Michael McKee's Not Guilty Plea — Ballistics, Surveillance, and the Case Against Him
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The man accused of murdering Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder. Michael McKee, 39, Monique's ex-husband, appeared via video before a Franklin County magistrate and waived bond. He remains in custody. Prosecutors allege McKee, a vascular surgeon, traveled from Illinois to Columbus and killed the couple in the early morning hours of December 30th. Spencer was shot multiple times. Monique sustained a gunshot wound to the chest. Their two children, ages four and one, were found inside the home unharmed.
Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant has called this a "targeted" and "domestic violence related attack." Investigators say surveillance footage places McKee's vehicle at the scene before and after the killings. When multiple firearms were seized from his Rockford property, preliminary ballistic analysis linked one weapon to three 9mm shell casings recovered from the Tepe residence. The charges carry firearm specifications for using a gun and a suppressor. McKee is represented by Diane Menashe, who previously defended Dr. William Husel. Monique divorced McKee in 2017. She married Spencer in 2019. If convicted, McKee faces a minimum of life with parole eligibility after 32 years—or life without parole.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:10.1 | Michael McKee, Dr. Michael McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, pled not guilty, |
| 0:17.3 | to four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary in the December 30th shooting deaths of his ex-wife, Monique Tempe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe at their Columbus, Ohio home. |
| 0:29.4 | The indictment alleges McKee used a firearm equipped with a suppressor to execute that very couple while their two young children, ages one in four, slept in the same house in the other room. |
| 0:43.3 | Monique's family has described McKee as emotionally abusive and claims she threatened to kill her on multiple occasions during their brief seven-month marriage, which ended about a decade ago in 2017. |
| 0:55.7 | McKee allegedly traveled from Illinois to Ohio, drove, but 300-some miles, entered the home |
| 1:02.7 | without forced entry, committed the killings around 3.42 a.m. and then got back in his car |
| 1:07.4 | and drove back, keeping the murder weapon in his residence, where police later recovered it. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.9 | And then allegedly went back to work for 11 days, too. |
| 1:16.6 | Ha ha! |
| 1:17.8 | Joining me now to break down the behavioral indicators in this case, Robin Drig, former FBI special |
| 1:23.2 | agency for the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program, Robin. |
| 1:28.0 | The family says Monique told the McKee threatened to kill her multiple times during their marriage. |
| 1:35.4 | And that was eight years before these murders allegedly occurred. |
| 1:38.4 | From a behavioral standpoint, what does it tell you when someone carries that kind of fixation |
| 1:42.9 | across nearly a decade through |
| 1:45.2 | multiple jobs multiple states an entirely new life built by her former partner and even the fact that |
| 1:53.0 | when saying this to begin with to their partner about a decade ago when you're with them i mean |
| 1:56.8 | it it says a lot that someone's even using that phrase in general with a partner, does it not? |
| 2:02.7 | Yeah, there's a few things in there. |
| 2:04.5 | I actually looked that up, Tony. |
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