Monique Tepe Murder, Michael McKee Psychology & Brendan Banfield Trial — FBI Agent Coffindaffer
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers for a comprehensive breakdown of three major cases making headlines right now. First: the investigation into Dr. Michael McKee, charged with the premeditated aggravated murder of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in Columbus, Ohio. Police have a preliminary ballistics match, surveillance footage, and video of a hooded figure in the alley at 3:52 AM. But they haven't explained how McKee allegedly got inside with no forced entry — or why a surgeon would keep the murder weapon in his apartment for eleven days. Second: the psychology of an eight-year grudge. Monique Tepe did everything survivors are told to do. She left after seven months. She didn't prolong the divorce. She moved home, rebuilt, remarried, had children. She never spoke McKee's name again. Her family says they suspected him from day one. They'd known for years he was a threat. And the system still couldn't act until she was dead.
Coffindaffer explains the behavioral profile of a grievance collector who never lets go — and why escape sometimes isn't enough. Third: day three of the Brendan Banfield murder trial. McDonald's surveillance video confirms Juliana Peres Magalhães's timeline — Banfield received her call at 7:37 AM, the signal that Joseph Ryan had arrived. The murder knife was hidden under blankets, not in Ryan's hand. Christine's phone was tucked in a drawer. But Banfield's DNA wasn't on the knife because police allowed him to wash his hands before collecting samples. Coffindaffer analyzes what this evidence means and what the defense needs to do when it's their turn.
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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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