Body found near storage container where woman was held captive, coroner says 
 
 The Spartanburg County coroner said a body has been found near where a missing woman was being held captive. 
 
 Cadaver dogs signaled Friday morning that there were possible human remains on the property where Kala Brown, 30, was found in a storage container, according to Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright. 
 
 
 
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 Coroner Rusty Clevenger said the body was found Friday afternoon. He has not identified the victim. 
 
 Brown and her boyfriend, Charlie Carver, 32, were reported missing from Anderson on August 31. 
 
 Wright said that when Brown was found, she told investigators that there might be bodies on the property. 
 
 "She said that there are four people buried on this property. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but we will stay here as long as it takes to make sure that what she said is true or not true, Wright said. 
 
 "We’re trying to make sure we don’t have a serial killer on our hands. (It) very possibly could be what we have." 
 
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 She was found Thursday on a 100-acre property on Wofford Road, where she had been held captive, "chained like a dog," since her disappearance, Wright said. He said a registered sex offender who is an Upstate realtor has been charged with kidnapping. 
 
 
 
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 Deputies were searching the property when they heard Brown banging from inside a metal storage container. Wright said information from a sex crime investigator led them to the property. 
 
 He said Brown told that investigators she had been held in the container for two months with a chain around her neck. The metal container is 30 feet long, 15 wide and 10 to 12 feet high, Wright said. 
 
 He said Brown had been fed regularly, but she was "obviously traumatized." 
 
 "It was pretty emotional, to say the least, when she was found -- especially when she was chained like a dog, Wright said. "She had a chain around her neck. It’s only by God’s grace we found that little girl alive." 
 
 Wright said they found a number of weapons and ammunition on the property. 
 
 
 
 Wright said Brown was taken to Spartanburg Regional Hospital where she was checked out and released Thursday night. 
 
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 Wright said when deputies found Brown, they notified other deputies who were positioned at Todd Kohlhepp’s home off Highway 290 in Moore, and Kohlhepp was taken into custody. 
 
 Kohlhepp, 45, is listed as the owner of the Wofford Road property in Spartanburg County tax records. 
 
 He identifies himself as a realtor for TK & A Real Estate (Todd Kohlhepp & Associates LLC). 
 
 According to SLED records, Kohlhepp is a convicted sex offender who was added to the registry after being convicted of kidnapping in Arizona in 1987, when he was 16. 
 
 Wright said Brown and Kohlhepp were acquainted, but investigators are still looking into the connection. 
 
 Wright said Kohlepp is charged with kidnapping, and other charges are possible. 
 
 "He’s currently incarcerated," Wright said. "We’re trying to get all this sorted out and figure out what we’re going to charge him with. One of the charges is kidnapping. It could be murder. It could be a number of things." 
 
 Kohlhepp will appear before a Spartanburg County magistrate judge for a bond hearing at 2 p.m. Friday. 
 
 Investigators are continuing to search for Carver. 
 
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 Brown and Carver dated for several months and moved in together last summer, according to their parents. Carver was in the process of getting a divorce, the parents said. 
 
 A friend of Brown’s told police that she had dinner with her on Aug. 29 at her apartment in Anderson Crossing Apartments. She said she spoke to Brown the next day, but after a text on the morning of Aug. 31, all communication ceased. 
 
 Brown and Carver’s parents found the apartment the couple shared unlocked and Brown’s Pomeranian, Romeo, with no food or water. 
 
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 Police found Brown’s car in the parking lot of the complex. According to investigators, Brown’s cellphone service provider said there had been no activity on the phone for 48 hours, and they were unable to ping the phone. 
 
 After the disappearance, there was no activity on Brown’s Facebook page, which her family said was unusual for her. 
 
 The family also said that although Carver was not typically active on Facebook, his profile picture was changed Sept. 6, and comments were posted that were “uncharacteristic of ones typically made by Charlie.” 
 
 Several postings on Carver’s Facebook page said the couple was fine and they simply left. The posts appeared after the couple was reported missing. Brown’s and Carver’s families said they believe that the Facebook account has been hacked. They said the photos that the person used were posted more than a year ago, and the wording doesn’t sound like Carver. 
 
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 A woman missing since August was found alive Thursday after deputies in South Carolina said they heard loud banging coming from a metal storage container on a rural property. 
 
 Acting on a tip, the Spartanburg County Sheriff's deputies discovered 30-year-old Kala Brown "chained inside the container like a dog," Sheriff Chuck Wright told local NBC affiliate WYFF. 
 
 The deputies were searching the grounds in Woodruff, just south of Spartanburg, in relation to a tip about a sex crime when they came across the disturbing scene. 
 
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 Brown told authorities she had been held captive for two months. 
 
 "It's all by God's grace that we found that little girl alive," Wright told WYFF. 
 
 The owner of the property — identified as Todd Kohlhepp, a registered sex offender — was charged with kidnapping, jail records show. A bond hearing was scheduled for Friday afternoon. 
 
 Officials said other charges against him were also possible. 
 
 Brown also told investigators about four bodies possibly buried on the property. A massive investigation was underway Thursday, and photos from the scene showed a backhoe being brought in. 
 
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 No bodies were found as of 7 p.m. ET, and the search was called off at nightfall and was expected to resume Friday morning, the Spartanburg County Coroner's Office said. 
 
 "It has been a blessing just having her, but it's, it's great just knowing that she's alive and I can go see her and hug her and tell her how much I love her," Cassandra Ellen, a close friend of Brown’s, told WYFF. 
 
 Charlie Carver, Brown's boyfriend, who disappeared around the same time, remains missing. Carver's vehicle was found on Kohlhepp's property during the search Thursday, according to a sheriff's spokesman. 
 
 Brown and a close friend reportedly had dinner on the night of Aug. 29 at Brown and her boyfriend's apartment outside Anderson, South Carolina. The following day, several friends received texts back from Brown. But the responses stopped coming on Aug. 31. 
 
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 The last images of Carver are on security video from his workplace showing him leaving that same day. 
 
 Joanne Shiflet, Carver's mother, told Dateline that she and her son don't go a day without some type of communication. 
 
 But after no word from her son in several days, Shiflet called the manager of the couple's apartment complex to see if she could check on them. The manager knocked on their door, but there was no answer, so she went inside. 
 
 It appeared no one had been there for some time, Shiflet said. 
 
 She did find something troubling: Romeo, Brown's Pomeranian dog, was left without any food or water. 
 
 "That dog is her baby. She'd never leave him like that," Brown's mother, Bonnie Newsom, told Dateline in early October. 
 
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 The case attracted national attention several weeks later when mysterious postings began to appear on Carver's Facebook page. 
 
 The messages, which appeared after the two were reported missing, included statements that the couple was fine and had simply left on their own. 
 
 Both Brown and Carver’s families believe his account had been hacked. 
 
 Makenzie Durham, Carver’s former high school sweetheart and a friend of 16 years, told WYFF that the discovery of Brown alive gives her hope. 
 
 "It's a miracle. They were missing for two months and we found one person alive and well, so miracles do happen," she said. 
 
 "You never can give up hope. You just got to keep hoping and never think that they're not going to be found and that there's never a worst-case scenario," Durham told the station. "You're always just going to be positive and keep searching." 
 
 Kala and Charlie were featured in Dateline’s social and digital series "Missing in America" on Oct. 10, 2016.
– A 30-year-old woman reported missing in August was found Thursday "chained ... like a dog" inside a storage container in South Carolina, WYFF reports. Kala Brown and her 32-year-old boyfriend Charlie Carver disappeared Aug. 31. Sheriff's deputies were investigating a 100-acre property after getting a tip about a sex crime Thursday when they heard banging. They followed the sound to Brown, who says she was kept in the container for two months with a chain around her neck. Sheriff Chuck Wright says Brown was taken to an area hospital "obviously traumatized" but "alive and well," according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Carver has still not been found. The property on which Brown was found belongs to a 45-year-old sex offender named Todd Kohlhepp, who was convicted of kidnapping in 1987. Brown and Kohlhepp knew each other, but authorities didn't specify how. Kohlhepp was arrested and will be charged with kidnapping and possibly more, NBC News reports. Brown says there could be four bodies somewhere on the property, and Wright says police may "have a serial killer on our hands." Authorities say they found a large amount of weapons and ammunition on the property. Days after Brown and Carver disappeared, suspicious messages started appearing on Carver's Facebook page. The posts said Carver and Brown had decided to leave town and were fine but referenced things that never happened. Carver's family believes someone hacked his account.