A South Carolina man arrested earlier this week after a missing woman was found chained inside a metal storage unit has admitted to killing at least seven people, including the woman’s boyfriend, the local sheriff said Saturday.
(FOX)- Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said that Todd Kohlhepp, 45, confessed to shooting and killing four people at a local motorcycle shop in 2003.
“God is good,” Wright said, adding that the community is no longer wondering who’s responsible for the “four people who were brutally murdered.”
Kohlhepp’s confession came one day before the 13th anniversary of the deaths of the owner, service manager, mechanic and bookkeeper of Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee.
Wright says Kohlhepp also showed law enforcement officers Saturday the gravesites of two of his other victims buried on his 95-acre property near Woodruff. Details of those cases were not immediately available.
Earlier Saturday, authorities identified a seventh body found at the site as belonging to 32-year-old Charles Carver, who vanished with his girlfriend, 30-year-old Kala Brown, earlier this year when the two answered an ad for work on the property.
Kohlhepp, in handcuffs and wearing an orange jumpsuit, was at the site for less than an hour. Wright said the 45-year-old suspect had been “very cooperative” and had “told us some stuff nobody else ought to know.”
The sheriff says it’s possible more bodies will be uncovered.
(Photo Credit: Tim Kimzey/The Spartanburg Herald-Journal via AP and Fox News)