Ottawa Citizen

‘CANNIBAL COUPLE’ MAY HAVE KILLED 30 PEOPLE

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MOSCOW A Russian couple are suspected of dozens of cases of cannibalis­m after they were found with pictures of human body parts, including a cooked head on a platter of oranges.

Dmitry Baksheyev, 35, and his wife Natalya, are suspected of killing as many as 30 people over the past two decades while living at a military academy in southwest Russia. Detectives were tipped off after road workers found a phone belonging to Baksheyev, which included “selfie” photograph­s of him with a woman’s severed hand.

Baksheyev is believed to have killed the woman and cut her up after a drinking session three days earlier, according to investigat­ors. Phones belonging to other alleged victims were also found, as well as recipes for cooking human meat, the newspaper Komsomolsk­aya Pravda reported.

Investigat­ors later discovered frozen meat of an unknown origin in the couple’s room in a dormitory at the Krasnodar military academy.

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