Monique Tepe Murder Defense—Diane Menashe's Strategy After Acquitting a Doctor of 14 Killings
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
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Summary
Michael McKee is now represented by the attorney who got Dr. William Husel acquitted of fourteen murder charges by calling one witness. Diane Menashe doesn't put on defenses. She tears apart prosecutions. She's said publicly that once defense attorneys start presenting evidence, they assume the burden of proving their client innocent—so she avoids it. She lets the state's case fall on its own weight.
McKee faces four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe. The prosecution has ballistics through NIBIN linking a firearm from McKee's Chicago condo to shell casings at the crime scene. They have vehicle tracking data. Surveillance footage allegedly placing McKee in the alley behind the Tepe home. A suppressor specification carrying six additional years. No forced entry. And an eight-year gap between the divorce and the murders with no documented incidents between McKee and Monique.
Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me to analyze how Menashe might attack each piece of evidence, whether the no-forced-entry problem actually helps the defense, and what the eight-year gap between divorce and murder means for both sides. We examine the prosecution's inexperience—Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor is trying her first felony case ever—and whether that creates openings for a 27-year defense veteran. This is how the McKee-Tepe case is going to be fought.
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| 1:21.2 | Michael McKee fled not guilty to say the day to four counts of aggravated murder and the deaths of his ex-wife, Monique |
| 1:28.0 | Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, didn't say a word. His attorney, Diane Medici, spoke for him, |
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| 1:45.1 | And if she's a 27-year veteran of criminal defense in Columbus in 2022, she called the defense of |
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