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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Charles Sobhraj
		Charles Sobhraj (born April 6, 1944 in Saigon, then adopted as French) is a serial killer who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s.
		Sobhraj was born Gurhmuk Sobhraj in Saigon to an unwed Vietnamese mother and an Indian (Sindhi) father who soon deserted the family, for which the mother blamed the child.
		Sobhraj, however, had entered with precious gems concealed in his body and was experienced in bribing captors and living comfortably in jail.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj (2332 words)

	Sleeping past catches up with Charles Sobhraj
		Sobhraj, who was arrested from a Kathmandu casino in 2003 and given a life term the following year for killing American backpacker Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975, has been fighting the verdict and demanding that the people associated with the incident be called as witnesses.
		Sobhraj has been saying, throughout his trial and the subsequent first appeal, which he lost, that he never came to Nepal in 1975 but made his first trip in 2003 when he was arrested on the basis of media reports.
		Alan Gautier was the name under which Sobhraj had been living in Bangkok in the 70s, where he had been systematically befriending young Western tourists, drugging them, robbing them of their passports and valuables and killing the ones who got suspicious.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Asia/20060915/451667.html (584 words)

	'Serpent' Sobhraj arrested in Nepal - www.theage.com.au
		Charles Sobhraj, a notorious criminal accused in a string of murders of young Western tourists around Asia, was arrested yesterday at a casino in Kathmandu, a police official said.
		Sobhraj, nicknamed "The Serpent" for his cunning escapes from the law, is wanted in Nepal for the 1975 murders of two women from the United States and Canada, police said.
		Sobhraj, who is believed to be about 60, reportedly lived quietly in France and was in talks for a film to be made of his life.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/19/1063625218159.html?from=storyrhs (411 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Sixty-four-year-old Sobhraj, a French citizen born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, has been living in France since he was released from Delhi’s Tihar jail in 1997 after serving 20 years for a string of charges, including murder and robbery, often involving tourists.
		Sobhraj was handed a seven-year jail sentence for this crime and a further five years for the attempt to poison the French students.
		Sobhraj was sentenced for the escape, drug assault and possessing an Italian-made pistol.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030920/asp/nation/story_2383990.asp (570 words)

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		Charles Sobhraj's lawyers claimed the 59-year-old was not in the country at the time of the murder.
		Charles SOBHRAJ recently lodged an appeal with Nepal´s Appellate Court against his conviction for murder and his life sentence...SOBHRAJ - a 60 year old French national - was sentenced to life by the Kathmandu District Court for the 1975 murder of an American woman.
		Sobhraj was handed a seven-year jail sentence for this crime and a further five years for the attempt to poison the French students...Sobhraj had the run of Tihar jail, where he bribed his way into a privileged life.
	www.crimezzz.net /serialkiller_news/S/SOBHRAJ_charles.php (8962 words)

	Notorious Sobhraj denies murders - www.theage.com.au
		Charles Sobhraj, an infamous international criminal of the 1970s who resurfaced in Kathmandu, denied yesterday any role in a double murder 28 years ago and said he came to Nepal to study handicrafts.
		Sobhraj was charged in Nepal in 1976 but escaped shortly thereafter using the passport of the Canadian victim, whose body was recovered in ashes.
		Sobhraj was released from prison in India in 1997 after serving 21 years for poisoning to death a French tourist and murdering an Israeli man. He briefly escaped from there as well, allegedly by serving his guards sweets and grapes laced with sedatives.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/22/1064082933499.html?from=storyrhs (414 words)

	Sobhraj faces double-murder charge in court - www.smh.com.au
		Charles Sobhraj, the infamous 1970s serial killer who used his charm and an assortment of poisons on Western backpackers across Asia, will tomorrow see a courtroom once again over a double murder 28 years ago in Nepal.
		Sobhraj, nicknamed "The Serpent" for his repeated identity thefts and escapes from justice, will be charged tomorrow with the double murder in 1975 of a Canadian man and American woman who died in the heyday of the Kathmandu hippie scene.
		Sobhraj was born in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh city, to an Indian businessman and a Vietnamese mother who remarried a French soldier.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/09/21/1064082856389.html (699 words)

	What is Charles Sobhraj up to? (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		V D Pushkarna was deputy superintendent of Jail 3 when Sobhraj ordered sweets for the staff on March 16, 1986, on the pretext of celebrating his birthday.
		Sobhraj was implicated in more than 20 murders in various countries, including Thailand, Nepal and India.
		Before Sobhraj escaped he would move virtually anywhere within Tihar as if he were an officer on inspection, not a prisoner.
	www.rediff.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/2003/oct/06spec1.htm (800 words)

	Charles Sobhraj Serial Killer (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Charles Sobhraj, one of the world’s most notorious serial killer celebrities, also known as the “Bikini Killer’ and the ‘Serpent’, was convicted for murder in Kathmandu in 2004.
		Charles Sobhraj was also charged with the murder of a Turkish man, the boyfriend of one of the girls, who had been burned alive.
		Charles Sobhraj was sentenced to seven years for the manslaughter and an additional five years for poisoning.
	www.tomvater.com.cob-web.org:8888 /charles.html (2067 words)

	Killer Sobhraj fears life in prison : charles sobhraj, kathmandu, life sentence : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		Kathmandu: International criminal Charles Sobhraj, known as 'bikini killer' over a series of murders of young female backpackers in 1970s, has expressed hope that Nepal's highest court will overturn the life sentence awarded to him for killing an American woman in Kathmandu three decades ago.
		Sobhraj, a French national, was caught in September 2003 from a Kathmandu casino for carrying a fake passport.
		Sobhraj, who has been linked to a series of murder, rape and drug smuggling cases in 1970s, was sentenced only on the basis of circumstantial evidences in the absence of eyewitnesses and concrete proof, his lawyers claimed.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/killer-sobhraj-fears-life-in-prison/21464-2.html (452 words)

	Rediff on the NeT: Charles Sobhraj deported to France (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sobhraj, born in Vietnam under French rule to a Vietnamese mother and a Sindhi father, had been cleared in all nine cases including a murder charge and a prison break from Tihar jail in 1986.
		Sobhraj, by then a master cheat, left for Thailand where he killed six women in 1975 after robbing them of their valuables and disposed their bodies in the sea.
		Sobhraj's return follows the murders of four French teenage girls earlier this year by two men who already served prison terms for rape and murder, stirring some calls for restoration of the death penalty.
	www.rediff.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/apr/08sobh.htm (681 words)

	Asia Times -
		After 27 years, Sobhraj had returned to Kathmandu and was staying in the capital's tourist neighborhood of Thamel, claiming to be interested in exporting shawls from the Himalayan kingdom.
		Sobhraj was also wanted in Thailand for allegedly attempting to murder Russell Lapthorne and his wife Vera in 1975 after repeatedly drugging the Melbourne couple and stealing more than US$2,000 worth of belongings.
		Sobhraj and Leclerc were then arrested in India, where a court convicted them of killing Israeli tourist Avoni Jacob in 1976 in the Hindu holy city of Benares, also known as Varanasi, along the Ganges River.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EI23Ae02.html (1310 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| The 'bikini-killer' linked to murders throughout Asia
		Sobhraj, 60, is also believed to have escaped from prisons in Afghanistan, Greece, Iran and India.
		Charles Sobhraj was born in Japanese occupied Saigon in April 1944 to an unwed Vietnamese shop girl and an India merchant who denied paternity.
		As a fugitive, Sobhraj is reported to have behaved more like a holidaying student than a desperate prisoner prepared to stop at nothing to evade justice.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3867791.stm (728 words)

	Serial killer Sobhraj jailed for life -DAWN - Top Stories; 13 August, 2004
		KATHMANDU, Aug 12: Charles Sobhraj, the infamous serial killer of Western backpackers in Asia in the 1970s, was sentenced on Thursday to life in Nepal over the death of an American woman in 1975.
		Sobhraj, who was freed in 1997 after 21 years in prison in India, was sentenced to life in jail by Kathmandu District Judge, who said any property Sobhraj owned in Nepal would be seized.
		Sobhraj has also been accused of the murder the same year in Kathmandu of Canadian hiker Laurent Armand Carrierre, but that killing came under the jurisdiction of a separate court in the Kathmandu suburb of Bhaktapur.
	www.dawn.com /2004/08/13/top17.htm (258 words)

	Nepali lawyer stalks Charles Sobhraj
		Yet, as Sobhraj awaits the final verdict in a murder case that could set him free or end his sensational criminal career in a dingy prison in Kathmandu, the two men are bound together in a mesh of astonishing coincidences spanning three decades.
		Although police were certain that Bintanja was actually Sobhraj, the case flew out of the window when the suspect slipped out of the hotel though it was under surveillance and fled Nepal.
		As Sobhraj appealed against the verdict, Claborn asked Shrestha to fight for Bronzich, and the former police officer once asked to track Sobhraj down became the lawyer fighting to keep the Frenchman behind bars.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Asia/20060707/384486.html (630 words)

	Notorious backpacker killer jailed for life in Nepal - World - www.smh.com.au
		Photo: AP Kathmandu: Charles Sobhraj, the infamous serial killer of Western backpackers in Asia in the 1970s, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison in Nepal over the death of an American woman in 1975.
		Sobhraj, who was freed in 1997 after 21 years in prison in India, was sentenced to life in jail by Kathmandu District Judge Biswanbhar Prasad Shrestha, who said any property Sobhraj owned in Nepal would be seized.
		Sobhraj moved to the Chinese quarter of Paris, where in interviews he would wistfully call his life a tribute to Asia and rejection of the West.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/12/1092102604630.html (765 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Co-author of the Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, RICHARD NEVILLE is founder editor of OZ magazine (which took Sixties Britain by storm).
		Charles Sobhraj’s accomplice Ajay Chowdhury was also involved in the murder of the tourists.
		When Charles was deported to France, she left her American family and went back to Paris to be with him.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main.asp?filename=hub031304underworld.asp (525 words)

	Sobhraj arrested in Nepal -DAWN - International; September 20, 2003
		Police found Charles Sobhraj, believed to be a compulsive gambler, in the casino of the Yak and Yeti luxury hotel, a police inspector involved in the arrest said.
		Police said Charles Sobhraj, infamous for his swapping of identities to travel across borders, pulled the trick again in Nepal, entering the kingdom with a Dutch passport under the name Bintanja Henricus.
		Sobhraj, nicknamed “The Serpent” for his cunning escapes from the law, was charged in Nepal over the 1975 murders of a young Canadian man Laddie DuParr and an American woman Annabella Tremont, whom he met in Kathmandu hippie circles.
	www.dawn.com /2003/09/20/int7.htm (277 words)

	Charles Sobhraj (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		But at the age of 60, justice appears to have caught up with Sobhraj in Kathmandu this week; he was sentenced to life in jail in Nepal for a double murder he is accused of committing in 1975.
		Sobhraj was born in Saigon in 1944, the son of an Indian man from Bombay and a Vietnamese mother, named Noy (some sources refer to her as "Song").
		Sobhraj spent three years for burglary and eight months for car theft in prison in France in the 1960's.
	goasia.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /od/nepal/a/sobhraj.htm?terms=adult+chat+india (487 words)

	The life & crimes of Charles Sobhraj - Sify.com
		Sobhraj was born Gurhmuk Sobhraj to an unwed Vietnamese woman and an Indian tailor.
		Pretending to have a bleeding ulcer, Charles was taken to a local hospital where he was diagnosed as having appendicitis, even though there was nothing wrong with him.
		Charles was arrested numerous times in France, Afganistan, Greece, and India, but usually managed to escape or bribe his way out of trouble.
	sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13254855 (947 words)

	International serial killer ‘The Serpent’ arrested in casino (Charles Sobhraj) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Charles Sobhraj - who earned his nickname for his talent at disguise and escape - is suspected of killing at least 20 people in India, Thailand, Afghanistan, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong between 1972 and 1982.
		Charles Sobhraj was picked up yesterday at a casino in Kathmandu and questioned about the unsolved murders of an American and a Canadian backpacker whose charred bodies were found on the city’s outskirts.
		Sobhraj is believed to have committed the murders of Laurant Armant Carierr of Canada on December 21, 1975 and that of Conijo Broniz of the United States on December 23, 1975.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/985593/posts (1347 words)

	Sobhraj convicted again - Sepia Mutiny
		Sobhraj is an odd and unusual fellow as far as homicidal sociopaths go, befriending hippies on the ganja-moksha trail:
		Charles Sobhraj was born… to an unwed Vietnamese shop girl and an India merchant who denied paternity… “I will make you regret that you have missed your father’s duty,” he confided in his diary.
		He (sobhraj) was a psyco, he grew up acquiring no 'sanskar'(moral values), as his parents were unwed and his father didn't take his responsibility.........his childhood must has been very tough.....deprived of regular things that a normal kid does.........
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/000196.html (761 words)

	Sobhraj released - on screen : HTTabloid.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Now, Charles Sobhraj, one of the most wanted serial killers of the 1970s, has made it to the silver screen.
		While Shashwati is based in New York since the 1990s when she went to study films at the Temple University in Philadelphia, Sobhraj is currently serving a 20-year jail term here after a Nepalese judge last year found him guilty of the murder of an American backpacker three decades ago.
		Charles decides to celebrate his new career with a party, and the eunuchs are called in to perform, much like Indian films in which a gangster always has a song and dance number in his den."
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/7242_1449531,001800080000.htm (619 words)

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