Todd Kohlhepp, 46, pleaded guilty earlier this month to murdering seven people in Spartanburg County, South Carolina A serial killer has claimed that his victims were actually 'criminals' and that he was trying to 'save' the woman he held captive in a shipping container as a sex slave for two months. Todd Kohlhepp, 46, made the outrageous claims from behind bars in a South Carolina prison, writing a letter to a reporter that emerged on Saturday. It is the first time Kohlhepp has spoken out since he pleaded guilty in May to seven murders and the rape and kidnapping. The killer's crimes came to light when authorities searching for missing woman Kala Brown, 30, tracked her cell phone to one of Kohlhepp's properties in November. Cops heard Brown's screams and banging inside a heavily padlocked metal shipping container, and found her sitting inside with a chain around her neck connected to the wall.

Apr 16, 2015. Arias claimed that they were victims of a home invasion on the day of Travis' murder, but the pictures spoke louder than words. Boy bound next to a box of torture instruments discovered in the personal possessions an accomplice of pedophile and serial killer, Dean Corll, by a documentary filmmaker. In many cases, police departments have released these images of murder, either to assist in the identification of victims, or as a testament to the sheer brutality of these killers' crimes. Here are ten such examples of photos of murder, taken by serial killers and other murderers themselves. Be warned, however: some of the. A serial killer's lust bite on the back of the leg behind the knee of child victim murdered in Toronto, Canada, 1956. “I am an American and I killed Americans. I am a human being and I killed human beings.” Edmund Kemper after his surrender to police in the murder and dismemberment in Santa Cruz, California, of six.

Sep 16, 2014. In the history of photography, there have been many pictures of crimes and criminals that have left an indelible mark on society. Around the same time, urban legends started to emerge of Cropsey, an ax-wielding serial killer and escaped mental patient who lived in the tunnels in the basement.

45 shares She told police that Kohlhepp had shot and buried her boyfriend Charlie Carver, 32, and raped her twice a day, every day, while holding her captive for two months. Now, Kohlhepp preposterously claims that Brown 'wasn’t raped' and that he was actually trying to help her. 'She was in [the] shipping container because I didn’t want to hurt her, refused to turn her over to someone else who would and was buying time while I figured out a way to resolve this non-violently,' he claimed in the twisted jailhouse letter to Post reporter Melkorka Licea. Kohlhepp bizarrely claimed that, far from being his victim, Brown was 'as big a criminal as I am'. 'All of my victims were criminals,' he went on. Winoptimizer 2010 Advanced Serial Monitor.  'No one wants to really look at who they were, families, connections' 'Not that it makes it right, I was wrong to do what I did,' he then wrote, in his only hint of remorse for the vile crimes. In addition to killing Carver, Kohlhepp has admitted to six other slayings: a quadruple homicide at a motorcycle dealership in 2003, and the murder of a husband and wife who were lured to his property very similarly to Brown and her boyfriend. Kohlhep had a veritable arsenal of guns (left), which investigators found during a search for Kala Brown, whom they found chained inside a shipping container on his property (right) In his epistle from behind bars, Kohlhepp accused the Superbike Motorsports shop in Chesnee, South Carolina, where he shot four employees, of being a 'chop shop' with '$80,000 cash sitting in [a] safe.'