This photo made available by the Spartanburg, S.C., County Sheriff’s Office shows Todd Kohlhepp of Moore, S.C. Kohlhepp was arrested Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in connection to a woman being found chained inside a storage container on a property in Woodruff, SC.SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Investigators found a body Friday during a search of land in South Carolina where a missing woman was discovered “chained up like a dog” in a large storage container, and there may be more remains in the area, a prosecutor said.
The body has not been identified, but prosecutor Barry Barnette said that the woman saw her captor shoot and kill her boyfriend.
Referring to the possibility of other victims, the sheriff said authorities were “trying to make sure that we don’t have a serial killer on our hands.”
Todd Christopher Kohlhepp, a 45-year-old registered sex offender with previous kidnapping conviction, appeared at a bond hearing Friday in Spartanburg on a kidnapping charge.
More charges would be filed, Barnette said in court.