Monique & Spencer Tepe: The Death Threats Michael McKee Made For Years
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
According to the unsealed affidavit, witnesses told investigators Michael McKee strangled Monique during their seven-month marriage, forced unwanted sex on her, and told her directly he could end her life. She divorced him in 2017. She never filed a public police report. She never got a protective order. She rebuilt her entire life — married Spencer, had two children, built a career — while carrying the knowledge that someone had promised to kill her.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent thirty years working with domestic violence survivors. She's also a survivor herself — her ex-husband died by revenge suicide after she asked for divorce. She understands what living under threat costs in ways that textbooks cannot capture.
Strangulation is one of the most significant lethality predictors in DV research. If the allegations are true, Monique was statistically in extreme danger from the day she left. She likely knew it. Scott explains what constant threat assessment does to a person psychologically over eight years — how survivors become experts at reading moods, calculating risk, and managing situations others don't even notice. She breaks down why Monique's family didn't fully understand the threats were real until it was too late, and why there's so often a gap between what victims communicate and what the people who love them actually hear.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.4 | Monique Teppey spent eight years knowing her ex-husband had allegedly threatened a killer. |
| 0:14.5 | According to the unsealed affidavit witnesses told investigators, |
| 0:19.2 | McKee strangled her during the marriage, |
| 0:21.5 | forced unwanted sex on her, |
| 0:24.2 | and told her directly that he could end her life whenever he wanted. |
| 0:29.6 | She divorced him in 2017. |
| 0:31.5 | She never filed a public police report. |
| 0:33.4 | She never obtained a protective order. |
| 0:35.2 | She told friends and family she was afraid, |
| 0:41.0 | and then she got up every morning and lived her life anyway. |
| 0:42.4 | That's the part of this case that doesn't make headlines, but matters the most. |
| 0:46.5 | What does it cost to function to work, to fall in love again, to raise children while |
| 0:52.0 | carrying the knowledge that someone has promised to kill you. |
| 0:56.9 | Jibon Scott, psychotherapist and author is with us. |
| 0:59.4 | She spent over 30 years working with survivors of intimate partner violence, shelters, and clinical settings. |
| 1:05.8 | She's also a survivor herself. |
| 1:07.5 | Her ex-husband died by revenge, suicide after she asked for the divorce. |
| 1:11.8 | She knows what it means to live under that shadow. |
| 1:15.6 | Today, we are talking about the psychological burden Monique carried, why the people around |
| 1:21.0 | her may not have fully understood it and what it actually takes to survive when someone |
| 1:27.0 | has made you a target. |
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