Tepe Murder Q&A: Michael McKee's 300-Mile Drive, Coercive Control & Failed Systems
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Monique's family said they "immediately knew" it was Michael McKee when they got the call. They knew. For eight years they watched her live in fear of a man she'd been married to for seven months. And nothing could be done. Michael McKee is now charged with two counts of aggravated murder for allegedly killing Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in their Ohio home while their children — a four-year-old and a one-year-old — slept down the hall. He allegedly drove 300 miles from New York, committed a double homicide, drove home, and kept the gun in his apartment. Your questions have forced us to confront the hardest parts of this case: What was Monique supposed to do? She did everything "right." She left. She divorced. She moved on. She built a beautiful life. And McKee allegedly destroyed it anyway. We examine the birthday cards signed "Your Husband" years after the divorce, his crumbling medical career, and whether his alibi was always meant to fail. This episode is about coercive control, the limits of restraining orders, and the question no one wants to answer — does a man like this feel like he won?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.7 | All right, on to another one. |
| 0:11.2 | And this is another case here that we've been covering for a bit of time here. |
| 0:17.6 | And it continues to get more and more crazy. Really, by the day, the TEPI murders, |
| 0:24.1 | Michael McKee, vascular surgeon, no criminal record allegedly drives 300 miles to kill his ex-wife |
| 0:29.8 | and her new husband while their kids sleep down the hall. The marriage lasted seven months. |
| 0:35.4 | The divorce was eight years ago, and yet here we are. |
| 0:38.8 | We've gotten a lot of questions and comments from you on this case. |
| 0:42.5 | So let's get into some of these. |
| 0:45.5 | Here's the first one. |
| 0:46.5 | Seven months, that marriage lasted seven months and allegedly cost four people, their parents. |
| 0:53.2 | I need someone to explain how a grown man builds his entire identity around a woman who was |
| 0:59.3 | barely his wife. |
| 1:00.9 | This is not tap. |
| 1:01.7 | This is, this is, uh, this is, uh, this is McKee. |
| 1:06.1 | Right. |
| 1:06.4 | See, I told you, they are so easy to screw up. |
| 1:09.9 | I get these cases mixed up all the time. |
| 1:12.1 | Somebody is confusing this case with the other case. |
| 1:19.6 | Because in this case, we have... |
| 1:22.4 | McKee, that's correct. |
| 1:24.1 | Two are dead, not four. Four aren't dead. |
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