Įventually, in 1983, Kohlhepp was sent to live with his biological father in Arizona after his mother and stepfather separated. Kohlhepp spent three and a half months in a Georgia psychiatric hospital as an inpatient because of his inability to get along with other children. Kohlhepp's father later said the only emotion his son was capable of was anger. As in Kohlhepp's case, some may work up to harming human beings as adults. In modern psychology, cruelty to animals is thought by many academics to be a common trait of the young psychopathic individual. At the age of nine, when he started undergoing counseling, Kohlhepp was described as being 'explosive' and 'preoccupied with sexual content.' He also displayed cruelty to animals, shooting a dog with a BB gun and killing a goldfish with Clorox bleach. In nursery school, he was known to be aggressive toward other children and would destroy their property.

Kohlhepp was described as a troublesome child.

Later psychological reports found that Kohlhepp had an unhealthy relationship with his stepfather and often wanted to live with his biological father, whom he had not seen in eight years. His parents divorced when he was two years old, his mother got custody and married another man the following year.

Todd Kohlhepp was born on Main Florida, and was raised in South Carolina and Georgia.

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