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Download or read book Serpentine written by Thomas Thompson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: This in-depth account of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer portrayed in Netflix miniseries The Serpent, is “compulsive reading” (The Plain Dealer). There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for same man: Charles Sobhraj, aka “The Serpent.” A handsome Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin, Sobhraj targeted backpackers on the “hippie trail” between Europe and South Asia. A master of deception, he used his powerful intellect and considerable sex appeal to lure naïve travelers into a life of crime. When they threatened to turn on him, Sobhraj murdered his acolytes in cold blood. Between late 1975 and early 1976, a dozen corpses were found everywhere from the boulevards of Paris to the slopes of the Himalayas to the back alleys of Bangkok and Hong Kong. Some police experts believe the true number of Sobhraj’s victims may be more than twice that amount. Serpentine is the “grotesque, baffling, and hypnotic” true story of one of the most bizarre killing sprees in modern history (San Francisco Chronicle). Edgar Award–winning author Thomas Thompson’s mesmerizing portrait of a notorious sociopath and his helpless prey “unravels like fiction, but afterwards haunts the reader like the document it is” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland).
Download or read book Charles Sobhraj written by Rameśa Koirālā and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Trail of the Serpent by : Richard Neville
Download or read book On the Trail of the Serpent written by Richard Neville and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***NOW THE SUBJECT OF THE MAJOR BBC TV SERIES *** DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE CRIME STORY OF SERIAL KILLER, CHARLES SOBHRAJ, AND THE RACE TO BRING HIM TO JUSTICE Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great con men, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up with a fluid sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities. Driven to floating from country to country, continent to continent, he became the consummate con artist, stealing passports, smuggling drugs and guns across Asia, busting out of prisons and robbing wealthy associates. But as his situation grew more perilous, he turned to murder, preying on Western tourists dropping out across the 1970s hippie route, leaving a trail of dead bodies and gruesome crime scenes in his wake. First published in 1979, but updated here to include new material, On the Trail of the Serpent draws its readers into the story of Sobhraj's life as told exclusively to journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke. Blurring the boundaries between true crime and novelisation, this remains the definitive book about Sobhraj - riveting tale of sex, drugs, adventure and murder.
Book Synopsis Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj by : Richard Neville
Download or read book Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj written by Richard Neville and published by . This book was released on 1990-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer by : Sunil Gupta
Download or read book Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer written by Sunil Gupta and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is life like inside Asia’s largest prison? What happens when a man is hanged, but his pulse refuses to give up even after two hours? Did Nirbhaya’s rapist, Ram Singh, commit suicide or was he murdered? For the first time we have a riveting account from an insider who has spent close to four decades as an officer at Tihar Jail during some of the most turbulent times in Indian political history. For the first time he breaks his silence about all he’s seen – from the first man he met in Tihar, Charles Sobhraj, to the controversies surrounding former CBI head, Alok Verma. Responsible for carrying out ‘Black Warrants’, Gupta witnessed 14 hangings, the most recent and his last, being that of Afzal Guru. Joining him is award-winning journalist Sunetra Choudhury whose recent book Behind Bars is a bestseller and took her deep inside the maze of prisons. Read this book for the most intimate and raw account of India’s judicial and criminal justice system.
Download or read book Bad Blood written by Richard Neville and published by Pan. This book was released on 1979 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shadow of the Cobra by : Richard Neville
Download or read book Shadow of the Cobra written by Richard Neville and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Trail of the Serpent by : Richard Neville
Download or read book On the Trail of the Serpent written by Richard Neville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete story of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer who inspired the hit Netflix series The Serpent. Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great conmen, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up deprived of a sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities. Driven to floating from country to country, continent to continent, he became the consummate con artist, stealing passports, smuggling drugs and guns across Asia, busting out of prisons and robbing wealthy associates. But as his situation grew more perilous, he turned to murder, preying on Western tourists dropping out across the 1970s "hippie trail," leaving dead bodies and gruesome crime scenes in his wake, triggering an international manhunt that put him at the top of INTERPOL's most wanted list. On the Trail of the Serpent draws its readers into the story of Sobhraj's life as told exclusively to journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke by the investigators, families of the victims, and even Sobhraj himself. Blurring the boundaries between true crime and novelization, this remains the definitive book about Sobhraj--a riveting tale of sex, drugs, adventure, and murder.
Book Synopsis The Bikini Killer by : David Morrisey
Download or read book The Bikini Killer written by David Morrisey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few serial killers quite as successful as Charles Sobhraj. Fluent in several languages, extremely intelligent, and known for his irresistible charms with women, Sobhraj lived a life of nonstop thievery, murder, drugs, and scandal. His unstoppable resourcefulness allowed him to escape authorities half a dozen times through luck, timing, and even what seems to be a strange sense of fate. His favorite means of getting what he wanted involved befriending his victims through faked favors and gifts only to eventually drug and loot, or sometimes murder, them. Known as the "Bikini Killer", a name given to him after he brutally drowned two women and left their bodies dressed in similar bikinis, Charles Sobhraj stretched his crimes across an entire continent and three separate countries. Along the way, he gathered to himself many loyal followers, amassing a sort of cult-like group of acolytes that helped him scam, murder, and steal from nearly everyone he met.
Book Synopsis Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System by : M. Chris Fabricant
Download or read book Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System written by M. Chris Fabricant and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in an expanded paperback edition, Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo. "Fierce and absorbing . . . Fabricant chronicles the battles he and his colleagues have fought to unravel a century of fraudulent experts and the bad court decisions that allowed them to thrive." —Washington Post From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in "expert witnesses" and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today, condemned by junk science. In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant's clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the "science" that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond, Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. At turns gripping, enraging, illuminating, and moving, Junk Science is a meticulously researched insider's perspective of the American criminal justice system. Previously untold stories of wrongful executions, corrupt prosecutors, and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant’s true crime narrative. The paperback edition features a brand-new index as well as an updated introduction and final chapter chronicling the Innocence Project’s continued fight against junk science in courtrooms across America.
Book Synopsis Roads & Redemption by : Georgina Nunez
Download or read book Roads & Redemption written by Georgina Nunez and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Amsterdam in the 70s, Gina has turned eighteen and is ready for a big adventure. She has left the group home where her mother had placed her, found a room, worked hard and saved money to realize her dream of travel on the Hippie Trail to India. With her boyfriend, Ide, she boards the Magic Bus to Goa, where she hopes to find warmer weather, enlightenment and great weed.The Magic Bus takes them through Afghanistan, where they overnight in budget hostels and with an Afghani family of artists and thieves. From there they travel through the Khyber Pass to Pakistan.When Ide announces all his money has been stolen, Gina accepts a job in Peshawar as an "international business hostess" for a handsome, charismatic businessman, Charles Sobhraj.Sobhraj promises to take her Goa, but what follows is more frightening than Gina has ever imagined. The result is murder, entrapment, seduction, betrayal and imprisonment in Pakistan as Gina makes desperate attempts to escape from Sobhraj- the man she discovers is the notorious South Asia serial "Bikini Killer."Roads & Redemption is a harrowing story of a young woman searching for love and adventure...in all the wrong places.Author and psychotherapist Gina Nunez is the author of Bearer of Family SECRETS & SUSPICIONS, her first memoir about growing up in a highly dysfunctional family in Amsterdam during the vibrant sixties and seventies.
Download or read book Modern Gothic written by Victor Sage and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated, the fantastic - in a spectrum of popular and 'high cultural' forms of representation.
Download or read book The Pale-Faced Lie written by David Crow and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children about his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies--even murder. Intimidating David with beatings, Thurston coerced his son into doing his criminal bidding. David's mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn't protect him. Through sheer determination, and with the help of a few angels along the way, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. When he finally found the courage to refuse his father's criminal demands, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that would force him into a deadly showdown with Thurston Crow. David would have only twenty-four hours to outsmart his father--the brilliant, psychotic man who bragged that the three years he spent in the notorious San Quentin State Prison had been the easiest time of his life. Raw and palpable, The Pale-Faced Lie is an inspirational story about the power of forgiveness and the strength of the human spirit.
Book Synopsis Mapping the Trail of a Serial Killer by : Brenda Lewis
Download or read book Mapping the Trail of a Serial Killer written by Brenda Lewis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated, innovative look at the killing sprees of twenty-five notorious killers * The idea of the wandering murderer, leaving a trail of mutilated bodies in his wake, has long fascinated followers of true crime. By charting the geography of the killer’s actions, Mapping the Trail of a Serial Killer takes an innovative geographical approach to exploring the killing sprees of twenty-five notorious murderers from the early-twentieth century right up to the present day. With specially commissioned maps pinpointing each killer’s actions, and archival photographs, this book reveals patterns of behavior and provides fascinating insight into the minds behind some of the world’s most shocking crimes. Most of the cases examined are from recent decades, and include the Beltway sniper attacks in Washington, D.C., as well as those of: Ted Bundy—Murdered and sexually assaulted at least thirty-five young women across America beginning in 1973. Executed in 1989. David Berkowitz “Son of Sam”—Confessed to killing six people and wounding seven in the course of eight shootings that held New York City in terror between 1976 and 1977. Peter Sutcliffe—Dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, this English killer was convicted in 1981 for murdering thirteen women. Andrei Chikatilo—Convicted of the murders of fifty-two women and children, mostly in southern Russia, between 1978 and 1990.
Book Synopsis My Daddy the Pedophile by : Lily Palazzi
Download or read book My Daddy the Pedophile written by Lily Palazzi and published by Long Ear Press. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of suffering multiple forms of abuse, a vulnerable young girl flees her home only to land straight into the arms of her biological father-a sexual predator. My Daddy the Pedophile tells the harrowing true story of a teenage girl's affair with her manipulative sociopathic father. After a terrible dark secret comes to light, the real story unfolds."If you are easily shocked by what occurs behind closed doors in some average suburban neighborhoods, do not read this book. If you want to read a riveting tale of manipulation, abuse, and courageous healing, then this is the book for you." -Sharyn Higdon Jones, MFT, author of Healing Steps: A Gentle Path to Recovery for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse"Lily Palazzi's memoir, My Daddy the Pedophile is a riveting, well-paced account of both how her father's calculated manipulation of her desperate need to be loved subjected her to the wounding distortions of incest and how through therapy and the true love of her husband she ultimately finds the healing she had once thought would never be possible." -Catherine McCall, author of the international bestseller Never Tell: A True Story of Overcoming a Terrifying Childhood
Book Synopsis The Front Page Murders by : Puja Changoiwala
Download or read book The Front Page Murders written by Puja Changoiwala and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a fearless mind to harbour such a dark heart, a heart that knows no nobility, no apology? Mumbai, April 2012. The gruesome murder of a senior citizen in a wealthy Mumbai neighbourhood leads the city?s Crime Branch to unearth several half-naked, mutilated and dismembered bodies rotting in the ravines of the Western Ghats on the outskirts of the city. A trail of missing suspects, a lethal honey-trap, and unexpected links with Mumbai?s film industry and the underworld, brings the investigators ? and the press, ever hungry for breaking news ? to Vijay Palande, a cold-blooded killer equipped with the sophistication of Charles Sobhraj, the manipulative genius of Ted Bundy and the cruelty of Jack the Ripper. In The Front Page Murders, Puja Changoiwala, who covered the incidents as they unfolded, recounts in gripping detail the story behind the sensational case of multiple murders that shocked the country. Startling and intensely sobering by turns, her compelling narrative explores not just the murky depths of a serial killer?s mind but, tellingly, the media?s frenzy for a juicy story and the insatiable human appetite for horror.
Book Synopsis 20th Century's Master Manipulator by : Rayan Musk
Download or read book 20th Century's Master Manipulator written by Rayan Musk and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "20th Century's Master Manipulator: Charles Sobhraj Unveiled" is an enthralling investigation into the murky and twisted world of one of the most notorious criminals in the history of modern times. Charles Sobhraj, who was frequently referred to as the "Serpentine Schemer," attracted the attention of people all over the world with his mysterious allure and deft manipulation, which resulted in a trail of mayhem and criminal activity that extended across many continents. In the beginning of the story, we get a look into Sobhraj's childhood, which serves as a backdrop for comprehending the origins of his abnormal behavior. The upbringing of Sobhraj, who was brought up in a cultural environment that was rich in complexities, serves as a prism through which we investigate the circumstances that may have had a role in the development of a criminal mastermind. The beginnings of his criminal career, which would come to define an era, were marked by the early manifestations of his manipulative inclinations and his clever mind. As the narrative progresses, the reader is taken on a journey through the ascent to notoriety that Sobhraj experienced. In the course of his career, he became known as "The Cobra," and he exhibited an extraordinary ability to execute intricate criminal acts with dexterity. In the tale, individual crimes and methods of operation are discussed in depth, and a thorough overview of his cunning and bold plots is provided. The criminal repertory that Sobhraj possesses is nothing short of astounding, ranging from the ability to lure victims into his web without their knowledge to the ability to orchestrate spectacular escapes from police enforcement. A significant portion of the book is devoted to the investigation of the manipulative strategies employed by Sobhraj. He was a master of psychological manipulation, weaving a web of deceit that ensnared both those who cooperated with him and those who were victimized by him. His charm was so strong that it could disarm even the most vigilant individuals. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of his tactics, drawing on the insights of psychiatric experts and criminal profilers in order to dissect the complexities that Sobhraj's mind possesses. A further degree of mystery is added by the fact that Sobhraj's illegal activities extend across international borders. His illicit activities didn't care about national boundaries; they took him from the crowded streets of Asia to the back alleyways of Europe. A thorough grasp of the impact that Sobhraj's actions have had on a global scale is provided to readers through the book, which takes them on a virtual tour of the global exploits that Sobhraj performed. As the story develops, the book delves into the events behind Sobhraj's capture and the numerous court fights that ensued. The conclusion of the cat-and-mouse game that Sobhraj and law enforcement have been playing reaches its peak, resulting in a major shift in the narrative. In addition to revealing the complexities involved in bringing a criminal mastermind to justice, the legal proceedings and trials have the ability to produce a gripping courtroom drama.
