Psychotherapist Analyzes Michael McKee: The "Wound Collector" Profile in Tepe Murders
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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Summary
What turns a failed seven-month marriage into an alleged eight-year obsession ending in double homicide?
Michael McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer. Family members say Monique lived with McKee for only seven months before escaping what they describe as emotional abuse and repeated death threats. She divorced him in 2017, remarried in 2020, built a new life with two children. Prosecutors allege McKee drove six hours from Illinois, entered their home without forced entry, shot both victims at 3:52 AM, and drove back.
In Part 1 of our three-part expert interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott provides clinical analysis of the alleged perpetrator psychology. With over thirty years working in forensic settings and domestic violence programs — and as author of "The Minds of Mass Killers" — Shavaun brings deep expertise to these questions.
We examine the "wound collector" profile identified by FBI profiler Joe Navarro. We explore how high-functioning individuals allegedly compartmentalize obsession. We analyze what allegedly triggers action after years of apparent fixation. And we dig into the internal narrative that may have allegedly justified this alleged eight-year grudge.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:10.0 | Seven months of living together, eight years of alleged obsession. |
| 0:17.4 | Michael McKee is charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepey and her husband, Spencer. |
| 0:23.7 | Allegedly eight years after she escaped, |
| 0:26.1 | what family members describe as emotional abuse and death threats. |
| 0:30.8 | There's no indication he ever remarried. |
| 0:34.0 | We have recently heard from an ex-girlfriend now who described him as |
| 0:38.5 | boring. Prosecutors say he drove six hours, entered without forced entry, killed them both at |
| 0:46.0 | 352 a.m. while their kids slept and then got back in the car and drove back. What happens inside |
| 0:52.4 | a mind that allegedly can't let go? Psychotherapist, |
| 0:56.8 | Chavon Scott, is with us to help break all of this down. She's the author of the Mines of Mass |
| 1:03.7 | Killers and her most recent Nightbird, her autobiography available wherever books are sold. |
| 1:11.2 | Today we're going to go into the psychology of the obsessive X. |
| 1:17.0 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 1:18.3 | We're also going to talk about the victim experience. |
| 1:22.0 | What happened with Monique and her life during and after the relationship and all also |
| 1:31.7 | what the family is now dealing with in the aftermath of this tragedy let's |
| 1:39.7 | start out with the two-year marriage on paper the the the seven-month marriage, the two-year relationship, |
| 1:47.2 | seven months actually living together, and allegedly eight years of fixation and ended in double |
| 1:53.3 | homicide. Shavon, what does that math tell you about what allegedly happened inside this man's |
| 1:59.3 | had? Very short time of the commitment together |
| 2:02.4 | of marriage, about two years of relationship in total, but eight years of silence and then |
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