Serial killer Charles Sobhraj’s daughter has been working as a US counterterrorism agent

The chilling murders dedicated by French psychopath Charles Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andree Leclerc have been gripping viewers of the brand new Netflix sequence The Serpent.

However DailyMail.com can reveal that one individual unlikely to be tuning in is the serial killer’s daughter, who minimize ties along with her father and has devoted her life to preventing crime.

Indian-born Usha Sutliff, 50, now has a ‘categorized’ job with the US authorities, specializing in counter terrorism and homeland safety.

Remarkably, given her darkish previous, she can be a long-serving reserve officer with the Los Angeles Police Division – a job that may have introduced her into battle along with her dad, had he fulfilled his want of shifting to the States.

Usha was adopted by stone mason Leon Harris, 75, when he married her mom, Chantal Compagnon, of Paris, in 1975, and says his daughter has had zero contact with Sobhraj since she was a child.

In an unique interview with DailyMail.com, Leon revealed: ‘Usha has little interest in seeing her blood father and the very last thing she would do is discuss him.

‘Usha has a categorized job much like [Britain’s] MI5. It’s so secret she has not even advised me about it – and I’m the one father she has ever identified.

‘She is a formidable lady, good trying and tough-minded like her father, however that’s about the one factor they’ve in frequent.’ 

Usha, now a mom of 1, was solely eight years outdated when she first discovered the reality about her organic dad, Leon mentioned, however has by no means expressed any curiosity in assembly him. 

‘The remainder of us have lived quietly for many years with this terrible story and like it to remain that means,’ he added. 

‘Usha has even minimize off her mom as a result of she is so keen to flee this side of her previous.’

The eight-part sequence in regards to the serial killer started streaming on Netflix within the US this month after premiering on BBC One on New 12 months’s Day.  

Sobhraj, 77, who’s often known as the ‘Bikini Killer’ and ‘the Serpent’, is at the moment serving a life sentence for a string of murders dedicated within the Nineteen Seventies in South Asia.  

Many of the sequence takes place throughout Sobhraj’s 1975 killing spree in Bangkok, Thailand, however his first spouse and daughter are featured in harrowing scenes in direction of the top because the director delves into the psychopath’s previous.

DailyMail.com can reveal that producers had approached Chantal and Usha and her half-sister Sandrine, 45, about contributing to the script, however their request was turned down, based on Leon.

They’ve additionally been given aliases within the drama.

The Serpent dramatizes how Sobhraj, performed by Tahar Rahim, and Leclerc, portrayed by Jenna Coleman, would prey on weak backpackers hanging out on the hippy path that stretched throughout South East Asia.

The couple would lure them again to their condominium on the promise of a precious gem deal then sedate and infrequently homicide them, with Sobhraj typically burning the our bodies so they may not be acknowledged.

Sobhraj is suspected of committing at the least a dozen murders and may need additionally killed his associate in crime, Indian nationwide Ajay Chowdhury, performed by actor Amesh Edireweera within the sequence.

Usha was born in Mumbai, India in 1970 when her mother and father have been already a needed couple on the run.

Her mom got here from a conservative Parisian household whereas her father was the results of a fling between a Vietnamese store lady and an Indian businessman.

Adopted by his mom’s new associate, a French military lieutenant, and settling in Marseilles, Sobhraj bought concerned in crime from an early age and satisfied Chantal to affix him in a world crime spree, robbing vacationers and faking journey paperwork to take care of a hedonistic life-style.

The couple’s luck ran out in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1973 once they have been jailed for not paying a resort invoice and Usha was flown again to France to stay with Chantal’s mom and father.

Sobhraj nevertheless managed to flee and kidnap his daughter by drugging her grandmother – a terrifying second that’s depicted within the Serpent.

He then smuggled child Usha all the best way to Iran, the place he was arrested at a on line casino.

Stepdad Leon met Chantal whereas visiting a buddy on the girls’s jail in Kabul in 1973 and 7 months later they drove ‘14,000 clicks’ to Paris to gather Usha, who had been repatriated by Air France, and began a brand new life in America.

The household settled within the small city of Litchfield, Connecticut, the place Chantal divorced Sobhraj, discovered work within the music business, and gave delivery to her second daughter, Sandrine.

Usha’s on-line biography on the web site of a authorities consultancy, Lafayette Group, which she joined in 2008, reveals that till not too long ago she was an knowledgeable in ‘legislation enforcement, counter-terrorism, intelligence, homeland safety and cybersecurity.’

She beforehand served on the Heart for Policing Terrorism on the Manhattan Institute for Coverage Analysis – the New York-based suppose tank that pioneered the ‘Damaged Home windows’ principle of policing – and was seconded full time to the LAPD’s Counter-Terrorism and Prison Intelligence Bureau.

She has been a member of the LAPD Reserve Program since 2007 and is a former skilled print journalist having graduated from Boston College.

Usha is now married to Jason Sutliff, 49, a Hearth Captain in San Marino, California, on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Fb photographs posted by his relations present a smiling all-American household.

However she minimize off all contact along with her personal mom, now 74, a while after Sobhraj, was launched from an Indian jail in 1997, based on her adopted dad.

Nonetheless, social media suggests half-sister Sandrine should still have ties to their mom, having shared posts devoted to Chantal in latest months.  

Chantal insisted on returning to France alone to see her ex-husband as soon as he was a free man even supposing he nearly strangled her to dying within the Nineteen Seventies after flying right into a rage over shedding cash at a on line casino.

Chantal returned as a modified lady, prompting her husband to suspect she may need been hypnotized in the course of the journey.

‘I really paid for her to go to Marseilles,’ Leon mentioned.  

‘Chantal was a music producer for a blues and gospel singer and there was a world music competition there in 1997 so it made sense for her to go.

‘She mentioned she’d wish to see Charles as properly and in my thoughts she simply needed closure.

‘I later came upon that the second they laid eyes on one another they went into the bed room of his condominium.

‘She wasn’t in a position to inform me what was occurring once I picked her up at JFK Airport in New York however in the course of the two-and a-half hour drive up into the nation right here, she confirmed it.

‘I nonetheless had a champagne get together for her with all these outdated buddies and so they tried to speak her out of going again to Sobhraj.

‘They stored telling her: “That is the person that attempted to kill you, that strangled and abused you.”

‘Chantal stored repeating the identical six or seven phrases as if she have been mesmerized.

‘She stored saying: “I am a girl, I used to be by no means a mom. I am a metropolis lady.” She even mentioned that to her daughter which did not go down too properly.

‘These have been seeds planted in her thoughts by Charles.’

Leon says he later bought a chilling cellphone name from the serial killer, who needed to ‘thank’ him for taking care of his ex.

He mentioned: ‘He had the temerity to name Chantal and ask to talk to me. He thanked me for protecting her in such good situation all these years.

‘I assumed, “you son of a b***h,’ however I did not say a lot of something. I simply let him speak and handed the cellphone again to Chantal.

‘She went again to France after that and so they have been residing in Paris for some time.

‘I do know they have been in London for about six months as a result of I bought a name from their landlord asking for the unpaid lease, about £2,000 ($2,788).

‘American Categorical additionally referred to as, they’d apparently charged a $44,000 Mercedes Benz to her Amex in London.

‘I mentioned: “You hear very fastidiously. Readers Digest referred to as this individual one of many 4 grasp criminals of the twentieth century, you’ll by no means see a dime of that cash and you’ll not name this quantity once more, we aren’t collectively.”

‘Chantal got here again three or 4 occasions after that as a result of she was so sad with Charles.

‘He had already fathered one other baby with a Cambodian Chinese language lady and was going backwards and forwards between the 2 of them.

‘I advised her she needed to go away me alone, to let me heal.

‘Chantal was stunning after we met and we have been married for 25 years however now I’m wondering if she had been ready for him the entire time. That query actually bothers me.’

It’s not clear the place Chantal lives at the moment.

However she seems to have continued her relationship with Sobhraj even after he was thrown in jail whereas visiting Nepal in 2003 for murders he dedicated there within the Nineteen Seventies.

Sobhraj advised GQ journal in 2014: ‘She [Chantal] left her husband and got here again to Paris when she heard that I used to be again.

‘I used to be nonetheless in love with Chantal, however I used to be with my Chinese language spouse who was pregnant, so I advised Chantal, “I can not be with you.”‘

He added that the connection continued till 2011 when Chantal was threatened on the cellphone by his offended new spouse in Nepal, Nihita Biswas. 

Sobhraj mentioned: ‘That is when she minimize my cash off.’

Author Farrukh Dhondy, who wrote a novel based mostly on Sobhraj and Chantal’s relationship, claims they have been planning a brand new life within the US earlier than the killer was arrested in 2003.

‘I do not keep in mind whether or not it was Charles or Chantal who advised me that the grand plan was that Charles would hand details about his terrorist and arms-dealing connections to the CIA, in change for American citizenship for him and a associate, a change of identification and a pension for all times,’ Farrukh mentioned.

‘Effectively, good luck, was all I might suppose.’