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Who is Charles Sobhraj, the Bikini Killer and conman?
4 Apr, 2021 07:03 PM
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Charles Sobhraj is bundled into a police van in Delhi in 1997, shortly after his release from jail. Photo / AP
Charles Sobhraj is bundled into a police van in Delhi in 1997, shortly after his release from jail. Photo / AP
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Handsome, charming, and fluent in several languages, Charles Sobhraj was like some bizarre real-life combination of Patricia Highsmith s Tom Ripley and Thomas Harris Hannibal Lecter .
His isn t a name that many would recognise yet the suave Vietnamese-Indian Frenchman was once one of Asia s most wanted criminals, the charismatic con artist and so-called Bikini Killer who lured at least a dozen young backpackers to their deaths in the 1970s.
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We first encounter him in late-November 1975 at one of his regular soirees at his Bangkok compound Kanit House. When not keeping an eye on festivities, he’s tending to a young man suffering from what appears to be a severe fever. Shortly after, we see him altering a passport, replacing the existing photograph with one of himself. He then does the same with a young woman’s travel document, inserting a picture of his French-Canadian partner Marie (Jenna Coleman). Flash-forward two months and Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle) is following up on concern from a countryman about his missing sister and her companion. Unable to get either the Dutch Ambassador or the Thai police interested, Knippenberg nonetheless decides to start doing some digging himself, becoming especially alarmed when his Australian counterpart regales him with a tale of two young people from his homeland who were found murdered and disfigured virtually beyond all recognition.
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