Another body found at chained woman property

Authorities have found another body buried at the property where a woman was found chained in a metal container.

Law enforcement personnel stand near police tape on Todd Kohlhepp's property in Woodruff, South Carolina Source: AAP

Authorities have found another body buried at the rural South Carolina property where a woman was found chained in a metal container.

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright says human remains have been uncovered in one of the two places that Todd Kohlhepp pointed to as gravesites. Wright says "we're not even close" to identifying the remains or cause of death.

The exhumation of those remains and search for others will continue at the 38-hectare property near Woodruff.

Wright says Kohlhepp has not said who is buried in the gravesites he showed officers Saturday.

A body found on the site on Friday has been identified as the boyfriend of the woman found a day earlier. Kohlhepp has also confessed to gunning down four people at a motorcycle shop in Chesnee in 2003.

Wright says the investigation is extending to other properties Kohlhepp currently or used to own. Those properties are not limited to South Carolina.