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Charles Sobhraj (born 6 April 1944), also known as the Bikini Killer, is a French thief, fraudster and serial killer. He preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. He was nicknamed The Splitting Killer and The Serpent. Sobhraj allegedly committed at least a dozen murders. He was convicted and jailed in India from ...
Criminal accomplice to Charles Sobhraj. Marie-Andrée Leclerc (born in Quebec, Canada) was a fraudster and known accomplice to serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s.
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- He had a turbulent childhood. Born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, Sobhraj’s parents were unmarried and his father subsequently denied paternity.
- He was a con artist. Sobhraj began to make money through burglaries, scams and smuggling. He was extremely charismatic, sweet talking prison guards into giving him favours during any prison stints.
- He spent at least two years on the run. Between 1973 and 1975, Sobhraj and his half-brother André were on the run. They travelled through Eastern Europe and the Middle East on a series of stolen passports, committing crimes in Turkey and Greece.
- He began scamming tourists in South East Asia. After André’s arrest, Sobhraj went solo. He concocted a scam he used on tourists again and again, posing as a gem dealer or drug dealer and gaining their trust and loyalty.
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Apr 2, 2021 · Arts & Culture. Is The Serpent Based on a True Story? Inside how the Netflix hit dramatized Charles Sobhraj, one of history’s most fiendish killers. By Adam Rathe Published: Apr 02, 2021 3:00...
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Jun 17, 2022 · But the answers become more elusive while investigating a person like Charles Sobhraj, who few really know and, that too, only in “bits and pieces”. Two tensions in the narration turn this puzzle into a riddle and then into an enigma. The first one is Sobhraj’s tense tightrope walk into his past, whenever he is asked about it.
Apr 8, 2021 · April 8, 2021. A scene in the final episode of The Serpent, Netflix and BBC’s engrossing eight-part limited series — now out on Netflix — chronicling the notorious legacy of Charles Sobhraj, manages to hold an entire country accountable for its collective fetishization of a criminal mastermind.
Dec 13, 2016 · Serpentine: Charles Sobhraj's Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia. Thomas Thompson. Open Road Media, Dec 13, 2016 - True Crime - 568 pages. New York Times Bestseller: This in-depth...
