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...having poisoned them. Tuli, remembering that Interpol had alerted police to a series of druggings and murders of tourists in India and Southeast Asia, rushed over to the Vikram. There he was struck by a peculiar fact: only one of the group, a man by the name of Alain Gauthier, had not got sick. Tuli arrested...
...hunch proved right. Gauthier had used so many aliases and false identities, often derived from the passports of his victims, that it was difficult to learn who he really was. The French Interior Ministry said he was one Charles Dumurcq, 32, who had been officially expelled from France in 1974 after a series of thefts and frauds. In India, however, Gauthier used the name Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj. New Delhi officials said he had been born in Saigon of an Indian father and a French-Vietnamese mother. Gauthier is believed to have spent his boyhood in Paris and trained...
Whatever his true identity, Gauthier left a trail of druggings, robberies and murders that stretches from Hong Kong to Kathmandu-and perhaps farther. Also arrested in another Delhi hotel a few days later was Gauthier's alleged chief accomplice, Marie-Andrée Leclerc, 31, a French-Canadian medical secretary who met and fell in love with him on a visit to Bangkok. Police believe that the pair committed at least nine murders in India, five in Thailand and two in Nepal. They are also suspected of crimes in Canada, France, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Pakistan and South Viet...
Detective Tuli credits Gauthier with "one of the sharpest minds I have come across." He says Gauthier and Leclerc watched Air France flights for likely targets, then checked into the same hotel as the new arrivals. Taking their victims out for a good time, they liked to order chicken curry, apparently because it disguised the taste of the still unidentified drug that they used to poison them...
...those who lived to tell about the experience was a 36-year-old American schoolteacher who met Gauthier and Leclerc in his Hong Kong hotel last January, went to dinner with them, then returned to their hotel room at the new harbor-front Sheraton. Six days later he was found in a drugged stupor, wandering in his underwear in the hotel corridor. His only recollection: "I felt very dizzy, and I realized I needed help." His passport and money were gone...