Tepe Murders: Ex-Husband Surgeon Charged — The Divorce Papers Tell the Story
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Michael David McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon from Chicago, has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe. The couple was found shot dead inside their Columbus, Ohio home on December 30, 2025. Their two young children — ages 4 and 1 — were discovered unharmed in another room.
McKee and Monique were married in August 2015 but separated after just seven months. Divorce documents obtained through public records reveal she listed her engagement ring and wedding ring as "Separate Property," stating "I paid" as the reason. The separation agreement included a clause requiring her to pay McKee $1,281.59 with 23% interest if late. She filed on grounds of incompatibility and paid for a private judge to expedite the process. Eight years later, Monique had remarried Spencer Tepe, a dentist, and built a new life. Columbus detectives tracked McKee through surveillance footage showing a vehicle near the Tepe home before and after the killings. He was arrested without incident in Rockford, Illinois. No motive has been released. McKee had no prior criminal record. His neighbor told reporters she used to chat with him poolside — "and then he turns out to be a killer."
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:02.8 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.8 | Yeah, this will end up on Dateline. |
| 0:10.5 | I mean, this is going to be a tangled web to unweave if, in fact, the man that's been arrested in the teppy murders is in fact the man |
| 0:23.5 | responsible for the tepe murders because it's a long road of what yet what let's get into it |
| 0:37.1 | 11 days that's get into it. |
| 0:39.3 | Eleven days. |
| 0:42.0 | That's how long it took Columbus police to find their man. |
| 0:46.0 | And when they did, he wasn't hiding in some basement apartment. |
| 0:48.2 | He wasn't living off the grid. |
| 0:55.3 | He was a vascular surgeon in Illinois, making small talk with neighbors by the pool of his luxury Chicago apartment building. |
| 0:58.5 | Michael David McKee, 39 years old, arrested. |
| 1:06.9 | This last Saturday morning in Rockford, Illinois, charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Spencer and Monique Teppie. |
| 1:12.6 | His ex-wife and her husband shot dead inside the Columbus home on December 30th while their two young children were in another room. Well, this must have been a recent divorce, right? No, |
| 1:19.6 | 2017. Almost a decade ago. Yeah. |
| 1:31.1 | Like what? Huh? |
| 1:33.7 | Seems like most have moved on pretty well, right? |
| 1:35.6 | Like, what? |
| 1:37.1 | You know, I don't know. |
| 1:39.3 | There's a lot of questions here. |
| 1:42.5 | We're going to get into all of it as we do. |
| 1:44.8 | Your thoughts in the comment section on YouTube. |
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