July 20, 2021- 8:25 p.m.
The Amazon user posted reviews for padlocks, tactical gear, targets, knives and gun accessories, often writing batches of reviews at various time in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The user posted a number of reviews just days before Anderson residents Kala Brown and Charlie Carver went missing in August.
The same month that Todd Kohlhepp acquired 95 secluded acres near Woodruff in May 2014, an Amazon user named “me” with a wish list linked to “Todd Kohlhepp” began to leave chilling reviews for products the user said he had purchased.
Kohlhepp was charged with kidnapping Brown, 30, of Anderson and keeping her chained by the neck and ankles for two months inside a metal storage shed on his property. Carver’s body was exhumed last week from the property and the coroner said he was shot multiple times.
On a review of a knife posted on Sept. 13, 2014, he said, “havnet (sic) stabbed anyone yet…… yet…. but I am keeping the dream alive and when I do, it will be with a quality tool like this…”
For a shovel with a folding handle, the user posted a review suggesting, “keep in car for when you have to hide the bodies and you left the full size shovel at home…. does not come with a midget, which would have been nice.”
On one review posted on Jan. 14, 2015, for another set of padlocks, the user said “now my locks have locks… place is hotel california now..”
The last line of The Eagles hit track says, “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.’”
The reference to Hotel California is similar to a post made on Carver’s Facebook profile on Oct. 1, more than a month after the couple went missing. That Facebook post, which the family believed at the time was not made by Carver, included the lyrics from the final lines of The Eagles song.
“Last thing I remember, I was running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. ‘Relax,’ said the night man. ‘We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.’”
