Ohio Murder Mystery Heats Up: New Arrest Details and Evidence | Dr. Michael McKee

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Ohio murder mystery surrounding the killings of Spencer Tepe and Monique Tepe is accelerating, and what police just confirmed changes how this case looks entirely. Columbus police finally faced reporters and confirmed explosive new details about Dr. Michael McKee, Monique’s ex-husband and an Illinois surgeon now charged in the case. Investigators say weapons were recovered from McKee’s Chicago condo, including one preliminarily linked to the murders through federal ballistics analysis, as police work to piece together how this all unfolded. We are also learning startling new details about McKee’s arrest, with the ATF confirming he was taken into custody in Rockford, Illinois, prompting new questions about his movements and what happened in the final moments before police moved in. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the arrest, the press conference, the evidence police revealed, and the deeply troubling accounts from the Tepe family that suggest fear and control long before this case ever turned deadly.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious, and I know I sound terrible.
0:12.6	I know. I got the crud. Whatever the heck it is that millions of us in America have right now,
0:18.8	I got it. Last night, I thought it was just a tickle
0:23.3	in my throat. And then this morning, I woke up with full-blown Brenda Vicaro voice and then some.
0:29.6	So I'm just going to muddle through it. I'm going to apologize for sounding yicky,
0:34.6	because I do have a lot that I need to share with you.
0:47.1	This story, I can't quit this because I still am not, I have a Coburger feel in that I'm not satisfied.
0:47.6	I still don't know why Coburger did it.
0:49.5	And even though we're learning a lot in the Spencer and Monique Teppy murders in Columbus, Ohio,
0:55.0	I'm still completely flummoxed as to how and why.
1:01.6	Anybody could do this, let alone, if it's true, if it is this ex-husband, Dr. Michael McKee,
1:07.6	how and why would he do it?
1:10.3	It's just so bizarre. There's so much that I have yet,
1:13.3	you know, to get answers to. And frankly, I think that's why we're all so obsessed, right?
1:19.4	For sure, it was a mystery in the beginning who did this. But then the arrest of Dr. McKee
1:24.2	just made it more mysterious. Like, why? How? Same feeling I have with Coburger.
1:31.5	Why these people and how? Anyway, we did get a lot of answers today from the Columbus
1:36.6	Police Department. They held a news conference, which was like, thank you. That's the kind of thing
1:41.7	that we're used to in America. We are part of the process.
1:45.2	We're not hidden from it.
1:46.2	So I was very happy that they did that.
1:48.6	And they answered the question I've been asking, I think, on every one of these episodes, right?
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