The shipping container that an abducted woman was held in for two months is removed from Todd Kohlhepp’s property in Woodruff, SC., on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. The property owner, Todd Kohlhepp, was arrested at his suburban home in Moore when investigators searching the property discovered the woman alive and chained in the large storage container, yelling for help. After Kohlhepp’s arrest, deputies say he confessed to killing four other people in the county at a motorcycle shop in 2003. (Lauren Petracca/The Greenville News via AP)A man who admitted killing seven people over nearly 13 years in South Carolina while running a successful real estate business has pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder and a number of other charges.
Todd Kohlhepp has accepted a plea deal that will send him to prison for life without parole. Prosecutors could have sought the death penalty against Kohlhepp, who was arrested in November after investigators rescued a woman chained inside a container on his property for more than two months.
Kohlhepp admitted killing four people at a motorcycle shop in 2003 after becoming enraged by something the shop owner said. He also killed a husband and wife doing work on his Spartanburg County property in 2015 and the boyfriend of the woman chained in the container.