After missing woman Kala Brown was discovered “chained like a dog” in a metal container yesterday, she has told police she witnessed her boyfriend David “Charlie” Carver being killed.

According to 30-year-old Brown, the pair visited the North Carolina property of registered sex offender Todd Kohlhepp, a real estate agent with whom Brown had worked, on August 31.

It was there, in the town of Woodruff, that Brown alleges Kohlhepp shot Carver dead, local news station WYFF reports.