BIZARRE: BRIEF 'STARTER MARRIAGE' CLUE, DENTIST & WIFE MURDERS @ HOME, TOT KIDS ASLEEP

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Investigators obtain all available surveillance video from the Tepe neighborhood, focusing on the time between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., and release video of one person walking in the alley behind the Tepe home.

Police believe that person is Michael McKee. One car with an Illinois license plate arrives in the neighborhood shortly before the Tepe murders take place, and leaves shortly thereafter.

The license plate on the vehicle is registered to Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon in Chicago. McKee is also Monique Tepe's ex-husband.

The vehicle registered to McKee is traced to Rockford, Illinois, and evidence inside the vehicle links McKee to the murders of Spencer and Monique. Police are not saying what evidence was found in the vehicle, and a motive for the murders has not been made public, but police say there is proof McKee had the vehicle prior to and after the homicides.

The arrest warrant for McKee says the murders took place at 3:52 am, and McKee is identified by surveillance video and the vehicle. McKee is charged with two counts of murder and is currently in a Winnebago County jail awaiting extradition to Ohio.

Monique Tepe married vascular surgeon Michael McKee in August 2015, but separated as a couple after just seven months. The couple had no children.

Monique stated the reason for the divorce was that they were "incompatible." After living separately and apart for a year, divorce proceedings began in May 2017, and the divorce was final the next month.

Joining Nancy Grace:

Greg Morse - Criminal Defense Attorney of Morse Legal, Author of “The Untested” (found on Amazon)
Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author of "Deal Breaker: When to work on a relationship and when to walk away,” and featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
Ron Bateman - Sheriff (Former Homicide and Undercover Narcotics) & Author: "Silent Blue Tears: Voice of The Victims;" X: Ronbatemanbooks, TikTok: @Ron.Bateman.655
Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", Instagram @JoScottForensic
Susan Hendricks - Journalist, and Author of “Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi;" IG @susan_hendricks X @SusanHendicks
Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.8	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:09.8	In the case of a young dentist and his young wife murdered in their own home with their two little children in the home to find mommy and daddy dead.
0:27.7	Could they have even witnessed the murders?
0:30.2	As of tonight, a murder suicide has been ruled out, and I can tell you why.
0:36.9	It's not unusual angles of the bullets
0:40.0	or their trajectory path. It's not that sophisticated. Because there's no weapon. The weapon's
0:47.7	gone. They're both shot dead, one of them multiple times, possibly both. But there's no weapon
0:53.9	there on the scene. So obviously
0:56.2	somebody else did it. And tonight, a starter marriage? What does that have to do with a double
1:03.1	homicide? You know what a starter marriage is, right? It's your first try. It's brief. It happened a long
1:08.3	time ago. It doesn't really count. That's what you call a starter marriage. So how does that factor into a double murder? I'm Auntie Grace. This is crime stories, and I want to thank you for being with us.
1:21.1	There's a body. Our friend wasn't a injury his phone. We just did a wellness ship. We just came here and he appears dead.
1:29.3	The dentist and his wife gunned down children upstairs.
1:32.3	There's a body. There's a body.
1:34.3	There's a body inside.
1:36.3	Yeah.
1:37.3	If only I could reach through this camera and get my hands, a little finger necklace for the dispatch officer that was taking
1:47.0	these calls? Why am I angry? You'll see. Listen. I guess I would like to ask for a wellness
1:54.9	check on an individual at their home. This individual, Spencer, works with me, and he did not show up to
2:00.8	work this morning
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