Why Did Surgeon Michael McKee Allegedly Stalk Monique Tepe for 8 Years? FBI Agent Explains
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
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Michael McKee allegedly told his ex-wife Monique Tepe he could "kill her at any time" and that "she will always be his wife" — eight years after their divorce. Now the vascular surgeon is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the December 30th killings of Monique and her husband Spencer in their Columbus, Ohio home. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, joins us to analyze the behavioral red flags in the unsealed affidavit — the language of ownership, the reconnaissance trip to their property while they were at a football game, and why someone with elite medical training allegedly made obvious investigative mistakes.
Court documents reveal allegations of strangulation and sexual assault during the marriage, followed by years of threats that witnesses reported to investigators. Monique left the Big Ten Championship game at halftime because she was upset about "something involving her ex-husband." She sensed something. Robin explains how victims often know they're in danger before they can articulate why — and what this case teaches us about the limits of doing everything right when the person who wants to harm you refuses to let go.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.9 | The unsealed affidavit in the Michael McKee case kind of reads like a textbook on obsessive ex-partner behavior. |
| 0:16.0 | Eight years of alleged threat, surveillance of his ex-wife's home while she was out of town, |
| 0:21.7 | statements to Monique Tepey that she would always be his wife and he could kill her at any time. |
| 0:29.6 | You know, the type of things you save with the people you love. |
| 0:32.3 | Robin Drake, retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program is with us. |
| 0:38.5 | You've spent your career studying how people think, how they escalate, and what their words reveal about their intentions. |
| 0:47.1 | Today we're breaking down the behavioral red flags in this case. |
| 0:50.5 | What McKee's alleged statements and actions tell us about his mindset, what the eight-year |
| 0:55.9 | timeline says, why it matters, and what the reconnaissance trip on December 6th tells us about |
| 1:03.1 | planning versus impulse. Robin, as always welcome. According to witnesses cited in the affidavit, McKee allegedly told Monique Tepe, |
| 1:13.5 | he could, quote, kill her at any time, end quote, that he would, quote, find her and buy the house |
| 1:21.3 | right next to her, and that he would, quote, she will always be his wife. |
| 1:33.2 | This was eight years before the divorce from a behavioral analysis standpoint. |
| 1:46.6 | What does statements like that tell you about how McKee viewed Monique and what psychological framework helps explain someone who will speak in terms of ownership like that about the person that they supposedly love. |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah, and we covered this right at the very beginning of us talking about this case, Tony. |
| 1:57.3 | Remember, we didn't have much details except the murder, the being married eight years ago. |
| 2:02.2 | And we said back then, there's going to be leakage along the way about how this thing go from zero to 100. And we are finding out it did not go from zero to 100 for him. He is |
| 2:08.4 | excluding, exuding. Exuding. That's the leakage all over the place. And actually, because of this |
| 2:16.9 | case, I have actually entered a new word into my vocabulary. |
| 2:20.8 | We've said wound collector many, many, many times. |
| 2:23.5 | Now we have, he is what I'm calling an injustice collector. |
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