In this episode Beth and Wendy get into the weeds on Charles Sobhraj, AKA The Serpent. One of the most notorious serial killers ever, he is said to have killed anywhere between 12 to 24 people in south-east Asia in the 70s. Most of them were young backpackers from western countries travelling the ‘Asian Hippie Trail’.
As usual we close out the show with some shout outs, crime news and of course, some tips on how not to get shmurdered aka murdered.
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Footnotes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sobhraj-charles.htm
https://www.ozy.com/flashback/how-a-cat-helped-south-asias-bikini-killer-escape-prison/90372
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/charles-sobhraj-the-serpent
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppmxyz/its-a-secret-0000450-v21n9
https://timeline.com/hippie-trail-asia-drugs-55abce249d1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire#Asia
Books
“Serpentine, the true story of a serial killer’s reign on terror from Europe to South Asia” by Thomas Thompson
“The World’s Worst Serial Killers: Monsters whose crimes shocked the world” by Victor McQueen
Videos
Interpol Investigates, S1 E1, “The Serpent” https://tubitv.com/series/523/interpol_investigates
Shout Outs
United Shades of America on CNN is back. It is hosted by comedian and podcaster W. Kamau Bell. Episodes: “Not all white people” and “HMONG AMERICANS AND THE SECRET WAR”
The podcast American Scandal, particularly the episodes on Payola, which touches on racism in the music industry, and The Hare Krishna Murders, which has some correlations to this story, if only because of Westerner’s fascination with Eastern Mysticism.
Music
Abyss by Alasen: ●https://soundcloud.com/alasen ●https://twitter.com/icemantrap ●https://instagram.com/icemanbass/●https://soundcloud.com/therealfrozenguy
Slowly Creeping by Purple Planet Music http://www.purple-planet.com
Master Disorder & Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com
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