Woman — missing since August — found alive, chained - USA TODAY
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Anderson (S.C.) Independent Mail
11:47 p.m. EDT November 3, 2016
A South Carolina woman has been found alive after being held captive inside a metal storage container at a property in Woodruff, South Carolina, local authorities confirmed on Thursday
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ANDERSON, S.C. — A woman missing since the end of August was found Thursday chained up in a metal container in upstate South Carolina.
Kala Brown and her boyfriend, Charles Carver, 32, were last heard from Aug. 31.
On Thursday, Brown, 30, was found "in a container, chained up like a dog," in Woodruff, S.C., said Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright.
Todd Christopher Kohlhepp, 45, a registered sex offender from Moore, S.C., was arrested in connection with Brown's discovery, Wright said. No charge was listed on the Spartanburg Sheriff's Office website.
Brown worked for Kohlhepp, who is a Spartanburg County real estate broker and a licensed pilot. Police searched a home belonging to Kohlhepp and removed a car from the property late Thursday.
Police are still looking for Carver.
More than two dozen law enforcement officers were in Woodruff on Thursday focusing on a field and a wooded area surrounded by a chain-link fence. Woodruff is about 30 miles southeast of Greenville, S.C.
Anderson Police Chief Jim Stewart said more than a dozen search warrants were issued in their investigation into the couple's disappearance. "We got computer and cellphone records that ultimately led us to the area in Woodruff," he said. "We knew that was the last place that a cellphone tied to this case pinged."
Stewart said Spartanburg County investigators had been looking at the same land for a different case and were on the property Thursday morning when they heard Brown banging in the container where she had been kept.
Stewart said Anderson police are still looking for other suspects.
"We are in a wait-and-see mode," Stewart said. "We need more information before we will know how to go forward."
Stewart said Carver's estranged wife, Nicole Ellen Carver, had spoken with investigators, but wouldn't say what information, if any, they got from her.
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