The Tepe Murders: McKee's Defense Attorney Has a Perfect Record in Doctor Murder Trials
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Michael McKee entered his not guilty plea Friday. Silent. Stoic. His attorney did the talking. And if you want to understand what's coming in this case, you need to understand who that attorney is.
Diane Menashe defended Dr. William Husel — the Mount Carmel physician accused of murdering fourteen ICU patients with lethal fentanyl doses. She called one witness. One. Husel walked on all fourteen counts. That's the playbook. That's who McKee hired.
The prosecution team includes Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor, who has never tried a felony case in her career. She's third chair behind experienced prosecutors, but the optics are impossible to ignore. The heavyweight versus the newcomer. The doctor-defender versus the property code attorney.
This episode goes deep on the legal chess match ahead. We break down Menashe's philosophy — why she believes presenting a defense shifts the burden to prove innocence. We examine what the suppressor allegation means for premeditation charges. And we dig into McKee's pattern of vanishing: fake addresses, expired licenses, process servers who couldn't find him for months before the murders.
The evidence police have described sounds substantial. But Diane Menashe has beaten substantial before. The question now is whether she can do it again.
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| 0:00.0 | Tony Brewski. |
| 0:02.3 | Michael McKee stood in front of a camera just the other day wearing tan prison scrubs and a name tag |
| 0:08.9 | and didn't say a word. |
| 0:11.6 | His attorney said it for him. |
| 0:13.3 | Not guilty. |
| 0:15.3 | The whole thing took less than two minutes. |
| 0:19.3 | Two minutes. |
| 0:20.6 | They would think that was the story, the plea, the formality, the box being checked, |
| 0:24.5 | you're missing what actually happened here because what happened is the battle lines just got drawn. |
| 0:33.5 | And they tell you everything about how this case is going to be fought. We are about to get into it. We're going to start with the defense. But first, I want to make sure that you have pressed subscribe. So you're not missing any of our coverage of this case. So wherever it is, hit subscribe right now. And let us know your thoughts as we go through this in the comment section on YouTube, |
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| 1:15.9 | All right. |
| 1:16.1 | Let's start with the defense here. |
| 1:17.6 | McKee, he didn't grab a public defender. |
| 1:22.1 | He retained Diane Menishy. |
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