‘Keep for hiding the bodies’… chilling words of Amazon Review Killer Todd Kohlhepp who RATED his murder weapons online
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SERIAL killers often keep ‘trophies’ from their crimes but arrogant murderer Todd Kohlhepp went one step further - leaving Amazon reviews for the weapons used to butcher his victims. The depraved South Carolina businessman carried out seven sadistic killings over 13 years before he was eventually caught and given a life sentence in 2016.
![[Todd Kohlhepp was arrested after a woman was found chained up in a metal container]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2016-spartanburg-county-sheriffs-deputies-582960128.jpg?strip=all&w=768)
Now a new Channel 4 documentary, The Amazon Review Killer: Chilling Confession, explores his horrendous crimes. It reveals that Kohlhepp left chilling Amazon reviews about lethal weapons - including a chainsaw, padlock and knife - while carrying out a brutal murder spree over several years.
![[Chilling Amazon reviews helped nail the killer]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2016-connection-woman-found-chained-281538365.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
In 2014 a user named ‘me’ with a wish list linked to Todd Kohlhepp started to post sinister comments. One of his audacious reviews for an entrenching tool read: “Keep in your car for when you have to hide the bodies and you left the full size shovel at home.”.
![[The shocking reviews seemed tongue in cheek, but hid the horrific reality]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2016-connection-woman-found-chained-281538357.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
While another shocking review for a knife read: “Haven’t stabbed anyone yet…..yet…but I am keeping the dream alive and when I do it will be a quality tool like this.". Another for a chainsaw said: “Works excellent -getting the neighbour to stand still while you chase him with it is hard enough without an easy to use chainsaw.”.
![[Kala Brown was chained up in a metal container on Kohlhepp's land and kept as a sex slave for two months]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/serial-killer-claimed-victims-criminals-351925472.jpg?strip=all&w=620)
To outsiders Kohlepp, now 53, appeared to be living the American dream with a successful career in real estate, he won awards for his contributions in the area, and was described as a 'good boss’. However, those who knew him personally were often left disturbed by his inappropriate behaviour - watching pornographic videos at work, making macabre jokes and openly discussing his conviction for sex offences.
![[Kohlepp made a series of outrageous claims from his prison cell that he was 'saving' Kala and a lot of his victims were criminals]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/serial-killer-claimed-victims-criminals-351925475_30152a.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
