ARREST MADE - EX-HUSBAND OH - Spencer and Monique Tepe found shot to death at home 2 children unharmed, Columbus, 30 December 2025

[stmichael]

Yes and also surprising the house didn’t have an alarm system. Or if so, it wasn’t on. Especially given the neighborhood (some bad areas and break ins close by) and 2 small children.

Someone cited that they did have a Simplisafe alarm system. There is a wedding portrait (attached) that shows a keypad.

Residential doors are decorative and for privacy and can be kicked in and locks broken right off the wood frame. (see this in domestics, wife runs into BR, locks door, drunk husband shoulder checks door brakes it off the frame in 3 seconds). I don't know of anyone who locks their BR door when they sleep, usually that's for company or when you're changing.

 

[Knitpicker]

This would people please listen to the many posts explaining this. M/S would be easily excluded even without a gun.

They would test victims for Gun Shot Residue. If either fired a weapon (and someone removed it later from the crime scene in this far-fetched scenario) they would have GSR on their hands.

They would get trajectory rods, a laser, etc and reconstruct where the shots entered and exited, what angle and approx. distance they were fired. Blood spatter and blood pooling. If they know that Spencer and Monique were both shot in bed (exit wounds and blood spatter into the mattress) and laying prone while shot how would that be a M/S??? They know all this. This is 1970s level basic crime scene forensics.

I meant the front door. All my windows, sliding doors, front door , back door, and garage door are wired.

 

[Knitpicker]

Someone cited that they did have a Simplisafe alarm system. There is a wedding portrait (attached) that shows a keypad.

Residential doors are decorative and for privacy and can be kicked in and locks broken right off the wood frame. (see this in domestics, wife runs into BR, locks door, drunk husband shoulder checks door brakes it off the frame in 3 seconds). I don't know of anyone who locks their BR door when they sleep, usually that's for company or when you're changing.

I replied above to this comment. I didn’t now they had an alarm system. But it wasnt on. My kids wouldn’t go to sleep unless they reminded us to put on the alarm.

 

[Mitch1]

I had a boss when I was young and he called us into a meeting and told us we needed to call in if we were to be late for any reason. Then when on to say that he oncehad an employee that had not called in and was over an hour late. He went to her house, her car and husband's car were there, peeked in and saw two bodies in the kitchen. He called police. Turned out later son had killed them. I guess he had some PTSD from the incident because he said he was always worried when someone was late, worse came to mind.

I can think of lots of similar true crime cases like you described-it’s still very odd to me that 911 was called before family or a co-worker went to go check.

 

[stmichael]

I replied above to this comment. I didn’t now they had an alarm system. But it wasnt on. My kids wouldn’t go to sleep unless they reminded us to put on the alarm.

Agreed. I have PERSEC measures that I keep reminding my wife about. I have friends and family that constantly forget to put their alarms, exterior lights, etc. on. When I had young kids I would sometimes slack. Having little ones you're so tired you just sometimes pass out.

 

[Deleted member 305816]

If only I could mute "911" I could scroll through much faster.

For real, the 911 discussion accounts for at least 60% of this thread!

 

[Knitpicker]

Agreed. I have PERSEC measures that I keep reminding my wife about. I have friends and family that constantly forget to put their alarms, exterior lights, etc. on. When I had young kids I would sometimes slack. Having little ones you're so tired you just sometimes pass out.

Yeah I get it. I can’t say I remembered every night. But I’m in a gated community so I felt more protected. We still had some break ins in the summer when the thugs had nothing better to do.

 

[Mitch1]

The only time I would jump to immediately calling 911 because someone didn’t show up to work and weren’t answering would be if I knew they had a restraining order against someone or disclosed some other personal information that would lead me to think that someone may be wanting to harm them

 

[kwins]

The timeline is interesting. There is a good ten minutes between the time the friends arrived and the police arrived the 2nd time. Enough time for someone to dispose off the murder weapon (if it was murder-suicide). The police are tight lipped about what they have found so far so we have no idea what forensics found. But MOO, murder suicide is more likely than swingers and other wild theories people are now proposing. Hopefully the police release the investigation report once they have all the reports in. It does look like they have a theory they are working on and collecting evidence on since they don’t appear to be asking for new public help or even answering any questions about the POI.

Again, this wasn't a murder-suicide.

 

[stmichael]

The only time I would jump to immediately calling 911 because someone didn’t show up to work and weren’t answering would be if I knew they had a restraining order against someone or disclosed some other personal information that would lead me to think that someone may be wanting to harm them

Hate to keep the 911 call horse beating going but......the main owner/dentist was away on vacation. Spencer, a punctual employee, did not show up for his appointments (it was said he was in charge in his absence). They called his home and could not get in touch with him, but more importantly as was specified by his boss, his wife who usually was home with the 1 year old (and they seemed familiar with this) and that's what raised alarm.. Plus they lived in Weinland Park. Given that take, it seems reasonable.

 

[kwins]

They haven’t asked for help or released any new videos for the past few days. It may have taken a couple of days to get that initial forensic data.

Again, it is not a murder-suicide. This would have been determined from the outset. Move on.

 

[Mitch1]

Hate to keep the 911 call horse beating going but......the main owner/dentist was away on vacation. Spencer, a punctual employee, did not show up for his appointments (it was said he was in charge in his absence). They called his home and could not get in touch with him, but more importantly as was specified by his boss, his wife who usually was home with the 1 year old (and they seemed familiar with this) and that's what raised alarm.. Plus they lived in Weinland Park. Given that take, it seems reasonable.

I guess we will have to agree to disagree.

 

[ttjo]

What? I hope from natural causes.

cancer. It has a write up on the website.

 

[keek]

Hate to keep the 911 call horse beating going but......the main owner/dentist was away on vacation. Spencer, a punctual employee, did not show up for his appointments (it was said he was in charge in his absence). They called his home and could not get in touch with him, but more importantly as was specified by his boss, his wife who usually was home with the 1 year old (and they seemed familiar with this) and that's what raised alarm.. Plus they lived in Weinland Park. Given that take, it seems reasonable.

I think the owner of the practice called as it is HIS employee and it was deemed responsible of HIM to make that call initially. Seems a natural thing to me. No one seemed of course to know what was happening at that point. Emotions and all, worry and of course, the waiting pts sitting there all wondering. IMO

 

[osu]

Obituary - Spencer and Monique Tepe

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/columbus-oh/spencer-and-monique-tepe-12689273

 

[stmichael]

I think the owner of the practice called as it is HIS employee and it was deemed responsible of HIM to make that call initially. Seems a natural thing to me. No one seemed of course to know what was happening at that point. Emotions and all, worry and of course, the waiting pts sitting there all wondering. IMO

Yes of course. And the owner was away on vacation and Spencer was in charge. In any medical office a complete no show would precipitate phone calls especially with patients missing appointments and they couldn't reach his wife (who they knew was home w/ a 1 year old). They seemed to have tried many times as well, so this all seems reasonable and natural to me.

 

[ttjo]

Dbm

 

[stmichael]

Interesting perspective about the gentrification of Weinland Park and it's past troubles and current ones.

One longtime resident of the neighborhood said that while the incident is tragic and the community is grieving, the incident should not define their neighborhood.

“I was mortified, I was deeply saddened, and I cried,” Weinland Park Community Civic Association President Tanya Long said. “The situation was horrible. It was around the holidays and the first thing I thought was, ‘Oh, those poor babies.'”

Long lost her son to gun violence in the same neighborhood a few years ago. She said the community rallied around her then, and that’s exactly what the neighbors are going to do for the Tepes.

Long has lived in Weinland Park for more than 25 years. She said the neighborhood has overcome many challenges, and she does not want this crime to mean they are headed back in that direction. Long recalled what Weinland Park was like when she first moved there.

“It was considered the hood,” she said. “There were gang activities going on.”

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/weinland-park-community-reels-after-tepes-killings/

 

[Luna20]

Cops responded to wrong address during welfare check of slain Ohio dentist and his wife

“When we make an arrest, we want there to be nothing that would make that case unprosecutable.”

nypost.com

 

[BLISS24]

No outlet has claimed it was her. But many people heard that call and made the connection.

I was talking to someone about this yesterday and they had all these theories based on ST being abusive.

That’s where people’s minds went.

Yes. Fox News was first place I saw it (my dad sent it to me), but the title or the few sentences alone that I first skimmed made me respond to my dad and ask who the dispute was between. I automatically assumed it was not a dispute between MT/ST. Not sure why.

My dad assumed it was between MT/ST.

But, when my dad told me that it was between MT and ST, I doubted it so much that I read each word of the article and replied to my dad^^ as shown. They definitely never said it WAS ST/MT. . Just a female from the location of the home. And that no name is recorded in the log for the call.