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Indian media have been reporting that Charles Sobhraj, convicted serial killer, currently doing 20 years in Kathmandu Jail, has been visited by an alleged British lawyer, a ‘blonde bombshell’, as the Indian broadsheets claim, who runs a website called Sobhraj Services and has claimed to be making moves that might free one of the world’s [...]
Move over James Bond and let Fantomas terrorize the world’s richest men.
I have been watching the 1960s Fantomas movies with Jean Marais - one of France’s best known leading men and a man who is as camp as camp gets - as the famed face-changing bad man battling it out with France’s [...]
Charles Sobhraj, one of the world’s most notorious serial killer celebrities, also known as The Serpent and The Bikini Killer, is said to have murdered a string of back packers and tourists in South and Southeast Asia in the 1970s.
In 2003, Charles Sobhraj was arrested in Kathmandu, Nepal, for a 1975 murder.
In 2004, Mr. Sobhraj [...]
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 2004 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Prior to his conviction I spoke with one of the allegedly scariest men alive, as well as his captor, police officer Ganesh K.C. who had no doubt [...]