The Latest: Suspect faces murder, kidnapping charges

In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 photo, registered sex offender Todd Christopher Kohlhepp's home is searched by Spartanburg County Sheriff's deputies and his vehicles are impounded in Moore, S.C., after he was arrested earlier in the day. A woman who was "chained up like a dog" for weeks in a dark storage container was lured to her captor's South Carolina property for a cleaning job, a family friend said Friday as search teams digging up the area found one body and looked for more. Kohlhepp, 45, who has a previous kidnapping conviction as a teenager in Arizona, appeared at a bond hearing Friday in Spartanburg on a kidnapping charge. More charges will be filed later, the prosecutor told the court. (John Byrum/The Spartanburg Herald-Journal via AP) (The Associated Press)

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Investigators with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office and Spartanburg Coroner's Office work the crime scene on property owned by Todd Kohlhepp, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in Woodruff, S.C., where a missing woman was found chained up in a large storage container. An body was found on the property as authorities were "trying to make sure that we don't have a serial killer on our hands," the sheriff said. Investigators were told the property could hold as many as three other corpses. (Tim Kimzey/The Spartanburg Herald-Journal via AP) (The Associated Press)

In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright speaks to the press near the crime scene on property owned by Todd Kohlhepp, in Woodruff, S.C., where a missing woman was found chained up in a large storage container. (Tim Kimzey/The Spartanburg Herald-Journal via AP) (The Associated Press)

WOODRUFF, S.C. – The Latest on the investigation after a missing woman was found chained inside a storage container (all times local):

7:45 a.m.

The man arrested after a woman was found chained on his property in rural South Carolina has been charged with multiple counts of murder.

The Spartanburg County Sheriff's website on Sunday says Todd Kohlhepp faces four counts of murder and a single kidnapping charge. A bond hearing has been set.

Sheriff Chuck Wright says Kohlhepp confessed Saturday that he was the shooter who killed four people at a motorcycle shop in 2003. Wright says Kohlhepp also showed law enforcement officers Saturday the gravesites of two of his other victims buried on his 95-acre property near Woodruff.

That's in addition to the body found Friday at the site. Wright and Coroner Rusty Clevenger identified that victim as 32-year-old Charles Carver, the boyfriend of the woman found in a locked metal container Thursday.

Wright says "God answered our prayers" in solving the 13-year-old cold case.

The sheriff says it's possible more bodies will be uncovered.

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12:00 a.m.

The wife of one of the four people killed in a 2003 shooting at a South Carolina motorcycle shop says the man who authorities say confessed to the killing was a disgruntled customer.

Melissa Ponder told The Associated Press she was resigned that her husband Scott's death would never be solved before getting a phone call Saturday evening from one of the case's original detectives.

Ponder says the detectives told family members of all four victims the news at the same time — Todd Kohlhepp confessed to the killings.

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright says along with the killings of the people found at the Superbike shop, Kohlhepp showed officers where two other people are buried on his property where they originally found a woman chained inside a container Thursday. A body found Friday has been identified as her boyfriend.

Ponder says detectives told her Kohlhepp was an angry customer who had been in the shop several times.

The Superbike killings stunned the Chesnee community, with rumors like they were committed by a Mexican drug gang or were part of a love triangle crushing the families of the victims.