'Cannibal' couple arrested in Russia for murdering and eating 30 people
The couple has been arrested for alleged murder of as many as 30 people since 1999. Photo: East2West News
(Web Desk) – In what is being termed as one of the most gruesome cases of cannibalism in Russia, a 35-year-old man and his wife, both of whom are alleged to have murdered as many as 30 people since 1999 and consumed parts of the bodies, have been arrested by authorities.
The arrests were made after pictures of dismembered bodies were found on a phone, reported CNN.
The case was reported in the southern Krasnodar region. Police have identified seven victims so far. The cell phone, found on a street in Krasnodar earlier this month, contained pictures of the man posturing with a mutilated female victim.
According to initial reports, the man had initially denied having killed the woman, claiming he had found the remains and had taken photographs of himself with them, before losing his phone.
Dmitry Bakshaev confessed that he and his wife butchered and ate 30 people. Photo: East2West News
A source told state news agency RIA Novosti that many of the details of the case were yet to be confirmed. But the source further added that "at the moment, law enforcement had discovered a glass jar with a canned hand."
"According to the owner of a cell phone that had been lost before, this is one of those hands with which he made a selfie," the source told RIA Novosti.
The source said so far the man had admitted to only two murders - that of the female victim identified in the cell phone pictures and of another person in 2012.
Earlier this year, former policeman Mikhail Popkov was charged with 60 additional murders in addition to 22 that had already resulted in convictions. He carried out the killings over a span of twenty years.
