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McKee-Tepe Murders: FBI Experts on "Wound Collectors" & Why a Surgeon Allegedly Made Critical Mistakes

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News Commentary, True Crime, News

4.2 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A vascular surgeon with no criminal record. A Chicago penthouse. A firearm that police say matches shell casings from a double homicide 300 miles away. And eight years of alleged obsession that ended with Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer dead while their children slept down the hall.

Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who headed the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—identifies Dr. Michael McKee as a potential "wound collector." These are people who don't move on from perceived injuries. They catalog grievances, assign blame, and carry resentment for years until it explodes. Dreeke breaks down how wound collectors think, how high-functioning professionals mask dangerous resentment, what finally triggers them to act, and how they convince themselves they're the victim. Understanding this psychology might help someone recognize the signs before the next tragedy.

Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer analyzes the forensic evidence. Surveillance footage captured McKee's vehicle arriving before the killings and leaving after. A hooded figure walked through an alley at 3:52 AM. A preliminary NIBIN ballistics match ties a firearm from McKee's penthouse to the crime scene. But the investigation raises questions: how did someone allegedly enter the Tepe home with no forced entry? And why would a surgeon—someone whose entire career is built on precision—allegedly keep the murder weapon in his own apartment for eleven days?

Coffindaffer examines the behavioral red flags that emerged months before, including a malpractice process server who tried nine times to locate McKee at addresses that didn't exist. She explains what investigators are holding back, what the defense will exploit, and why waiving extradition might be calculated. McKee maintains his innocence and plans to plead not guilty to two counts of premeditated aggravated murder.

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0:00.0

This is the big breakdown.

0:02.2

A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden

0:05.9

Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

0:09.2

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

0:18.2

Let's move on to another case.

0:20.7

This is another one that is still developing. Let's move on to another case.

0:24.9

This is another one that is still developing.

0:31.4

Dr. Michael McKee is a vascular surgeon, Ohio State undergrad, Ohio State Medical School,

0:32.4

no criminal record. By every external measure, a success story.

0:36.6

He married Monique back in August of 2025.

0:40.3

You know, her as Monique Tepi.

0:42.2

Back then, she was Monique Sabaturski in 2015.

0:46.5

Seven months after the marriage, she left him.

0:49.5

The divorce was finalized in 2017.

0:52.0

She moved on, this is nearly a decade ago. She remarried and in that time

0:56.7

had the ability to have two children. So there's some distance. She built to life. And according to

1:03.2

police, McKee never moved on. Eight years after the divorce, he allegedly drove from Illinois to

1:08.1

Ohio in the middle of the night and shot Monique and her husband,

1:11.6

Spencer Tepe, dead in their home while their children slept down the hall. Yeah. Retired FBI

1:19.7

Agent Marine, O'Connell called McKee a grievance collector. I know someone who uses a different word

1:24.7

who's joining us right now to go into wound collecting.

1:30.8

How do you think did Marine steal the wound collector from you and give it a different word or something?

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