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Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer who murdered a string of Western tourists traveling through Asia in the 1970s.

Sobhraj, whose crimes inspired the Netflix drama series The Serpent, had been serving a life sentence for killing American Connie Jo Bronzich, 29, in Nepal in 1975. The court also ordered that the murderer return to his own country within 15 days, according to the Kathmandu...

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