Monique and Spencer Tepe Update: The Case Against Michael McKee Deepens [Current Affairs]
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This update examines the rapidly evolving case surrounding the murders of Monique and Spencer Tepi following the arrest of Michael David McKee. Prosecutors have upgraded the charges to premeditated aggravated murder as family members describe years of emotional abuse and repeated threats that allegedly continued long after the couple’s divorce. The episode reviews the surveillance trail, ballistic evidence, McKee’s arrest in Illinois, and the professional and legal issues that surfaced in the months before the killings. As authorities prepare to transfer McKee to Ohio to face charges that carry the possibility of life without parole or the death penalty, key questions about motive, access, and long-term planning remain unanswered.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to current affairs, our show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now. |
| 0:14.0 | If this is your first love murder episode, tune back in on Wednesdays for our main full-length episodes. |
| 0:19.6 | Today, we are, of course, providing an update |
| 0:22.0 | in the case of Monique and Spencer Teppi. Where we left off, Michael David McKee, a 39-year-old |
| 0:29.5 | vascular surgeon, had just been arrested on January 10, 2026, and charged with two counts |
| 0:35.1 | premeditated, aggravated murder in the deaths of his ex-wife, |
| 0:39.3 | Monique Tepe, 39, and her husband Spencer Tepe 37. |
| 0:44.1 | The Columbus, Ohio couple was shot to death in their Wyneland Park home on December 30, 2025. |
| 0:50.1 | In what police called a targeted domestic violence-related attack, McKee and Monique divorced over eight years before the killings, |
| 0:57.4 | yet family members now reveal she lived in fear of him throughout that entire time, |
| 1:03.1 | describing years of emotional abuse and death threats during their brief marriage. |
| 1:07.7 | It was horrible. |
| 1:08.4 | The tepies were discovered on December 30th, 2025, after Spencer |
| 1:12.9 | failed to arrive for work at Athens Dental Depot, where he practiced dentistry. By around 10 a.m., |
| 1:18.3 | both victims were pronounced dead from gunshot wounds on the second floor of their home. |
| 1:22.7 | On January 5, 2006, police released surveillance footage showing a hooded figure in light-colored pants |
| 1:28.9 | walking through an alley near the home between 2 and 5 a.m. Five days later, investigators tracked |
| 1:34.3 | a vehicle captured on neighborhood cameras to Rockford, Illinois, where McKee was arrested |
| 1:39.4 | without incident at a Chick-fil-A restaurant. He was initially charged with two counts of murder, |
| 1:44.7 | upgraded to premeditated, aggravated murder on January 11th after detectives determined that |
| 1:49.7 | they met the elements for more serious offense, which carries a potential death sentence |
| 1:54.1 | or life imprisonment without parole. Elwap, baby. The most striking developments since |
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