{"id":265637,"date":"2016-11-06T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265637"},"modified":"2016-11-06T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T11:00:55","slug":"us-man-confesses-to-seven-killings-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265637","title":{"rendered":"US man confesses to seven killings in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Todd Kohlhepp, the man arrested after a woman was found “chained like a dog” on his property in South Carolina, has confessed to seven killings, a sheriff says.<\/p>\n

Kohlhepp told police on Saturday that he was responsible for the deaths of four people in 2003.<\/p>\n

He also showed law enforcement officers where he said he had buried two other victims on his property.<\/p>\n

This comes after the discovery of a body at the 95-acre site on Friday.<\/p>\n

Registered sex offender Kohlhepp, 45, was arrested on Thursday when police found a woman on his property chained in a container.<\/p>\n

She had been missing, along with her boyfriend, since late August.<\/p>\n

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A woman was discovered on Kohlhepp’s property inside a metal shipping container<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n
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The woman was discovered after police heard banging noises and screams from inside a metal shipping container in Woodruff, 80 miles (130km) northwest of the state capital of Columbia.<\/p>\n

It was described by Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright as “a hellish place to be locked in hot weather. No lights, no windows, no air flow”.<\/p>\n

Officers had been led to the property thanks to a tip-off by a sex-crime investigator.<\/p>\n

The woman told officers that Kohlhepp had shot and killed her boyfriend in front of her.<\/p>\n

Mr Wright confirmed on Saturday that the body found on the site a day earlier was that of her boyfriend Charles Carver, 32.<\/p>\n

“They’re obviously heartbroken,” he said after talking to the Carver family. “It’s terrible.”<\/p>\n

Mr Carver died of multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

Kohlhepp told investigators that he was also the gunman behind the fatal shooting in 2003 of four people at a motorcycle shop in Chesnee near Spartanburg, South Carolina.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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