“What does it take to catch a killer?”
The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.
Tahar Rahim
Charles Sobhraj
Jenna Coleman
Marie-Andrée Leclerc
Billy Howle
Herman Knippenberg
Ellie Bamber
Angela Knippenberg
Mathilde Warnier
Nadine Gires
Grégoire Isvarine
Rémi Gires
Tim McInnerny
Paul Siemons
The Serpent is a drama, crime series that first aired in 2021 exploring themes of nepal, 1970s, bangkok, thailand, thailand, serial killer, india. it stars Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle. The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.
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