Tepe Affidavit Unsealed: McKee Was at Their Home Three Weeks Before the Murders
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
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Summary
The unsealed affidavit in the Michael McKee case reveals something prosecutors hadn't disclosed until now: McKee was at the Tepe home on December 6th — three weeks before he allegedly murdered his ex-wife Monique and her husband Spencer.
The Tepes were at the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis that night. Two hundred miles away. House empty. According to the Columbus Dispatch, video showed McKee entering the home and leaving "a few hours later." WOSU reports he walked through the yard. What everyone agrees on: he was there, and Monique somehow knew. She left the game at halftime.
This wasn't random. Witnesses told investigators McKee had allegedly threatened Monique for eight years — that he could "kill her at any time," that she would "always be his wife." A silver SUV with stolen plates had been spotted near their home multiple times. Fresh scrape marks on the window where a sticker used to be.
No forced entry on December 6th. No forced entry on December 30th.
December 6th was reconnaissance. A test run. Twenty-four days later, he allegedly came back with a silenced firearm and executed the plan. Spencer was shot multiple times. Monique took at least one round to the chest. Their children slept through it.
McKee has pleaded not guilty. He faces life in prison if convicted. But the question this affidavit raises isn't whether he did it — it's how Monique knew from 200 miles away that something was wrong. And why eight years of warnings still weren't enough.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:07.4 | Three weeks before Spencer and Monique Teppie were shot to death in their Columbus home, |
| 0:12.2 | Michael McKee was already there. That's what we are learning. |
| 0:18.8 | December 6, 2025, the Teppies, they were in Indianapolis, Big Ten Good morning. It's number six, at 2025. |
| 0:21.6 | They were in Indianapolis, Big Ten Championship game going on. |
| 0:26.6 | Ohio State versus Indiana, 8 p.m. kickoff 200 miles away. |
| 0:32.6 | House empty, kids presumably with family or a sitter, |
| 0:36.6 | date night for a couple about to celebrate five years of marriage. |
| 0:42.0 | And according to the Columbus dispatch, video showed McKee going into the Tepe home that night and leaving a few hours later. |
| 0:51.1 | WOSU and NPR affiliate characterized it a little differently. |
| 0:55.2 | They report video showed McKee walking through the TEPI's yard. |
| 0:59.4 | What all the reporting agrees on is this. |
| 1:02.1 | According to the affidavit, he was there. |
| 1:04.8 | On the property, while they were gone. |
| 1:08.8 | And somehow, Monique found out. |
| 1:12.7 | She allegedly left the game at halftime, went back to the hotel. |
| 1:16.8 | And according to the affidavit, Spencer later told friends that Monique was upset about something involving her ex-husband. |
| 1:24.9 | 200 miles away. |
| 1:26.9 | Middle of the biggest game of the season. |
| 1:29.6 | And something made her leave. |
| 1:33.0 | Something told her he was there, |
| 1:38.0 | or had been there or was watching. |
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