Can you imagine getting on a plane and what you thought was a normal, smooth ride only to find yourself sitting next to a serial killer?
Journalist Jairaj Singh recently shared this photo on Twitter with the caption, “The awkward moment when you find yourself sitting next to a serial killer who has claimed the lives of at least 30 people.” The currently viral tweet has been viewed over 660,000 times.
Charles Sobraj, also known as “The Serpent,” was released from poison last week. He is accused of murdering nearly 20 tourists in Asia in the 1970s. According to reports, between 1972 and his 1982 Sobraj is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong.
He is said to have befriended his victims, advised them where to eat, and sometimes let them stay in apartments he shared with his girlfriend before killing them.
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Beginning in 1976, he was arrested in New Delhi and accused of murdering two tourists and stealing jewelry. He was convicted of theft but acquitted of murder. In Thailand, he faced 14 murder charges against him, but he escaped his extradition by remaining in the Indian courts until the Thai case expired in 1996. Moreover, he also faced the death penalty in Thailand.
In 1986, he found a way out of New Delhi’s high-security Tihar prison… by luring the guards into sharing a drug-laden birthday cake. He was later taken into custody because it was strategic.
After living a free life in 1997, he was deported from India to France, where he could not avoid trouble. He is under investigation for allegedly poisoning a group of French tourists in India.
Eventually, he reappeared in a casino in the Nepalese city of Kathmandu in 2003 and was questioned about an unsolved murder. He was convicted the following year and sentenced to life in prison. This is just him 20 years in Nepal.
He’s spent a lot of time in and out of the slammer, but clearly he’s a changed man. and said she accepted him as an “optimist” and a resilient person after nearly two decades in prison.
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