Sobhraj's alleged victims: Thailand, 1975: Californian Jennifer Bolliver's body was washed ashore at Pattaya. A postmortem examination showed she had been forcibly drowned. French tourist Charmayne Carrou was also found dead. She had been strangled until her neck broke. The burnt corpse of Vitali Hakim, Ms Carrou's Turkish boyfriend, was found in Pattaya. He been beaten and set ablaze while still alive. Teresa Knowlton, another Californian, was also a victim. Dutch couple Henricus Bintanja and fiancee Cornelia Hemker were battered, strangled and burnt. Their bodies were dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of Bangkok. Nepal, 1975: Sobhraj is charged with the murders of Canadian Laurent Carriere and Californian Connie Jo Bronzich. India, 1976: Sobhraj was charged with the murders of Israeli tourist Avoni Jacob in the city of Benares, India (he had been drugged, strangled and robbed) and French tourist Jean-Luc Solomon in New Delhi (he was poisoned). Sobhraj was later acquitted on appeal over the murders. On the run: 1972: In Herat, Afghanistan, he was arrested for car theft. Sobhraj feigned illness, and, while at a Kabul prison hospital, he drugged his guards and escaped. 1972-1974: On the run from the law, Sobhraj was sighted in Pakistan, Italy, Iran, Turkey, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. He is wanted in Turkey for robbery. 1975: In Greece, when on the way to jail, Sobhraj started a fire in a prison van, igniting petrol he kept in a shampoo container. In the ensuing chaos, he escaped. 1986: Sobhraj escaped from prison briefly in India, allegedly to prevent extradition to Thailand, where he faced the death penalty if convicted.