Elderly woman accused of killing ex-tenant and storing organs in fridge after children find severed arm

The case of Russia’s ‘granny ripper’ — accused of murder and cannibalism — holds chilling resemblance to one of Australia’s most notorious crimes.

WARNING, GRAPHIC: The case of Russia’s ‘granny ripper’ holds chilling resemblance to one of Australia’s most notorious crimes.

Last month a horrific crime was uncovered in the southeastern city of Khabarovsk, and an elderly slaughter worker now stands accused of murder and cannibalism.

On January 30, children playing near an apartment block in the area made the grim discovery of a severed human arm, according to Khabarovsk Territory news DVHab.

Police later learnt the limb belonged to a 52-year-old Ukrainian janitor, who had been renting a room from an 80-year-old woman.

A search team then found traces of blood of the deceased man in the apartment and the woman became a murder suspect.

But the grim details didn’t stop there, as more dismembered remains allegedly turned up in plastic bags.

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The apartment block when the alleged murder happened. Picture: KP/East2West_News

Unnamed law enforcement sources told DVHab the man’s bowels and other internal organs were allegedly discovered in the suspect’s fridge.

The source also claimed the woman was suspected of cannibalism but local media says this has not been confirmed by the official investigation team.

It’s also understood the suspect’s son is a policeman.

On the alleged day of the murder, neighbours claimed they heard loud knocking coming from the woman’s apartment until almost midnight.

They claimed it was as though someone had been chopping something with an axe.

A source told DVHab the suspect had worked at a pig farm.

A Russian criminologist was also quoted in the paper saying she had worked for many years as a slaughter woman.

The elderly woman is also suspected in other disappearances.

During the search of her apartment, investigators reportedly found a passport of a woman who vanished from the area several years ago.

In recent years six people have disappeared from Khabarovsk suburb Berezovka.

The judge overseeing the case ordered the unnamed woman to be detained for two months as the murder investigation unfolds.

The grisly details of the tenant’s murder are similar to the 2000 crime of Australia’s cannibal killer Katherine Knight.

One of Australia’s worst crimes: Abattoir worker Katherine Knight is serving life in prison after she killed her partner and cooked his body parts. Picture: Supplied

Knight decapitated her partner John Price, cooked parts of his body and prepared them alongside vegetables to serve to his children.

Mr Price’s head was also found in a cooking pot at a home in Aberdeen NSW.

The then 44-year-old had worked at the Aberdeen abattoir.

Knight, who is now 63, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.