![]() ![]() In Mumbai, in 1970, she gave birth to a baby girl.ĭuring a 1977 interview in Tihar with Richard Neville and Julie Clarke, authors of The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, Sobhraj said, “If some will ask me whether I feel remorse, and many will, I answer: Does a professional soldier feel remorse after having killed a hundred men with a machine gun? Did the American pilots feel remorse after dropping napalm on my homeland? No.” Compagnon was from a conservative Parisian family and fled to Asia with Sobhraj when he was facing arrest for robbery and extortion. One of those enthralled by him, Chantal Compagnon, even married him - and together they embarked on a joint career of robbery and extortion in Paris. Like Manson, Sobhraj was known to be charming. It was rumored that Sobhraj wanted to create a “family” for himself, a cult-like Charles Manson’s. ![]() He escaped prisons, crossed borders and became famous for luring female tourists traveling through Asia into his orbit, inspiring multiple books and an Indian film about his prison escapes. In 1963, in Paris, Sobhraj received his first jail sentence, for burglary.Ĭharles Sobhraj (center) is escorted by police at a district court in Bhaktapur, Nepal, for a 2014 hearing on a case related to the murder of Canadian backpacker Laurent Ormond Carriere.įollowing his release, Sobhraj continued his criminal activities, murdering, extorting and kidnapping his way across Thailand, Nepal, Malaysia and India. After he tried to wreck his biological father’s car, Sobhraj was sent to live with relatives in India, at which point, “he turned to robbery,” says Luitel, commencing his career in crime. His birth father never accepted him, and he disliked his stepfather. Sobhraj faced constant rejection in his childhood, Luitel says. His mother then moved to Marseille and married a French army officer. When Sobhraj was 4, his father abandoned him and his mother remarried. According to Ananta Raj Luitel, co-author of Charles Sobhraj: Crime and Punishment, Sobhraj often seduced his victims - a few of whom were clad in bikinis when their bodies were found, thus his moniker - before killing them.īorn Hotchand Bhawnani Gurumukh Sobhraj to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother in 1944, Sobhraj’s childhood wasn’t a happy one. On the outside, Sobhraj often posed as a drug dealer, befriending tourists and then killing them once their guard was down. He was a media obsession, one he fed with his flamboyant lifestyle even when behind bars, which included conjugal visits from fans and weekend parties allowed by prison staffers. Sobhraj had earned that nickname, along with “Serpent,” in the 1970s after committing two dozen murders followed by audacious prison escapes. ![]()
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