Monique Tepe & Michael McKee Investigation Plus Brendan Banfield Trial — FBI Analysis
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins True Crime Today for comprehensive analysis of the week's biggest cases. First: the Michael McKee investigation. Police have a ballistics match linking a firearm from McKee's Chicago penthouse to shell casings at the Columbus crime scene where his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer were killed. Surveillance footage places his vehicle at the Tepe home before and after the murders. But investigators haven't explained how he allegedly got inside with no forced entry — or why a surgeon would keep the murder weapon for eleven days. Second: the psychology behind the alleged murders. Monique Tepe did everything right. She left after seven months of marriage. She didn't fight for the house or the rings. She moved home, rebuilt her life, married Spencer, had two children.
She never spoke McKee's name again — only called him "her ex-husband." Her family says they suspected him from day one but stayed quiet to protect the investigation. Eight years wasn't enough distance. Coffindaffer explains why. Third: day three of the Brendan Banfield trial. McDonald's surveillance video shows Banfield receiving Juliana's call at 7:37 AM — the exact moment she says was the signal that Joseph Ryan had arrived. The murder knife was hidden under blankets. Christine's phone was in a drawer. But Banfield's DNA wasn't on the knife because police allowed him to wash his hands first. Coffindaffer breaks down what this evidence means for both sides and what the defense needs to do to recover from three days of testimony that hasn't gone their way.
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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 Tepe 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. |
| 0:36.6 | 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 | residents 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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