The Murders of Spencer and Monique Tepe: The Arrest
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Police arrested Michael David McKee for murdering Spencer and Monique Tepe in Columbus, Ohio on December 30, 2025. McKee was previously married to Monique Tepe. He comes from Zanesville, Ohio.
The probable cause affidavit in the murders of Monique and Spencer Tepe: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26466258-2025cra-000517/?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false
The Columbus Dispatch’s report on the murder of Angel Salguero Diaz featuring a quote from Detective Russell Weiner: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2024/04/17/angel-salguero-diaz-shooting-death-columbus-hudson-street/73355839007/
The Columbus Dispatch’s report quoting Detective Russell Weiner as a community officer: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2012/09/30/unreported-crime-isn-t-exclusive/23785996007/
Files on a narcotics investigation involving Detective Russell Weiner: https://city-attorney.columbus.gov/pdf/press/1915wmound_tro.pdf
Files on a different narcotics investigation involving Detective Russell Weiner: https://city-attorney.columbus.gov/pdf/press/647_belvidere_tro.pdf
A Department of Justice press release involving Detective Russell Weiner’s shooting: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/local-woman-charged-federally-shooting-columbus-police-officer-participating-drug
We also relied on reporting from The Zanesville Times Recorder, the Cincinnati Post, and the The Journal News of Hamilton, Ohio, all accessed through Newspapers.com.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anya, and today we're going to be talking about a major update in the murder of a young couple from Columbus, Ohio. |
| 0:07.0 | Content warning, this episode contains discussion of murder. |
| 0:11.8 | So we have been following the double homicide of, as we mentioned, a young couple in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 0:20.6 | This was the December 30th, 2025 murders of Spencer |
| 0:24.7 | and Monique Tepe. Well, we can tell you now, as you've probably seen over the weekend, |
| 0:29.8 | there has been an arrest in this case. We're going to talk about what we know so far, what we don't |
| 0:34.9 | know, and get into some of the biographical information |
| 0:37.6 | about some of the folks involved in this. |
| 0:40.6 | My name is Anya Kane. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm a journalist. |
| 0:43.7 | And I'm Kevin Greenlee. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm an attorney. |
| 0:46.1 | And this is The Murder Sheet. |
| 0:47.9 | We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, interviews, and deep dives into murder cases. |
| 0:54.2 | We're The murder sheet. |
| 0:55.5 | And this is The Murders of Spencer and Monique Teppey, the arrest. |
| 1:48.9 | Thank you. The So this is a case that's really haunted a lot of people. |
| 1:56.0 | You have this young couple with two young children living their lives in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 2:04.4 | Monique, the wife and mother, was a stay-at-home mom, and Spencer was a dentist who worked at a dental practice in Athens, Ohio. We've actually heard from some folks who had Spencer as a |
| 2:11.4 | dentist or knew them just kind of indirectly through that and said he was like the nicest guy, like just like a wonderful, wonderful dentist who was very good at setting his patients at ease. |
| 2:23.5 | And that's something you've seen reflected in the media reporting. |
| 2:26.0 | Like these are just nice people. |
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