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Jan 23, 2021 · Co-author Julie Clarke recalls how researching convicted serial killer Charles Sobhraj became a dangerous and shameful obsession Julie Clarke Sat 23 Jan 2021 07.30 EST Last modified on Mon 25 Jan ...
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 ...
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Apr 7, 2024 · Date apprehended. 2003. Charles Sobhraj (born Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj, 6 April 1944) is a serial killer, fraudster, and thief who preyed on Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer ...
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- Born in Vietnam
- Thailand’s ‘Bikini Killer’
- Arrested in India
- Thailand Demands Extradition
- Caught Again and Served A Life Sentence
- Married While Behind Bars
- Release from Prison
Sobhraj was born in Saigon on April 6, 1944, to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father. His mother later remarried a Frenchman. In 1963, he embarked on a life as an international lawbreaker, which would take him to Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 1970, he moved to India, where he was arrested a year later for a jewellery heist. He...
Sobhraj arrived in Bangkok in 1975 with his Canadian girlfriend and an Indian associate. He would spend time with tourists, passing himself off as a trader in precious stones. In October, the body of a young woman was found on a beach in Pattaya, wearing a bikini. Other victims followed, beaten, strangled or burned to death. Sobhraj, who would beco...
In July 1976, he was arrested in India after trying to drug a group of more than 20 French tourists in a hotel in the national capital, New Delhi. He was also accused of the murder of another French tourist, Luc Salomon, who had been poisoned in a hotel in Mumbai. In May 1982, an Indian court handed him a life sentence for the 1976 murder of an Isr...
In late 1985, India agreed to Thailand’s request to extradite Sobhraj for the murders of a Turkish tourist and an American woman, Teresa Knowlton. He risked the death penalty there. He escaped from jail in New Delhi in March 1986 by feeding the prison guards sweets laced with drugs and sleeping pills. Police nabbed Sobhraj days later at a restauran...
Nicknamed “The Serpent” for his skill in slipping and sliding out of the judicial dragnet, Sobhraj returned to Nepal to set up a shawl export company under a false identity. He was quickly recognised and arrested in Kathmandu for the 1975 murders of two tourists, Canadian backpacker Laurent Armand Carriere and American Connie Joe Bronzich. He was h...
Sobhraj married Nihita Biswas, a Nepali national and a woman 44 years his junior, in 2008, while still behind bars.
On December 21, 2022, Nepal’s top court ordered the release of Sobhraj from prison on health grounds. He was freed on December 23, and was expected to return to France.
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Sobhraj is believed to have killed at least 12 young backpackers on the hippie trail in south-east Asia in the 1970s. They were poisoned, strangled, drowned, stabbed and, in some cases, burned alive.
Dec 22, 2022 · Charles Sobhraj, a serial killer blamed for killing at least 20 western backpackers by drugging their food and robbing them, is on Thursday expected to walk from prison in Nepal because of his old age. Sobhraj, 78, has been held in a high-security prison in the capital Kathmandu for the past 19 years for killing an American backpacker in 1975.
