Michael McKee Psychology Profile: What the Tepe Autopsy Reveals About the Killer
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Sixteen bullets. Two victims. Two children left crying in a house with their dead parents. The autopsy reports for Spencer and Monique Tepe are now public — and they paint a brutal picture of what happened inside that Weinland Park bedroom on December 30th. Every wound was to the upper body. Both victims had defensive injuries. The trajectories show they moved, turned, tried to escape. The shooting continued anyway.
This episode breaks down the forensic signature of the crime and what it tells us about the psychology of the person accused of committing it. Michael McKee — Monique's ex-husband — allegedly waited eight and a half years after their divorce before allegedly executing her and her new husband. Court documents describe years of alleged threats, stalking behavior, and an obsession that never faded. He allegedly told her she would "always be his wife" and that he could "kill her at any time."
Forensic psychologists call this pattern a "grievance collector" — someone who catalogs wounds to their ego and nurtures them for years until the grievance becomes justification. McKee's alleged behavior fits this profile precisely. The surveillance weeks before the murders. The stolen license plates. The phone going dark the night of the killings. The sticker scraped off his vehicle afterward.
What makes this case uniquely disturbing is the combination of explosive violence and meticulous control. A full magazine emptied, but confined to the bedroom. Children left unharmed but orphaned. And a suspect who allegedly drove home and went back to work. That's not rage. That's architecture.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.5 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.8 | 16 gunshot wounds. |
| 0:13.0 | Full magazine. |
| 0:15.7 | That's what we're learning about what was emptied into two people in their bedroom |
| 0:19.4 | while their children slept down the hall. |
| 0:23.0 | That's the Franklin County Corner's office released just the other day. |
| 0:27.0 | The autopsy reports for Spencer and Monique Tempe. |
| 0:30.2 | And I want to be clear about something before we go any further. |
| 0:33.0 | These documents don't just tell us how it ended. |
| 0:41.5 | They tell us a lot about the person accused of doing this to them because violence has a signature and this one is legible as we get into all |
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| 1:21.5 | Spencer took seven rounds. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm not going to get into the gruesome details. |
| 1:27.5 | I'm going to tell you what happened. |
| 1:29.3 | Where they were. |
| 1:31.2 | Left ear, left side of the neck, left upper chest, left lower chest, left hand, left upper back, right arm near the elbow. |
| 1:42.6 | The arm... the arm injuries are interesting kind of tells you maybe there was a bit of a struggle maybe he was |
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