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

[Cassie P]

with the need for doctors and dentists I find it odd that McKee drives 90 miles to his workplace and Tepe drove I think 75. I guess Tepe was some non compete situation.

Yes he could have been in a non compete situation. Also Columbus is the home to Ohio State University which has a large dental school, training many dental practitioners. So perhaps a young dentist starting out has a lot of competition for jobs and has to go out of the city for employment.

 

[Cassie P]

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

Good point. Around the week of New Year's people are making random firecracker and gunshot noises at night. Quite common, at least in Ohio. Perhaps this is one reason MM chose the timing of the murder. No one would think anything of a gunshot noise.

 

[Cassie P]

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.

I doubt the county would send out letters of apology in the event of a computer glitch? They probably wouldn't even know about it until they started getting calls about it. Then they would quietly fix the problem and that is the end of it.

Also MM may be paranoid and afraid to make a personal call to the courthouse. Or even if he did, would not believe it was a glitch and think the county employee he is talking to is on MM's side.

 

[Cassie P]

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.

MM was raised in Zanesville Ohio about an hour away from Columbus. Then attended undergraduate and medical school at Ohio State University which is located in Columbus Ohio. So he would of course know people from Columbus given the considerable amount of time spent living there. He may have kept in contact with MT's friends after the divorce basically to keep tabs on his ex, because of his obsession with her.

 

[Cassie P]

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?

There is something called steroid psychosis, it is severe psychiatric reaction to steroids, causing symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, mania, depression, aggression, etc.

Yes it is also possible there was a pre-existing mental health condition which was worsened by the steroid abuse.

Then we add all the life setbacks MM was facing, and he spirals totally out of control.

Usually in these kind of situations we see more than one factor at play. It is rarely one causal factor, but a series of factors that hit critical mass and then a very serious melt down.

 

[Megnut]

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?

I could be wrong but I don't think that video had much traffic. Pure speculation, but I'd guess he produced it for all the right reasons -- but published it originally to a select group, making it public after the deaths.

All so tragic. Like the greatest love story brought down by fatal attraction.

So very cruel.

J M O

 

[nerosleuth]

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.

I believe that after he is convicted of multiple felonies, the state medical boards and the DEA would take action to permanently revoke his medical licenses. He would then be permanently prohibited from ever practicing medicine anywhere.

 

[kwins]

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.

Perhaps he didn't want to work for a Chicago-area healthcare system? In that hot yoga post, he alluded to wanting to work somewhere that gave him more time and less stress to pursue other interests. A lot of healthcare providers are fed up with working for healthcare systems that have become nothing more than corporate bureaucracies.

 

[turaj]

I believe that after he is convicted of multiple felonies, the state medical boards and the DEA would take action to permanently revoke his medical licenses. He would then be permanently prohibited from ever practicing medicine anywhere.

i cannot imagine a world where MM is free on the street again. Those charges call for an easy Guity with life in prison and consecutive sentences. That should keep him in.

 

[turaj]

Perhaps he didn't want to work for a Chicago-area healthcare system? In that hot yoga post, he alluded to wanting to work somewhere that gave him more time and less stress to pursue other interests. A lot of healthcare providers are fed up with working for healthcare systems that have become nothing more than corporate bureaucracies.

be interesting to hear from recent co-workers as to his general demeanor in these last months and their impressions of him. He had not worked there very long but would be interesting. I think most have been contacted by LE and are keeping quiet. A few friends talking but I think most for the sake of the case are not. It really was an easy case to crack...video that matched ex husband from an abusive marriage.

 

[Knox]

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

What about in Nevada? I suspect that’s where the weapon was obtained.

 

[ivegotcha]

I bet dollars to donuts that every facility , clinic, and hospitals checked their rosters to see if MM worked, volunteered and on call at their locations... And yes Nevada is a right to carry state ...

 

[kwins]

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

Is it a correct assumption that the firearm that was taken as evidence and analyzed is indeed the firearm used to commit the crimes?

Does this potentially trigger a federal charge and conviction, since a firearm and suppressor crossed state lines to commit a felony in another state?

 

[academyrd]

Good point. Around the week of New Year's people are making random firecracker and gunshot noises at night. Quite common, at least in Ohio. Perhaps this is one reason MM chose the timing of the murder. No one would think anything of a gunshot noise.

That and he was probably depressed from the holidays, which he was spending alone without family, friends, or a romantic partner. I imagine that hit him very hard. It was undeniable proof that he was a failure.

 

[kwins]

Yes he could have been in a non compete situation. Also Columbus is the home to Ohio State University which has a large dental school, training many dental practitioners. So perhaps a young dentist starting out has a lot of competition for jobs and has to go out of the city for employment.

Both Athens and Ashland, Ohio, have been designated as healthcare/dental shortage areas. Perhaps he was working in these areas to decrease his student loan obligation?

 

[Gemmie]

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.

I wasn't disputing that it was a real thing... I just don't think it's the case with Monique. I should have been clearer about what I meant in my post.

 

[SoBu]

Yes he could have been in a non compete situation. Also Columbus is the home to Ohio State University which has a large dental school, training many dental practitioners. So perhaps a young dentist starting out has a lot of competition for jobs and has to go out of the city for employment.

Additionally, this program to incentivize medical professionals to practice in underserved communities could be a factor, at least in Dr. Tepe’s case, as it’s been said on the forum that the practice he worked in was in a poorer area of the state.

Current Programs and Incentives to Overcome Rural Physician Shortages in the United States: A Narrative Review - PMC

Access to healthcare continues to be a top priority and prominent challenge in rural communities, with 20% of the total U.S. population living in rural areas while only 10% of physicians practice in rural areas. In response to physician shortages, a ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[legalese]

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.

IMO, it’s unlikely that MT and MM were ever notified about the docket entries. At least in my experience, docket updates are emailed to the lawyers on the case, not the individual parties.

 

[Knitpicker]

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?

Now we know he used a silencer. Another thing added to his charges.

 

[espirtu pampa]

IMO, it’s unlikely that MT and MM were ever notified about the docket entries. At least in my experience, docket updates are emailed to the lawyers on the case, not the individual parties.

They had no lawyers.