A South Carolina man pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping charges on Friday after he was arrested last year for holding a woman chained "like a dog" inside a storage container; he later was linked to seven murders.

Todd Kohlhepp, 45, accepted a plea deal that sends him to prison for life without parole, Fox Carolina reported. He faced several charges, including four counts of murder in the 2003 deaths of four people at a motorcycle shop in Chesnee, South Carolina.

Kohlhepp was eligible for the death penalty, but the plea deal took that off the table.

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Kohlhepp was arrested in November after investigators said they discovered a woman "chained like a dog" inside a metal container on his property. She was raped and held hostage for more than two months, investigators said. The body of the woman's boyfriend, Charles Carter, was later found in the area.


Kohlhepp later confessed to seven murders within seven months. Search teams began digging on the property after Kohlkepp admitted "to investigators that he shot and killed" the owner, service manager, mechanic and bookkeeper at Superbike Motorsports motorcycle shop in 2003, according to a Spartanburg County Sheriff's investigative report. He gave details that "only the killer would know" and pointed authorities to where the bodies were buried.

He also admitted to killing a husband and wife that was doing work on his property in 2015.

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Kohlhepp was released from prison in Arizona in 2001 after serving a 14-year prison sentence for raping a 14-year-old neighbor at gunpoint and threatening to kill her siblings if she called police. Kohlhepp had to register as a sex offender.

He still received his South Carolina real estate license in 2006 after lying to people about his felony conviction. He ended up building a successful real estate business.

Friends and co-workers at Kohlhepp's real estate business said he was a hard worker with some strange habits. He would watch pornographic videos during work and joked on his firm's website that he motivated workers by not feeding them.

Read more at http://www.reporterslab.com/2017/05/man-accused-of-chaining-woman-like-a-dog-pleads-guilty-to-7-murders/ .

God pls save your children.

he should not only be sent to prison but with a dog chain on his neck to know how it feels.

But Why be say When them catch oyimbo man wey commit crime, him go plead guilty for court of law

But if you catch Nigerian man red handed,take am go high court them convict am, him go say him dey innocent, him go drag the matter go abuja high court, him go loose, proceed to appeal court loose there, still go Supreme Court still loose at the end him go say na because the judge dey bias

why naija

Wickedness

Pretty mike should be rearrested sharp sharp