"Am I Overreacting?" — The Gaslighting That Outlasts the Relationship | McKee-Tepe Case
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
"Am I being paranoid?" "Is this a real threat, or am I just damaged?" "Am I making this into something it's not?"
These aren't idle questions. They're the abuser's voice — internalized so deeply it sounds like your own thoughts. Coercive control teaches you that your reality isn't real. And that lesson doesn't uninstall when you change your address.
According to the unsealed affidavit, surveillance footage captured Michael McKee at the Tepe residence on December 6, 2025 — the same day Spencer and Monique were at the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis. Monique left at halftime. Court records state she was upset about something involving her ex-husband. There's no documented tip-off.
She was 200 miles away. And her body knew.
This episode examines what survivors carry after they escape coercive control — the hypervigilance, the PTSD, the triggers that contaminate ordinary life, and the invisible toll on the people who love them. Spencer inherited Monique's fear alongside her. This episode speaks to survivors and the people trying to understand them.
Your fear is not weakness. Monique's instincts were right.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.6 | Monique Teffey was 200 miles away. |
| 0:14.5 | December 6th of 2025, Spencer and Monique Tepe were at a big 10 championship game in Indianapolis. |
| 0:20.8 | It was a Saturday. They made plans, gotten tickets, done the thing that happy married couples do with two small children when they get a chance to do something for themselves. |
| 0:30.8 | And according to court records at some point during the game, Monique left at halftime went back to the hotel. |
| 0:35.5 | Court record state Spencer later told friends she was upset about something involving her ex-husband. |
| 0:42.4 | 200 miles from her house in a stadium full of people. |
| 0:48.2 | And her body told her something was wrong. |
| 0:51.6 | She knew something was wrong. |
| 0:53.0 | How she was tipped off that something was wrong, |
| 0:55.8 | that we will find out when this gets to trial. According to the unsealed affidavit surveillance |
| 1:02.7 | footage showed Michael McKee at the Tapie residents that same day walking through their yard while |
| 1:07.5 | they were in Indianapolis. She wasn't there. She couldn't have seen him. |
| 1:11.3 | There was no indication in the court records of a phone call, a text message, or a direct tip-off. |
| 1:16.6 | Something was there, though. She knew. Something in her. Something trained by years of alleged |
| 1:21.3 | terror picked up a signal that the rest of us would have missed entirely. |
| 1:29.7 | It's not paranoia. |
| 1:31.2 | That's not an anxiety disorder. |
| 1:32.9 | That's not a woman who can't move on. |
| 1:34.5 | That's what sustained exposure to coercive control does to a human nervous system |
| 1:40.9 | when the signal is broadcast from the perpetrator. |
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