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Todd Kohlhepp, Seven Murders, and the Institutions That Looked Away

by Riocard Kelly
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798233963704
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Silverback Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Silverback Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 294
  • Original Price: GBP 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 341 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Murder / Serial Killers

Todd Kohlhepp, Seven Murders, and the Institutions That Looked Away

In November 2016, deputies executing a search warrant on a remote South Carolina compound heard banging from inside a locked shipping container. What they found, a young woman chained by the neck, alive after sixty-five days of captivity, ended the double life of Todd Kohlhepp: licensed real estate broker, private pilot, top-selling agent, and one of the most prolific killers in South Carolina history.

Todd Kohlhepp, Seven Murders, and the Institutions That Looked Away reconstructs Kohlhepp's full criminal career across three decades: from a 1986 kidnapping and rape in Arizona that the justice system failed to adequately prosecute, through a cold-case mass murder at a motorcycle dealership in 2003, to the compound murders and prolonged captivity that finally exposed him. Drawing on court records, confession transcripts, forensic evaluations, and the extraordinary Amazon product reviews in which he described his crimes to a public that did not know it was reading them, this book tells the story of seven people killed and one woman who survived, and of the cascading institutional failures that made every death preventable.

This is not a story about a monster hiding in shadows. It is a story about a predator who operated in plain sight, and about what it costs when the systems designed to stop him are not built to see him.

Kelly, Riocard: - "

Riocard Kelly is an Irish crime reporter and writer whose work spans investigative journalism, narrative non-fiction, and the intersection of criminal justice and social inequality. A native of Ireland currently based in County Clare, Kelly has spent years examining how institutional systems - policing, forensics, the courts - succeed and fail the people they are designed to protect, with particular focus on the cases that fall through the gaps of official attention.

The Bayou Strangler represents Kelly's most ambitious undertaking to date: a transatlantic investigation into one of America's most consequential serial murder cases, combining forensic analysis, sociological theory, and the biographical reconstruction of twenty-three lives that institutional indifference rendered invisible. Kelly brings to the American material the specific perspective of an outsider trained in the Irish tradition of rigorous public interest journalism - a tradition that has never flinched from examining the structural conditions through which powerful institutions fail ordinary people.

Kelly's writing has appeared across Irish and international publications. The Bayou Strangler is his first full-length book.

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