serial-killer-south-carolina-todd-kohlhepp-1 Horrified police in Woodruff, S.C., weren't prepared for the sickening secret of Todd Kohlhepp — who was first arrested after cops found a woman chained in a storage container on his property. The unnamed woman was already a tragic victim, but now police have learned her captor was a vicious serial killer!

serial-killer-south-carolina-todd-kohlhepp-2 Authorities say that Kohlhepp has admitted to killing at least seven people for over a decade. In a bizarre twist, the psycho even confessed to one brutal murder on the day before the crime marked its 13th anniversary!

serial-killer-south-carolina-todd-kohlhepp-3 Kohlhepp, 45, admitted to the 2003 massacre of four employees at a motorcycle shop in nearby Chesnee, S.C.. More recently, the hulking psycho had murdered 32-year-old Charles Carver — the boyfriend of the woman found chained with a leash around her neck in a locked metal container.

serial-killer-south-carolina-todd-kohlhepp-4 Local police tracked Kohlhepp's victims to his property through their cellphone signals. Kohlhepp had been a registered sex offender since the age of 15, when he raped a 14-year-old neighbor. He had still been able to pose as a normal citizen who headed up his own real-estate firm.