He would then poison, strangle, drown, stab and, in some cases, burn his victims alive. He lived in a mansion in the red light district and often entertained travelers with his girlfriend, Marie-Andree Leclerc, per The Independent. His first victim was American backpacker Teresa Knowlton. Sobhraj identified himself to victims as a gem dealer and enticed them with all kinds of hookups-from drugs to parties to a place to crash.
He targeted tourists in the 1970s that were traveling through southeast Asia’s "Hippie Trail," and was believed to have killed at least 12 young backpackers, according to The Independent. Some say he killed as many as 20 people, the Los Angeles Times reported. No one actually knows how many crimes Sobhraj committed. After diving deep in his past, you might be wondering where Charles Sobhraj, a.k.a.
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The show dramatizes the Ripley-esque, real-life serial killer during his most, uh, prolific years targeting backpackers on southeast Asia’s Hippie Trail.
But he also goes by another nickname, The Serpent (hence the TV show's title), due to his ability to mislead law enforcement and slither out of imprisonment. The highly bingeable series centers on French-Vietnamese serial killer Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim), who is nicknamed the "Bikini Killer" after the attire most of his victims wore. The new BBC crime show The Serpent is the latest true crime TV show to land on the streaming network and is out now. Over the last year, Netflix has become a certified boss of true crime content, pumping out chilling documentaries like Murder Among the Mormons and Crime Scene: The Vanishing at The Cecil Hoteland rebooting classic series like Unsolved Mysteries.
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