Charles Sobhraj

A prominent French serial murderer of Vietnamese and Indian ancestry, Charles Sobhraj was born on April 6, 1944, and rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is frequently referred to as the "Bikini Killer" and the "Serpent" because of his shrewd and crafty character. Young travellers were lured and killed by Sobhraj in Southeast Asia, mainly in Thailand and Nepal.

Sobhraj's standard strategy comprised making friends with and winning the trust of young travellers, usually backpackers from the West. Before killing them, he would rob them after drugging or poisoning their food. His "Bikini Killer" moniker came about because several of his victims were discovered wearing bikinis.

Sobhraj engaged in criminal activity across several nations, and he frequently avoided capture thanks to his skill in forging documents and adopting numerous names. He was ultimately apprehended in India in 1976, where he was subsequently found guilty of numerous killings and given a life sentence. He did, however, succeed in escaping from jail in 1986, and he eluded capture for a while before being apprehended in Nepal in 2003.

Charles Sobhraj was found guilty in 2014 of killing two Western tourists in Nepal in 1975 and was given a life sentence. He continues to be one of the most notorious serial killers in criminal history, and the account of his life has been the topic of novels, documentaries, and a television series.