Family members describe Spencer and Monique Tepe as quote unquote, extraordinary people filled with love, joy, and deep connection.

So how does a couple like this end up at the center of a mystery with so few answers up to now?

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Columbus Police, I was reading about this last night, they just closed out one of their

strongest years of policing in nearly two decades, solving 84% of all homicides in 2025.

This is according to the Columbus dispatch, far above the national

average. The national clearance rate on homicides is, I think, below 50%. And here in Columbus,

they're saying it is 84%. Yet the Christmas season, of course, leaves us with the unsolved murders

of Spencer and Monique Tepe, Tepe, among 13 other unsolved cases.

It's also a case where they were going to conduct this welfare check, right?

Where they went to the house, they went to the wrong house we found out earlier this week.

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