Ep 24_E: The Case of Todd Kohlhepp - English version from true crime podcast in Thai — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello this is milan and this is oki
2. 0:03and welcome to true crime in texas the
3. 0:06english version english version
4. 0:14[Music]
5. 0:45so welcome to the english version of
6. 0:48episode 24. you may already have
7. 0:50listened
8. 0:52to the thai version earlier today
9. 0:55about todd kohlhepp he's a serial killer
10. 0:58known in south carolina
11. 1:01are we ready yes okay let's go ahead and
12. 1:03get into the case
13. 1:05on august 31st 2016
14. 1:08in spartanburg south carolina
15. 1:11the police received a missing report of
16. 1:13a couple
17. 1:14so the people are missing are charles
18. 1:17carver who is a 32 year old man
19. 1:19and his girlfriend kayla brown who's 30
20. 1:22years old
21. 1:23so charles dad reported them missing
22. 1:26and in the community because because
23. 1:29it's a small town
24. 1:30a lot of people also helped him trying
25. 1:33to look for both charles and kayla
26. 1:36he put up signs he had flyers everywhere
27. 1:40a lot of people helped looking for this
28. 1:41couple
29. 1:42and nothing really happened nothing
30. 1:45turned up the police tried to
31. 1:48look into where they were going about
32. 1:50their life as well
33. 1:52it wasn't until two months that they
34. 1:54gained traction on this case
35. 1:56so after that two months they tracked
36. 1:59their phone kayla's phone
37. 2:02and tarou's phone
38. 2:03and typically you can get
39. 2:07a tracking
40. 2:08how they paint off different phone
41. 2:10towers
42. 2:11and they found out
43. 2:13that
44. 2:15their phones were being pinked off a
45. 2:17specific area in south carolina
46. 2:20and
47. 2:21in the meantime
48. 2:22they were also investigating about the
49. 2:24couple's life and they came upon
50. 2:26facebook posts and they were talking
51. 2:28about how
52. 2:30they were hired to clean the house that
53. 2:32was going to be for sale both charles
54. 2:35and kayla
55. 2:36so not only did they found the phone
56. 2:38where the property is they also
57. 2:40heard about the cleaning house job
58. 2:44and the property was owned by
59. 2:46none other than
60. 2:48the person we were talking about today
61. 2:49which is todd kohlhepp but before we
62. 2:51keep going we want to say that todd
63. 2:54kohep is a realtor
64. 2:56he's a real estate agent he actually
65. 2:58owns his own real estate company
66. 3:01and the land that we're talking about he
67. 3:03has like as big as 95 acres
68. 3:06it's a huge piece of land
69. 3:08the guy is doing pretty well for himself
70. 3:11he's quite popular in the real estate
71. 3:13world at this time
72. 3:16because they found that the phone was
73. 3:18paying off of his property
74. 3:20as well as knowing the last whereabouts
75. 3:24of charles and kayla
76. 3:26being on todd kohlhepp's property at a
77. 3:28house that he was going to sell
78. 3:30they immediately
79. 3:32obtained a warrant
80. 3:34for the property itself as well as
81. 3:36going to talk to todd about do you know
82. 3:39anything that happened to this couple
83. 3:42so on that day which is two months later
84. 3:44after they filed the missing report
85. 3:47which is november 3rd 2016
86. 3:50two different sets of police went to
87. 3:52search for the couple
88. 3:54one went to his property where they
89. 3:57think they can find the phone
90. 3:59and then the other went to todd and his
91. 4:02office
92. 4:03so when they went to the property
93. 4:06trying to pretty much locate the phone
94. 4:08or where it pings off for this phone
95. 4:10tower
96. 4:11they came upon a shipping container so
97. 4:14just imagine the big shipping container
98. 4:16that you see that gets put on a truck
99. 4:18that gets delivered
100. 4:20the police gets there and then it was
101. 4:22kind of odd to see the shipping
102. 4:24container in the field
103. 4:26and
104. 4:27they suddenly getting closer to it they
105. 4:29hear a knocking
106. 4:31right it's metal inside from the inside
107. 4:34here it is knocking and of course it
108. 4:36immediately became alarmed
109. 4:39they hear noises in there they hear
110. 4:41someone screaming in there when they
111. 4:43went out they also brought in k-9 units
112. 4:46so there were dogs there
113. 4:48trying to
114. 4:50figure out what's going on because they
115. 4:51don't know if there was any
116. 4:54any surprises that were gonna come upon
117. 4:57after breaking into the heavy chained
118. 5:00heavy locked of this shipping container
119. 5:03they discovered that there was somebody
120. 5:06inside it the person inside was the
121. 5:09woman of the couple that i was missing
122. 5:12kayla brown
123. 5:15caleb brown was found
124. 5:17chained up against a wall where there
125. 5:20was a chain that was also connected to
126. 5:22her neck like a dog collar
127. 5:24she was malnourished but there was a
128. 5:27small
129. 5:29mattress
130. 5:30she had some items in there of course
131. 5:33kayla was very
132. 5:35surprised she was scared and the police
133. 5:37and then the police calmed her down told
134. 5:40her that
135. 5:41she's safe she was going to be okay she
136. 5:43immediately told the police that her
137. 5:46boyfriend about her boyfriend
138. 5:48she merely told them that todd kohlhepp
139. 5:51had killed her boyfriend on that day
140. 5:53that they came to clean the house
141. 5:56immediately shot charles
142. 5:58to death
143. 5:59and kept her in that shipping container
144. 6:02and that whole entire time the whole
145. 6:03entire two months that they were looking
146. 6:05for them she had been in there so she
147. 6:07was in there for 65 days and in the
148. 6:10meantime while this is happening the
149. 6:12police on the other side of this search
150. 6:14party
151. 6:15of course the one that went to see todd
152. 6:18at his office they communicated with
153. 6:21each other at first they went to thought
154. 6:23to talk to see if he knew anything about
155. 6:25the whereabouts
156. 6:26todd was the main boss in the office
157. 6:29he's a 47 year old man he was i mean his
158. 6:32name is on the roller state everywhere
159. 6:35they communicated with the police group
160. 6:38that they had found kayla in the
161. 6:40shipping container kayla had told them
162. 6:42that charles had been shot dead and that
163. 6:44his body is bare nearby
164. 6:46and the police told taught this
165. 6:48and todd acted as if he didn't know he
166. 6:51just said
167. 6:52mom what did he say i don't know i don't
168. 6:54know i have no idea what you're talking
169. 6:56about he denied the whole thing
170. 6:58little does he know i mean
171. 7:01kayla already named him and then also
172. 7:04the police continued looking in the area
173. 7:07because kayla informed them that there
174. 7:09were other bodies
175. 7:10that were buried nearby
176. 7:13comes to find out they are other bodies
177. 7:15that weren't married there were two
178. 7:18other bodies
179. 7:19and they found out a child first they
180. 7:22found charles first yes kayla explained
181. 7:26to the police that when she was put in a
182. 7:28shipping container she was threatened by
183. 7:30todd
184. 7:31she was being told that hey
185. 7:34if you don't obey if you don't do what i
186. 7:37say your fate is going to be just like
187. 7:39the other couple that are
188. 7:41buried
189. 7:42nearby this is what she told the police
190. 7:45and then the police found the bodies of
191. 7:47the couple the other couple
192. 7:50who have been missing for six months at
193. 7:52this point you want to tell them their
194. 7:54name
195. 7:55yes johnny coxy 29 years old
196. 7:59and megan coxy 23 23 years old
197. 8:03right and they were actually lured by
198. 8:05todd kohlhepp to do the same thing as
199. 8:08kayla and charles they were they went to
200. 8:10go clean the house kayla then decided
201. 8:13after todd threatened her to obey him
202. 8:16she did everything that he told her to
203. 8:18because she didn't want to
204. 8:20get buried just like the other couple
205. 8:23did
206. 8:24knowing the whole time that her
207. 8:26boyfriend
208. 8:28had been
209. 8:29shot already dead from day one
210. 8:32so
211. 8:33todd is immediately arrested
212. 8:36at his office and
213. 8:38before we keep going to
214. 8:40what happens after he gets arrested
215. 8:42let's talk about todd a little bit okay
216. 8:46let's get to know him a little bit
217. 8:47because this guy is
218. 8:49crazy nuts so todd was born on march 7
219. 8:531971 in florida but he moved
220. 8:58to south carolina and georgia because
221. 9:01his parents were divorced when he was
222. 9:03two years old his mom got custody of
223. 9:07todd took care of him and just quickly
224. 9:10after they moved she married
225. 9:13the
226. 9:14stepfather immediately adopted him
227. 9:17right so he used last name of his
228. 9:20stepfather right kohlhepp todd's
229. 9:22childhood mainly folk was focused on him
230. 9:25he was a troubled child
231. 9:27he
232. 9:28was really aggressive he
233. 9:31pretty much just kind of bounced back
234. 9:34and forth of just being
235. 9:36in fights with people or just picking on
236. 9:39a lot of people
237. 9:40by the time he was nine years old he was
238. 9:42already
239. 9:44going
240. 9:45through counseling to try to control his
241. 9:48anger try to control his mood his
242. 9:50emotions
243. 9:52he even went to a psychiatric hospital
244. 9:55when he was younger the conclusion was
245. 9:57that he was just a very troubled kid
246. 10:00like his iq is really high he's always
247. 10:02been a smart kid smart person throughout
248. 10:05his childhood throughout his adulthood
249. 10:08but he just cannot control himself he
250. 10:10just couldn't control himself correct he
251. 10:12did really crazy things such as putting
252. 10:16clorox in a fish tank
253. 10:18or i'm sorry to say this because this
254. 10:21animal cruelty who use bb guns on a dog
255. 10:24this is a making of a serial killer
256. 10:27right here
257. 10:28anybody that loves to crime knows this
258. 10:31that
259. 10:32any serial killer starts off with
260. 10:35hurting animals and things like that
261. 10:38eventually
262. 10:40todd decided to move to live with his
263. 10:42father in arizona
264. 10:44after not getting along with his mom or
265. 10:48not getting along with his stepfather
266. 10:50and
267. 10:51in arizona is when he got into bigger
268. 10:54trouble when he was only 15 years old in
269. 10:581986 he kidnapped a 14 year old girl he
270. 11:02threatened her with a gun
271. 11:04made her go to his house
272. 11:07i think she lived nearby
273. 11:10and he was watching her anyway
274. 11:12and raped her
275. 11:14and he threatened her that
276. 11:17you better not tell anybody or i will
277. 11:19kill you
278. 11:20i will kill your family when he was done
279. 11:24he took her back to her home and pretty
280. 11:26much left the girl who is very smart
281. 11:28she's traumatized but very smart
282. 11:30immediately told
283. 11:32you know she didn't believe him all
284. 11:33right she immediately told her parents
285. 11:35and they immediately got the police todd
286. 11:38then was charged with kidnapping he was
287. 11:40charged with sexual assault and he went
288. 11:42to prison for 15 years
289. 11:44and he had to register as a sex offender
290. 11:47in august 2001 todd was released from
291. 11:50prison
292. 11:51after serving 14 years and after that he
293. 11:54moved to south carolina with his mother
294. 11:55but in the meantime while he was in
295. 11:58prison
296. 11:59he got like a college degree
297. 12:01yeah he got like a high school degree a
298. 12:03college degree he's a smart guy so he
299. 12:06used his time being in prison to get a
300. 12:08bachelor's degree in computer science
301. 12:11he worked as a graphic designer
302. 12:13in spartanburg
303. 12:15he did all these
304. 12:16little odd jobs until he became a real
305. 12:19estate
306. 12:20agent
307. 12:22i don't know how he was able to get
308. 12:25a license when he's a registered sex
309. 12:28offender but
310. 12:30that happened
311. 12:31so that brings us back to
312. 12:34now to where
313. 12:36todd was arrested
314. 12:38and then once he was arrested when we
315. 12:40were trying to figure out
316. 12:42how to
317. 12:43prosecute him all this stuff he just
318. 12:45asked for a few things
319. 12:47he asked for three
320. 12:50things
321. 12:51first is he wants to talk to his mom
322. 12:54he wants to send the photograph to his
323. 12:56mom what a photograph i don't know i
324. 12:59don't know too
325. 13:00and he wants to transfer the money to be
326. 13:03a college fund for
327. 13:05his friend kid
328. 13:07that's all he asked
329. 13:09and i think
330. 13:10from what we
331. 13:12researched that when he talked to his
332. 13:14mom was when he confessed
333. 13:16to the murders of the two couples uh-huh
334. 13:20right
335. 13:21and he also confessed to the uh the four
336. 13:25people that he he has killed
337. 13:2812 years ago which became a big surprise
338. 13:31with the police because they were just
339. 13:33talking about him
340. 13:36kidnapping and killing the two couples
341. 13:38but then he also mentioned about the
342. 13:41four people
343. 13:42that happened 12 years ago like you said
344. 13:45so with that
345. 13:47on november 6 2003 which was
346. 13:5112 years prior to his arrest
347. 13:53it was at superbike motorsports which is
348. 13:57a motorcycle shop in chesnee as milam
349. 14:02told you guys from the thai version
350. 14:04todd went to the store
351. 14:06trying to return something he was told
352. 14:08no
353. 14:10and with his temper and with his anger
354. 14:12returned to the
355. 14:14shop again again right and just start
356. 14:17shooting the four people that he shot
357. 14:20were the owner scott ponder of 30 years
358. 14:23old a service manager brian lucas who
359. 14:26was 29
360. 14:27mechanic chris sherbert of 26 years old
361. 14:31and the bookkeeper beverly guy 52 years
362. 14:33old who was also the owner's mother
363. 14:36all these guys died from gunshot wounds
364. 14:39the case was not solved it was an
365. 14:41unsolved cold case and
366. 14:44todd confessed to that which is which
367. 14:47cleared his conscience the police know
368. 14:49because uh
369. 14:51they didn't release the how they kill
370. 14:54but todd confessed that he killed by
371. 14:58gunshot wound to the head right a lot of
372. 15:00times people will confess
373. 15:02and they might just trying to gain
374. 15:04notoriety or they might just try to
375. 15:07get the police to keep talking to
376. 15:09continue so they can they don't go to to
377. 15:12the trial yet so the police still has to
378. 15:14make sure that he
379. 15:16is truly confessing to the crime that he
380. 15:18is by
381. 15:20you know matching some of the confession
382. 15:23a lot of times the police
383. 15:25keep certain information from the public
384. 15:28that way you can tell exactly who knew
385. 15:31what todd definitely
386. 15:34killed full people kill those four
387. 15:35people
388. 15:36on may 26 2017 todd pleaded guilty to
389. 15:40seven counts of murder two counts of
390. 15:42kidnapping and one kind of criminal
391. 15:44sexual assault and he was sentenced to
392. 15:47seven consecutive life sentences without
393. 15:49the possibility of parole there was a
394. 15:52plea bargain pretty much when they
395. 15:54interviewed him they
396. 15:56you know the lawyers did their job and
397. 15:58he was spared from capital punishment so
398. 16:00he would not be getting the injections
399. 16:02because south carolina does have a death
400. 16:05penalty
401. 16:06policies yeah now in usa
402. 16:10we still have 27
403. 16:12states that have dead penalty
404. 16:15right so today's case was a little
405. 16:18different we focused on the serial
406. 16:20killer todd kohlhepp in south carolina
407. 16:24instead of some other crimes
408. 16:27and
409. 16:28that is it for today so thank you
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