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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

The case against the Spencer Tepe murderer Ballistics don't lie.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The case against the Spencer Tepe murderer | Ballistics don't lie  New details emerge as investigators analyze physical evidence, shell casings, and the crime scene layout in the brutal murders of Spencer and Monique Tepe in Columbus, Ohio. In this episode of Police off the Cuff, we take a fact-driven look at the confirmed evidence recovered from the Tepe residence and explain what it tells investigators — and what it does not.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So important evidence clarification right now.

0:03.4

It has been clarified that 9mm spent shells were recovered inside the house.

0:10.0

That's a 9mm spent shell.

0:13.2

So what does that mean?

0:14.3

They did not specify how many.

0:17.8

So we don't know how many.

0:19.3

But what that tells us, this is a nine millimeter spent shell,

0:23.6

and what you're looking at is a firing pin impression, which is also unique to the gun

0:30.7

that this spent shell came from.

0:33.5

In addition, this is a picture of the spent shell, but the extractor marks also unique to the firearm that fired this.

0:43.9

And we don't know how many spent shells.

0:45.9

The other thing I said to Professor Mike was, this is beautiful.

0:49.6

Because when you load a semi-automatic handgun, you must load into a magazine one at a time.

0:58.9

And however big that magazine is, whether it holds 10 rounds, nine rounds, 12 rounds, the only ones that get 15 rounds are law enforcement clips.

1:08.3

They're illegal anywhere else.

1:09.9

But guess what? The person that loaded

1:12.8

that semi-automatic put those rounds into the magazine potentially could have left his or her

1:21.1

DNA on the side of those cartridges. So there's another investigative tool that investigators have that potentially could

1:30.3

identify the person or persons that did this heinous crime. And you can see here's a better picture

1:36.7

here for those that aren't that familiar. You could see firing pin impression extractor marks.

1:43.2

Again, I don't want to get too much into the science of

1:46.5

ballistics but all of these things uh are unique markings on the spent shell and then there's a

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