Missing US woman found 'chained like a dog' inside container
Kala Brown was discovered inside a shipping container after police heard a banging sound when they arrived at a property in Woodruff town.
Washington
: A woman missing since August was found Thursday chained up -"like a dog-" in a padlocked metal container in rural South Carolina, officials said.
Kala Brown, 30, was discovered inside a shipping container after police heard a banging sound when they arrived at a property in the town of Woodruff with a search warrant.
Todd Kohlhepp, a registered sex offender who owned the property, was arrested, CNN and WYFF reported.
-"It was pretty emotional, to say the least, when she was found. Especially, you know, when she was chained like a dog,-" Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright told WYFF, a local affiliate of NBC.
-"She had a chain around her neck. It's only by God's grace we found that little girl alive,-" Wright added.
The officers approached the container after hearing the banging and knocked on the side of it.
Brown shouted -"Help me! Get me out of here!-", Wright told CNN separately.
Brown told officers she had been in the container for two months.
Her boyfriend, Charles Carver, who has also been missing since August, remains unaccounted for.