 In Outside the Continence, now a friend serial killer known as the Serpent, convicted of several tourist murders in Asia in the 1970s, has been released from a Nepalese prison. Charles Sobrach, who was freed after a court ruled in favor of his age and good behavior, he spent 19 years in jail in Nepal for killing two North Americans in 1975. Sobrach, whose story was covered in the TV drama The Serpent, had prayed on mostly young Western backpackers on the hippie trail in India and Thailand. The notorious killer had been concurrently seven two sentences each 20 years in the power's capital for the 1975 murder of an American woman, Connie Jo Brunsage, and her Canadian backpacker friend, Laurent Carrere.