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...Shrestha is particularly troubled by the deaths of Dutch tourists Henricus Bintanja and Cornelia Hemker whose burned corpses were found in Thailand a few days after the Kathmandu killings. Shrestha remembers the names well: when he interrogated Sobhraj and LeClerc in Nepal, they passed themselves off as Bintanja and Hemker, presenting him the two dead tourists' passports in which the pictures had been altered...
Henricus Bintanja, 29, a chemist, and Cornelia Hemker, 25, his girl friend, both from Amsterdam, were on a trip around the world. In Hong Kong they met a gem dealer who called himself Alain Dupuis. He invited them to his luxury hotel, sold them a blue sapphire at half the usual price, and told them to look him up in Bangkok. To their surprise, Dupuis was at the airport when they flew in, and he drove them to his apartment. They soon became violently ill. On Dec. 16 their bodies were found on the roadside 40 miles north of Bangkok...
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