Cannibal 'Fed Victim to Her Lover'

December 28, 2002
By Robin Shepherd

RUSSIAN police have brought a cannibalism charge against a 48-year-old woman accused of killing another woman in a drunken argument, eating bits of her body and feeding the rest to her unsuspecting lover.

The accused, named only as Ludmilla, was said to have met her 46-year-old victim in the central Russian city of Penza and invited her to a friend's flat.

After a raucous drinking session with three men, the two women argued over advances made by the victim, named as Lilia, towards one of the men. The men left the room drunk and went to sleep, not suspecting what would happen next door.

"Ludmilla strangled her victim, hacked out her heart and liver and sliced off a tender piece of one of her thighs," said Tatyana Ostrovskaya, a senior aide to the Penza region state prosecutor.

"She cooked some of it up in a pot of boiling water, ate it and took the rest home to her lover. He had no idea what he was having for dinner. The men in the flat where it all took place were so drunk they slept through it. They found out in the morning though. One of them went to the lavatory and noticed Lilia's body lying in the bathtub slit open from chin to groin."

Russia's Interfax news agency said Ludmilla had admitted eating cats and dogs more than once, and that she had always wanted to try human flesh.

She has previous convictions for theft and had been released from jail in October.

It is the first reported case of cannibalism in the Penza region. Ms Ostrovskaya said she believed the victim had been married with one child.

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