Surrounded by armed cops, handcuffed mum-of-three Gyulchekhra Bobokulova leads officers to the Moscow flat where she is believed to have strangled little Nastya Meshcheryakova.
The 38-year-old nanny is thought to have then pulled out a massive kitchen knife and cut the girl's head off.
The child's remains were then left in her cot as she left the home with her severed head.
The suspect told police she had been hearing voices on the day of the murder after becoming enraged about her husband setting up a new family in her native Uzbekistan.
Just 16 hours after appalling killing, Bobokulova was escorted to the flat in western Moscow at about midnight.
Earlier police found a headless child's body in an apartment after a fire. Police say she has confessed to the killing.
Moscow investigators said in a statement the unnamed nanny was from Central Asia and that she underwent psychiatric testing to see if she was mentally sound.
But following this Bobokulova agreed to take detectives to where she killed the girl.
In scenes that shocked the world the hijab-wearing nanny was caught walking the streets of Moscow brandishing the girls's head.
She was filmed yesterday (Febuary 29) walking around and shouting outside the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station.
Russia's Interior Ministry released a statement soon confirming the worst – that the head belonged to a four-year-old girl who the woman had been babysitting.
The girl has been identified as Nastya M.
Bobokulova was reportedly seen pulling the chopped-off head out of a bag.
Then she began shouting about killing the child and that she would blow herself up.
She was seen praying shortly before police arrested her.
Dramatic CCTV footage has captured the moment police swooped and dragged the woman to the ground in a tense stand-off.
Eyewitnesses at Oktyabrskoye Pole underground station said the woman yelled: "My child was killed… I will blow up everyone…"
She also shouted: "I hate democracy."
Witness Alyona Kuratova told Russia's Rain TV: "I came out of the shopping center and they tried to not let me through. There were a bunch of people there, running, screaming 'bomb, bomb'.
"I saw that a woman was walking near the Oktyabrskoye Polye metro, near the road, all in black. She had not even some kind of bundle, but a head.
"Maybe it was a child's head, like they were whispering in the crowd. She was shouting something."
A preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect is a children’s nanny in her late 30s, who is a citizen of a “Central Asian country".
Investigators claim that the baby sitter waited until the parents of an older child had left the apartment before murdering the child and starting a fire.
The source in the Investigative Committee of Russia said: "She waited until the parents with the elder child left the flat, then for unknown reason she killed the child, set fire to the apartment and left the scene.
"She was detained at the metro station Oktyabrskoe Pole."
Женщину у метро «Октябрьское поле» задержали по подозрению в терроризме https://t.co/6tI1RNRCEgpic.twitter.com/0UAEQp8Ao1— #говоритмосква (@govoritmsk) February 29, 2016
The dead child is understood to have a 15-year-old brother and her family from the Oryol region was renting the apartment.
Her mother reportedly works at a wedding shop while her father is understood to be a technician at a mobile phone company.
The child's mother was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition after she learned of the news, according to reports.
The woman was reportedly drugged, a police source said.
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