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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