South Carolina Murders: Second Body Found On Property Where Woman Was Chained


South Carolina authorities have found a second body on the rural property where a woman was found chained in a storage container, according to ABC News.

On Sunday, Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright announced that human remains have been discovered on the land of registered sex offender Todd Kohlhepp, who has reportedly told investigators he shot to death four people in a South Carolina motorcycle shop in 2003.

Kohlhepp, a real estate agent, was arrested on Nov. 3 after a woman was discovered chained by the neck in a locked metal container on his 95-acre property near Woodruff. Once rescued, Reuters reports the victim told police she witnessed Kohlhepp shoot and kill her boyfriend, 32-year-old Charles Carver. The couple went missing in late August.

After his arrest, Kohlhepp, 45, pointed out two gravesites on his land, and authorities uncovered Carver’s body on Friday. The county coroner said he had been shot multiple times.

While being interrogated over the woman’s kidnapping, Kohlhepp allegedly told investigators he gunned down four people at Superbike Motorsports exactly 13 years ago. The grisly case was one of Spartanburg County’s oldest unsolved crimes and had confounded authorities and the victims’ families for over a decade.

“We got ’em today. We got ’em today,” Sheriff Wright said on Saturday, after Kohlhepp’s alleged confession. “I’m rejoicing that this community can know that four people who were brutally murdered, there’s no wondering about it anymore.”

The Spartanburg Herald-Journal reports that, on Nov. 6, 2003, a killer entered an upscale motorcycle shop on Parris Bridge Road and shot four victims: Scott Ponder, 30, his mother and employee, Beverly Guy, 52, and store employees Brian Lucas, 29, and Chris Sherbert, 26.

Police said Kohlhepp gave details about the South Carolina murders that only the killer would have known.

Terry Guy, the widower of Beverly Guy, said authorities notified him that Kohlhepp had confessed to the crime shortly before announcing the details to the media.

“This guy knows everything,” said Guy. “He gave every detail, and he’s even confessed to other murders. There are some things that have really got to me.”

Despite finally having some answers, he said he feels little relief at the news.

“Sometimes you find out why, it doesn’t really make you relieved,” he explained.

Melissa Ponder, the widow of Scott Ponder, told the Associated Press that she thought her husband’s murder would never be solved. However, after speaking with detectives, she is confident they have the right man.

“He knew too much about the crime scene,” she said. “He knew everything.”

Like Guy, Ponder said getting answers wasn’t completely satisfying.

“It isn’t closure, but it is an answer,” she said. “And I am thankful for that.”

After the Superbike murders, there were rumors that a love triangle or a Mexican drug gang were behind the killings. But Ponder says Kohlhepp was a disgruntled customer who frequented the shop.

Kohlhepp has a disturbing rap sheet. At the age of 15, he was sentenced to 15 years in an Arizona prison for raping a 14-year-old neighbor at gunpoint and threatening to kill her siblings if she contacted authorities.

According to ABC News, a judge in that case wrote that Kohlhepp was “very bright” but “behaviorally and emotionally dangerous.”

“At less than the age of nine, this juvenile was impulsive, explosive, and preoccupied with sexual content,” wrote the judge. “He has not changed. He has been unabatedly aggressive to others and destructive of property since nursery school. He destroys his own clothing, personal possessions, and pets apparently on whim and caprice.”

When he was released from prison in 2001, he had to register as a sex offender. However, that black mark on his record didn’t stop him from obtaining a South Carolina real estate license in 2006.

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