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

[kwins]

A lot of people have Amazon Echos and the like, pretty sure they capture audio.

Only when using the wake word.

 

[kwins]

Have we heard any details of how his arrest went down? Could he have “brandished” a weapon to resist arrest?

I wonder if the video of his arrest with be released?

 

[ttjo]

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I'm not sure what company is in use now, but Ohio used to contract with TransCor.

@kwins what are his different licenses for? is one for prescribing meds.?
Did that mean he could still prescribe b/c that one didnt require a chaperone?

 

[ttjo]

Regarding Mckee's use of Suppressor and Firearms- a quick overview.

Regarding the other firearms found in his IL home (reports mentioned several) I can not make much more of at this time other than Cook County has strict restrictions on several types of firearms. It is possible in his moves (LV, VA) he simply had disregard for the law, but as a firearms user who has lived in a ban state, the penalties are strict (often felonies) so again it shows an inclination of risk.

Wow thats still loud, but youre saying not loud enough for a neighbor to hear. If they did they’d probably never know what it was, especially around new years

 

[ttjo]

Could that be the reason he chose a date close to new years or would it matter since no one would have heard it anyway?

 

[nerosleuth]

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@kwins what are his different licenses for? is one for prescribing meds.?
Did that mean he could still prescribe b/c that one didnt require a chaperone?

While I have never worked in the medical field before, I believe one of the license is his state medical license and the other license is his DEA license to prescribe prescription drugs.

I also believe that a person's DEA license can be suspended if there are any state actions on the person's state medical license.

 

[ssarahbg]

I think NG really got it wrong tonight. Going on and on about what kids found. As I understand it the room was locked so they did not see the scene or the bodies. NG made a really big deal about the condition of the bodies etc.

She has been so off the past few times I have watched anything from her. Like completely wrong or missing huge parts of the cases. I wonder where she is doing her research? She was stuck on the 911 operator the other day and the police run. But did not mention at all that the police were actually at the wrong house nor had access to the very embarrassing “sing a long” body cam of that officer which had all been available for days by the time the episode aired. She would have normally jumped all over what she perceived as that officer’s huge fumble and making comments about his behavior on the body cam.

 

[Charlot123]

I don't see where it said no one was contacted? It was put on the docket but later removed. There could have been notice, even electronically. It's possible there wasn't and it's a nothing-burger but I just don't see a definitive no here. Seems like more inconclusive reporting but a possible trigger.

Clerical error reopened Ohio newlywed's divorce case just months before slayings: docs

Michael McKee and Monique Tepe officially divorced in May 2017, but the case reportedly received a new hearing that appeared on the docket in June 2025.

nypost.com

Logically, it could have been a trigger. For a very sick, flawed mind, a court mistake could have drawn his attention to his ex.

If there was a court date listed there, he should have gotten a notification regarding the court date in a certain way, right?

The lawyers in LV could not find him because he listed his work number in Nevada. But the court in Ohio could have had his personal phone number and some private Gmail account from older times. These things seldom change.

My question is, if MDM got the notification (it is not impossible to assume that he did), was there any further letter sent from Ohio court explaining their mistake? Or did they just cancel the court without any explanation?

Quite honestly, I think that MDM’s hiding from the lawsuit in Nevada was already indicative of extreme suspiciousness. Looking at the nature of malpractice suit, it makes no sense to get undercover. So just to imagine: MDM, for reasons unknown, was quietly getting “irrational”, as evidenced by hiding from the lawsuit in Nevada. Then he gets a notification, from yet another state, inviting him to a court regarding issues pertaining his old divorce. Then he gets yet another notification canceling the court, without any explanation… A different person would have been able to sort things out, but MDM might be already living in “somewhat altered reality.” So he jumps to certain conclusions without contacting anyone, and his perception of the situation is flawed.

I believe that we can’t blame a court clerk for a typo. “Clerical error” plus obsolete interface. It happens. Up to this point, I understand it all.

But humans don’t like to acknowledge mistakes, so if no letter explaining the mistake was sent to MDM, this is what I view as a wrong way of “damage control”, on behalf of Ohio court.

Courts are overwhelmed. And, they don’t know whom they might be dealing with. People can be sick, paranoid, struggling from Covid brains, totally falling apart, or in hiding from other lawyers. And then, one mistake can be a trigger prompting a person to unleash his emotions on the other person whose name is on that erroneously issued paper.

I may be wrong, of course, but the timing is close. So if it started as a “bureaucratic issue”, too sad.

Perhaps the courts should make templates of letters with apology to be sent in such cases? I know that they are overwhelmed, and that’s all that’s to it.

 

[Charlot123]

Yeah, I don't know about erotomania. No disrespect to Dr. Walker but I think it's a stretch.

Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's syndrome, is an uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them.
Erotomania is more common in women, but men are more likely to exhibit violent and stalker-like behaviors. The core symptom of erotomania is that the individual holds an unshakable belief that another person is secretly in love with them. In some cases, the person with the condition may believe several people at once are "secret admirers". Most commonly, the individual has delusions of being loved by an unattainable person who is usually an acquaintance or someone the person has never met.

They may also experience other types of delusions concurrently with erotomania, such as delusions of reference, wherein the perceived admirer secretly communicates their love by subtle methods such as body posture, arrangement of household objects, colors, numbers, license plates on cars from specific states and other seemingly innocuous acts—or, if the person is a public figure, through clues in the media such as coded social media posts and meaningful clothing choices. Some delusions may be extreme such as the conception, birth, and kidnapping of children that never existed or the belief that the individual was predestined or chosen by God to be with the object of their obsession. The delusional objects may be replaced by others over time, and some may be chronic in fixed forms. Denial is characteristic with this disorder as the patients do not accept the fact that their object of delusion may be married, unavailable, or uninterested. The phantom lover may also be imaginary or deceased.

Erotomania - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

For some reason, I am not sure that it is what he had. It just presents differently. Outside of this one area, people usually function well. It seems that MDM was going downhill in a more than one way.

People spoke about ‘roids. We don’t know what was going on, but ‘roids cause various symptoms and some people know no limit.

Or maybe MDM was developing some totally different condition accompanied by psychosis, who knows?

 

[kwins]

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@kwins what are his different licenses for? is one for prescribing meds.?
Did that mean he could still prescribe b/c that one didnt require a chaperone?

Your DEA registration is tied to your state medical license and where you physically practice, and it authorizes you to prescribe controlled substances. So any restriction placed on your medical license would impact your federal registration.

He is an Illinois-licensed medical doctor who has been arrested and now indicted for multiple felonies. Until this is resolved, and in his case, most likely never, he is officially restricted from practicing medicine, and the DEA will follow suit. In fact, they may already be working on requesting that he surrender his DEA registration.

Illinois has also reported this restriction to the National Practitioner Data Bank, which would also impact any of his other current state medical licenses and associated DEA registrations.

 

[indicolite22]

McKee would ask around about Monique whenever he saw a mutual acquaintance, says the friend, who then addressed the rumors of McKee stalking Monique prior to the murders.


"I’ll say that we’ve been talking about it, but none of us ever actually saw any evidence of this," the friend says, adding that Monique also never mentioned anything about McKee.

BBM. Didn't he live in Virginia post-divorce? Where would he meet Monique's acquaintances when he was reportedly estranged from his family and friends and likely wouldn't be visiting his parents in Ohio?

 

[stmichael]

BBM. Didn't he live in Virginia post-divorce? Where would he meet Monique's acquaintances when he was reportedly estranged from his family and friends and likely wouldn't be visiting his parents in Ohio?

No idea. He was also in Vegas for a bit. I recall he has ties to Ohio. He went to Ohio State University and someone suggested he had family in OH that he visited. Other than that he could have checked out mutual friends socials. The "freind's" quotes were a little vague, and in the end they basically say they don't know.

 

[Charlot123]

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BBM. Didn't he live in Virginia post-divorce? Where would he meet Monique's acquaintances when he was reportedly estranged from his family and friends and likely wouldn't be visiting his parents in Ohio?

JMO: many people “knowing” MDM will be crawling out of the woodwork. I assume that those who really have something tangible to say are keeping silent until the court. Today I saw a young TikToker stating that she was MDM’s girlfriend in residency. Anything can be true, but she doesn’t present as a doctor. She also looks much younger. She said that MDM was not in touch with his parents, but she maintained relationship with them. It makes no sense to me. People crave attention.

 

[Knitpicker]

Wow thats still loud, but youre saying not loud enough for a neighbor to hear. If they did they’d probably never know what it was, especially around new years

Great point. In our neighborhood , theres always fireworks set off the night before New Year’s Eve. And even days after.

 

[gremlin444]

It's not odd. A lot of healthcare providers commute. I personally drive over 60 miles each way and have for over 10 years.

While commuting a hour is normal in Chicago land, it's usually people coming form their home in the suburbs to their job in Chicago. But most people don't commute in the other direction, much less from their condo in Chicago out to Rockford. No shortage of medical practices/hospital for MM to work at here in Chicago. And if for some reason he couldn't find a job in Chicago, I find it really hard to believe he couldn't have found a job in a Chicago suburb like Schaumburg, Elmhurst, etc.....no need to commute all the way out to Rockford.

 

[OneLove]

Yeah, I don't know about erotomania. No disrespect to Dr. Walker but I think it's a stretch.

Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's syndrome, is an uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them.
Erotomania is more common in women, but men are more likely to exhibit violent and stalker-like behaviors. The core symptom of erotomania is that the individual holds an unshakable belief that another person is secretly in love with them. In some cases, the person with the condition may believe several people at once are "secret admirers". Most commonly, the individual has delusions of being loved by an unattainable person who is usually an acquaintance or someone the person has never met.

They may also experience other types of delusions concurrently with erotomania, such as delusions of reference, wherein the perceived admirer secretly communicates their love by subtle methods such as body posture, arrangement of household objects, colors, numbers, license plates on cars from specific states and other seemingly innocuous acts—or, if the person is a public figure, through clues in the media such as coded social media posts and meaningful clothing choices. Some delusions may be extreme such as the conception, birth, and kidnapping of children that never existed or the belief that the individual was predestined or chosen by God to be with the object of their obsession. The delusional objects may be replaced by others over time, and some may be chronic in fixed forms. Denial is characteristic with this disorder as the patients do not accept the fact that their object of delusion may be married, unavailable, or uninterested. The phantom lover may also be imaginary or deceased.

Erotomania - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Whoa, this is a very real thing & I knew a woman. with this who had all kinds of delusions exactly as described, unknown to all us mothers in the kids group UNTIL she disappeared with the kids one day on a rural road, caused searches, helicopters, dragging of water bodies, televised pleas for her safe return, kids on milk cartons & posters, all the while having secretly taken her 2 preschool kids on a trip AROUND THE WORLD fleeing for a year from Tom Brokaw, until she was taken into custody flying back in from New Zealand. She went to England, Japan, China, I forget where all. Crazy. She believed Tom Brokaw, the newscaster, was obsessed with her & sending her messages through the remote sensor in the ceiling fan. Then he started using the ceiling light in her car. Then he tried to take control of her car when she was driving with her kids so she had to hideout in a hotel for a week then fly away and keep running. It was scary. None of us knew. She talked to me by phone about 45 minutes while on the run and told me about Tom Brokaw just would not leave her alone and said a local newspaper writer was also obsessed with her and sending messages in the paper every day after riding in an elevator with her one single time. This is a real diagnosis.

Not saying thats the case HERE, but if anyone is inclined to think this might be a made up thing (I might have been inclined before I saw it myself), its for real. I've seen it up close and personal. It can be quite dangerous and debilitating. Hope this helps.

 

[Spectrix]

Following a Grand Jury, here's the indictment for Michael McKee, dated January 16, 2026

Indictment-26-CR-253-McKee_Redacted.pdf

There are five counts in the indictment, as the wording is fairly repetitive I'll summarize them below:

Count One: Aggravated Murder of Monique Tepe
Specification 1: Use of a Firearm
Specification 2: Use of a Suppressor

Count Two: Aggravated Murder of Spencer Tepe
Specification 1: Use of a Firearm
Specification 2: Use of a Suppressor

Count Three: Aggravated Burglary
Specification 1: Use of a Firearm
Specification 2: Use of a Suppressor

Count Four: Aggravated Murder of Monique Tepe while committing Aggravated Burglary.
Specification 1: Use of a Firearm
Specification 2: Use of a Suppressor

Count Five: Aggravated Murder of Spencer Tepe while committing Aggravated Burglary.
Specification 1: Use of a Firearm
Specification 2: Use of a Suppressor

 

[COSCitizen]

This article, from ABC 6 Online, found via link in media thread, says:

The Columbus Police originally planned to hire a private extradition security company to bring McKee to Ohio, but that changed Friday when McKee was indicted by a county grand jury.

Now that the case is in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, the Franklin County Sheriff's warrant and extradition unit will return the murder suspect.

and

Former Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott shared insights on the extradition process, noting, "When we went up to pick up a guy, it was pretty quick."

"When we would drive at times, we would have a Chevy Caprice," Scott said, "suspect would always be handcuffed, we would establish a rapport with them, spend time talking with them."

 

[academyrd]

The wedding video that shows the interior of their home, their current friends, their happy ceremony was public on YT and still is. The brother in law that filmed it put it up 4 years ago. It even has a birdseye drone shot of the layout of the alley, street, house. There are other things that could be found if you knew her name, area, details etc. Enough to see a glimpse of her current life, people around her and house outside and in. We all found this quickly. An unstable ex with more details, and names of some of her friends, etc. could find a decent amount.

edit: I get this was a pandemic era private ceremony but I am very into PERSEC and was very surprised at how much people put out there, seeing this wedding video.

Agree. I said it before but I wonder if the BIL, in a moment of introspection, will regret leaving that video public. I don’t even know why you would do that if you know she has a crazy stalker and potentially dangerous ex. We didn’t even consider having ours public, and shut down our wedding website (which was public, as many are) a few months after our wedding.

Sadly, people still don’t understand the dangers of social media. Not everyone that sees what you put out there is rooting for you. In fact I would say the majority of people are not, so why even post at all?

 

[Spectrix]

As it's alleged that a firearm suppressor (silencer) was used during this crime, I've been looking into the legality of actually being in possession of one in the US.

In Illinois, where Micheal McKee lived and was arrested, civilians are not permitted to be in possession of suppressors under any circumstances.

In Ohio and other states where suppressors can (technically) be legally obtained, the process involves selecting and paying for the suppressor at a registered dealer, and then applying (via the dealer) to the ATF for a permit before you can take it home. That process can take between 3 - 9 months

The requirements for the permit:
- Background check passed
- Fingerprints taken / registered
- Passport style photo registered