She died in April 1984 aged 38. According to , Knippenberg and the group found "five kilograms of medicine and three industrial-size cartons of liquid containing a drug that acted as both a laxative and a 'chemical straitjacket'".
NextHe nursed them back to health to gain their trust but ended up killing them to avoid suspicion when Charmayne Carrou came looking for her boyfriend, Vitali Hakim, one of Charles Sobhraj's earlier victims.
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Realising that he faced near-certain conviction — and thus execution — in Thailand, Sobhraj hatched a plan. In doing this, he left his wife and children behind.
NextWhen the drugs took hold more rapidly than Sobhraj had anticipated, the students began to pass out in their hotel lobby.
Before she died of ovarian cancer in 1984, Leclerc wrote a French tell-all, Je Reviens I Will Return , giving her side of the story. Knippenberg served as a consultant for the series based on his real-life investigations. I reached for the King Cobra gun — an American special forces pocket gun designed to look like an old-style metal cigarette lighter.
NextIn 2003, he was arrested at a casino in Nepal and charged with the murders of Connie Bronzich and Laurent Carrière.
In 2016, he told Vice, "I never murdered anybody. After Gires warned Knippenberg that Sobhraj was planning to travel, a team raided his apartment while he was overseas..
Stéphane Parry's body was found in the water not far from a beach.
For an imprisoned man, Sobhraj has been keeping busy since his last arrest.
And I can tell you it was a good lesson.
Boasting both good looks and ineffable charm, Sobhraj would befriend those he encountered on his travels before disposing of them, usually after having drugged them. Even now, decades later, Knippenberg has kept his files on the Charles Sobhraj case. Below is a list of Charles Sobhraj's victims that we know of.
But this life appeared not exciting enough for him, and he chose to go back into the danger zone.
Related: The Serpent: What happened to Dominique Renelleau One of the few surviving victims of Sobhraj's killing spree, Dominque Renelleau Fabien Frankel returned to France after Nadine and Remi Gires helped him escape from Thailand. Then there was a phone call.
NextAs in the series, he acquired a handgun, straining his relationship with his wife, Angela.