Nepal's top court ordered on Wednesday the release of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer portrayed in the Netflix series "The Serpent" who was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s.
The Supreme Court ruled Sobhraj, 78, who has been in prison in Nepal since 2003 for murdering two North American tourists, should be freed on health grounds.
Sobhraj began travelling the world in the early 1970s and stayed in Bangkok.
He charmed and befriended his victims -- many of them Western backpackers -- before drugging, robbing and murdering them.
