Here is the real-life story of the Bikini Killer and what happened to those that got caught up in his vile crimes. As was shown in The Serpent, Sobhraj was imprisoned after an armed robbery for jewels at Hotel Ashoka in 1973. At this point, Sobhraj's most notorious crimes as depicted on The Serpent started to take place on the hippie trail. Herman Knippenberg(Image: BBC/Mammoth Screen)Herman Knippenberg was the Dutch Diplomat who exposed Charles Sobhraj's atrocious crimes in Thailand. Although now happily retired, he makes sure his files on the Charles Sobhraj case remain catalogued, updated and open.

Source: Daily Mirror February 15, 2021 09:00 UTC