.
One image shows alleged human remains pickled in a jar
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.’
It was yesterday alleged that Dmitry Baksheev used dating sites to recruit women who he and his wife then killed and ate
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 man aged 35, named as Dmitry Baksheev (pictured left) from Krasnodar in southern Russia, was identified as having told interrogators he began his macabre reign of terror in 1999. Right: The first picture released of alleged woman cannibal Natalia Baksheeva, 42
‘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.
The pair was detained after a mobile phone was found in Krasnodar city with pictures showing a man posing for selfies by human body parts, it was reported. Pictured: A man with what appears to be a hand in his mouth
The man had been killing and eating people since 1999, according to his confession. Pictured: Body parts of a woman found in Krasnodar
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.’
The alleged cannibal wife Natalia Baksheeva
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.
Mash initially identified the pictured woman as his cannibal wife but local sources in Krasnodar insisted she was a recent victim
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.”
The man – believed to work in a military academy – had also photographed the cut-off head of the unknown woman and her skull
‘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.
Baksheev (pictured left and right) and his spouse stored human remains in their fridge and freezer as well as a cellar, according to sources in the Russian Investigative Committee, which examines serious crime in Russia
Another picture has been reported as showing a human head on a plate surrounded by oranges
She is alleged to have confessed to at least 30 cases of killing and cannibalism by the couple.
Her psychiatric hospital tests showed she was ‘an absolutely healthy adequate person who fully accounts of her actions’, said her diagnosis cited by Mash.
Baksheev and his spouse stored human remains in their fridge and freezer as well as a cellar, according to sources in the Russian Investigative Committee, which examines serious crime in Russia.
Seven packs of frozen body parts were found. The couple also apparently preserved some ‘meat’ in jars, with one image showing what is alleged to be human remains pickled in a jar.
Some 19 remains of ‘human skin’ were also discovered which had been ‘removed from dead people’.
The pair was detained after a mobile phone was found in Krasnodar city with pictures showing a man posing for selfies by human body parts, it was reported.
After being quizzed by law enforcement officers, the pair is reported to have ‘confessed’.
It is known parts of a female body were found on 12 September on land linked to a military academy at 135 Dzerzhinskogo Street, Krasnodar in a cellar.
A bucket and bag contained body parts. Another bag was filled with the dead woman’s possessions.
Around the same time at Repina Street, workers have found a mobile phone with photographs of a man taking a selfie with parts of a human body.
The man – believed to work in a military academy – had also photographed the cut-off head of the unknown woman and her skull.
The man had been killing and eating people since 1999, according to his confession.
Natalia Smyatskaya, senior assistant to the head of Krasnodar Investigative Committee, confirmed that the pictured dead woman had been identified.
However, her name was not revealed.
She was 35, and had came to live in Krasnodar from Omutinsk town in Kirov region.
Another picture has been reported as showing a human head on a plate surrounded by oranges. It is dated 28 December 1999 – which, if valid, leads to the suspicion that the confession of an 18-year reign of terror as a cannibal is correct.
Images from inside the house show it filled with clutter including piles of pictures, one of which appears to show a victim’s head (left) along with a collection of wigs (right)
The pictures were evidently found by state investigators among the possessions of the ‘husband and wife cannibals’.
One image shows alleged cannibal Baksheev posing with a hammer and sickle – the symbols of the Soviet Union, the country in which he was born.
Woman cannibal Natalia Baksheeva is seven years older than her husband, according to police documents.
It is not known how long they have been married. She works at the same military academy where her husband is employed.
They apparently live in academy quarters in a hostel. Her picture has not been released.
The apartment is in a disheveled state (left), covered in rubbish and carrier bags while the bed is hidden underneath boxes and other rubbish (right)
Both are currently held in detention in Krasnodar.
The pair used ether and a Russian drug Corvalol (main substance is Phenobarbital) to make their victims sleep, it has been alleged.
The smell of the drug reeked from their room in a hostel at the military academy, according to neighbours.
They lived in the hostel of the Military Aviation Academy that belongs to the Russian Defence Ministry.
A worker 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.’
Investigative committee official Smyatskaya added that the initial criminal investigation is into the death of one woman.
Other alleged murders are ‘being checked by our officers’, she said.