A husband and wife from Spartanburg were identified as the two bodies unearthed on Todd Kohlhepp's property on Sunday and Monday, Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said Wednesday afternoon.
Meagan Coxie, 25, of Shalann Drive and her husband, Johnny Coxie, 29, of the same address were believed to have been killed late last year, Clevenger said. Both had gunshot wounds but were clothed, he said. She was shot in the head and he was shot in the torso, Clevenger said. They were identified by their extensive tattoos, he said.
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They were reported missing in December 2015 and both had recently been released from jail, said Lt. Kevin Bobo, spokesman for the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office. Meagan had asked her mother to bond her out of jail because she had a job lined up.
They also had a history of panhandling, he said.
The couple had a child together who is being cared for, Bobo said.
Karyl Gaehring, president and founder of God Invasion Revival Center in Greenville, where Cindy Coxie, Johnny's mother, is on the ministry team, released a statement to The Greenville News after speaking with his mother.
“Cindy came about a year ago requesting prayer for her son Johnny and his wife Megan (sic) who were missing,” Gaehring said. “We have been praying for about a year now that they would be found and we would know what happened. Today they received the news.
“The family is in shock, grieving, and are not comfortable talking to anyone at this time. They have asked for people to please try and understand and give them time to heal. They appreciate everyone's love and concern," she said.
In a neighborhood of small single family homes, neighbors shared thoughts of shock and dismay when they found out the Coxies’ bodies were found on Kohlhepp’s property.
Casandra Thompson who lives across the street from the Coxies was curious how the couple met Kohlhepp.
“They were always around this way, so I don't even know how he could've met them,” she said. “It's weird that it's happening in such a small place. Where did it all come from? It's crazy.”
Alvin Nabors, 89, lives across street from the Coxies and next door to Cassandra Thompson:
“They got killed? Oh my God. That’s a shame. This world is getting in a mess.”
Kohlhepp, 45, is charged with four counts of murder and the kidnapping of an Anderson woman who was rescued from a metal storage container last Thursday by law enforcement agents who were searching the property. He has not been charged in the Coxies' deaths.
The bodies were found in shallow graves on the 95-acre property of the real estate agent and convicted sex offender after he led investigators to their locations.
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The murder charges are related to the 2003 Superbike homicides in Chesnee. Kohlhepp confessed to those shootings on Saturday, said Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright.
A third body found on Kohlhepp's land on Friday was identified as that of Charles Carver, an Anderson man who was reported missing in September after disappearing in late August along with his girlfriend, Kala Brown. Investigators found Brown "chained like a dog" inside the storage container on the Wofford Road property near Woodruff on Thursday. The container Brown was kept in was removed from the property Wednesday afternoon on a flatbed truck.
Kohlhepp has not been charged in Carver's death.
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