The Bangkok Post printed a front-page story titled "Web of Death," and after that, the Thai police issued an Interpol notice. Roland Neveuįinally, on May 5, 1976, Knippenberg went to the press with his story that had until that point been shunned by the Dutch ambassador and the Thai police.
According to CNN, they found 11 pounds of medicine, 3 industrial-size cartons of a drug that was both laxative and a "chemical straitjacket," as well as the Dutch woman’s coat and bag.īilly Howle as Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg. Although they evaded police capture, Knippenberg had a team raid the apartment while they were out of the country. Specifically in March of 1976, she warned him they were planning to travel. She was instrumental to the case, putting her own life in danger to obtain evidence and alerting Knippenberg to the couple’s whereabouts. She had met the Dutch couple who had vanished, and witnessed other guests come to her neighbors' apartment, get sick and disappear, too. Nadine Gires (played by Mathilde Warnier), Sobhraj’s neighbor who assisted Herman Knippenberg, was also real. The Dutch couple-Henricus Bintanja and Cornelia Hemker-had their names changed in the Netflix series, but all the murders depicted in the series, including of American Teresa Knowlton and the two Nepal travelers, occurred. They traveled across Asia using the stolen passports of Sobhraj’s victims while he drugged, robbed, and killed at least a dozen travelers in Thailand, India, and Nepal. She came to Thailand to be with him three months later, as the show depicts, and spent the next two years posing as Monique, the wife of Alain Gautier the gem dealer. Sobhraj really did meet 30-year-old Marie-Andrée Leclerc (played by Jenna Coleman), who was born in Quebec in 1945, while travelling in India in 1975. 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.
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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.
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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. The 23 Best Netflix Original Movies of 2021īBC mini series The Serpent, which arrives on U.S.Not subtle, but clearly we were under surveillance. One night a drill bit appeared through the wooden door of our room. It didn’t help that Sobhraj’s creepy emissaries would arrive at all hours with handwritten missives.
We were both having nightmares that Sobhraj was chasing us, or suddenly appearing in our room.
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Sobhraj was now in full flow, describing each murder in detail. We needed our little jokes because actually we were a long way out of our depth. In private, we called ourselves “Bungles and Mishap, News Sleuths”. (Did we really have to shake hands with him? Those hands had snapped necks.) And so began our immersion in his psychopathic world. The first time we met Sobhraj he was chained to a guard and shackled, but he welcomed us graciously. Richard speedily learned the arts of bribery and corruption and arranged regular access to interview him. In our hotel room we met with scarfaced crims bringing messages from Sobhraj in Tihar prison. We bundled ourselves off to Delhi and landed ourselves in a moral quagmire. It was our connection with the so called hippy trail that had landed Richard the contract the fact that crime reporting, and indeed the world of crime, was alien to us had seemed of no consequence.
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