Bodies found on suspected serial killer's land identified

Authorities caught a break in the cold cases last week when investigators searching the property discovered a woman alive and chained by her neck and ankle in a large storage container, yelling for help.

After his arrest, deputies say he confessed to killing four other people in the county at a motorcycle shop in 2003, leaving behind their bodies and a mystery the local sheriff thought he may never solve.

Kohlhepp acknowledged the grisly cold case after authorities granted him several requests, including letting him speak to his mother.

[...] multiple weapons, including an assault rifle and handguns with silencers, were confiscated from both his home and the rural property, where used practice targets showed he was "a very good shot," Solicitor Barry Barnette said at a hearing Friday.

In the motorcycle shop slayings, the wife of the shop's owner said detectives told her that Kohlhepp was a disgruntled customer.

Released in 2001, he managed to obtain a real estate license in South Carolina in 2006 and by most accounts, lived a very private and seemingly quiet life.

Both had outstanding arrest warrants on "various offenses" issued after they disappeared, Bobo said.

The Associated Press is not naming the woman because the suspect is a sex offender, though authorities have not said whether she was sexually assaulted.