Tepe Family Murders: Surgeon Michael McKee "Just Disappeared" — Then Allegedly Killed Ex-Wife Monique & Husband Spencer
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Michael David McKee knew how to vanish. When a Las Vegas attorney tried to serve him with a malpractice lawsuit, he encountered fake addresses, a fax machine instead of a phone number, and colleagues who had no idea where McKee had gone. "He just disappeared," one told the attorney in October 2025. Two months later, McKee allegedly resurfaced — driving 300 miles to Columbus, Ohio, where prosecutors say he shot and killed his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in their home.
The marriage ended in 2017 after just seven months. But according to family, McKee never accepted it. Monique's brother-in-law says McKee was emotionally abusive and threatened her life during the marriage. Reports indicate he allegedly sent birthday cards signed "Your Husband" after the divorce. Monique remained terrified of him for eight years — even after remarrying, even after building a beautiful life with Spencer and two children.
McKee's professional life was unraveling in 2025. His Nevada medical license expired. Malpractice lawsuits were closing in. Meanwhile, Monique had just celebrated her fifth anniversary with Spencer. In her wedding vows, she spoke of "wrong relationships" and a "waterfall of tears" — a clear reference to her past with McKee.
Police tracked McKee through surveillance footage and linked a firearm from his Chicago condo to shell casings at the scene. He was arrested at a Chick-fil-A. He faces life without parole if convicted. This is a deep dive into alleged obsession, evasion, and a surgeon who reportedly couldn't let go.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:02.9 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:05.9 | If you're following the TEPI murders, here's something that might make you a little bit unsettled. |
| 0:14.7 | If you're kind of putting yourself in the situation and the mindset of those that would have been around, |
| 0:27.9 | Monique, her family, on paper, he was everything you'd want your daughter to marry. |
| 0:37.9 | I mean, to this day, if you don't know about the, you know, past, the alleged eight-year obsession. |
| 0:41.4 | Take that out of, just if you're looking at accomplishments, |
| 0:49.6 | if you're looking at, okay, this is what this guy's documented history is of accomplishments. |
| 0:53.9 | You go, damn, this guy seems to really, you know, it takes some discipline to get where you got. |
| 0:55.7 | Take some discipline. |
| 0:57.2 | Take some smarts. |
| 0:58.1 | Take some strategy. |
| 0:59.3 | Takes a lot of things. |
| 1:03.5 | That's why it makes it all the more shocking when you're like, you did what? |
| 1:05.7 | How? |
| 1:06.4 | Why? |
| 1:32.1 | National Merit Scholar, Biology Student of the Year, Honorable Mention, All-Star Football, fifth in his class at a Catholic high school in Zanesville, Ohio, altar server at St. Nicholas Parish, top 25 in the state history contest, Ohio State undergrad, Ohio State Medical School, Surgical Residency of Virginia Tech, fellowship at the University of Maryland, board-certified vascular surgeon with active licenses in multiple states and not a single disciplinary mark on his record. |
| 1:38.4 | And allegedly, in the early morning hours of December 30th, 2025, he drove over 300 miles. |
| 1:45.7 | From Illinois to Columbus, Ohio, entered his ex-wife's home while her two children slept in nearby rooms, shot her husband, Spencer Tepey, multiple times, shot Monique Tepey once, and then drove back, left the kids, ages one and |
| 1:52.0 | four, crying in their beds next to the dead parents, and in his mind, probably because she had |
| 1:57.7 | it coming, because she broke my heart. Because this, because that. |
| 2:01.6 | Because he's a wound collector. |
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