Another body found on alleged South Carolina killer’s property
(CNN)The case against an alleged South Carolina man accused last week of a kidnapping has quickly expanded into a multiple murder investigation.
Todd Kohlhepp, a 45-year-old realtor fromnear Spartanburg, now faces charges for the 2003 murders of four people killed at a motorcycle shop in Chesnee, South Carolina, according to court records. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said Kohlhepp confessed to the killings after being charged with the brutal kidnapping a woman found on his farm.
Following a court appearance for the murder charges this weekend, Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Kevin Bobo told CNN that yet another body was found on Kohlhepp’s property.
In total, Wright said Kohlhepp may be connected to at least seven homicides.
‘Get me out of here!’
It all started last week when prosecutors charged Kohlhepp with the kidnapping of a woman named Kala Brown. On Thursday, authorities found the 30-year-old woman inside a dark shipping container on Kohlhepp’s 95-acre farm just outside Spartanburg. She was “chained like a dog” by her neck and ankle, only given food and water twice a day, Wright said.
“Help me! Get me out of here!” Brown said, according to Wright, who talked with Ashleigh Banfield of HLN’s “Primetime Justice.”
Kohlhepp, a registered sex offender who previously spent 15 years behind bars for kidnapping, did not enter a plea at his kidnapping hearing on Friday after appearing without an attorney. The judge sent the bail matter to a circuit court.
Over the weekend, prosecutors charged Kohlhepp with four counts of murder, according to Spartanburg County, South Carolina, court records.
Soon after, though, another body was found on his farm, according to Bobo.
It remains unclear whether Kohlhepp will be indicted on additional charges.
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