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But he apparently wants people to know — or at least wonder — about other possible victims.

I tried to tell investigators and I did tell FBI, but it was blown off.

“I tried to tell investigators and I did tell FBI, but it was blown off,” he continued in his letter to the Herald-Journal. “It’s not an addition problem, it’s (a) multiplication problem. Leaves the state and leaves the country. Thank you private pilot’s license.”

It’s plausible that there could be more murder victims. Some of Kohlhepp’s previous murders had been unsolved for more than a decade. He was a gun enthusiast and, as he points out in his letter, an amateur pilot. Authorities told the media they confiscated an “arsenal” of weapons from the Woodruff property where the woman was found and Kohlhepp’s home some 10 miles away.

Kohlhepp was a well-groomed and tech-savvy real estate agent who gave no outward signs of the murderous secrets he was keeping. But to those privy to his true self, he was rather chatty.

Kala Brown — the woman found in the storage container — told the “Dr. Phil” show that Kohlhepp would tell her he was “nearing the triple digits” in killings.

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As The Washington Post’s Amy B Wang reported, Kohlhepp recounted in detail — and even seemed to brag — about killing four people at a South Carolina motorcycle shop, which had come to be known as the “Superbike” murders.

“All of a sudden, I had three people in front of me. … Mom was the closest. … And I shot her two, three times in the chest. Not my best work. … She fell. The son and the manager, he … ran for the door, took off. … At that range, they should have ran to me, not away.