357: Spencer & Monique Tepe | The Truth About Her Ex & The Full Story
Serialously with Annie Elise
Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios
4.7 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Spencer Tepe and his wife, Monique, were pillars of their Columbus, Ohio, community, raising two young children and living what seemed like an ordinary life. But one December morning, Spencer didn’t show up for work. When police arrived at their home, both he and Monique were found dead. Their children were unharmed, yet their lives were forever changed, and a community was left searching for answers. Investigators quickly traced the events to someone the family knew, uncovering surveillance footage, weapons, and a trail that spanned state lines. What happened that night, and why, remains a question the town is still trying to answer…
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| 0:00.0 | There's a body. There's a body. |
| 0:02.0 | A husband and wife were found shot dead inside their home the day before New Year's Eve. |
| 0:07.0 | He appeared dead. |
| 0:09.0 | There's blood. |
| 0:10.0 | Spencer and Monique Teppy. |
| 0:12.0 | Their family and friends were heartbroken, shocked and saddened. |
| 0:15.0 | Columbus Police released surveillance video of a shadowy figure walking down the street around the time of the murders. |
| 0:22.2 | There was just one person that family and friends suspected of the chilling crime. |
| 0:28.7 | Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. |
| 0:56.7 | Okay. Hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome back to an all new Serialistly, your favorite true crime podcast with your favorite true crime BFF, me, Annie Elise, if that wasn't obvious, it's me, it's me, it's me. |
| 1:04.8 | God, I am not Cynthia Arrivo. No, so welcome back. Happy Monday. I hope you are having a fantastic start to your week. |
| 1:14.8 | Hopefully you had a nice weekend as well, whether you are listening to this in your car, whether you are |
| 1:20.1 | cleaning, maybe you're on a walk, maybe you're watching this between meetings at your office. |
| 1:24.9 | And look, I ain't mad at it. I know a lot of you guys listen together at work |
| 1:28.1 | and you're like work besties and I'm here for it. So I remember when I used to work in my office job, I'm going to just like put myself on blast right now. I was like so obsessed with Sons of Anarchy and I hadn't ever watched it in real time. I watched it once it was on Netflix. And I remember I'd like have my tablet secretly hidden by my computer monitor and I would be like watching Sons of |
| 1:48.2 | Anarchy. And then if somebody came in my office with a question, I would just like pause it. So maybe some of you guys are doing that. I don't know. But I'm with you. That's why we're besties. I feel yeah. I get with you. I get with you. I get you. So today's case, okay, this is one, we talked about it a |
| 2:05.0 | little bit on headline highlights. I told you that the deep dive was coming and here we are. |
| 2:10.5 | Because this is one of those cases where everybody's trying to make sense of it, but the |
| 2:15.8 | details are still coming in. Every single day, |
| 2:18.5 | it feels like we are learning something new. So as I said, I briefly mentioned it in headline |
| 2:23.1 | highlights, but then my DMs were flooded with like, please do the deep dive. We want to know more. |
| 2:28.2 | What else can you find out? So obviously, here we are. And once we gathered all of the information that we have been able to source, |
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