Inside the Mind of a Wound Collector: Ex-FBI Agent on Dr. McKee & the Tepe Murders
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Monique Tepe left her first husband after seven months of marriage. She didn't fight. She didn't make a scene. She just got out. She rebuilt her life, married Spencer Tepe, had two children, and thought the nightmare was behind her.
Eight years later, according to police, Dr. Michael McKee allegedly drove hundreds of miles in the middle of the night and killed both Monique and Spencer in their Columbus home. Their children were asleep down the hall.
Why would someone wait eight years to act? How does a successful vascular surgeon with no criminal record become an alleged killer?
Robin Dreeke, former FBI Special Agent and head of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, says McKee fits the profile of a "wound collector" — someone who never forgives, never forgets, and carries perceived injuries like open wounds for years until something triggers them to act.
In this interview, Robin explains: The difference between hurt and obsession. How wound collectors justify violence by making themselves the victim. Why professional success can mask dangerous resentment. What role social media and watching an ex's happiness plays in the spiral. What might have triggered McKee after eight years of silence. And whether there are warning signs that can be spotted before it's too late.
McKee maintains his innocence and plans to plead not guilty to two counts of premeditated aggravated murder.
This conversation won't bring Spencer and Monique back. But it might help someone recognize the danger before the next wound collector acts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.0 | Let's move on to another case. This is another one that is still developing. Dr. Michael McKee is a vascular surgeon, Ohio State undergrad, Ohio State Medical School, no criminal record. |
| 0:23.7 | By every external measure, a success story. He married Monique back in August of 2025. You know her as Monique Teppi. |
| 0:33.1 | Back then, she was Monique Sabatursky in 2015. Seven months after the marriage, she left him. |
| 0:40.4 | The divorce was finalized in 2017. |
| 0:42.9 | She moved on, this is nearly a decade ago. |
| 0:46.1 | She remarried and in that time, had the ability to have two children. |
| 0:50.4 | So there's some distance. |
| 0:52.1 | She built to life. |
| 0:53.4 | And according to police, McKee never moved on. |
| 0:56.1 | Eight years after the divorce, he allegedly drove from Illinois to Ohio in the middle of the night |
| 1:00.5 | and shot Monique and her husband, Spencer Tepe, dead in their home while their children slept down the hall. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. Retired FBI agent Marine O'Connell called McKee a grievance collector. |
| 1:13.9 | I know someone who uses a different word who's joining us right now to go into wound |
| 1:20.7 | collecting. |
| 1:21.7 | How do you think did Marine steal the wound collector from you and give it a different word or something? |
| 1:25.5 | Well, no, actually, I've read Marine stuff before. |
| 1:27.8 | Or did you steal it from her? |
| 1:46.1 | Well, and actually I sold it from Joe Navarro who wrote the book, Dangerous personalities, and he wrote, he talked about wound collectors in his book. I always give credit, you remember, human beings have been around thousands and thousands of years. Someone came up with before us, and so. True, true. A lot of times I'll misacreditize things out here. |
| 1:48.5 | But I do know wound collecting came from my friend Joe. |
| 1:49.2 | Okay. |
| 1:49.6 | Yeah. |
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