Monique Tepe Case: No Forced Entry, No Restraining Order — How Did Michael McKee Allegedly Get Inside?
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Columbus police say they have their man. Dr. Michael McKee — a vascular surgeon who practiced in Chicago — is charged with the premeditated aggravated murder of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer. The preliminary ballistics match is in. The surveillance footage shows his vehicle at the scene. Police say he's the hooded figure in that alley at 3:52 AM. But there's a gap in this investigation that nobody has explained: there was no forced entry at the Tepe residence. No broken windows. No kicked-in doors. So how did he allegedly get inside? And why would a man trained in surgical precision keep the murder weapon in his penthouse apartment for eleven days after the killings?
Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers to break down the forensic evidence, the surveillance timeline, and the investigative questions that remain unanswered. We examine McKee's pattern of evasion in the months before the murders — a malpractice process server tried nine times to find him at addresses that turned out to be fake. His former colleague said he "just disappeared." Coffindaffer explains what this behavior suggests from a behavioral analysis standpoint and why McKee's pre-arrest statements — before he invoked his right to remain silent — could become critical evidence at trial. Police say they have no prior reports from the Tepe address about McKee. No 911 calls. No restraining orders. But they hedged when asked about communications between McKee and Monique in the weeks before the murders. What are investigators holding back? And what holes will the defense try to exploit?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.1 | Columbus Police say they have their men in the Tepey murders. |
| 0:14.0 | Dr. Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon with no criminal record, sitting in the Illinois jail right now, |
| 0:20.2 | charged with premeditated aggravated |
| 0:22.0 | murder for his ex-wife Monique Teppie and her husband Spencer. |
| 0:26.5 | Police say the murder weapon was in his apartment. |
| 0:29.1 | They say his car was on surveillance. |
| 0:31.0 | They say he's the figure in the hooded jacket walking through that alley at 352 in the morning. |
| 0:36.7 | But they haven't said this is how he got into |
| 0:41.0 | that house with no forced entry. What they haven't explained is why a surgeon, someone trained in |
| 0:45.7 | precision, allegedly kept the murder weapon in his penthouse for 11 days. There's a lot of |
| 0:51.3 | questions, and the answers might be simple. They might be complicated. |
| 0:55.1 | Jennifer Coffendaffer, retired FBI special agent is with us to help us break down this case with so many questions and so many lives destroyed, and it did not have to go this way. |
| 1:05.4 | Jen, police confirmed this last week that they have the preliminary nibibben match linking the firearm from McKee's |
| 1:13.1 | residence to shell casings at the scene. I know you had raised some questions of why is this |
| 1:18.6 | gun in the Nibben system to begin with? I saw you tweeted about that. Let's talk about the Nibben |
| 1:24.1 | system. Let's talk about why it's in there and what this means for the case. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah, you know, I was surprised. That's the National Integrated Ballistic System, |
| 1:34.1 | information network, essentially, that basically tracks this. What it tracks is casings and |
| 1:40.4 | ballistics involved in criminal cases. So as an example, when I was in the gang unit, |
| 1:45.6 | we used this all the time. The minute we had gang casings for our, sorry, casings from a shooting, |
| 1:51.4 | especially a gang shooting, we would throw it in there. And hopefully, oftentimes, that gun |
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