Probe led investigators to a French gem dealer - Alain Gautier who the couple had visited as per their travel notes to friends and kin. Days after their disappearance, two charred bodies were found on the streets of Ayuthya, the ancient capital of Thailand, which turned out to be that of the missing couple. His killings came to light around 1976 following the disappearance of a Dutch backpacking couple. In many occasions, he acquired his victims’ identity using his picture on their passports and travelled the world and evaded the law. Investigators say Sobhraj primarily targeted foreigners. The American woman he had killed was found in a swimsuit floating off Pattaya beach.
He had killed six victims in Thailand, including an American tourist, two French nationals, a Dutch couple and a Turkish man.
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The first person he killed was a Pakistani taxi driver in 1972.
He is said to have terminated his victims by overdosing them with chems and narcotics, then drowning some, let some tobleed after stabbing, or setting them ablaze, sometimes alive in drugged state. While Sobhraj admitted to have killed at least 12 persons between 1972 to 1976, he never disclosed the reasons why he did so. He soon became infamous as a criminal and due to multiple escapes from prisons across the globe, he earned the name “the Serpent”. He was jailed for the first time for burglary in 1963. He had a colourful life with multiple girlfriends and many were also his partners in crime. His mother married a French soldier, and moved to France.Sobhraj always came across as a handsome and charming conman. His jail term was extended by 10 years.īorn in Saigon in 1944 to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, he saw his parents separated soon after his birth. In the next 20 days, he was rearrested in Goa celebrating his actual 42nd birthday. There, he was to be executed for the drug and murder crimes he had committed under the strict Thai rules.So, he planned his escape from Tihar and get arrested again, so that his jail term gets extended and the Thailand extradition is thwarted. Around the time of escape, Sobhraj was nearing the completion of his 12-year jail term and was awaiting to get extradited to Thailand. For which he was sentenced to 12 years of jail. Despite multiple crimes committed in India including the alleged murder of an Israeli man in Varanasi and a French tourist in Delhi, Sobhraj was found guilty of only a robbery attempt.
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