Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer whose crimes inspired the Netflix drama series 'The Serpent.'
, the French serial killer who murdered a string of Western tourists traveling through Asia in the 1970s., had been serving a life sentence for killing American Connie Jo Bronzich, 29, in Nepal in 1975. The court also ordered that the murderer return to his own country within 15 days, according to theSobhraj, 78, has been linked with over two dozen deaths, specifically targeting people traveling the “Hippie Trail” through Southeast Asia.
His better-known “Serpent” moniker derived from his snake-like skill in evading law enforcement and his ability to charm his victims into trusting him. “As long as I can talk to people, I can manipulate them,” Sobhrajhis biographer. At different times, he posed as a gem salesman or a drug dealer and even assumed the identities of some of his victims to travel and escape capture.
In India in 1976, Sobhraj tried to steal a group of French students’ passports by giving them sleeping pills under the pretense that they were antibiotics. The scheme went awry and some of the victims raised the alarm. Indian authorities arrested Sobhraj and he was sentenced to 12 years for the poisoning and other charges, including for the culpable homicide of Frenchman Jean-Luc Solomon.
Six years later, in 2003, he was seen in Nepal once again and arrested by local authorities in a casino a few days later. Sobhraj was put on trial for the 1975 murder of Connie Jo Bronzich, whose burned and stabbed body had been found in Kathmandu. Sobhraj was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in Nepal.
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