The Serpent: Charles Sobhraj’s Crimes in India and France
In July 1976, French students collapsed in a Delhi hotel after accepting “anti-dysentery” pills from a charming stranger. That man was Charles Sobhraj—the Serpent, the Bikini Killer—whose trail of drugged and murdered tourists stretched across Asia.
Host Alexander Lawson unpacks Sobhraj’s early life between Vietnam and France, his marriage and move to Asia, the 1976 arrest in Delhi, his years inside Tihar Jail, the audacious 1986 birthday-sweets escape, and his eventual return to France. A story of charm, manipulation, borders, and the victims whose names still matter.
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