Spencer and Monique Tepe Found Dead — Ex-Husband McKee's Firearm Links to Scene
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
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Summary
The ballistic match that prosecutors say connects Dr. Michael McKee to the murders of his ex-wife and her husband is now central to the case against him. McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Monique Tepe and Dr. Spencer Tepe. The couple was found shot to death in their Weinland Park home on December 30th. Spencer had been shot multiple times; Monique sustained a gunshot wound to the chest. Their children, ages four and one, were in the home but physically unharmed. Columbus police say surveillance footage tracked McKee's vehicle to the neighborhood during the timeframe of the killings.
When investigators seized firearms from his Illinois property, preliminary analysis through the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network tied one weapon to three 9mm shell casings recovered from the Tepe residence. McKee is represented by defense attorney Diane Menashe, who previously represented Dr. William Husel in the Mount Carmel hospital deaths case. The prosecution team includes newly-elected Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor. Monique and McKee divorced in 2017. She married Spencer in 2019. A 911 call from April 2025 captured someone at the Tepe address saying she and her partner "got into it" before declining police assistance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:10.1 | Michael McKee, Dr. Michael McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, pled not guilty, |
| 0:17.3 | to four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary in the December 30th shooting deaths of his ex-wife, Monique Tempe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe at their Columbus, Ohio home. |
| 0:29.4 | The indictment alleges McKee used a firearm equipped with a suppressor to execute that very couple while their two young children, ages one in four, slept in the same house in the other room. |
| 0:43.3 | Monique's family has described McKee as emotionally abusive and claims she threatened to kill her on multiple occasions during their brief seven-month marriage, which ended about a decade ago in 2017. |
| 0:55.7 | McKee allegedly traveled from Illinois to Ohio, drove, but 300-some miles, entered the home |
| 1:02.7 | without forced entry, committed the killings around 3.42 a.m. and then got back in his car |
| 1:07.4 | and drove back, keeping the murder weapon in his residence, where police later recovered it. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.9 | And then allegedly went back to work for 11 days, too. |
| 1:16.6 | Ha ha! |
| 1:17.8 | Joining me now to break down the behavioral indicators in this case, Robin Drig, former FBI special |
| 1:23.2 | agency for the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program, Robin. |
| 1:28.0 | The family says Monique told the McKee threatened to kill her multiple times during their marriage. |
| 1:35.4 | And that was eight years before these murders allegedly occurred. |
| 1:38.4 | From a behavioral standpoint, what does it tell you when someone carries that kind of fixation |
| 1:42.9 | across nearly a decade through |
| 1:45.2 | multiple jobs multiple states an entirely new life built by her former partner and even the fact that |
| 1:53.0 | when saying this to begin with to their partner about a decade ago when you're with them i mean |
| 1:56.8 | it it says a lot that someone's even using that phrase in general with a partner, does it not? |
| 2:02.7 | Yeah, there's a few things in there. |
| 2:04.5 | I actually looked that up, Tony. |
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