Todd Kohlhepp's house

This is the former home of serial killer Todd Kohlhepp.

It is located at 213 Windsong Way in Moore, South Carolina.

Kohlhepp was a real estate agent who murdered seven people between 2003 and 2016.

However, like many serial killers, he claims that his victim count is much higher.

2003 shooting

His first known murders took place on November 6th, 2003, when he shot four people dead at a motorcycle shop in Chesnee.

Kohlhepp carried out the killings because he believed that the owner and his employees had stolen a motorcycle from him.

Later murders

In 2015, he hired a married couple called Johnny Joe Coxie and Meagan Leigh McCraw-Coxie to clean his rural property in Woodruff.

The site in question is nine miles south of this residence.

On December 19th, 2015, he killed Johnny by shooting him in the chest. Following the murder, he sexually assaulted Meagan and kept her captive on his property.

He shot Meagan dead on December 25th or 26th and then buried her next to her husband in a shallow grave.

Nine months after the double murder, he hired Kala Brown and her boyfriend, Charles David Carver, to remove brush from the same property.

On August 31st, 2016, Kohlhepp shot Charles three times and wrapped his body in a blue tarp. Afterwards, he placed a chain around Kala's neck and kept her locked inside a metal storage container.

Over the course of the next two months, Kohlhepp repeatedly raped Kala. To intimidate her, he showed her Charles' grave and the graves of Johnny and Meagan Coxie.

When relatives reported the couple missing, Kohlhepp accessed Charles' phone and began using his Facebook account.

After seeing a Facebook post questioning Kala's whereabouts, he replied with comments such as "Kala is with her husband, Charlie" and "The people need to know that we are OK."

Charlie's friends and family immediately realized that something was off about the comments.

One was written in the third person. Furthermore, Charlie rarely used Facebook.

Relatives were also aware that the couple had left behind Kala's beloved dog and important prescription medicine.

Consequently, it became obvious that foul play was involved.

Arrest

On November 3rd, 2016, investigators honed in on the area by tracking Kala and Charles' last known cellphone signals. When they entered the property with a search warrant, they heard Kala banging on the side of the padlocked container.

Later that day, the police arrived at Kohlhepp's house and placed him under arrest.

While he was seated and handcuffed, an officer explained that they had found Kala locked inside a shipping container on his property:

"My sergeant served a search warrant on your property. We have Kala in your property. She was locked in a container. She has told us that you shot and killed Charlie."

When the police searched his residence, they discovered a collection of illegally purchased weapons. The stash included pistols fitted with suppressors and semi-automatic rifles.

During questioning, he quickly admitted to murdering Charles David Carver, Johnny Joe Coxie, and Meagan Leigh McCraw-Coxie.

He also confessed to the quadruple homicide in 2003. During questioning, he provided the police with key details about the killings that had never been released to the public.

The authorities spared Kohlhepp the death penalty after he agreed to plead guilty to seven counts of murder, two counts of kidnapping, and sexual assault.

In May 2017, he was given seven consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Background

Growing up, Kohlhepp was a troublesome child who exhibited aggressive behavior and cruelty toward animals.

His parents divorced when he was just an infant. He didn't meet his biological father until he was ten years old.

When he was nine, he was forced to undergo counseling for anger issues due to his destructive behavior in school.

During his teen years, he was described as "bright" but "behaviorally and emotionally dangerous."

In 1983, his mother sent him to live with his father in Arizona. Three years later, at the age of 15, he kidnapped and raped a teenage girl at gunpoint. In 1987, he pleaded guilty to the crime and received a 15-year prison sentence.

During the trial, it was noted that he had a preoccupation with sexual content.

Kohlhepp was released from prison in November 2001. Following his release, he left Arizona and moved back to South Carolina.

Initially, he worked as a graphic designer. However, in 2006, he decided to become a real estate agent.

From that point on, he built a successful real estate business that employed more than a dozen people.