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The serpent
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Australia:
©2021. BBC,
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2 DVDs (approximately 458 minutes) :
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Serpent
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Charles Sobhraj, whose 1970s killing spree largely targeting tourists in Asia is depicted in "The Serpent," escaped prison at least four times, but he's currently safely behind bars in Nepal.
Abstract/Summary
Sobhraj (portrayed by Tahar Rahim) and his girlfriend and accomplice Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman), a French Canadian, would pose as gem dealers while traveling through Thailand, Nepal and India along stretches known as the ‘Hippie Trail,” which extended from Europe into South Asia and were popular among globetrotting beatniks and hippies from the 1950s through the late '70s. They’d target Western tourists — primarily European and American backpackers — whom they would drug, rob and, in some cases, kill. In addition to money, Sobhraj, who was born in Vietnam but had French citizenship, would also steal victims’ passports for his own use. The first episode of the BBC series depicts the murder of his first known tourist victim Teresa Knowlton, a 21-year-old American backpacker who met Sobhraj in Bangkok, Thailand in 1975. Knowlton turned up dead in the Gulf of Thailand in October of that year, clad in a bikini (the attire of some of Sobhraj's alleged victims also earned him the name "The Bikini Killer"). Days after her body was found, Leclerc cashed Knowlton's traveler's checks, according to The Independent, and authorities, who assumed she drowned, never connected Sobhraj or Leclerc to her death. The series, based in part on the book "The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj" by American journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke, who spent dozens of hours interviewing Sobhraj in prison in 1977, depicts Sobhraj killing Knowlton and disposing of her body with the help of alleged accomplice Ajay Chowdhury.
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Rated MA15+
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Sobhraj, Charles
Murder -- Asia
Television programs
Television series
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Serpent (Television program)
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