After his release, Kohlhepp made strides in developing successful careers. He moved to South Carolina and obtained a job using a highly-padded resume (via All That’s Interesting). In 2006, he lied on his paperwork to obtain a real estate license, omitting his enrollment with the South Carolina Sex Offenders Registry (via Greenville News). That same year, he became a private airplane pilot, licensed to fly family single-engine planes. In a report by Global News, Kohlhepp later claimed that the license allowed him the opportunity to commit other crimes.
In 2007, Kohlhepp graduated with a second degree in business from the University of South Carolina – Upstate and managed real estate sales in North and South Carolina (via the Associated Press). As an entrepreneur, he built a medium-sized real estate firm that he ran out of his Moore, S.C. home. Kohlhepp bought property, including a house and 95 acres of woodland.
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But Kohlhepp didn’t maintain a completely innocent facade. He earned a bad reputation at the local Waffle House as being a “creep” to the waitresses (via CBS News). One waitress and her husband were later murdered and found buried along with three other bodies on Kohlhepp’s 95-acre woodland property.
When Kala Brown and her boyfriend, Charlie Carver, went missing, police scrambled to find the couple. After pinging the location of a cell phone, investigators were led to Kohlhepp’s property in the fall of 2016 (per WYFF).
