FBI Profiler Framework Explains Michael McKee's Alleged 8-Year Fixation on Ex-Wife
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
What turns a failed seven-month marriage into an alleged eight-year obsession ending in double homicide?
Michael McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in Columbus, Ohio. Family members say Monique lived with McKee for only seven months before escaping what they describe as emotional abuse and repeated death threats. She divorced him in 2017, remarried in 2020, and built a new life with two children.
Prosecutors allege McKee drove six hours from Illinois, entered the Tepe home without forced entry, shot both victims at 3:52 AM, and drove back. Police recovered multiple weapons from his Chicago penthouse, including one preliminarily linked to shell casings at the scene. The indictment includes a firearm suppressor specification.
In this deep dive, we apply former FBI profiler Joe Navarro's "wound collector" framework and criminal behavioral analyst Laura Richards' "stalking in slow motion" concept to understand the psychology allegedly at work. We examine why victims often don't report, why the quiet ex is often the most dangerous, and what this case teaches about recognizing warning signs.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.2 | Two years on paper. |
| 0:09.7 | Seven months as married under the same roof. |
| 0:15.7 | That's the math on Michael McKee and Monique Teppi's marriage legally wet in August of 2015, but according to family |
| 0:24.6 | members, they lived together for roughly seven months before she got out. |
| 0:32.6 | And I'm using that word deliberately because the people closest to her don't describe it as a breakup. They describe |
| 0:40.2 | it as a flight. There's a difference when someone's talking about something. It's like, |
| 0:45.1 | well, yeah, things didn't work out very well. They went their separate ways. And, you know, |
| 0:49.0 | there's that. And there's, well, she got the hell out of there. Like, she didn't even look back. |
| 0:56.4 | She just got up and gone. |
| 1:00.5 | Eight years later, according to prosecutors, Michael McKee allegedly drove six hours from Illinois to Ohio in the middle of the night, entered a home with no signs of forced entry, and |
| 1:12.3 | allegedly shot Monique and her husband, Spencer Tempe, to death at 352 in the morning while their |
| 1:17.8 | two young children slept nearby. Then allegedly, he drove all the way back. Another 300 miles. |
| 1:25.5 | Another six-hour drive. |
| 1:30.5 | How often do you just go for six-hour drives? |
| 1:34.7 | I mean, if I'm going to visit someone very close to me or a vacation. |
| 1:41.6 | Maybe those things happen two or three times a year, that you got to be on a mission it's not |
| 1:49.3 | just like oh it happened to be in the neighborhood this day and uh this is why you saw my car over |
| 1:53.9 | there i was i was visiting my buddy there's just... Yeah. |
| 2:03.8 | So that ain't working in his favor. |
| 2:07.5 | The math here doesn't work for normal people. |
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