Tepe Murders: Gun Found in McKee's Penthouse, GMA Interview Reveals Undocumented Abuse
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 25 January 2026
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Summary
The physical evidence is now overwhelming. Columbus police confirmed the murder weapon was recovered from Dr. Michael McKee's Chicago penthouse eleven days after Spencer and Monique Tepe were shot dead in their Columbus home. NIBIN matched shell casings from the bedroom to a firearm seized from his residence. Multiple weapons were recovered. His alibi collapsed before his arrest. ATF picked him up at a Chick-fil-A seven minutes from the hospital where he worked overnight shifts. Surveillance footage places him near the Tepe home during the murder window. Police labeled this a "targeted domestic violence attack."
But the paper trail tells a different story than the family's. Rob Misleh appeared on Good Morning America and said Monique told him McKee was emotionally abusive during their brief marriage. "She just had to get away from him." He said she was willing to do anything to escape, that the family knew about the torment. Misleh called McKee a monster, said Monique never spoke his name after the divorce—only "her ex-husband." She was always worried. But nobody thought he'd actually do it.
The 2017 divorce documents show none of this. No domestic violence allegations. No protection orders. No restraining orders. Just "incompatibility." Attorney Eric Faddis explains why so many victims choose silence—the calculation that documenting abuse creates more danger than it prevents. He breaks down how the legal system treats emotional abuse compared to physical abuse and what options exist for victims who recognize their own situation in Monique's story.
Eight years passed between the divorce and the murders. Then in June 2025, something brought McKee and Monique back into the court system. Six months later, she was dead. Eric examines what that timeline suggests and where the system's limits are when a threat was never officially recorded. McKee faces two counts of aggravated murder with prior calculation and design. Death penalty eligible. He plans to plead not guilty.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden Killers podcast and true crime today. |
| 0:09.2 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Burski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:18.2 | When Rob Mislay appeared on Good Morning America just the other morning, he said something that's hard to shake. |
| 0:26.6 | She had to get away from him. |
| 0:29.0 | He said Monique told him that Dr. Michael McKee was emotionally abusive during their brief marriage, that she was willing to do anything to escape, that many |
| 0:39.2 | in the family knew about the torment that she was being put through by him. That's one of the |
| 0:45.1 | siblings of her that was making that statement. Here's the thing, though, none of that is in court |
| 0:50.3 | records. The 2017 divorce paperwork shows no domestic violence allegations, no protection |
| 0:55.9 | orders, no restraining orders, just incompatibility. And if you looked at those documents, |
| 1:01.2 | you'd think it was one of the most amicable divorces in Ohio history. Then, of course, |
| 1:06.7 | there is what you just referenced there, Stacey. The June 2025 documentation, eight years after divorce, |
| 1:13.4 | when something brought McKee and Monique back into the court system. |
| 1:17.8 | Six months later, she's dead. |
| 1:20.4 | Eric Fattis, attorney, former prosecutor, |
| 1:22.9 | joining us to discuss how the legal system handles domestic violence |
| 1:26.5 | and where the limits are. On the absence |
| 1:29.4 | of this documentation here, and I always, you know, say because people get so frustrated with the |
| 1:35.6 | system, and I get it because this piece of paper doesn't do a whole hell of a lot, but it does |
| 1:40.0 | help to have things documented, sure to anything else arise. But I get, sometimes, you know, |
| 1:45.7 | you don't want to put this into this sort of a documentation because you just want to get through |
| 1:49.1 | the storm while you're in it. The absence of documentation, though, coming back to Haunt, |
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