"Wrong Relationships & Waterfalls of Tears" — Monique Tepe's Wedding Vows Hit Different Now
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Monique Tepe left her first husband after just seven months of marriage. She moved back to Ohio. She rebuilt her life. She married a dentist named Spencer, had two children, and said in her wedding vows: "I had quite a journey to get to you. Countless bad Bumble dates, wrong relationships, and waterfalls of tears."
Eight years later, according to police, that first husband — Dr. Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon — allegedly drove from Illinois to Columbus and shot both Monique and Spencer dead in their home at 3:52 in the morning. Their children, ages 4 and 1, were found alive in the house.
The family wasn't shocked. They told reporters they'd suspected McKee all along. Spencer's brother-in-law called McKee "emotionally abusive." Sources say Monique's parents helped her escape Virginia where she'd been living with him.
New court records reveal activity on their 2017 divorce case in June 2025 — six months before the murders. What brought them back to court after eight years of silence? We don't know yet. But investigators and experts are building a profile of a man who never let go.
McKee maintains his innocence and will plead not guilty. He faces two counts of aggravated murder — death penalty eligible in Ohio.
This is the full breakdown: the relationship, the divorce, the eight-year gap that wasn't really a gap, and the night everything ended.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.7 | The family wasn't surprised. |
| 0:10.3 | That's the word in the Tepey murder case. |
| 0:16.6 | When Dr. Michael McKee was arrested for the murders of Spencer and Monique Tempe, |
| 0:21.9 | her relatives told the Daily Mail it was absolutely not a shock to anybody. |
| 0:28.1 | They said they'd been waiting. |
| 0:30.7 | They'd suspected him all along but kept their mouth shut |
| 0:33.4 | because they didn't want to compromise the investigation. |
| 0:38.3 | That tells you a lot. |
| 0:41.7 | Eight years after the divorce, |
| 0:44.0 | and they were still watching over their shoulders. |
| 0:50.7 | I should tell you everything about what this case really is. |
| 0:55.0 | Because on paper, it looked like a cold hit, a random tragedy, a young couple with two small children shot dead on their Columbus home four days before the new year. |
| 1:04.7 | No forced entry, no apparent motive, no obvious enemies. |
| 1:08.7 | But the people closest to Monique, they weren't asking who did this. |
| 1:15.8 | They were asking when the cops would finally come for him. |
| 1:19.9 | We're going to get into what we know thus far. |
| 1:24.1 | I'm going to try and break down what some of the rumors are, what some of the facts are, |
| 1:27.1 | what some of the middle information is. It's kind of unconfirmed yet. And take it from there. I want your thoughts in the comments section on YouTube. I'd love to see them or on our substack. Hidden killers. Atsubstack.com. The link is in the description. It's also on the |
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