Charles Sobhraj is a French thief, fraudster and serial killer of Vietnamese and Indian origin. He preyed on Western tourists, primarily beatniks, throughout the Hippie Trail of Southeast Asia during the 1970s. He committed at least a dozen murders and was convicted and jailed in India from 1976 to 1997. After his release, he retired, promoting his infamy in Paris. He later returned to Nepal in 2003, where he was arrested, tried, and received a life sentence. He is now living in Nepal with his wife, Chantal Compagnon, a young Parisian woman from a conservative family.
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Charles Sobhraj is a French thief, fraudster and serial killer of Vietnamese and Indian origin. He preyed on Western tourists, primarily beatniks, throughout the Hippie Trail of Southeast Asia during the 1970s. He was best known as the Bikini Killer due to the attire of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent, due to his cunning at deception and evasion. He committed at least a dozen murders and was convicted and jailed in India from 1976 to 1997. After his release, he retired, promoting his infamy in Paris. He later returned to Nepal in 2003, where he was arrested, tried, and received a life sentence. Unlike most violent offenders, he did not seem to commit his murders out of uncontrollable, deep seated violent impulses which many serial killers experience. It was more perceived as a byproduct of his lifestyle, yet he is still widely believed to have an antisocial personality disorder which is also known as psychopathy. He had an intense hatred of hippies, and many of his murders reflected this. He has been the subject of four biographies, three documentaries and a Bollywood movie titled Main Aur Charles. He is now living in Nepal with his wife, Chantal Compagnon, a young Parisian woman from a conservative family. She has vowed to never see him again, but wishing to leave their past behind, returned to France and returned to their criminal past, but wished to leave the past behind as well.
She is still loyal to him, although still loyal, although she still wishes to leave him behind, but wants to leave behind their past, and their daughter, Usha, who he had fathered with a Vietnamese shop girl. She was born in Saigon, and he was adopted by his mother’s new boyfriend, a French Army lieutenant stationed in French Indochina. As a teenager, he began to commit petty crimes and received his first jail sentence in 1963, serving time at Poissy prison near Paris. After being paroled, he moved in with Felix d’Escogne and shared his time between moving between the high society of Paris and the criminal underworld. He began accumulating riches through a series of burglaries and scams. In 1973, he was imprisoned after an unsuccessful armed robbery attempt on a jewellery store at Hotel Ashoka. He then fled to Kabul, Afghanistan, to escape with his father, and soon begun to rob tourists on the hippie Trail. In the meantime, he ran a car theft and smuggling operation. He and his wife fled to India in 1970 for Asia to escape arrest. After traveling through Eastern Europe with fake documents, robbing tourists whom they befriended along the way, he arrived in Mumbai later the same year. Here, he met and fell in love with a young woman, who gave birth to a baby girl, who was later named Usha. After he was re-captured, he fled to Iran, but was able to escape, faking illness due to faking health.
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