DID COURT SCREW-UP LEAD TO DOUBLE MURDER? | Ohio Murders: Spencer and Monique Tepe, Michael McKee
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Phantom Court Clerical Error? Family members say the warning signs were there long before Spencer and Monique Tepe were brutally murdered inside their Columbus, Ohio home, but one strange detail in the court system has raised a disturbing new question. Just months before the killings, Ohio court records show a divorce hearing was mistakenly scheduled in the long-closed case between Monique and her ex-husband, surgeon Michael McKee. The court later called it a clerical error, saying the hearing was canceled and issued by mistake, but the timing has fueled intense scrutiny over whether a clerical error or a docket mistake could have reopened old wounds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Bannfield and this is Drop Dead serious and I know it doesn't |
| 0:08.9 | sound like me. I am sick. I'm not as sick as I sound, but I sound terrible. So right off the bat, |
| 0:16.1 | apologies, but I do want to say something about how many of you said something really kind to me in the comments of my last episode, |
| 0:23.4 | wishing me well in SPD recovery. |
| 0:26.5 | So thank you so much. |
| 0:27.6 | That means so much to me. |
| 0:29.1 | But I assure you I'm actually doing much better than I sound. |
| 0:31.9 | I just hope I can get this voice back because I kind of depend on it. |
| 0:36.0 | I have so much to tell you in this episode about the |
| 0:39.8 | Ohio murder mystery of Spencer and Monique Teppy. A lot of weird stuff is kind of happening and breaking. |
| 0:48.6 | And one of the really weird things that came out today, I read this little thing in USA Today |
| 0:53.8 | about a court docket and a |
| 0:58.7 | hearing in Dr. Michael McKee and Monique McKee's dissolved marriage. But it was a court hearing |
| 1:09.5 | for last September and that marriage is almost a decade old, right? |
| 1:14.2 | They split eight and a half years ago, officially. |
| 1:16.6 | The divorce is finalized. |
| 1:18.4 | And so why on earth would a hearing have been set for September in their divorce? |
| 1:25.5 | It turns out it's not just small. |
| 1:29.0 | Maybe a clerical error, but we did a lot of digging on it. |
| 1:31.8 | And Lindsay, my producer, made some calls on it. |
| 1:34.5 | We actually got a hold of the court clerk and asked her about it. |
| 1:38.2 | And what's really troubling is that we discovered that when a clerical error like that is made, notices go out anyway, |
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