‘Chained woman’ man admits killing 7
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A man who was arrested in the US state of South Carolina for holding a woman hostage and “chained like a dog” has confessed to up to seven killings.
Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright told a press conference late on Saturday that warrants were issued charging Todd Christopher Kohlhepp with a quadruple murder that baffled police for 13 years.
Wright said that the suspect had also shown authorities two gravesites on his vast property, in addition to one body dug up from a shallow grave on Friday.
“There’s no wondering anymore” about the November 2003 killings at the Superbike Motorsports in the nearby town of Chesnee, Wright said.
“He told us some stuff that nobody else ought to know.”
Four people — a woman who worked at the store and her adult son, and two other store workers — were found “brutally murdered” for unknown reasons at the business.
The case was even featured on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted,” which has helped crack cold cases in the past.
Wright did not mention any motive in the case.
Kohlhepp, 45, was arrested on Thursday and charged with kidnapping after the woman who police said was “chained like a dog” inside a shipping container was rescued from his property.
Kala Brown, 30, was discovered with chains around her neck and ankles trapped inside the padlocked container. Police rescued her after hearing a banging sound when they arrived at Kohlhepp’s property with a search warrant.
Kohlhepp, who owns a 38-hectare tract of rural land in the town of Woodruff, northeast of the state capital Columbia, is a real-estate agent and registered sex offender.
Brown told officers she had been in the container for two months. She and her boyfriend, Charles Carver, 32, had been missing since August.
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