OH - Spencer and Monique Tepe found shot to death at home 2 children unharmed, Columbus, 30 December 2025 *ex-husband arrested*

[Mitch1]

I have been wondering, did this house not have deadbolts apart/separate from the keypad type lock? When I’m home my deadbolts are what I make sure to lock.

 

[stmarysmead]

About the career. There is a lack of doctors, including qualified surgeons, now. So, even two lawsuits are not the end of someone’s career. (Source: a friend who worked in a highly paid and equally high-risk field. He had two serious lawsuits one after another. His malpractice insurance went drastically up, so high that he decided to get into locum tenens for a while. After several years, he joined another practice and ultimately, did fine. Of course it was a hard time, but he never complained. If anything, he explained the problems (malpractice insurance), why was it better to go the locums route, what he expected to happen.) In fact, there are few high risks medical fields, including surgery in general. A couple of lawsuits, especially explained by “genuine mistakes”, do not necessarily ruin everything for doctors.

I’d rather suspect that McKee was falling apart and viewed the lawsuit as “the end of the road”. Maybe he managed to ruin professional relationships with his colleagues, too.

Agreed about his career. He is in an in-demand specialty. Changing jobs can be because another practice pursued and offered more money, preferred location…family experience with that.

Malpractice paid by employer. Lawsuits in certain high risk specialties and in a sue-everybody era is viewed differently from different perspectives. We had a Dr friend who stopped to offer words of assurance to a woman he knew awaiting surgery, had zero to do with procedure and was briefly cited in her malpractice case.

I’m still curious about the information that seemed to indicate he was opening a Columbus office. IIRC that didn’t look like a practice he was joining…but a solo practice…but I could be mistaken. Was he trying to move close to her? I wonder if she and/or her family heard about this from mutual friends.

Still stumped on how he got in and out of that house past the security like a Ninja. It certainly was a high risk operation for an Ex with a gun to be caught in any stage of this situation. Would ruin his career without any revenge success.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

It's so strange that he purchased a new home and then less than 6 months later decided to risk losing everything. Dude could have just kept trying to date women, kept studying hard for the Boards (if that was even actually an issue), kept trying, and maybe in a few years his life would have looked much different.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Like the old saying goes...

It's always the Ex Husband or the current one. it's a pity this psycho carried such a grudge after so long. He left those poor innocent children without parents. Wonder why he let his Medical License expire just recently?

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McKee also held a medical license in Nevada, which expired in June 2025. Records show no disciplinary history in any of the states where he has practiced medicine.

An Ohio mother and her husband were found dead in their home. Now, her ex-husband is charged with murder. Here’s what we know

 

[Knitpicker]

But your wedding video doesn’t have to be. In fact, most people’s wedding videos aren’t.

They had their social media private so at least that stuff would have been inaccessible to him unless he created a fake account.

It was very well done and professional. Do you think whoever posted it did the video themselves? It doesn’t look like a business. It was overly emotional imo.

 

[Inthedetails]

It's so strange that he purchased a new home and then less than 6 months later decided to risk losing everything. Dude could have just kept trying to date women, kept studying hard for the Boards (if that was even actually an issue), kept trying, and maybe in a few years his life would have looked much different.

Exactly. That's how most people would approach setbacks. You keep plugging away. It's HARD but it's not the end of the world to have to struggle, pivot, try again.

Whether he could've continued in his career that is in high demand or not doesn't matter because....he didn't continue. He destroyed it all.

We can't apply logic to a man driven to kill his ex-wife and her husband, imo. His way of thinking was, obviously, not straight but very tangled.

jmopinion

 

[Knitpicker]

Agreed about his career. He is in an in-demand specialty. Changing jobs can be because another practice pursued and offered more money, preferred location…family experience with that.

Malpractice paid by employer. Lawsuits in certain high risk specialties and in a sue-everybody era is viewed differently from different perspectives. We had a Dr friend who stopped to offer words of assurance to a woman he knew awaiting surgery, had zero to do with procedure and was briefly cited in her malpractice case.

I’m still curious about the information that seemed to indicate he was opening a Columbus office. IIRC that didn’t look like a practice he was joining…but a solo practice…but I could be mistaken. Was he trying to move close to her? I wonder if she and/or her family heard about this from mutual friends.

Still stumped on how he got in and out of that house past the security like a Ninja. It certainly was a high risk operation for an Ex with a gun to be caught in any stage of this situation. Would ruin his career without any revenge success.

Most physicians have been bought out by large medical groups. You don’t see private practices anymore.
A good friend of mine had their contract renewed and her salary cut in half. After being bought out by this group 10 years ago. From 300K to 150K. She left, is almost at retirement age and not quite ready to retire looking for another position elsewhere. General surgery.
They are probably looking for a young Dr at cheaper salary.

Edit- the salary cut in half was last year. Not when she was bought out 10 years ago.

 

[PipeyRella]

It was very well done and professional. Do you think whoever posted it did the video themselves? It doesn’t look like a business. It was overly emotional imo.

The brother-in-law did the video and posted it

 

[stmarysmead]

He may just have chosen not to renew NV license because he’s not practicing there anymore.

Most of this stuff around his medical career I don’t find suspicious at all..except that info about opening a Columbus office when he just bought a condo in Chicago. Rockford and Columbus…how was that going to work? Did it say he was affiliated with any Columbus hospital? But what is that source?.

Also, the issue of passing his Boards is confused. Too much garbage on social media, too many anonymous sources.

My guess right now is that he was professionally doing fine. But, dealing with an obsession or renewed anger at his Ex. But who knows?

LE must have a lot more than him just walking around the neighborhood. I wonder what his defense narrative will be?

 

[OhioGuy]

I thought about the need for MM to have some sort of a light to see S and M. I get up a few times during the night and even though we have motion sensor nightlights, I still have to take my time getting back to my bed while my eyes adjust to the darkness. I think they heard noises and woke up. Maybe he was in their doorway by then? No way could he have been in total darkness the entire time. Maybe a flashlight or headlamp or as used.

I was thinking about that earlier too. On the entry level there’s likely enough ambient light to move around and find your way upstairs quickly. Once up there is anyone’s guess, but when my children were that age we’d leave a small hallway light on so that it wasn’t pitch black when we’d have to walk to their room to pop in a pacifier or rock them back to sleep. Bedroom maybe they slept with the TV on or had a nightlight.

 

[Cassie P]

Like I said I think he killed ST first, and then had his time with Monique. That was his moment to tell her he “won” the sick game he has been playing in his head since they got divorced. That was his time to tell her he got the last word. Forever. She would have been thinking about the kids. I can’t imagine the fear. That poor woman.

We should know more when the autopsy reports come out?

While it seems obvious MT was the target we don't know how paranoid, delusional, and crazy the killer is. Did he somehow irrationally blame ST for everything?

At the least, the killer knew ST was more able to stop him. So he probably thought he had to shoot him first, two times to be sure.

Maybe he shot MT only once, so she would die more slowly.
He was a vascular surgeon, he probably thought about this part of it.

A wife abused by her husband in her first marriage, would know the second she saw her ex in the bedroom in the middle of the night what it meant. If she had any doubt, the second she saw her husband killed in cold blood, she knew she was next.

And yes a young mother is immediately going to be terrified for herself and children. How much the killer tormented her in addition to that we don't know.

 

[Knitpicker]

The brother-in-law did the video and posted it

Yes I know-but do you know if he took the video? Maybe he has sent people there to look at his work for business purposes? Not sure why it was public that is.

 

[PipeyRella]

Yes I know-but do you know if he took the video? Maybe he has sent people there to look at his work for business purposes? Not sure why it was public that is.

yes, he took the video. he's a filmmaker and has a degree in photojournalism

 

[stmarysmead]

Most physicians have been bought out by large medical groups. You don’t see private practices anymore.
A good friend of mine had their contract renewed and her salary cut in half. After being bought out by this group 10 years ago. From 300K to 150K. She left, is almost at retirement age and not quite ready to retire looking for another position elsewhere. General surgery.
They are probably looking for a young Dr at cheaper salary.

A general surgeon who trained many years ago is different from a fellowship trained vascular surgeon just out of specialized training. My guess is that in such situations they are often looking for a Dr with the most updated training, and they will pay MORE to get one.

Medicine changes so quickly. A salary cut like that in surgery is almost a force out. It’s a heartbreaking but cold fact these days.

I recently attended a fund-raising presentation by the CEO of one of our local hospitals. He brought two surgeons with him who spoke at length about all the new robotic surgery equipment this hospital has invested in…and their advanced expertise they possessed to use it. It’s a changed world!

You are right…there are many large medical groups and buyouts are frequent. My experience is with someone in a high demand specialty with a prestige fellowship. There are still many small private practices in that specialty and just this year, two in pursuit.

That’s why I tend to look at MM as being in somewhat of a similar situation. But I admit, we don’t have his full picture yet.

 

[PipeyRella]

Full arrest warrant for MM. I know it was largely speculated that Monique was shot once (no idea where this rumor came from) but based off the arrest warrant sounds like they were both shot multiple times.

 

[Knitpicker]

A general surgeon who trained many years ago is different from a fellowship trained vascular surgeon just out of specialized training. My guess is that in such situations they are often looking for a Dr with the most updated training, and they will pay MORE to get one.

Medicine changes so quickly. A salary cut like that in surgery is almost a force out. It’s a heartbreaking but cold fact these days.

I recently attended a fund-raising presentation by the CEO of one of our local hospitals. He brought two surgeons with him who spoke at length about all the new robotic surgery equipment this hospital has invested in…and their advanced expertise they possessed to use it. It’s a changed world!

You are right…there are many large medical groups and buyouts are frequent. My experience is with someone in a high demand specialty with a prestige fellowship. There are still many small private practices in that specialty and just this year, two in pursuit.

That’s why I tend to look at MM as being in somewhat of a similar situation. But I admit, we don’t have his full picture yet.

They aren’t paying more—-they cut the salary in half- unless you mean that they were forced out and the next Dr will get over 300K? They had a very busy practice-mostly hernia repair, bariatric surgery, etc. Just think they are looking to cut costs.
Healthcare is def not what it was.

 

[OhioGuy]

As the case goes along I’ll be curious to see how quickly they were able to place the ex in the area. Just by being an ex husband he had to be suspect #1 from the jump.

Murders take place Tuesday December 30, POI alley video is released exactly a week later. I haven’t seen any confirmation that the person seen in the alley is MM. Is it possible they released this very grainy, impossible to identify person knowing it is NOT the ex just to keep him at bay (“Hell, that isn’t even me, they’ve got nothing”) and less of a threat to himself/others while they collect everything needed to make a warrant stick? If they’re tracking him by that point and just need to locate him, I would think they wouldn’t want an identifiable video of him out there.

 

[stmarysmead]

They aren’t paying more—-they cut the salary in half- unless you mean that they were forced out and the next Dr will get over 300K?

Yes. Pay more for the new one with newest training.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

As the case goes along I’ll be curious to see how quickly they were able to place the ex in the area. Just by being an ex husband he had to be suspect #1 from the jump.

Murders take place Tuesday December 30, POI alley video is released exactly a week later. I haven’t seen any confirmation that the person seen in the alley is MM. Is it possible they released this very grainy, impossible to identify person knowing it is NOT the ex just to keep him at bay (“Hell, that isn’t even me, they’ve got nothing”) and less of a threat to himself/others while they collect everything needed to make a warrant stick? If they’re tracking him by that point and just need to locate him, I would think they wouldn’t want an identifiable video of him out there.

I, had to think this as well.... releasing such a poor quality ... maybe it wasn't even from that night?

But, since the relatives were very quickly thinking about MM and this murder, I believe some might have recognized that walk. And, I think that LE shared MORE of that walking man with the relatives.

 

[Cassie P]

I have been wondering, did this house not have deadbolts apart/separate from the keypad type lock? When I’m home my deadbolts are what I make sure to lock.

The newer construction in Columbus that I have seen all have deadbolts as standard. I think most people make sure the deadbolts are locked at night before they go to bed even if they do not have an alarm system.

How would the killer get through a deadbolt?