Superbike Motorsports, a well-known motorcycle shop, became the scene of one of the most brutal mass murders in South Carolina history. Four people were gunned down in broad daylight and, for over a decade, the case remained unsolved. Until a shocking confession from an unexpected source turned everything upside down.

It was an ordinary afternoon. The shop was filled with the usual hum of conversation between employees and customers, the scent of oil and rubber hanging in the air. Then, in an instant, the business was silenced forever by gunfire. Later that day, an unsuspecting customer walked in on the aftermath of a massacre. He found Brian Lucas, the service manager, first. He’d tried to escape but was gunned down near the entrance. Scott Ponder, the owner, was shot first. His mother, Beverly Guy, who handled the bookkeeping, was killed next. In the back of the shop, Chris Sherbert, the mechanic, never had a chance. He was shot and killed where he stood and was found slumped over the bike he’d been working on. Each victim was executed with precision, multiple bullets fired to ensure they didn’t survive. The gunman walked out without taking a single thing.

The case baffled investigators. There had been no robbery, the victims had no known enemies, and there were no witnesses to the crime. It was as if someone had walked in, killed four people for no reason, and disappeared into thin air. Detectives pursued thousands of leads, but every road led to a dead end. Years passed, and the Superbike massacre went cold. Then, thirteen years later, an unrelated missing persons case cracked it wide open.

In August 2016, Kala Brown and her boyfriend, Charlie Carver, vanished. Their disappearance initially seemed like just another missing persons case, but two months later, a break came in the investigation. Brown’s phone had pinged off a signal coming from a remote property belonging to a local real estate agent, Todd Kohlhepp. When police arrived at the property, they found a locked shipping container and attempted to gain access to it with power tools they found on the property. After a few minutes, one of the officers told everyone to stop making noise. They’d heard an eerie sound – banging, coming from inside the storage container.

Inside, Kala Brown was found chained up like an animal. She had been held captive for two months. She told investigators that her boyfriend, Charlie, was already dead. Kohlhepp had shot and killed him in front of Kala and then buried him on the property. The horror of what police uncovered was only the beginning.

As investigators interrogated Kohlhepp, a chilling revelation emerged. He wasn’t just responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Charlie Carver. He had been killing for years and two more bodies were found on his property.

Then came the bombshell. Kohlhepp casually confessed to the Superbike Motorsports massacre. He spoke with zero remorse, describing the execution in disturbing detail. He claimed he had been mocked by the employees when he tried to buy a motorcycle and later returned it. Fueled by rage and humiliation, he decided he would get revenge. His “solution” was to methodically execute everyone in the shop. He bragged about how smoothly the attack went, calling it “effortless.” Detectives were stunned. They had spent over a decade searching for the killer, only to learn he had been hiding in plain sight.

As police dug into his past, Kohlhepp’s crimes only became more disturbing. His violent tendencies started early—at just fifteen years old, he had kidnapped and raped a fourteen-year-old girl, holding her at gunpoint. He was convicted as an adult and served nearly fifteen years in prison. After his release in 2001, he moved to South Carolina and started a new life, building a multi-million dollar real estate business. On the surface, he was a thriving entrepreneur. In reality, he was a serial killer.

The deeper the investigation went, the more chilling the details became. Kohlhepp had at least seven confirmed victims, including a young couple, Johnny and Meagan Coxie, whom he lured to his property with promises of work before killing them execution-style. He later admitted there could be more victims, but he refused to provide details. The mystery of just how many lives he destroyed may never be fully known.

At his sentencing in 2017, Kohlhepp pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault. He was sentenced to seven consecutive life terms without parole. As the victims’ families sat in the courtroom, they confronted him with the pain he had caused. “You are a coward,” one grieving mother told him but Kohlhepp has never shown any remorse.

For thirteen years, the Superbike Motorsports massacre had remained a ghost story, an unthinkable crime with no answers. The truth, when it finally emerged, was more horrifying than anyone could have imagined. Todd Kohlhepp was a serial predator hiding in plain sight, living a double life as a businessman while carrying out brutal executions in the shadows.