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Todd Christopher Kohlhepp pleaded guilty on May 26, 2017, in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to fourteen counts, seven of them murder, plus kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct, and was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences without parole and 60 years on the rest. He was 46.

Kohlhepp was a registered sex offender living in Spartanburg County. On November 25, 1986, when he was 15, he took a 14-year-old girl at gunpoint in Tempe, Arizona, and sexually assaulted her. He pleaded guilty to kidnapping in 1987, received 15 years and was released in 2001. He obtained a South Carolina real estate license in 2006 and by 2016 owned about 95 acres near Woodruff.

On November 6, 2003, four people were shot to death inside Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee: owner Scott Ponder, 30; service manager Brian Lucas, 29; mechanic Chris Sherbert, 26; and bookkeeper Beverly Guy, 52, who was Ponder's mother.

In December 2015, Kohlhepp hired Johnny Joe Coxie, 29, and his wife, Meagan Leigh McCraw-Coxie, 26, to work on the Woodruff property. He shot Johnny Coxie on or about December 19, held Meagan Coxie in a storage container and killed her about a week later. Both were buried there. At the end of August 2016, he shot Charles David Carver, 32, and abducted Carver's girlfriend, Kala Brown, 30, keeping her chained in the container for about two months. Spartanburg County deputies searching for the missing pair on November 3 heard Brown banging inside and freed her. Kohlhepp was arrested that day, and Carver's body was found buried on the land.

Kohlhepp contacted deputies himself on November 5, told them where the Coxies were buried and began describing the Superbike killings. He gave details, including the weight and grain of the bullets, that investigators said only the killer would know. During a roughly four-hour recorded confession at the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, investigators confirmed his Miranda waiver and had him initial and date a hand-drawn shop map showing where each employee stood. After taking details for a written statement, they asked him to begin with Superbike. Kohlhepp described buying a Suzuki GSX-R 750 there in 2003, its theft from his apartment complex about two weeks later and staff dismissing his ability to ride it when he returned to trade it for a smaller machine. He said he came to believe someone there had taken the bike, then described where he engaged each person, emptied the gun and reloaded.

Kohlhepp was charged with four counts of murder in the Superbike case on November 6, 2016, the thirteenth anniversary of the killings, and denied bond that day. In an eight-page letter reported on December 10, 2017, he wrote, "Yes there is more than seven," and said he had tried to tell investigators and the FBI but "it was blown off." An FBI official in Columbia confirmed a pending investigation. No further charges have been brought.

On November 27, 2023, a judge approved a $2.5 million settlement between Academy Sports and Outdoors and the families of Carver and the Coxies. The suit alleged the retailer negligently permitted straw purchases that armed Kohlhepp through Dustan Lawson between 2012 and 2016.

The video is a roughly 58-minute police interview-room recording and carries the first of the uploader's two portions of the four-hour interrogation. It presents the interview itself, without narration or a presenter.