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DISTURBING: Family Says Jilted Surgeon Threatened To Kill Ex-Wife Before Brutal Ohio Double Murders

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

They say the threats came first, long before the night Spencer and Monique Tepe were brutally murdered inside their own home. Now, family members are breaking their silence, saying Monique’s ex-husband, surgeon Dr. Michael McKee, accused in this double murder, did not simply disappear from Monique’s life after their short marriage ended. They say he terrified her. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down everything we know about Michael McKee, the high-achieving surgeon now charged in the murders of Monique and Spencer Tepe, from his spotless academic record and medical career to the chilling claims made by family members, the long drive investigators are reconstructing, and the haunting wedding vows Monique once spoke about wrong relationships and waterfalls of tears.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and I am obsessed with the story in Columbus, Ohio, and I think you are too. This is just so mysterious.

0:18.4

Even though we have an arrest, I have so many questions. And I'm also running through

0:24.6

everything I've learned over decades of crime reporting as to what the police are doing right now

0:30.5

to make their case against Dr. Michael McKee. You know by now if you've been following all my podcasts that this is

0:40.3

Monique Tepey's ex-husband. Monique Tepey and her husband, Spencer, were violently murdered

0:46.7

in their own home with their children just down the hall. And for 11 days, we had no idea who

0:53.8

did it. And then suddenly her ex-husband is arrested.

0:57.1

And by the way, I mean, blink and you miss it, marriage, right?

1:02.7

We all know this was a very quick marriage.

1:05.4

It was a decade ago.

1:07.1

This was a shock.

1:08.1

And so we really decided to dig deep into Dr. Michael McKee's background.

1:13.7

We all know that he is this like vascular surgeon, which means he's at the top of the heap.

1:20.5

I mean, it takes about 15 years to become the vascular surgeon that he is practicing where he was.

1:26.7

And it just defies all logic for everybody, right?

1:31.0

And I know you have a lot of questions about the crime scene. How did he get in? If it's him,

1:35.4

all of that I'm going to get to that in just a minute. But the big question I had today was,

1:42.5

what's his background? Because we did a criminal background check on this

1:46.0

guy and he's spotless. So I'm not surprised. You can't have a criminal background and be a surgeon.

1:51.9

But spotless. I mean, nothing. So the mystery has been, well, the divorce papers just said that

2:00.1

they weren't compatible. But how incompatible? Like, well, the divorce papers just said that they weren't compatible,

2:01.8

but how incompatible? Like, what's the story there? It's not in black and white,

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