
Sobhraj claimed that most of his murders were accidental drug overdoses of temazepam and heroin, but investigators state that the victims had threatened to expose Sobhraj, which was his motive for murder. Most of the victims had spent some time with the pair before their deaths and were, according to investigators, recruited by Sobhraj and Chowdhury to join them in their crimes. The three committed their first known murders in 1975. The couple were later joined by a young Indian man, Ajay Chowdhury, a fellow criminal who became Sobhraj's second-in-command with Leclerc. In another scheme, they provided shelter to a Frenchman, Dominique Renelleau, who appeared to be suffering from dysentery when in reality, he had been poisoned by the couple. In one instance, they helped two former French policemen, Yannick and Jacques, recover missing passports that Sobhraj himself had actually stolen.

Sobhraj and Leclerc made a living by carrying out scams a typical scam was to help their targets out of difficult situations.

In July 1975, Leclerc departed for Thailand. He is even believed to have bought her a plane ticket. After returning to Lévis, Leclerc received love letters from Sobhraj urging her to join him in Bangkok, his new home. Sobhraj acted as her guide throughout the country, and before the trip ended, he made her promise to return to Asia to see him again. While in Srinagar, she met Charles Sobhraj and fell in love with him. In the spring of 1975, Leclerc went on a tourist trip to India with her ex-fiancé.

Marie-Andrée Leclerc was born on October 26, 1945, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, After studying in the Quebec region, she became a medical secretary at a clinic in Lévis.
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Marie-Andrée Leclerc (born in Quebec, Canada) was a fraudster and known accomplice to serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s.
