Court records obtained by The Arizona Republic show Todd Christopher Kohlhepp lived in Arizona briefly as a teenager before his arrest.
During Kohlhepp's time in Arizona, he drew the attention of law enforcement at age 15 after he was accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in a Tempe neighborhood in 1986, according to court records obtained by The Republic.
Kohlhepp had come to the Phoenix area after his biological mother sent him to live with his biological father while she worked on herself, according to court documents.
On Nov. 25, 1986, Kohlhepp went to the door of a female friend at her house near Broadway Road and McClintock Drive in Tempe, according to police and court documents. The girl told officials he kept trying to coerce her into going into an alley with him to meet her ex-boyfriend.
On the fifth attempt, Kohlhepp asked the girl to meet him at the back door of her house. When she opened the door, Kohlhepp placed a .22-caliber handgun to her head and told her to go with him, she told police.