Netflix’s
The Serpent depicts the horrifying true crimes committed in some capacity by Charles Sobhraj (“Alain”), Marie‐Andrée Leclerc (“Monique”), and Ajay Chowdhury. Lead by Sobhraj, the group befriended, poisoned, stole from, impersonated, and killed at least a dozen western tourists traveling through Thailand, India, and Nepal in the 1970s.
Of the group, Ajay consistently referred to by his only his first name feels more literary than real. Ajay is something of a Faustian figure whom Charles Sobhraj meets somewhere in Asia and, at least in the show, entices to commit progressively violent crimes. One of these acts is the stabbing and then burning of American backpacker Connie Jo Boronzich and Canadian tourist Laurent Carrière. Those murders were committed in Nepal and were real. In the series, they act as something like Ajay’s christening. The night before, Ajay is shown having a psychedelic experience with a western tourist before Sobhraj confronts him and q
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The story of criminal mastermind Charles Sobhraj has captivated true crime followers for more than 40 years. The serial killer left a trail of bodies mostly young European and North American backpackers across Asia in the 1970s, then stunned everyone when he escaped from prison not once but at least four times.
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Now on Netflix, the devious con man’s story is an eight-part docudrama from Mammoth Screen first shown on BBC, created by Tom Shankland and Richard Warlow. The creators decided to frame the story around Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg, who spent years on the trail of Sobhraj and was key to his eventual arrest. They interviewed Knippenberg along with several other real-life figures who are still alive. However, they did not speak with the im
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The story of the serial killer is an eight-part docudrama called
The Serpent from Mammoth Screen, which was first shown on BBC but is now available on
Netflix. It was created by Tom Shankland and Richard Warlow. The creators decided to frame the story around Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg, who spent years on the trail of
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