Loving Couple Shot Dead, Children 4 and 1 Unharmed: Who Killed the Tepe's?
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Columbus Division of Police Homicide Unit is asking the public for help with any video or digital evidence related to the murders of Spencer and Monique Tepe. Well thought of couple, Spencer a popular dentist, murdered in their home between 2am and 5am December 30, 2025. The couple's two children ages 4 and 1 were unharmed. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case with everything currently known as the police seek help in catching a monster.
Transcript Highlights
00:00.22 Introduction, Columbus, Ohio
03:27.89 Murders of Spencer and Monique Tepe
06:47.10 Kids inside, non-responsive adults
10:05.37 The couple is well thought of by everyone
15:16.20 Case will be heavily influenced by tech
20:07.96 Footprints in the snow
25:01.02 Cops bang on doors very loud
29:52.57 ME will determine entrance wounds
35:14.58 Killer left three shell casings behind
40:18.84 How much snow in the area?
44:51.41 Video of person of interest walking
48:22.55 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | A few years back, I had the opportunity to go to Columbus, Ohio. |
| 0:15.7 | I've never been there before, and I was filming a documentary in southern Ohio and that was essentially the closest place |
| 0:23.8 | that I could fly into and I got to tell you I spent time there and actually I got to confess |
| 0:30.7 | I kind of really came to like the place it was it was really kind of a cool place. |
| 0:39.8 | I thoroughly enjoyed it. |
| 0:41.3 | And the people that I met, places that I went out to eat, |
| 0:46.7 | enjoyed it very much so. |
| 0:48.3 | I could see how it'd be a very livable city. |
| 0:50.6 | You know, you got the university there and a lot of nightlife. But you know that over the past, |
| 0:59.5 | I don't know, a few days a week, there's a case that has popped up there that has really troubled me. |
| 1:07.3 | It's troubled me on many levels and I'm going to get into that I promise |
| 1:11.0 | but I think probably the most troubling thing about this is that as I speak right now |
| 1:20.3 | as I speak there is a monster out there that has committed a heinous crime and that led to the death of two people. |
| 1:35.3 | And it's not just the fact that a heinous crime has been committed. |
| 1:38.7 | It was committed with little young children inside of the house. |
| 1:44.9 | And yet, this fandom still walks up and down the streets. |
| 1:51.7 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 1:53.6 | And this is body bags. |
| 1:58.5 | Dave, I got to tell you, I saw the images of this couple. |
| 2:06.6 | Something I haven't seen before in a case. |
| 2:10.4 | You know, when they're doing the media does this reflective thing that they do with, you know, all of their cuts and everything, you know, when they're |
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