The Latest: Sheriff: Suspect in 7 deaths not hiring attorney

Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger, left and Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright hold a news conference in front of Todd Kohlhepp's property in Woodruff, S.C., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. Authorities have found another body buried at the rural South Carolina property where a woman was found chained in a metal container. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro) (The Associated Press)

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Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright, left, and Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger hold a news conference in front of Todd Kohlhepp's property in Woodruff, S.C., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. Authorities have found another body buried at the rural South Carolina property where a woman was found chained in a metal container. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro) (The Associated Press)

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright speaks during a news conference in front of Todd Kohlhepp's property in Woodruff, S.C., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. Authorities have found another body buried at the rural South Carolina property where a woman was found chained in a metal container. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro) (The Associated Press)

WOODRUFF, S.C. – The Latest on a South Carolina man who confessed to killing four people in 2003 after authorities found a woman chained in a storage container on his property (all times local):

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1:30 p.m.

The South Carolina man who confessed to a quadruple murder in 2003 after authorities found a woman chained on his property will represent himself in court.

Sheriff Chuck Wright told the Spartanburg Herald-Journal (http://bit.ly/2fyeVOe ) that Todd Kohlhepp is choosing not to hire an attorney.

Kohlhepp became a suspect in at least seven deaths after a woman was found Thursday chained by her neck and ankle in a metal storage container on his 95-acre property near rural Woodruff.

WSPA-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2fwxkwb ) that authorities granted three requests before Kohlhepp confessed to the 13-year-old slayings at a Chesnee motorcycle shop.

Wright says he let Kohlhepp talk to his mother. Wright delivered a photo to Kohlhepp's mom. And he transferred money to a girl Kohlhepp says he's helping raise, to help pay for college.

Kohlhepp is also charged with kidnapping. More charges are expected. A body found Friday on the property has been identified as the boyfriend of the woman found a day earlier. Kohlhepp has shown officers where he says two more people are buried. Human remains were found in one gravesite Sunday.

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9:15 a.m.

Investigators continued Monday combing for human remains and other clues on the South Carolina property of a man accused of a grisly crime spree stretching more than a decade.

Todd Kohlhepp became a suspect in at least seven deaths after a woman was found Thursday chained by her neck and ankle in a metal storage container on his 95-acre property near rural Woodruff.

His arrest in that case led to his confession in a notorious quadruple slaying at a motorcycle shop from 2003 in the small town of Chesnee, investigators said. He was denied bond Sunday during a brief court appearance on four murder charges for those slayings.

He's also charged with kidnapping the woman, and more criminal counts are expected.

A body found Friday on the property has been identified as the woman's boyfriend. Both had been missing since late August. On Saturday, Kohlhepp showed officers where he says two more people are buried. Human remains were found in one of those sites Sunday.