SOBHRAJ Hotchand Bhawnani Gurumukh Charles

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"The Bikini Killer"Charles Sobhraj
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Released
Personal Information
Full Name	Hotchand Bhawnani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj
Born	April 6, 1944 Saigon, French Indochina (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Gender	Male
Nationality	Vietnamese-Indian by birth French national by adoption
Spouse	Chantal Compagnon
Children	Usha Sobhraj
Criminal Information
AKA	"The Bikini Killer" "The Splitting Killer" "The Serpent" "The Hippie Trail Killer"
Offender Type	Serial Killer
Accomplice	Marie-Andrée Leclerc
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment
Victims	12 confirmed, possibly more
Span of crimes	1963 - 1976
Countries	Thailand Nepal India Malaysia France Afghanistan Turkey Greece
Date apprehended	2003

Victims

Confirmed victims

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Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death

Suspected victims

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Documentaries

Television

• Zende (2023) on IMDb
• The Real Serpent: Investigating a Serial Killer (202?)

Podcasts

• Charles Sobhraj - Part 1. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.
• Charles Sobhraj - Part 2. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.

In popular culture

Film adaptation

• The Serpent (2021) on IMDb (The Serpent Trailer on YouTube)

Links

• Charles Sobhraj at Wikipedia