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...corpses, interviewed eyewitnesses, called in handwriting experts, grilled his "restless" suspect, and was soon sure he had the right man. But in December 1975, Nepal was incredibly polite to foreign visitors so Shrestha's superiors told him to respect the do not disturb sign on the door of Charles Sobhraj's room at Kathmandu's smartest hotel. The inspector's men waited in the lobby for two days for Sobhraj to surrender like a gentleman. Instead, the half-Vietnamese, half-Indian French citizen slipped out the back with his Canadian girlfriend Marie LeClerc. They'd already crossed the border into...
...Last week, Shrestha, now 59 and retired, finally got his man. After a Nepalese newspaper revealed that Sobhraj had returned to Kathmandu, police arrested him at a hotel casino. But no one on the force could remember the case or where the files were stashed. Then Shrestha stepped forward. He briefed his successors on his long-forgotten investigation, dug up the 28-year-old files and sat in on Sobhraj's interrogation. The police are now preparing a case they hope will, for the first time, convict Sobhraj of murder. Superintendent Kuber Singh Rana hails Shrestha's "compelling" investigation, saying...
...Sobhraj, he denies the murder accusations and says he's never visited Nepal before...
...Shrestha admits he had long been haunted by Sobhraj's escape. He later learned that the fugitive?sometimes referred to as the "Serpent"?was suspected of preying on Western backpackers following the hippie trail through Asia in the 1970s. By feigning illness, assuming new identities and even once setting his prison van on fire, Sobhraj escaped jail or evaded arrest in Afghanistan, Thailand, Hong Kong, France, Greece (twice), Turkey and Iran. In addition to the case of the two murdered backpackers in Kathmandu, Sobhraj is also suspected of killing five tourists in Thailand and one in Pakistan. He was acquitted...
ARRESTED. Charles Sobhraj, 59, seductive con man and accused serial killer, who has spent more than 20 years in Asian jails but has never been convicted of murder; in Kathmandu. The feral Sobhraj, a half-Indian, half-Vietnamese French citizen, traveled between Europe and Asia in the '60s and '70s picking up Western tourists and drugging and robbing them. By the time Indian police caught up with him in 1976-after he drugged a hotel buffet served to French tourists-he was a suspect in the murder of at least 20 travelers in Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Nepal, Thailand...