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Details about suspect emerge after captive woman's rescue

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    In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 photo, police search a field on property owned by Todd Kohlhepp where a missing woman was found chained up in a large storage container in Woodruff, S.C. (Tim Kimzey/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)

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    In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 photo, police search a field on property owned by Todd Kohlhepp where a missing woman was found chained up in a large storage container in Woodruff, S.C. (Tim Kimzey/The Spartanburg Herald-Journal via AP) (The Associated Press)

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Details are emerging about a man accused of chaining a woman in a storage container for weeks.

Teams digging on the property found one body Friday and feared there could be more.

Todd Christopher Kohlhepp, a 45-year-old registered sex offender with a previous kidnapping conviction in Arizona, appeared Friday at a bond hearing in Spartanburg on a kidnapping charge. More charges are expected.

The woman was rescued Thursday after weeks in captivity.

Prosecutor Barry Barnette says the Arizona case occurred when Kohlhepp kidnapped a 14-year-old girl, bound her and raped her in 1986.

Records from the Arizona case obtained by WHNS-TV in South Carolina show that a judge decided in 1987 to transfer the case to adult court partly because of Kohlhepp's aggressive nature.