For 13 years, the relatives came together periodically to grieve one of South Carolina's grisliest mass shootings and compare leads with stumped investigators. 
 
 On Sunday, they gathered again on the anniversary of the crime — this time in a Spartanburg courtroom after an unexpected break led to the man who, authorities say, confessed to the quadruple slayings. 
 
 The victims' relatives sat a few feet away from Todd Kohlhepp as he was denied bond on the murder charges. It was their first chance to face the man accused of killing their loved ones. 
 
 After the hearing, Magistrate Judge Jimmy Henson thanked the families for their civility and composure. 
 
 "I know there's a lot of hurt ... beyond what a lot of people understand," he said. 
 
 Authorities have charged Kohlhepp, 45, with four counts of murder in the 2003 deaths at the Superbike Motorsports motorcycle shop in Chesnee. 
 
 Kohlhepp's alleged role in those killings was uncovered, authorities said, after a woman was found last week chained in a locked metal container on Kohlhepp's property in rural Woodruff. 
 
 The murder charges against Kohlhepp represent welcome progress for investigators and families haunted by the slayings at the motorcycle shop. The killings shocked the state and left the victims' parents and spouses reeling with each new rumor about a possible motive. 
 
 "We got 'em today. We got 'em today," Sheriff Chuck Wright said late Saturday, referring to answers in the cold case. "I'm rejoicing that this community can know that four people who were brutally murdered, there's no wondering about it anymore," said Wright, who was first elected to the position about a year after the quadruple slayings. 
 
 A Spartanburg County Sheriff's investigative report from Saturday says Kohlhepp "confessed to investigators that he shot and killed" the owner, service manager, mechanic and bookkeeper of the motorcycle shop, giving details only the killer would know. 
 
 Kohlhepp is also charged with the woman's kidnapping, and prosecutors say more charges are expected. 
 
 Officers are making more grisly discoveries as they unwind a hidden crime spree that unfolded over more than a decade. 
 
 The investigation has expanded to other properties that Kohlhepp, a real estate agent, either currently or used to own. Those properties are not limited to South Carolina, Wright said Sunday, declining to be more specific. 
 
 Both the FBI and Homeland Security are involved, he said. 
 
 Kohlhepp showed investigators Saturday where he says he buried two other victims on his 95-acre property near Woodruff. Human remains were uncovered Sunday at one of those sites, Wright said. 
 
 "We're not even close" on identifying the remains or cause of death, he said. "We can't tell anything." 
 
 Kohlhepp did not tell investigators who was buried there. Even if he did, investigators can't take that as identification, the sheriff said. 
 
 The excavation of that grave and search for others continues Monday. 
 
 The gravesites Kohlhepp pointed to are in addition to the body found Friday at the site. Authorities identified that victim as 32-year-old Charles Carver, the boyfriend of the woman found Thursday. Carver died of multiple gunshot wounds after he and the woman went missing at the end of August. 
 
 The Associated Press is not naming the woman because the suspect is a sex offender, though authorities have not said whether she was sexually assaulted. 
 
 In Spartanburg, Kohlhepp appeared in an orange jumpsuit for the brief bond hearing and declined to make a statement. He didn't have an attorney. 
 
 After Kohlhepp left the courtroom, Henson told the family members that they would have a chance later to address Kohlhepp in court. 
 
 "When it comes your time to speak to that defendant, speak from the heart," he said. "You have something to say. You've been waiting 13 years to say it." 
 
 The father of Brian Lucas, the 29-year-old slain service manager, thanked the judge. 
 
 "Your honor, I appreciate your words to us and your counsel," Tom Lucas said as two others put their hands on his shoulders. "We thank you." 
 
 Standing with his wife before the hearing, Lucas said he wanted to be in court to look Kohlhepp in the eye. 
 
 "I want to look at him, and I want to try to use that in healing," he said. 
 
 He and his wife, Lorraine, said there was a vigil Friday night to mark the anniversary of the killings, and gatherings were a regular occurrence over the years. 
 
 Before Kohlhepp emerged as a suspect, investigators have said all four victims were killed with the same pistol. They have theorized that the killer came in the back and killed mechanic Chris Sherbert, 26, as he worked. Bookkeeper Beverly Guy, 52, was found just outside the bathroom in the middle of the showroom. 
 
 Thirty-year-old shop owner Scott Ponder was found just outside the door in the parking lot. He was Guy's son. Brian Lucas was in the doorway of the shop. 
 
 Kohlhepp was released from prison in Arizona in 2001. As a teenager, he was convicted of raping a 14-year-old neighbor at gunpoint and threatening to kill her siblings if she called police. 
 
 Kohlhepp had to register as a sex offender. But that didn't stop him from getting a South Carolina real estate license in 2006, building a firm and maintaining the appearance of normalcy. 
 
 Melissa Ponder, who was married to Scott Ponder, said that detectives told her Kohlhepp was an angry customer who had been in the motorcycle shop several times. 
 
 She said that she had resigned herself to Scott Ponder's death remaining unsolved — until she got a phone call Saturday evening from detectives. 
 
 "It isn't closure, but it is an answer," Ponder said by phone. "And I am thankful for that." 
 
 Another grieving relative who came to the hearing, Terry Guy, was Scott Ponder's stepfather and Beverly Guy's husband. Guy said Kohlhepp's arrest means relatives of the victims can now finally be at peace. 
 
 "I'm just so relieved," Guy said. 
 
 The building that housed the shop is now shuttered and surrounded by a chain-link fence along a two-lane highway leading toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. 
 
 Two miles away in downtown Chesnee, Danny Lee said the killings rattled his quiet hometown of about 900 residents. The 52-year-old knew the victims and had a bike in the shop for repairs at the time. 
 
 "He said he did it. We've got to take his word for it," he said of the suspect. "What I still want to know is why." 
 
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 Adcox reported from Woodruff. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Jonathan Drew in Raleigh, North Carolina and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia contributed to this report. 
 
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 This story has been corrected to reflect that the first name of victim's father is Tom Lucas, not Todd. ||||| More details about alleged South Carolina killer Todd Kohlhepp and his violent past are coming to light as investigators follow up on leads that have emerged in the wake of his arrest this weekend. 
 
 Police found another body Sunday buried at Kohlhepp's property where a woman was found chained in a metal container last week, Spartanburg County officials said. 
 
 Sheriff Chuck Wright told the media human remains were uncovered in one of the two places that Kohlhepp pointed out as grave sites. He said police have not yet identified the remains or cause of death, and the search for more bodies will continue today. On Sunday, Wright said Kohlhepp had also confessed to four murders in 2003. The sheriff described the alleged killer as “calm and polite” and said he gave his confession voluntarily. 
 
 Richard Shiro/AP Photo 
 
 Police said the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are involved in the case but did not mention why or what role they were playing in the investigation. 
 
 As the investigation into Kohlhepp's alleged crimes expands, it's useful to look back at the most prominent murders to which police say he has already confessed, as well as his history as a sex offender. 
 
 Superbike Motorsports 
 
 Superbike Motorsports, a high-performance motorcycle shop in Chesnee, South Carolina, became a household name for residents after a quadruple homicide that occurred there in 2003. It has become one of the most haunting unsolved murders in the state. 
 
 Richard Shiro/AP Photo 
 
 According to a 2016 report by Crime Watch Daily, a man named Noel, who was a friend of store owner Scott Ponder, drove to the bike shop on the morning of Nov. 6, 2003, and found the bodies. 
 
 Noel found a mechanic named Chris Sherbert bent over as though he were working on a bike, according to Crime Watch Daily. Beverly Guy, a bookkeeper at the store, was shot while leaving the bathroom, according to the report. Ponder and another man, Brian Lucas, were found shot near the front of the store, according to The Associated Press. 
 
 Authorities had traced a number of leads in the case, including potential connections to other murders in neighboring towns, but each of them went cold. Investigators have said all four victims were killed with the same pistol, the AP reported. Kohlhepp confessed to the killings over the weekend, police say. He has been charged with four counts of murder in that case. 
 
 Today, the building that housed Superbike Motorsports is shuttered and surrounded by a chain-link fence along a two-lane highway leading toward the Blue Ridge Mountains, according to The Associated Press. 
 
 A 13-Year Wait 
 
 Family members expressed a range of emotions yesterday in response to police stating that Kohlhepp had confessed he was the killer. 
 
 Terry Guy, Scott Ponder's stepfather, spoke outside of the Spartanburg County jail on his way to a bond hearing for Kohlhepp, and said he suffered depression in the wake of the Superbike Motorsports killings. 
 
 "I lost 70 pounds," he told the press. 
 
 Regarding his feelings after learning the identity of the alleged killer, Guy said that he was relieved, but also sympathetic for Kohlhepp's family. 
 
 "My emotions are running from joy to crying, even feeling sorry for the family [of Kohlhepp] I feel for them," he said. 
 
 He also said that he would like "to pray" with Kohlhepp, but added that he expected justice to be served in the case. 
 
 "The gentleman has to pay for what he did," he said. 
 
 Tom and Lorraine Lucas, the parents of Brian Lucas, also spoke to the press outside of the courthouse. 
 
 "We want to see the face. I want to look at him, and I want to try to use that in healing," Tom Lucas said, referring to Kohlhepp. 
 
 A Suspect with a Criminal Past 
 
 Kohlhepp had a criminal record that preceded his arrest on Saturday. 
 
 According to South Carolina's sex offender registry, he was required to register as a sex offender in the state after he was convicted of a kidnapping in Arizona in 1987. 
 
 According to court documents obtained by ABC News, Kohlhepp was arrested when he was 15 years old for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl when he was living with his father in Arizona in 1987. Kohlhepp allegedly went to the girl's house, threatened her with a blue steel revolver and forced her to come to his home where he tied her up and taped her mouth shut before raping her. He then walked her back to her house and threatened to kill her family if she told anyone. 
 
 The girl called police to report the incident with Kohlhepp, whom she said she knew as "Todd Sampsell," using his father's last name, according to court documents. 
 
 Kohlhepp admitted his guilt to police and told authorities he did it because he was enraged at his father, who divorced from his mother when he was about a year old, according to the documents. Kohlhepp told police he was born in Florida, raised in Georgia and moved around a lot. He eventually became a resident in South Carolina where his mother -- identified in court documents as Regina Kohlhepp -- lived. 
 
 Kohlhepp's case was moved from juvenile to adult court. The judge who moved his case described Kohlhepp as "very bright and should be advanced academically," but said he is "behaviorally and emotionally dangerous." 
 
 "At less than the age of 9, this juvenile was impulsive, explosive, and preoccupied with sexual content. He has not changed. He has been unabatedly aggressive to others and destructive of property since nursery school. He destroys his own clothing, personal possessions and pets apparently on whim and caprice," the judge wrote. 
 
 Kohlhepp pleaded guilty, providing that the sexual assault charge be dismissed. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and was required to register as a sex offender. ||||| Moore, South Carolina (CNN) They were poking fun at Todd Kohlhepp, but he wasn't enjoying the joke. 
 
 Kohlhepp had traveled to Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee, South Carolina, and spoke with the shop owner and another employee. 
 
 "He wanted to learn how to ride a motorcycle and they laughed at him when he fell over on the bike," said Kohlhepp's mother, Regina Kohlhepp. "You know, this is all why people tell kids not to bully. This is what can happen." 
 
 What happened was the November 2003 killing of four employees -- including the owner -- at the motorcycle shop. 
 
 Kohlhepp, who authorities say may be responsible for seven killings, confessed to the quadruple homicide and he's been charged in the cold case 
 
 "Todd was bullied and embarrassed and I think he just held it in long enough," his mother said Thursday. 
 
 It's not clear whether the four died on the same day as the incident with Kohlhepp, or if he returned another time. 
 
 A widow wonders why incident led to violence 
 
 Melissa Brackman, widow of shop owner Scott Ponder, has a different version of the events. 
 
 "I was told he was a disgruntled customer. He bought a motorcycle from Scott previously. His motorcycle was stolen, he went to get another one," Brackman told CNN sister network HLN earlier this week. 
 
 "My husband and the service manager were poking fun at him saying, 'Hey, (is) the second motorcycle going to get stolen, too? Didn't you have enough already?' They were kidding ... and he said that made him angry." 
 
 "That is the kind of thing that a normal everyday person wouldn't go crazy over," said Brackman. 
 
 The bodies of the shop victims -- Ponder, along with his mother, Beverly Guy, and service manager Brian Lucas and employee Chris Sherbert -- were found inside the business. 
 
 Authorities also have found three bodies on Kohlhepp's property near Woodruff. They first went on November 3 to search for Kala Brown, 30, who had been missing since August with her boyfriend. 
 
 Investigators found her chained by the ankle and neck and screaming for help inside a shipping container. 
 
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 Kohlhepp, 45, didn't cooperate at first, but on November 5 he went back to the property with investigators and led them to the bodies of Brown's boyfriend, Charles Carver, 32, and a couple, said Lt. Kevin Bobo, Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office spokesman. 
 
 Bobo said Kohlhepp cooperated after he was allowed to see his mother and deliver a photo to her and to transfer money to the bank account of a friend's child. 
 
 'I'm going through hell right now' 
 
 It's not clear when Todd Kohlhepp first told his mother about the Chesnee slayings. Kohlhepp has not entered a plea and is being held pending a bail hearing. 
 
 Todd Kohlhepp is a registered sex offender who has been working as a real estate agent in the area. He bought the Woodruff farm in May 2014 for $305,000. 
 
 S. Boyd Young of the state's public defender's office said his office will represent Kohlhepp. Young declined comment on what Regina Kohlhepp said about the 2003 Chesnee case. 
 
 CNN was able to speak only briefly by phone with the mother who, like her son, lives in Moore. 
 
 "I'm going through hell right now, said Regina Kohlhepp. 
 
 She also spoke about her son's imprisonment for the 1987 kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl in Tempe, Arizona. 
 
 Originally, he was charged with kidnapping, sexual assault and committing a dangerous crime against children. The other charges were dropped after he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to court records obtained by CNN affiliates KPHO and KTVK. 
 
 "Todd was not a child you left alone," Regina Kohlhepp said. She said Todd's father had an emergency with his own father and they left Todd alone for three days. 
 
 "We left him home and then he was jealous of this girl's boyfriend, so he went and took her away to the house." 
 
 While authorities continue their investigation, relatives of the motorcycle shop victims are left to continue their mourning -- but with new questions. Brackman spoke with HLN's "Primetime Justice with Ashleigh Banfield." 
 
 Brackman was pregnant when her husband was killed. Scott Ponder Jr. is now 12. 
 
 "He looks a lot like him now. He has always known what happened, he has always known the truth," she told HLN. "He wanted to see (Kohlhepp's) face and I showed his face. He said, 'Mom, I wanted to see what (the killer) looked like.' " 
 
 She's not sure whether the family will go to any court hearings. 
 
 Brackman said the investigation and Kohlhepp's confession is the "beginning of a mess of things. I think he was been wreaking havoc for years. Part of me wants to know every last part. I go back and forth between wanting to know everything and nothing. ... Mixed emotions there."
– As bodies connected with Todd Kohlhepp continue to emerge, the suspected South Carolina serial killer's mom is linking four of the killings he's admitted to to one thing. "This is all why people tell kids not to bully. This is what can happen," Regina Kohlhepp said Thursday, per CNN. She was referring specifically to a quadruple murder in 2003—a cold case recently busted open by Kohlhepp's arrest, ABC News notes—that took place in a Chesnee motorcycle shop, where she says her son went to get some riding lessons and ended up leaving humiliated. "They laughed at him when he fell over on the bike," she tells CNN. "Todd was bullied and embarrassed and I think he just held it in long enough." The shop owner, his mom, and two employees were killed. It's unclear whether the murders took place the same day as the alleged bullying incident. The widow of the slain owner offers a different version, saying her husband and the others were just doing some gentle ribbing about the fact the first bike Kohlhepp bought from the shop had been stolen. "That is the kind of thing that a normal everyday person wouldn't go crazy over," she told CNN affiliate HLN. Regina Kohlhepp also talked with ABC about her son's conviction in 1987 as a 15-year-old for kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old girl at gunpoint, noting "Todd was not a child you left alone" and that the rape took place when Todd's dad had to leave Todd for three days due to a family emergency. The judge who moved Kohlhepp's case to adult court back then noted Kohlhepp was "very bright and should be advanced academically," but also that he was "behaviorally and emotionally dangerous," per ABC.