Posted on 12/12/2017 1:51:54 PM PST by Gamecock
Convicted serial killer Todd Kohlhepp, in a letter to the Herald-Journal, said he has more victims who have not been discovered.
The FBI has a pending investigation, but a spokesman would not comment further on the matter.
We cant comment specifically on what were doing, other than what Ive said before that we have a pending investigation, said Don Wood, chief division council with the bureaus field office in Columbia.
Earlier this year, Kohlhepp, 46, was convicted of killing seven people and was handed seven life sentences plus 60 years in prison. He was arrested in November 2016 after a missing Anderson woman, Kala Brown, was found chained in a locked storage container on a rural property near Woodruff.
Yes there is more than seven, Kohlhepp wrote in an eight-page letter to the Herald-Journal dated Nov. 28. I tried to tell investigators and I did tell FBI, but it was blown off. Its not an addition problem, its an multiplication problem. Leaves the state and leaves the country. Thank you private pilots license.
He later added: At this point, I really dont see reason to give numbers or locations.
Apart from running his own brokerage, TKA Real Estate, Kohlhepp was an amateur pilot and gun enthusiast. Authorities said they confiscated an arsenal of weapons from his home in Moore and the Woodruff property where Brown was found.
In a televised interview with Brown on the Dr. Phil show, her first and only public appearance since the ordeal, Brown said Kohlhepp told her he had more victims. She said Kohlhepp would brag to her that he was nearing the triple digits in body count in the February broadcast.
When Kohlhepp was sentenced in May, Public Defender Shane Goranson told the judge there were no other victims.
Mr. Kohlhepp has come clean, he said.
In an interview last week, Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said he was unaware of any specific unsolved homicides or missing persons cases related to Kohlhepp.
We dont have anything active right this second, but weve always left it open-ended in case he wants to say theres some stuff we need to check, Wright said. If hes got something to say, were more than willing to listen.
Two of the people Kohlhepp killed were Johnny and Meagan Coxie, in December 2015. In his letter, Kohlhepp said that it had been three years since he acted out before then.
The last known victims before the Coxies were the four people Kohlhepp killed at Superbike Motorsports near Chesnee in November 2003.
Since May, family members of victims and expert profilers have speculated that more bodies were waiting to be discovered.
Kohlhepp was first convicted of kidnapping a 14-year-old when he was a teenager living in Arizona. He spent 15 years in an Arizona state prison before moving back to Spartanburg.
Police in Tempe, Ariz., said after Kohlhepps arrest last year, investigators started reviewing cold cases.
Anderson Police Department Capt. Mike Walters said he doesnt believe Kohlhepp is connected to any open cases in Anderson County, but he said he suspects more of Kohlhepps victims might be in other states where Kohlhepp has said he has spent time.
Im sure there are more. Im just thinking theyre more likely in Florida or elsewhere, Walters said.
People like him, they want the cops to get the notoriety. Theyre always going to throw bait out there often to keep their name out there.
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Hang on...South Carolina? Multiple murders? Jail time? Is South Carolina going all Vermont on us????
Ted Bundy pulled the same stunt....................
A very well fed serial killer.
Perhaps that's the way he disposed of his victims.
Chris Christie’s brother?...
‘Chris Christies brother?...’
Separated at birth, but never separated from the dinner table.
Several weeks of water boarding would divine the actual truth behind his homicidal boasting.
And, question to Gamecock...
I thought South Carolina had the death penalty.
Why did they buckle under and give this scumbag life without parole?
The imprisoned female actually witnessed the premeditated murder of her boyfriend, didn't she?
He shot her boyfriend in front of her.
Saw a documentary that said that as a teenager he stalked and killed a girl but was set free when he turned 18 with no record that followed him.
Nice boobs.
“Nice boobs.”
On men they are called “moobs.”
Those life sentences are utterly meaningless unless the issues against the death penalty are lifted. Waiting 15 years or more for justice to be served is unreasonable in the light of our dead, murdered, loved ones having already received their sentences at the hands of killers.
And THIS sob???? How dare he say there’s no point in letting people know where their missing loved ones are?!! The level of selfishness of this animal, is immeasurable . May the blood of those missing people weigh on him as he dies, when he dies if he fails to make right what he can while he’s alive.
“Acting out,” idiotic psych word for beating the shit out of someone, themselves or killing.
Re: “as a teenager he stalked and killed a girl but was set free when he turned 18”
That is so sick.
Just think of the physical pain and terror he inflicted on completely innocent women after his release.
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It seems things a getting crazier and crazier there.
Overfeed him. Cause a heart attack.
But he was on death row dealing for more time. Isn’t this guy out?
No he’s serving multiple life sentences +60 years, so all he wants is infamy to get his name in the history books, like Bundy and Gacy.....................
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