Michael McKee: The Surgeon Who Disappeared — Exposed Before Monique Tepe Murder
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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Summary
Michael McKee was a vascular surgeon trained at Ohio State, Virginia Tech, and the University of Maryland. He held medical licenses in multiple states. He worked at respected surgical practices. And according to two separate lawsuits filed in Nevada, he allegedly left destruction in his wake—then vanished before anyone could make him answer for it.
The first lawsuit claims McKee's team left over eight inches of catheter inside a patient's body during a 2023 procedure, requiring emergency surgery. The complaint alleges the defendants concealed what happened and failed to provide truthful medical records. The second lawsuit is federal—a civil rights case claiming McKee sat on a prison medical panel and deliberately delayed an inmate's care until the man suffered permanent injury, including the loss of a testicle.
McKee denies the federal allegations. In the state case, no attorney has even appeared on his behalf. And that's because when lawyers came looking for him, Michael McKee had already disappeared. Process servers documented fake addresses, a fax number instead of a phone, and colleagues who said he simply vanished. A judge had to grant permission to serve him by newspaper publication—a rare last resort.
Six months after his Nevada medical license expired, McKee allegedly drove from Illinois to Ohio and shot his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe to death in their home. Their two young children were inside. He's been charged with aggravated murder and has indicated he'll plead not guilty.
This is the story of a surgeon who couldn't be found—until he was arrested for double homicide.
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| 0:44.0 | Here's the thing about the Tapi murders and Michael McKee that hasn't gone enough attention yet. |
| 0:50.9 | Before he already, or allegedly rather, drove 300 miles to kill his ex-wife and her husband, |
| 0:54.3 | before the manhunt, before the mug shot. |
| 0:56.5 | He was already running. |
| 1:00.4 | Not from murder charges, from lawsuits. |
| 1:01.3 | Two of them. |
| 1:05.0 | Both in Nevada, both of them, still active. |
| 1:09.3 | When Monique and Spencer Tepe were found shot dead in their Columbus home, they're still active to this day. |
| 1:11.5 | Now, we'll see where all of this goes with him facing pending murder charges. |
| 1:19.2 | They're civil suits. |
| 1:21.2 | So we'll see what kind of assets he has if he had insurance for those suits because some |
| 1:26.6 | were alleging that maybe that |
| 1:28.3 | lapsed and when that lapses well then uh any personal assets you have are on the line |
| 1:34.7 | um we'll see what exists of that we know we had that apartment in lincoln park that's not |
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