The Corridor of Vanished Backpackers: Charles Sobhraj, "The Serpent"
The Corridor of Vanished Backpackers: Inside the Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, "The Serpent"
In 1975, young travelers on Asia's hippie trail began turning up drowned, strangled, and burned, from the beaches of Pattaya to the fields outside Kathmandu. How did one charming "gem dealer" drug and rob his way across an entire continent while police in three countries held him and let him go? Why did an escape from India's most secure prison actually help him beat the death penalty? And how is a man linked to more than a dozen killings living free in France today?
In this episode, we follow the trail…
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