Warning: Graphic content, readers’ discretion advised. This story contains a recollection of crime and can be triggering to some readers discretion advised.

tragedy struck Scott Ponder’s motorcycle shop in a small South Carolina town when a gunman opened fire and killed Scott, his mother, his best friend, and a bike mechanic.

Their deaths remained a mystery for over a decade until detectives discovered a missing woman in a container. Plus, Kala Brown was chained up for months inside a storage container by a suspected serial killer. How did she make it out alive?

the identity of  the person responsible for  Mass  murder at a local business in south carolina remained a mystery for 13 years until the incredible rrescue of a woman in a simingly unrelated missing person’s case.

that’s when cops were finally able to nab a serial killer who quietly stalked spartanberg county.

scott ponder was  the quintessential southern  charmer.

a local boy  with a pension of fast bikes who spun his passion  for suzukis into  a thriving local buisness in spartanburg, south of carolina.

and it was  a family affair that even brought scott’s mom into the fold.

superbike motorsports became a thriving heaving for racing enthusiasts in a part of  south carolina known for its wide open roads. 

all with the helof of mechanic chris sherbet and scott’s best friend,brian lucas.

it was a good life and for scott and his wife melissa , it was all about to get better.

but all that joy would  come to a screeching halt when scott showed up to his store  one afternoon.

it was a slow day at the  shop,brian was  even  suppposed  to be there that day. he had the day off he was going away with his family for a long weekend  and was called in just minutes before because there was a customer that something had not been  done to his motorcycle and that customer was upset.

that disgruntled customer would prove to be a crucial clue.

while scott was talking with him, a friend named nollan  called the shop to see if he could drop by, he was only secen minutes away.

all the time it took  for scott to hang up the phone,for someone to open fire at everyone in the shop.he quickly realized it was no laughting matter.

a massacre in broad  day light .mechanic chirs and mom beverly was shot point blank in the back of the building.

scott and  brian were also shot in the storefront and parking lot in their attempt to escape.

all four would die from their injuries.

word would make its way to scott’s wife  melissa.for more than a decade,the murders of four people at superbike motorsports in spartanburg county, south  carolina ,went unsolved.

and with no leads , many wondered if the killer would ever be caught.

then  13  years after the tragedy , in a completely separate case a women named kayla brown and her boyfriend charlie carver went missing and that investigation vould change everything…

a brutal quadruple murder that claimed the lives of superbike motorsports owner scott ponder, his best friend ryan lucas, mother beverly guy, and mechanic chris sherbet.

but who wanted them dead ? it’s a question that would baffle police.

the last recorded customer at the superbike dealership claimed that there were was one other person waiting around the shop on the day of the killings.

but months would pass and then 13 years with no leads to a real face or name to match the sketch of the man seen in the shop.

an investigator’s worst nightmare.

with no leads in sight, some mysterious missing person’s cases were about to unleash more connections in  spartanburg than detectives in  this small town could ever imagine.

a married couple with a drug history had vaniched…at first , law enforcement wonder whether  addiction may account for their disappearances.

but a hear later, a local bartender named kayla brown and her boyfriend charlie carver also go missing.

in addition to bartending  , kayla worked odd jobs, cleaning properties for a local real estate agent named todd  kohlhepp, a normal seeming  business leader.

kohlepp tells detectives,kayla and charlie were hired  to clear brush on his farm the day they disapperaed.

he tells investigators they were only on his farm for 90 minutes,but cellphones records tell a different story.

and when they discover that todd is a registred sex offender because of an arizona juvenile kidnapping and rape conviction ,they get  warrants for his home and farm simultaneously.

while  police question todd at his home,another team raids farm looking for clues about kayla or charlie. what they discover instead locked inside a ConX  container shakes them to their core.

when south carolina  investigators find a missing woman,kayla brown, chained up as a sex slave in a storage container.

they quickly realized there’s a monster stalking spartanburg county and with kayla’s help they’re going to stop him and they ‘re going to close the book on seven unsolved murders.

sheriff searching todd’s farm.find kayla alive and in chains.in a shipping container where kohlhepp had been keeping her alive as his sex slave after murdering her boyfriend in front of her.

body cameras capture the  stunning moments and candid confessions.

todd kohlhepp shot  charlie carver three  times in the chest ,wrapped  him in a blue tarp. put him in the bucket of the tractor.locked kayla  down in the container and she never seen him again.

minutes later, they also captured Todd Kohlhepp at home.but Kohlhepp a textbook psyhopath, does his best to maintain control.

as kayla is bing driven to a local hosptial ,  her harrowing story continues….

he didn’t know if he was going to kill me or sell me or what , yet.and he just wanyted me for some reason.”

then  an  unbelievable stunning moment.

he  also told me that a few years back that he walked into a bike shop in anderson…”

kayla unqirringly breaks open  another case  investigtors had chasing for 13 years….

” …and shot  four people and left and they never found who did it.he liked to brag that he was a serial killer and a mass murderer.”

once detectives have  Kohlhepp under a microscop in a private room,  he proudly spills it all himself.

i cleared  that door in under 30 seconds.you guys would have been proud.i’m sorry but you guys would have been proud.”

in a bid to avoid the death penalty and transfer his assets to his mother, Kohlhepp have cops to the 2003 massacre of the four employees at the superbike dealership.

 Kohlhepp stumbled upon the superbike dealershi less than two years  after returning to spartanburg.

following a 14 years juvenile prison sentence for kidnapping and raping his neighbor when he was 15.

he thought a motorcycle would be a fresh start to a new life.

he bought a bike about a year ago.someone had stolen it and then they come back in and they were pranksters.scott and brian was.and they asked the man ” you  gonna buy another bike  so it can get stolen ,too?”

he felt like they were making fun of him.

that was  all it took  to return  and kill everyone in the shop , leaving that sketch behind as a clue…

…that ultimately never matched to his face.

but todd liked to brag to kayla about  other murders.

when the sheriff searched tood’s farm they also  find the remains of another missing couple near the body of kayla’s boyfriend, charlie.

thanks to kayla’s bravery ,spartanburg’s own serial killer murderer is locked away for good.

but while the extraordinary young survivor grapples with survivors guilt , the family of Kohlhepp’s victims think of her as their hero.

after south carolina serial killer Todd Kohlhepp was cought another distrubing side of him was revealed. while  detectives were on the hunt to solve the case ,Kohlhepp had been leaving digital breadcrumbs,shocking online reviews of the weapons in his killer toolkit.

Todd Kohlhepp’s shocking killing spree.

his secrets uncovered  after the woman he held hostage in chains starts talking.

proudly  admitting that he was responsible for the quadruple murders in the superbike motorsports.

there was a garage and a couple  shipping  containers on the land.

they found these amazon reviews that he had posted.

the killer  also leaving distrubing clues online,writing shocking reviews  for tools he may have used in his crimes,like a shovel , writing ,” keep in car for when you have to hide  dead bodies”

todd’s  reviews are the subject of a documentary for fox nation

there were  items like a shovel,locks, and he had posted all of these very cryptic comments about them . it was almost as if todd’s amazon reviews were foreshadowing the actual murders he was committing.

leaving the small town of spartanburg,  south carolina, trying to heal from the wounds  he caused.