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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

McKee's Obsession, Monique's Fear, Two Orphaned Children: Therapist Shavaun Scott on Tepe Case

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

True Crime Today

News Commentary, True Crime, News

3.3907 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The perpetrator psychology. The victim experience. The shattered aftermath. One complete breakdown.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings over thirty years of experience in forensic settings, domestic violence work, and trauma recovery to examine every dimension of the Tepe murder case. She's the author of "The Minds of Mass Killers" — and she's a survivor herself.

What allegedly happens inside someone who can't let go for eight years after a seven-month relationship? Michael McKee apparently never remarried. Prosecutors say he drove six hours, entered without forced entry, killed Monique and Spencer at 3:52 AM, and drove back. We examine the wound collector profile, the compartmentalized obsession, the internal narrative that allegedly justified years of fixation.

Why didn't Monique report? Family says she talked about being terrified for eight years. She told people about the death threats. But there were no police reports, no restraining orders. We explore coercive control — what Laura Richards calls "murder in slow motion" — and why victims don't engage systems that consistently fail them.

And the aftermath: two children orphaned, a community in grief, and the devastating reality that Monique did everything we tell victims to do. She recognized the danger. She left fast. She told people. She rebuilt her life. It wasn't enough. What could she have done differently? Maybe nothing. And that says everything about how broken the system is.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

0:10.0

Seven months of living together, eight years of alleged obsession.

0:17.4

Michael McKee is charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband, Spencer.

0:23.7

Allegedly eight years after she escaped, what family members describe as emotional abuse and death threats.

0:31.0

There's no indication he ever remarried.

0:34.0

We have recently heard from an ex-girlfriend now who described him as

0:38.5

boring. Prosecutors say he drove six hours, entered without forced entry, killed them both at

0:46.0

352 a.m. while their kids slept and then got back in the car and drove back. What happens inside

0:52.4

a mind that allegedly can't let go psychotherapist

0:56.8

shavon scott is with us to help break all of this down she's the author of the minds of mass

1:03.7

killers and her most recent nightbird her autobiography available wherever books are sold

1:10.8

today we're going to the psychology of the Nightbird, her autobiography available wherever books are sold.

1:16.8

Today we're going to go into the psychology of the obsessive X.

1:18.2

We're going to talk about that.

1:22.0

We're also going to talk about the victim experience. What happened with the with and her life during and after the relationship and all also

1:31.7

what the family is now dealing with in the aftermath of this tragedy let's

1:39.7

start out with the two-year marriage on paper the the the seven-month marriage, the two-year relationship,

1:47.2

seven months actually living together, and allegedly eight years of fixation and ended in double

1:53.3

homicide. Shavon, what does that math tell you about what allegedly happened inside this man's

1:59.3

had? Very short time of the commitment together

2:02.4

of marriage, about two years of relationship in total, but eight years of silence and then striking.

2:10.1

Yeah, yeah, the first thing that came to mind, and as we always say, we can't diagnose him,

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