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Serial Confessions | Full Episode

March 04, 2025 / 43:01

This episode covers the harrowing story of Kayla Brown, who was found chained in a storage container, and her captor Todd Kohlhepp, a realtor who confessed to seven murders. It discusses the timeline of events leading to Kayla's rescue, the investigation into her boyfriend Charlie Carver's murder, and Kohlhepp's chilling confessions.

Kayla Brown recounts her terrifying experience being held captive by Todd Kohlhepp for two months after he shot her boyfriend, Charlie Carver. She describes the moment she was rescued by law enforcement in South Carolina, revealing the conditions of her captivity.

The episode features interviews with law enforcement officials, including Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright, who details the investigation that led to Kayla's rescue and the discovery of multiple victims buried on Kohlhepp's property.

In his confessions, Kohlhepp admits to a series of murders, including the execution of four people at Superbike Motorsports in 2003. The episode also highlights the impact of his actions on the victims' families.

Throughout the episode, forensic psychologist Dr. Chris Mandi provides commentary on Kohlhepp's psychological profile and the dynamics of his relationship with Kayla, emphasizing the manipulative nature of his behavior.

TLDR

Kayla Brown recounts her captivity by Todd Kohlhepp, a realtor who confessed to seven murders, including her boyfriend's killing.

Episode

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[Music] watch out out a woman found chained in a storage container her captor a successful
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realtor who confessed to seven murders a double life beyond belief those were the headlines now
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we've got the story behind the story the court has just released hundreds of documents photographs and even hours of
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videotape that reveal in stunning detail a Serial Killer's Journey Into Darkness Caleb Brown is a very good
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friend of mine she's really a wonderful person she always wants to please people
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one day Kayla met Charlie she said that this was different that they had a love that went beyond
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anything superficial I found out they were missing on Labor Day weekend after searching for her for 2
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months I then got a text message from another good friend of mine and they said they found Kaya she's
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alive investigators discovered Brown chained up like a dog inside of a metal storage container on Cup's rural South
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Carolina property let's talk about the day you're rescued what happened I think it was 9:00 I started hearing
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noises and then I heard somebody's voice and I couldn't say anything I couldn't breathe like I panicked somebody came up
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and like asked if I was in there and I said yeah and they're like we're going to get you
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out are you okay just a girl just a girl just a girl I remember asking her I'm like who are are you what's your name
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here's this girl chained up like a dog my neck's attached to the wall up here in the back of a container did I just
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step into Hollywood on a movie set she told the bise that she saw Todd cup shoot her boyfriend Charlie Carver
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do you know where your buddy is Charlie yes she shot him where did he shoot him in the
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chest and did he say anything not at first not until he grabbed me and told me to come inside or i' joined
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Charlie coap was arrested Thursday after 30-year-old Caleb Brown was rescued and he said can I talk to my mom
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before anything starts being said I'm sorry Mom did he cry mhm his eyes horrible they
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were both ing out of his face and they were red Todd is not a monster he's never been a monster he's not even close
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to it shot him twice okay in the chest he dropped forward I went around him and put another one through a spinal
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call he did some bad things but a monster no Ted Monday I'd call a monster but Todd
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he wasn't doing it for enjoyment he was doing it because he was mad and he was hurt I wonder what a mother says to a
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son after he tells her I killed seven people oh my God that's what she said and she experiences hurt that she's
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never experienced in her [Music] life 48 Hours serial confessions [Applause] [Music]
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this bizarre and frightening story began Labor Day weekend 2016 when 30-year-old
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Kayla Brown and her 32-year-old boyfriend Charles David Carver went missing near Spartanburg Charles David
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Carver is my son he is my first born Joanne shifflet he could bring a smile to the
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saddest person he loved to laugh Charlie Carver operated a printer at a local business his father Chuck
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says he was a gentle soul he never hurt anybody he would give you the shirt off his back or last $2 in his
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pocket that was just the guy he was the effort to find Charlie and Kaya started as soon as they went missing but it
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would take a couple of months to put that puzzle together investigators got a hold of a search warrant that allowed
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them to access Kayla's Facebook page and that's where they found a message that Kayla sent to Charlie where she
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referenced Todd kup and then there were the cell phone records Apparently one of
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the couple's last pings from their cell phones was near a property that Cola owned all signs pointed to a 99 acre
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piece of land owned by CB he kept it fenced off but sheriff's deputies obtained a warrant and they began
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searching there on November 3rd 2016 that's when they heard the female voice yelling for help inside that
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storage container I got there in 6 minutes that was 25 minutes away and I made it in
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six Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright in his deputies rush to cut the five locks off the storage container
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door those dramatic moments were captured by police are you okay do you have any
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weapon coming through okay what's your name what's your name okay all right just a girl just a girl
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just a girl how are you honey this Cutters this is our best he's a paramedic sthe okay we're going to get
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you out of there okay this hand loose for me anybody got a I need a handcuff key you put your hands down sweetheart
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you're okay we're here okay yes sir just both feet just one attach to a chain wall and my next attach to the wall up
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here okay all right all right we're going get you out sweetheart okay we'll get it off here cut it right here
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we're going to sty out sweet Kayla was rushed from the scene into an ambulance where she began talking about her twomon
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imprisonment at the hands of Todd cup what did Todd do while you were there we would get there between 1 and 3:00 every
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day take me up to the main building feed me make me do whatever he wanted seually
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and then he' put me back in the building it's okay to cry you've been through hell he said he was breaking all his
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rules with me and he didn't know if he was going to kill me or sell me or what [Music]
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yet Kayla told investigators she had gone to KB's isolated property to do some cleaning as she had before her
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boyfriend Charlie accompanied her and without warning or provocation Kayla said Todd CB shot
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Charlie as he stood next to her Kayla said it was so sudden and unexpected she could hardly believe it I was in shock I
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just went he pulled me to go and told me to go or he or I could join Charlie and
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I just went I was numb I I couldn't think I I still hadn't comprehended what happened Kayla Brown gave her first and
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only television interview to Dr Phil watching and she described how her two-month ordeal inside that storage
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container began it was pitch black but he had a flashlight and he had a lot of shelving with um like dried food and
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rations and stuff and like lots of bottles of water did he come in there with you yeah he he took me all the way
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in the back and did he leave you bound or did he unbind you he left me bound and he also
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put a chain around my neck how long was the chain 2 and 1/2 3 ft my neck was in one
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corner my ankle was in the other corner at the same time deputies were searching for Kayla other detectives
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were dispatched to Cup's home at that point the deputies do not know Kayla has been found they were there for C of cell
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phone and the visit begins with a cordial tone hello how you doing doing well but things start to get serious
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Rich stay right here as deputies begin getting phone calls on their cell phones from their colleagues who were at Cup's
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property kup is handcuffed and then he's told the news KLA has been rescued all right this is where we're at Mr
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Co while we were here all right M my sergeant Ser search one on your property okay okay we have cayb excuse me we have
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cayb in your property she was locked in a container okay she has told us that you
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shot and killed Charlie you're under arrest right now for kidnapping all right they continued to
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search for your property they're going to continue to bring they got cab dogs down there okay okay if you want to help
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yourself tell me where Charlie's at so we can go find his body that's that's pretty much where
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we're at right now okay do you want to help me yourself and tell me where the body's at so we
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can go recover Charlie's body no sir you don't want to no sir okay why' you shoot
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him I didn't shoot any place her okay why did you lock her in a container in your property I was talking about I'm
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onlyy an attorney um probably good thing go ahead and put him in the back of your
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car want your driveway right here going on passenger side all right yes sir [Music]
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okay Kayla told Dr Phil that Kip raped her repeatedly when he raped you did his demeanor change
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afterwards no same before and same after did he leave you bound during this time yes sir hands behind your back yes
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sir after his arrest kup begged the sheriff to allow him to tell his mother Regina tag what he had done before she
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heard it from someone else she in turn tried to tell her son's story to us I want to say something to the people
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that have been hurt I want the world to know that he's he's not a bad person he's a good
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person why did he chain that girl up because he didn't know what to do at that point she saw evidently saw him
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kill the other the her boyfriend and he didn't know what to do with her he couldn't turn her loose
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she go get the police so he chained her up and tried to make her as comfortable as possible and he he had a dilemma
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Regina says kup promised her that he did not abuse Kayla and in fact treated her
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well I wanted to know how sorry I am and I think Todd is too because he didn't want to hurt
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her he just said know what to do why did he kill her boyfriend because he got nasty and got smart mouth and tied hired
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him to to do some stuff and Todd pays well and the guy got mie about it and from what I
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gathered said some smart things to Todd and I just Tod shot him is that how your son handled his anger
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he just killed people when they mistreated him never before that may be what KB told his mama
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but it was far from the truth as he himself told police is going to be up late tonight in a series of candid
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confessions KB stunned investigators by admitting to seven different murders and I shot her two to three times in the
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chest not my best work it seems almost surreal now but if you would ask people in town about Todd
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Cola before his arrest they would have talked about him in glowing terms just listen to the local sheriff he did his
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job super good you know I just met him around town I mean he he did his job very well I mean he was a good realtor
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if you wanted to buy a house to see someone you'd have called well heck yeah I would have this guy know knew exactly
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what he was doing he's very smart kup was single lived in an upscale home drove a BMW and had a pilot's
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license but there was no doubt he had a dark side after invest tigators located the
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body of Charlie Carver kup LED detectives to two other bodies that he buried on his land a young married
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couple Megan and Johnny Joe coxy got her number we talked on the phone for a brief moment okay basically
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offered her the job offered to let him go in and do come work as well and then in an otherwise ordinary interrogation
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room at the Spartenburg County Sheriff's Department kup began began his extraordinary confessions talking for
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hours with investigators there was almost no emotion except for laughter he joked that his new notoriety might give
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a boost to his real estate business I mean I'm thinking some people put my face on some Billboards were like hey no
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the face hire [Music] him cup revealed that he crossed paths with Megan and Johnny Joe when they were
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down on their luck he offered to pay them to do some cleanup work at his property
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and I picked them up and I drove them to my land event kid supplies M and got them down to my building and that's when
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Johnny pulled a knife out mhm and you shot I shot okay and you shot her not exactly it was December 2015 about a
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year before Kayla was rescued Kip says he held Megan in the same container where he later chained
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Kayla I didn't know what to do with it man um one side I really want to drop her the next side I
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really kind of wanted to save her he says he bought Megan cigarettes Pizza even her favorite soda pop but after
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about a week CB says she became too hard to control and he felt the easiest way out for him was to kill
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her all drop side to put a for in the back of her head what gun did you shoot her with same one that you shot mhm
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Johnny Johnny with M and that's a Glock and that's the same one you shot Charlie
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Charlie it's not my favorite gun just it's just it's a it's a handy handy one it's very
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effective less than a year later on August 30th 2016 colip says he invited Caleb Brown
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to his quote Sanctuary she asked if her boyfriend Charlie could come along and cup agreed but says he got a little
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testy when the two began bickering in front of him what made you shoot Charlie I don't
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know how to answer that I don't know how to answer that honestly I was angry at her I was angry
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at him it just went very quickly after he killed Charlie CB kept Kayla alive as a sex slave for 2 months
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before she was rescued she believes CB did not kill her because it seemed as she told Dr Phil that he
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was infatuated with [Music] her how did he seem infatuated I mean he let me know that I
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was his property and that he chose me and told me how beautiful and smart I was and stuff like that did you respond
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when he said these things to you not at first later on I realized that I had to stay alive in order to be
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found so I made him think whatever I had to to stay alive and to keep him from abusing me but if you ask Todd cup he'll
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tell you all the sex was consensual the only problem I have with any of this is I'm not going to set
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Kayla's right that's not going to that's I'll fight all the way we'll go JY I won't win but I'm make it extremely
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extremely costly the idea that he claims all these rapes were actually consensual
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sex is outrageous Dr Chris Mandi is a forensic psychologist and CBS News consultant it's failing to take into
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account the scenario that he created he's put her into bondage after seeing her boyfriend executed the fact that
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he's outraged you know that he might be char charged with rape ridiculous kup said he allowed
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Kayla to shower at an apartment he kept next to the storage container and he claims he pretty much gave her what she
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asked for she had me get her the DVD player the MP3 player the coloring books coloring books adult coloring
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books okay dude I didn't question I just it got her to shut up indulge her requests for Creature Comforts like
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coloring books is his way of playing God with her it's almost like granting her prayers it is not actions of goodness
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Mandi says whether she realizes it or not Kayla was manipulating kup while it seemed to him that he was granting her
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favors Kayla was actually ingratiating herself to him submissiveness as a behavioral tactic very effective with
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Todd Kap so these kinds of behaviors that she was asking for and that he was granting were a brilliant and
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resourceful way of her surviving to the extent that you can get the offender to do things for your
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well-being it's going to make it that much more difficult for them to harm you did he have a fantasy that at some point
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the two of you would become a couple oh yeah yeah and live together and did he talk about the fantasy yeah I mean he
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was going to build a house in the property and I was going to have a you know a soundproof room and you know he'd
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let me have the run of the property eventually when he trusted me and yeah he even said that he would let me go and
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give me some money if he ever got old and sick so he was thinking very long term Mandi says there's really only one
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way to describe the type of man Todd kup is he is a reptile in the truest in in the truest sense of the word in fact
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long before he took Kayla captive Todd kup was a sexual predator when he was only 15 years old he kidnapped and raped
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a 14-year-old girl in tempy Arizona Todd Kip charged as an adult pleaded guilty to kidnapping in exchange
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that sexual assault charge was dropped the troubled teens spent the next 14 years in the Arizona Prison System and
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when he got out he moved right back here to South Carolina started a new life and
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eventually bought this home here I set everything up so that he could be a productive part of our
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city and that he could enjoy the rest of his life and do what he loved doing you never give up on
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him no you don't give up on kid you don't do that you can't cup was not done confessing far
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from it the next story he told shocked the sheriff to his core he admitted to mass murder and the sheriff knew exactly
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what he was talking about a cold case that had been unsolved for nearly 13 years Peter vanand has that story
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[Music] next it is one of the most notorious unsolved murder mysteries in South Carolina's history four people shot
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execution style at Superbike Motorsports in chzn a brutal crime that baffled police for for over a decade was now
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being claimed by Todd Kap who says he opened fire that day after what he perceived was rude
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treatment by the owner and his staff did they say anything to you was there any conversation don't please
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whatever no sir with any of this I don't remember hearing any of that I I will tell you that once I engaged I was
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engaged okay um so it's at that point it's almost like a video game it's not a game but
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it's almost you you're focused on you've been there sir you know what I'm talking about before Cole hepp's
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confession back when the murders happened investigators had a very different suspect in mind this woman
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it's still sometimes hard for me to believe that this is my story this is my late husband's story that
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this is us sitting here talking about it it All Began one cold November morning in 2003 Melissa Ponder was 7 weeks
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pregnant and still asleep when her husband Scott left for work at the Motorsports dealership their family
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business hours later he would call to check in what were the last words he said to you he said okay I will see you
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later I love you bye sometime after 2 p.m. Scott Ponder his mother Beverly his service manager
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and close friend Brian Lucas and his mechanic Chris sheret were all hard at work at the bike shop when someone
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gunned them down where is your emergency it's Motorsports okay what's the problem
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apparently everybody's been shot up here four murders committed in a matter of seconds ending for Melissa a picture
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perfect marriage I was happy I was pregnant sicker than a dog but I was so excited about
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it Terry guy was Scott's stepfather he lost Scott and his wife just a split second your whole
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worlds just turned completely upside down here's a no Lorraine and Tom Lucas lost their son Brian I was real proud of
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him he's just a good person anybody that needed help and they asked him he would
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do it he got married he had two children two sons he was a wonderful father and I
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have heard from people that they say he was the best mechanic around early on in the investigation a
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witness reported seeing a man in the bike shop not long before the murders in his confession Todd corroborated that
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part of the story saying he spared that witness because he was with his young son I knew a guy came in with a kid
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looking for a go-kart and Le left okay cuz I intentionally waited till they were gone at the time police thought it
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was strange that nothing had been taken from the bike shop this was not a robbery gone bad so police did what they
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always do they focused on those closest to the victims I was polygraphed and I was asked the very serious questions of
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did you kill your husband Scott Ponder did you plan the murder of your husband Scott Ponder your answers were always oh
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absolutely not no 7 months later Melissa gave birth to a son that birth overshadowed any type of of sadness that
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I had felt through this I got to hold a piece of him again I had his flesh and blood with me she
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named him Scotty after his father how long after the birth did did the police come back my son was 6 months old I get
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a phone call one day we need you to come down to the dealership don't bring the baby with you we need to talk to you
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what Melissa didn't know is that police had gotten an anonymous tip that Scott was sterile police suspected Melissa was
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having an affair and wanted Scott out of the picture they they proceeded to tell
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me that we took a diaper that you threw away here a couple weeks ago and and sent it off to have a DNA test done the
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problem is it doesn't match up with your husband's DNA and I immediately said no
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way there's no way what there's there's no way that this is not my husband's baby there's no way and so I said I'm
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going to get my baby you will swab his mouth in front of me I will watch you put it in that envelope you know I was
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just no no notion is a potential love triangle for sure and a love triangle can create
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a motive for for murder correct and they're wondering if you did the killing or if someone you know right Melissa was
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sure the second DNA test would prove Scott was the father but incredibly it did not he said Melissa we now have two
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DNA tests that show Scott Ponder is not the father of your baby we need you to come clean and we need you to tell us
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who the father is and I said you're trying to pin something on me that has nothing to do with me this is his baby
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and I will have his body exhumed right now that never happened police soon admitted that they got it wrong the vial
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of blood they were testing against the baby's DNA was mislabeled by another agency Melissa was cleared but it was
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too late the damage was done the rumors ran rampant I cannot tell you the things
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that have been said about me I know that Scott's grandmother who I thought I was
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close to died believing that that was not her own grandson the truth of what happened that
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day would not be revealed for 13 years not until Todd Co have in an even and unemotional tone calmly laid out the
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horrifying details of how he slaughtered four people received to walk back to the
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building again to clear and as I went I one round to each person's [Music] [Applause]
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[Music] [Music] forehead The Fast and Furious world of Superbike Motorsports was once the
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premier pit stop for high octane Thrill Seekers anytime I was off work I would go up
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there a lot of us went up there to hang out it was it was a good time a really good time nol Lee was a regular at the
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shop and became friends with Scott Ponder and Brian Lucas definitely my closest friends I would leave there some
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on some days I was say all right guys love you guys but on the afternoon of November 6th 2003 when no went to see
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his friends he stumbled onto a horrifying blood soaked crime scene it's Motorsports apparently
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everybody's been shot up here everybody's laying down in a pool of blood no is still haunted by the
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memories of what happened I know it doesn't look like much now but uh back in 2003 this was the place you wanted to
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be this is supposed to be a safe place everything changed when Caleb Brown was found chained inside that
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container after her capture and Todd Kip's arrest he unraveled for police his murderous career taking full credit for
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the superbike killings showing no emotion he told detectives the story of what happened that day I bought a
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motorcycle from them it All Began Co hiip says after he bought a motorcycle he admits he could not ride he says went
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back and asked the store's employees for help and told him that I was having a hard time writing it and I was trying to
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see if I could possibly traded in for a smaller bike they proceeded to give me little on the road side about uh my
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inability to to to ride that kind of bike no one ever taught me days later the motorcycle was stolen and Cole help
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felt someone at the superbike shop was involved it was implied that we up your after his arrest cooh hiip told his
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mother The Experience left him feeling humiliated they made fun of him and they laughed at
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him made jokes at him he was hurt on a quiet afternoon in 2003 Kap sought Revenge coap picked out a bike to
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buy and when the mechanic went into a back room to parrot Kap followed him and pulled a Baretta from his shoulder
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holster so you pulled out the Baretta and what happened um shot the mechanic twice downward
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angle I got him to lung t two lung shots okay I got each longer they had heard the gunshots in the back and were coming
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this way to figure out what had happened all sudden I had three people in front of me mom was the closest and I shot her
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two to three times in the ja just not my best work she fell that the owner and the
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manager ran from the door took off in the process of that I emptied popped a few rounds and
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got one of them in the back and he crumpled in the door did a tactical reload and dropped the other one before
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he got out the door I put I believe two maybe three rounds in him I'm not sure the count that was a very fast
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rning after kp's confession Melissa got a phone call at her Arizona home from one of the detectives involved in the
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original case he told Melissa about the arrest and said KP had revealed a key detail only the killer would know Kap
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admitted firing a single bullet in into the forehead of each of his victims after all those years you are
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finally told who murdered your husband right and it's somebody that didn't even ring a bell
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with me never even heard of the guy in fact police knew the name Todd Kap for years because he'd been a
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customer investigators had sent cooh hiip a form letter in 2013 asking him to come forward if he
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had any information about the murders that letter was one of hundreds of pages of documents in the case File released
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this month there was no reason to interview everybody there was nothing in this gentleman's background that
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screamed you know I did this but that infuriates Scott's stepfather Terry Guy the sad part about it
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is you know had they thoroughly checked every every person on it they might have
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helped ever how many people this gentleman's killed in the last 13 years days after his arrest Todd Kap was
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formally charged with the superbike homicides and for the first time Tom and Lorraine Lucas came face to face with
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their son's killer I was expecting probably to see somebody that had tattoos and earrings and you know just
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me looking and so forth and I was just just staring at him thinking I'm not I I just don't get it there's a lot about
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Todd Kap people just don't get he seems different somehow after all most murderers don't make casual jokes about
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killing their victims I said my golf game is weak my kill game is strong despite all the confessions kp's
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case still needed to be heard in a court of law and he was upfront when asked what a fitting end to his story might be
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I mean I'm joking aside I what do you want take me out back sh me back in the head I shot her two three times in the
00:37:20
chest not my best work shot the mechanic twice in the hours he spent confessing to Detectives
00:37:27
did a tactical reload and dropped the other one Todd kup remained remarkably candid even when he showed police where
00:37:35
he buried his victims up there at the spot where you took Charlie mhm there were two holes dug mhm what was your
00:37:43
intent with the second hole hadn't decided yet was that possibly for Kayla yes sir kup even told Kayla he had already
00:37:52
picked out his next victim some girl named Holly he supposedly planning to kill if he can
00:37:57
never get her and her boyfriend out I don't know why he there was really only one way to describe Todd kup your son is
00:38:05
the definition of what's known as a serial killer I hate that you think he'll plead guilty or not
00:38:13
guilty he compl guilty cuz he knows he did it and so 7 months after his arrest on
00:38:23
May 29th 2017 Todd KB stood before judge J Durham Cole do you wish to enter a ple of
00:38:31
guilty or not guilty to each of the charges contained in each of these separate indictments in the quiet South Carolina
00:38:40
courtroom the moment felt like a dry legal matter but in truth the softspoken Todd kup had just admitted killing
00:38:48
Charlie Carver cayla's boyfriend Johnny Joe coxy and his wife Megan Lee mcra coxy and the four people at the super
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bike Motorsports store owner Scott Ponder his mother Beverly service manager Brian Lucas and mechanic Chris
00:39:05
Sherbert as to each of the seven counts of Murder in the end Todd KB bargained for his own life is that true he would
00:39:15
escape the death penalty in exchange for pleading guilty to seven murders as well as the kidnapping and
00:39:22
rape charges related to Caleb Brown he was given seven con itive life sentences plus 60 years my kill game is
00:39:31
good the man who laughed during his confession showed no remorse even when the families of his victims poured into
00:39:39
the courtroom to make their Victim Impact statements I hope Mr K will spend every day for the rest of his life
00:39:47
thinking about pain and suffering he has caused so many people cayb Brown was not in the
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courtroom but Melissa Ponder was I don't have a hatred towards him the only thing that comes to mind
00:40:03
for me is I'm sad that his life has been something that has led to these different events that has caused so much
00:40:11
trauma to other people yay her greatest love is for Scotty the young boy that was born after his father was murdered
00:40:19
Scotty watched as KB got the sentence that even he had wished for I just really hope he'd be in jail for the rest
00:40:26
of his like can die like I just don't want any more people to Die the question of whether KB killed others is an open
00:40:33
one there is nothing to indicate there are more victims but Sheriff Chuck Wright said in court he has not closed
00:40:40
that door and I vow to you that we will continue to search for other people who need and deserve closure as for cayb
00:40:50
brown she is recovering and she told Dr Phil she is a Survivor if he's watching this right now what do you have to say
00:40:58
to him I would just tell him that no matter what he did to me he did not break me he
00:41:05
cannot destroy who I am and I won there was no relief for Todd KB's 7-year-old mother she had told us that
00:41:14
his Killing Spree made her heart sick what do you want to say to the families did I know how bad they've hurt
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all this time and they've all lost someone they love so dearly and I am so sorry that it was my son that hurt
00:41:40
them Regina T died without ever having to watch her son stand before the families of his victims and admit the
00:41:49
unthinkable and there's nothing I can do about it I can't change it I wish to God I
00:41:59
could for them as much as me and Todd everybody's hurt he hurt [Music] everybody
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Badges

This episode stands out for the following:

  • 90
    Most shocking
  • 90
    Most intense
  • 90
    Most unpredictable
  • 85
    Most dramatic

Episode Highlights

  • The Rescue of Kayla Brown
    Kayla Brown was found chained inside a storage container after being missing for two months.
    “Just a girl, just a girl, just a girl.”
    @ 07m 03s
    March 04, 2025
  • The Tragic Story of Charlie Carver
    Charlie Carver was shot by Todd Kup, leading to Kayla's captivity.
    “I was in shock, I just went.”
    @ 08m 48s
    March 04, 2025
  • Todd Kup's Confession
    Todd Kup confessed to multiple murders, shocking investigators with his admissions.
    “I shot her two to three times in the chest, not my best work.”
    @ 14m 32s
    March 04, 2025
  • Melissa's DNA Test Shock
    Melissa is devastated when DNA tests reveal her son isn't Scott's. "There's no way that this is not my husband's baby."
    “There's no way that this is not my husband's baby.”
    @ 28m 34s
    March 04, 2025
  • Todd Kap's Chilling Confession
    Todd Kap admits to his gruesome crimes with unsettling nonchalance. "My kill game is strong."
    “My kill game is strong.”
    @ 36m 49s
    March 04, 2025
  • Cayb Brown's Resilience
    Cayb Brown declares her strength despite the trauma inflicted on her. "I won."
    “He cannot destroy who I am and I won.”
    @ 41m 05s
    March 04, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • He was mad and he was hurt.
    Serial Confessions | Full Episode
  • Just a girl, just a girl, just a girl.
    Serial Confessions | Full Episode
  • There's no way that this is not my husband's baby.
    Serial Confessions | Full Episode
  • I will have his body exhumed right now.
    Serial Confessions | Full Episode
  • I just don't get it.
    Serial Confessions | Full Episode
  • He cannot destroy who I am and I won.
    Serial Confessions | Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Rescue07:40
  • Confession14:25
  • Tragedy25:55
  • DNA Test Revelation28:34
  • Todd Kap's Confession36:49
  • Cayb's Strength41:05
  • Mother's Regret41:59

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