A woman who was chained in a storage container for two months by a South Carolina man charged with killing seven people is suing her captor.
Kala Brown filed suit against the suspected serial killer Wednesday in Spartanburg County, where authorities say Todd Kohlhepp kidnapped her on Aug. 31 after talking to her and her boyfriend about hiring them to clean up his property.
Kohlhepp fatally shot her boyfriend, then locked the woman in the container, where she was eventually found by deputies.
The lawsuit charges that Kohlhepp "forcefully kidnapped and imprisoned her, threatened and actually committed physical assault and battery upon her person, and intentionally and negligently inflicted severe emotional distress upon her," according to ABC News.
The suit seeks unspecified damages from the suspected mass killer for intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, assault and battery.
Kohlhepp is accused of killing four people in 2003, as well as Brown's boyfriend Charlie Carver and married couple Johnny and Meagan Coxie.
The bodies of Carver and the Coxies were found buried on Kohlhepp's 95-acre property in Woodruff after his Nov. 3 arrest for abducting Brown.
Kohlhepp grew up in Arizona, and investigators there are working to see if he is connected to any additional murders there.
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