The widow of a man who killed in the 2003 bike shop massacre credits a woman who was chained up in a metal container for months for surviving 'pure hell' after her alleged abductor's arrest led to a confession to the unsolved murders.
Authorities say Todd Kohlhepp, 45, confessed to shooting dead the owner, service manager, mechanic and bookkeeper of Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee, South Carolina, on November 6, 2003.
He faces four counts of murder and a single kidnapping charge.
Melissa Brackman, who was then married to Scott Ponder, the owner of the store, told CBS News: 'I had made peace that it was phone call I was never going to get.'
But on Saturday, she got that phone call and credits Kala Brown, the woman whose rescue on Thursday led to the break in the case, for it.
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Melissa Brackman (left), whose husband was killed in the 2003 bike shop massacre, credits Kala Brown (right) for surviving 'pure hell' after her rescue led to her abductor's arrest and he then confessed to the unsolved quadruple murder
Scott Ponder (pictured) was shot dead inside Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee, South Carolina, on November 6, 2003
'She's the hero. She stayed alive for two months. In a pure hell,' Brackman said.
'And if she had not been found alive, we wouldn't be sitting here having an interview right now.'
She added that detectives told her Kohlhepp was an angry customer who had been in the motorcycle shop several times.
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Share 12 sharesKohlhepp became a suspect in at least seven deaths in the days after Brown was found on Thursday - chained by her neck and ankle in a metal storage container on his 95-acre property near rural Woodruff.
Following his arrest, he confessed to the 2003 quadruple slaying of Ponder, his mother Beverly Guy, Brian Lucas and Chris Sherbert, investigators said.
A Spartanburg County Sheriff's investigative report says Kohlhepp 'confessed to investigators that he shot and killed' all four victims, giving details only the killer would know.
Kohlhepp (above, in court) was denied bond Sunday during a brief court appearance on four murder charges for the quadruple slaying
He was denied bond Sunday during a brief court appearance on four murder charges for those slayings.
He's also charged with kidnapping Brown, and more criminal counts are expected.
Kohlhepp also showed authorities the grave sites of two more of his victims on Saturday - a day after a body was found in a shallow grave on his property, later identified as Brown's boyfriend Charles Carver.
Todd Kohlhepp faces four counts of murder and a single kidnapping charge
Coroner Rusty Clevenger said he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Now, investigators have expanded their search for human remains beyond the property where they discovered a woman chained inside a storage container.
Sheriff Chuck Wright, who was first elected about a year after the Superbike Motorsports killings, has a wide-ranging investigation of a crime spree over more than a decade.
The investigation has expanded to other properties that Kohlhepp, a real estate agent, either currently or used to own.
Those properties are not limited to South Carolina, Wright said on Sunday, declining to be more specific. Both the FBI and Homeland Security are involved, he said.
On Saturday, Kohlhepp showed investigators where he says he buried two other victims on the property he bought two years ago.
Human remains were uncovered at one of those sites on Sunday, Wright said.
'We're not even close' on identifying the remains or cause of death, he said. 'We can't tell anything.'
Scott Ponder (right) and his mother Beverly (left) were found dead at the bike shop in 2003
Service manager Brian Lucas (left) and mechanic Chris Sherbert (right) also died in the 2003 massacre
Kohlhepp did not tell investigators who was buried there.
Clevenger said removing the remains to 'preserve every bit of evidence' is a meticulous, time-consuming process,
On Sunday, Kohlhepp appeared in an orange jumpsuit for the brief bond hearing and declined to make a statement. He didn't have an attorney.
After Kohlhepp left the courtroom, Magistrate Judge Jimmy Henson told the family members they would have a chance later to address Kohlhepp in court.
'You have something to say. You've been waiting 13 years to say it,' he said.
County sheriff Chuck Wright (pictured talking to reporters on Sunday) said the investigation has expanded to other properties that Kohlhepp either currently or used to own
The father of Brian Lucas, the 29-year-old slain service manager, thanked the judge.
'Your honor, I appreciate your words to us and your counsel,' Tom Lucas said as two others put their hands on his shoulders. 'We thank you.'
Before the hearing, Lucas said he wanted to be in court to look Kohlhepp in the eye.
'I want to look at him, and I want to try to use that in healing,' he said.
Before Kohlhepp emerged as a suspect, investigators had said all four victims were killed with the same pistol.
They have theorized that the killer came in the back and killed mechanic Chris Sherbert, 26, as he worked.
Bookkeeper Beverly Guy, 52, was found just outside the bathroom in the middle of the showroom.
Thirty-year-old shop owner Scott Ponder was found just outside the door in the parking lot. Brian Lucas was in the doorway of the shop.
Kohlhepp was released from prison in Arizona in 2001.
At the age of 15, he was convicted of raping a 14-year-old neighbor at gunpoint and threatening to kill her siblings if she called police.
Kohlhepp had to register as a sex offender but that didn't stop him from getting a South Carolina real estate license in 2006, building a firm and maintaining the appearance of normalcy.
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