The man arrested after authorities found a woman chained on his property in rural South Carolina killed at least seven people, and his confessions have solved a 13-year-old case, Sheriff Chuck Wright said on Saturday. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police search a field on property owned by Todd Kohlhepp where a missing woman was found chained up in a large storage container. On that land, dozens of officers continued to search on Saturday for any additional bodies after the woman told investigators Kohlhepp claimed to have killed at least four others. Photograph: Tim Kimzey/APIn the South Carolina case, the couple disappeared about 31 August when the woman went to do some cleaning on Kohlhepp’s property. The Associated Press is not naming the woman because the suspect is a sex offender, though authorities have not said whether she was sexually assaulted.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2016 05:15 UTC