Why Michael McKee Allegedly Couldn't Let Go — The Wound Collector Profile
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Seven months of living together. Eight years of alleged obsession. Two lives allegedly taken.
Michael McKee was married to Monique Tepe for two years on paper, but family members say they only lived together for about seven months before she fled what they describe as emotional torture and death threats. She rebuilt her life, remarried dentist Spencer Tepe, had children, and appeared to thrive. Prosecutors allege McKee watched from a distance for eight years — then allegedly drove six hours to Columbus, entered their home without forced entry, and shot them both to death while their kids slept.
Former FBI profiler Joe Navarro calls this type a "wound collector" — someone who nurtures grievances for years, unable to forgive or move on. Criminal behavioral analyst Laura Richards describes it as "stalking in slow motion." In this episode, we apply these frameworks to the McKee case and explore what the research says about obsessive ex-partners who turn lethal.
This one is heavy. But it matters. Because recognizing these patterns saves lives.
McKee is charged with four counts of aggravated murder and awaits extradition to Ohio.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.2 | Two years on paper. |
| 0:09.7 | Seven months as married under the same roof. |
| 0:15.7 | That's the math on Michael McKee and Monique Teppi's marriage legally wet in August of 2015, but according to family |
| 0:24.6 | members, they lived together for roughly seven months before she got out. |
| 0:32.6 | And I'm using that word deliberately because the people closest to her don't describe it as a breakup. They describe |
| 0:40.2 | it as a flight. There's a difference when someone's talking about something. It's like, |
| 0:45.1 | well, yeah, things didn't work out very well. They went their separate ways. And, you know, |
| 0:49.0 | there's that. And there's, well, she got the hell out of there. Like, she didn't even look back. |
| 0:56.4 | She just got up and gone. |
| 1:00.5 | Eight years later, according to prosecutors, Michael McKee allegedly drove six hours from Illinois to Ohio in the middle of the night, entered a home with no signs of forced entry, and |
| 1:12.3 | allegedly shot Monique and her husband, Spencer Tempe, to death at 352 in the morning while their |
| 1:17.8 | two young children slept nearby. Then allegedly, he drove all the way back. Another 300 miles. |
| 1:25.5 | Another six-hour drive. |
| 1:30.5 | How often do you just go for six-hour drives? |
| 1:34.7 | I mean, if I'm going to visit someone very close to me or a vacation. |
| 1:41.6 | Maybe those things happen two or three times a year, that you got to be on a mission it's not |
| 1:49.3 | just like oh it happened to be in the neighborhood this day and uh this is why you saw my car over |
| 1:53.9 | there i was i was visiting my buddy there's just... Yeah. |
| 2:03.8 | So that ain't working in his favor. |
| 2:07.5 | The math here doesn't work for normal people. |
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