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The Friend Offered His Friends Jobs, Then He Left Heart-Wrenching Reviews

The tragic case of the Amazon Review killer

Lioness Rue
5 min readJun 15, 2022
Todd Kohlhepp — Image from Wikicommons (Edited by author)

In the late months of 2016, someone noticed that an anonymous account was leaving strange product reviews on Amazon.

The reviews targeted products like knives, shovels, padlocks, and chainsaws.

Some of the reviews;

“It’s blacker than my soul, and priced right.”

“Keep in the car for when you have to hide the bodies.”

“Haven’t stabbed anyone yet. When I do, it will be with a quality tool like this.”

“Solid locks. Have 5 on a shipping container.. won’t stop them.. but sure will slow them down until they are too old to care.”

Johnny and Meagan Struggled Financially

Twenty-nine-year-old Johnny Coxie and his wife, twenty-six-year-old Meagan Coxie, lived in a low-income section of Spartanburg, South Carolina.

The couple often found themselves begging for money on the streets.

Child protective services took their child away from them.

Then, a local successful real estate agent reached out to the couple. The real estate agent was an old friend to the…

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