![]() According to CNN, he had been placed in, released from, and escaped from various jails at least four times in several Asian and European countries between then and 1975, when the string of druggings, robberies, and murders of tourists covered in The Serpent began. He was born in Vietnam in 1944, and had been in jail twice already for theft by the time he allegedly committed his first murder of a taxi driver in Pakistan in 1972, when he was 28. But Charles Sobhraj-who went by many aliases, including Alain Gautier-was committing crimes years before the events of the series began. The series is largely accurate in terms of the timeline it presents. The real Herman Knippenberg, who is 76 years old today and living in New Zealand, consulted on the show. With imagined dialogue, the suspenseful series retells the druggings, robberies, and murders committed by Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim) and his inner circle throughout Asia in the ‘70s. Netflix on April 2, shows the devastating web of crimes that Knippenberg's (played by Billy Howle) digging uncovered.
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