You know, were there warning signs before Michael McKee, Dr. McKee, killed Monique and Spencer

Teppi?

Because now it seems that everyone is saying they saw all these signs.

But prior to that, no one was reporting on this.

When violent acts occur between former partners, they almost never come out of nowhere.

In most domestic-related homicides, there are predictable warning signs. Patterns of behavior that

escalate over time.

Today, we're examining the warning indicators that investigators look for it in the cases like the killings of Monique Tepe and her husband, Spencer Tepe, and the alleged role

of her ex-husband, Michael McKee.

This is not about hindsight bias. This is about understanding

behavioral red flags at law enforcement, courts, and families must recognize before violence

turns fatal. You know, in my time on the NYPD, I saw the response to domestic violence incidents change over the years, where there was sort of a laissez-faire-type response where try to mediate it, if you can walk out of there without having put handcuffs on somebody. That was what was preferred early on in my police career. And then it did a

full 360 where there was almost a zero tolerance because what investigators and researchers

found out was that when you didn't address the domestic violence incident through law enforcement

involvement, i.e. arrest,

that increased the homicide numbers.

Some of these little disputes, these little domestic disputes, turned into more violence,

and then the violence turned in to murders.

So the posture of police, not just in New York

City, but across the nation changed almost overnight where it was almost encouraged to take

enforcement against the perpetrator in these domestic violence incidents. One of the most consistent predictors of intimate partner violence is refusal

to accept the end of a relationship.

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