The average person walks past 36 murderers in their lifetime - here’s how to spot themĪ Frenchman linked to the murders of more 20 western backpackers on the “hippie trail” through Asia between 19, was returned to his homeland after decades in a Nepalese prison.ĭubbed “The Serpent,” Charles Sobhraj had spent 19 years behind bars in Nepal for killing two people in 1975 before that country’s Supreme Court ordered his release due to failing health, and good behavior. Pregnant woman accused of poisoning 15 people with cyanide The two allegedly married in jail, though Nepalese authorities deny that.Volunteer group claims FBI failed to investigate Zodiac Killer ‘suspect’Ĭriminal profiler reveals infamous killer John Wayne Gacy’s creepy demands During the trial, he got engaged to his lawyer’s daughter Nihita Biswas. In Nepal Charles Sobhraj was sentenced to life imprisonment for one murder. When arrested, he said he had never been to Nepal before and that he was there to make a TV documentary.ġ2. He was arrested for the 1975 murders of Connie Jo Bronzich and Laurent Carrière. He would never have been caught in Nepal, had it not been for a journalist who recognised him in Katmandu in 2003. He allegedly sold the rights to a movie based on his life.ġ1. After his release from Tihar in 1997, he went back to France, where he would charge money for interviews. One other time he feigned appendicitis and managed to slither his way out of a hospital.ġ0. He escaped from previous jail terms as well, in Afghanistan and Greece. Charles Sobhraj has spent more than 35 years behind bars but also has a penchant for running away from his sentence. This meant that the statute of limitations on his punishments in Thailand, that of 20 years, ran out.ĩ. In a calculated move though, he was caught a month after his ‘escape’ and was jailed till 1997. But he was plotting his escape all this while, which he managed a little later. During his stay in Tihar, he is said to have been engaged to two women and have sexual relations with his lawyer, Sneha Senger. ![]() Sobhraj later denied everything he told Neville.Ĩ. It was based on an extended taped conversation Sobhraj had with Neville. In 1979, the book The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj by Richard Neville came out. He was sentenced to 7 years in jail and couldn’t be extradited to Thailand where he was to face murder charges.ħ. He, along with two women, Barbara Smith and Mary Ellen Eather, were arrested and tried for the crime. Although Charles Sobhraj was jailed earlier for crimes like theft of cars and non-payment of bills, his undoing proved to be the attempted poisoning of French students in Delhi in 1976. ![]() This was thanks to the similarity in the swimsuits his victims, Teresa Knowlton and Charmayne Carrou, were wearing when their bodies was discovered.Ħ. He was also labelled the ‘Bikini Killer’. ![]() He was given many nicknames including ‘The Serpent’ Charles Sobhraj which was given to him by the press because of his numerous escapes from jail. His first known murder victim was American Teresa Knowlton who was found drowned in a tidal pool in the Gulf of Thailand.ĥ. His mode of operation was to befriend his victims and later either drug-and-loot or drug-and-kill. Sobhraj was fluent in several languages, was a charmer, and known for his way with women. Most of them were young backpackers from western countries, travelling the ‘Asian Hippie Trail’.Ĥ. Charles Sobhraj is one of the most notorious serial killers ever, he is said to have killed anywhere between 12 to 24 people in south-east Asia, in the 70s and the 80s. As a kid he tried, at least twice, to escape to Saigon from France by sea, reaching as far as Djibouti on one occasion.ģ. ![]() His mother later married a French Army officer and he was sent to a boarding school in France. His parents separated later which meant that he spent his childhood shuttling between them. Charles Sobhraj was born in Saigon to a Vietnamese mother and an Indian father. His full name is Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj.Ģ. 12 Things You Didn’t Know About The Infamous Charles Sobhrajġ.
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