A woman missing since August has been found chained up in a storage container in Spartanburg County, South Carolina in the US.
Authorities have also discovered a body on the South Carolina property, according to the Spartanburg County coroner.
At least one body was found shortly after noon today on a 100-acre property in the town of Woodruff, northeast of Greenville, Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said.
"In (the) beginning stages of investigation of one body," Mr Clevenger said by email. "No other information available I can release right now."
Investigators with cadaver dogs began searching the property yesterday after police found Kala Brown, 30, inside the locked container, Sheriff Chuck Wright of the Spartanburg County police department told a news conference this morning.
Ms Brown and her boyfriend, Charles Carver, went missing on 31 August. A tip related to the disappearance of the couple, who live in Anderson, about 55 miles southwest of Greenville, led police to the Woodruff property.
Mr Carver, 32, was still missing and police were looking for him and evidence related to the kidnapping, Sheriff Wright said.
"She (Brown) said that there's four people buried on this property," Sheriff Wright said. "I don't know if that's true or not but we're willing to stay here as long as it takes to make sure whats he said is either true or not true."
Police arrested 45-year-old Todd Kohlhepp yesterday, a registered sex offender who works as an estate agent, on suspicion of kidnapping.
Sheriff Wright said Ms Brown and Mr Kohlhepp knew each other and that her abduction was "not a random act." He did not specify how they were acquainted.
Ms Brown, who is being treated at a local hospital, shared information with police during a brief interview, Sheriff Wright said without elaborating.
"We're gonna' let her heal and make sure she's physically and mentally fine," Sheriff Wright said.
