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

[LifeIsAMystery]

I swear that I recently read a post quoting the neighbor who is often out of town for work and had the Tepes pick up packages for him, but I can't find it now. Does anyone know which post/article this was? Thank you.

I saw that on Reddit I believe. Wondered if his was the White House with SO many cameras for that reason?

 

[LifeIsAMystery]

I believe the brother-in-law mentioned that Spencer worked at the Athens office and also at the Ashland, OH office which is a little over an hour NE of Columbus. Having a home in C-bus would be centrally located between the two offices.

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I think Ashland was the prior job not at same time.

 

[Voidz]

This situation is making me want to get new locks.

I recommend getting a security audit done by a locksmith and making certain everything is secure. Focus on windows too. And always changing codes/keys when you move in somewhere, even if the realtor or property manager assures you it’s been done.

It would be sad if they added a code to the lock themselves to save money but hadn’t deleted any old ones.

 

[na19]

I think many can have a timer set to auto lock. Or the killer pressed lock when leaving.

That’s interesting ! I don’t think mine has that feature but maybe I don’t have a fancy model.

 

[osu]

I think Ashland was the prior job not at same time.

Thank you for clarifying.

 

[mom2tee]

because they were found in different parts of the house, Spencer we know on bottom floor next to bed

Wait ... do we know this? I know we have all speculated because of the friend seeing the body but do we have official word on him being in basement?

 

[TruCrimeTime]

Soooo…I haven’t seen anyone bring up this possibility, but given all the circumstances (no signs of forced entry, nothing taken), is it possible that this is really a murder-suicide and police are just working to eliminate the possibility that it isn’t?

Not sure I strongly believe this theory but might explain some things.

It hasn’t been brought up because all the initial (and current) reports already stated no gun was found at the scene. Do some googling and check it out.

 

[indicolite22]

The time line has been narrowed down to between 2am-5am. I find it hard to believe she would open the door. My first instinct would be to call my husband and figure out what to do.

Can we have a source for the narrowed down timeline?

 

[Voidz]

It’s all speculation at this point. If Spencer was found near a bed, it doesn’t mean it was the master bedroom.

Wait ... do we know this? I know we have all speculated because of the friend seeing the body but do we have official word on him being in basement?

 

[TruCrimeTime]

Wait ... do we know this? I know we have all speculated because of the friend seeing the body but do we have official word on him being in basement?

Correct. I’m local and have many outlet contacts- nothing of their specific location in the home has been released.

 

[OhioSleuth614]

Can we have a source for the narrowed down timeline?

 

[ChatteringBirds]

This situation is making me want to get new locks.

I don't seriously think this, but what if the murderer is a local locksmith who needs some business? They would know how to gain access to the home and that this case would get a lot of attention, at least locally, and possibly lead to new business from worried locals.

Count me in as someone who also now wants to make my home much more secure.

Just MOO but being denied dental care (even if it was legitimate) could push someone to absolutely crazy limits

That is also true but I would think a patient like that would approach him at his office.
Do we know any cases where a patient went to a medical professional's home to seek revenge?

 

[Voidz]

I might wonder if he had started saying things like, "I touched him and he's not breathing," but he said he wasn't getting close, so I don't think he was trying to contaminate the scene.



How does that affect the case?

The creepiness of the video looking AI does not affect the case. However, please note I am not victim blaming here. But putting personal stuff online can open the doors to someone becoming obsessed with you, or jealous of your life. Especially if they already have an axe to grind with you.

I also don’t think it’s a good idea to have videos and photos of your house online - and it should be illegal for agents to leave photos of houses from sold listings up. In my country you can ask for them to delete the photos and they sometimes do it automatically once the house is sold.

As someone who doesn’t live in the USA, I was a little put off by the area when I looked on Google maps.

If it’s true that they had a Tesla, that would bring attention to the house.

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Recently I know of a local case where a tradesman did work for an elderly couple after they had been broken into. While he was walking through the garage with the couple, they found a note on a business card which had been dropped by the assailant. It has step by step instructions on how to enter the house with lockbox code, times the old people would be gone, the habits of the neighbours. A woman had access to this information (had worked for a company that had done work for them recently) and had passed on this info to her boyfriend to rob them.

 

[303gmf]

I have a door with a keypad and it doesn’t lock automatically behind me when I close it. I have to press a “lock” button.

Same, mine would never
lock automatically, it’s a
new Kwikset but previous Schlage did not either

 

[warp3dwing]

I saw that on Reddit I believe. Wondered if his was the White House with SO many cameras for that reason?

Found the link on the Columbus Dispatch.

No idea which home is his, but that group of newly updated homes all look quite similar.

If there's one thing I've learned by following true crime is that far too often, key cameras failed to capture the incident or weren't working at all. I hope that's not the case here.

With the sheer number of cameras, though, chances are at least a few caught something. Hopefully, they got more than a blurry, shadowy man in all black with a face mask, and that they can get enough footage to trace him all the way back to a vehicle.

 

[warp3dwing]

Not a great sign they don't know east from west.

 

[academyrd]

2-5 AM somehow makes this even worse. They were asleep in their beds when this happened. I’m getting Kohberger type vibes that she was actually the target although the anger was taken out on the male. I don’t know why. It just feels that way.

 

[Muddy K]

I'm curious what information LE has access to that has enabled them to narrow the span of time here. A three-hour window in the dead of the night, IMO, makes it less likely that either of the victims were awake and therefore more probable that they were helplessly vulnerable to the attack. I do realize that ST could have been awake at that hour given that he seemed to have a lengthy commute to the dental practice.

Possible evidentiary information I can think of:

Cell phone data
Video footage
Alarm auto-data (such as a door opening/closing)
Time of death (not yet announced, as far as I'm aware)
Apple/smart watch data (if either of the Tepes wore them)

Can anybody else add to this list?

JMO, but for me, this case serves as a reminder that, just as we don't know who among us are the predators, neither do we know which of us can become the prey, nor when or where. Sometimes life feels like a lottery.

 

[Sadi]

I'm curious what information LE has access to that has enabled them to narrow the span of time here. A three-hour window in the dead of the night, IMO, makes it less likely that either of the victims were awake and therefore more probable that they were helplessly vulnerable to the attack. I do realize that ST could have been awake at that hour given that he seemed to have a lengthy commute to the dental practice.

Possible evidentiary information I can think of:

Cell phone data
Video footage
Alarm auto-data (such as a door opening/closing)
Time of death (not yet announced, as far as I'm aware)
Apple/smart watch data (if either of the Tepes wore them)

Can anybody else add to this list?

JMO, but for me, this case serves as a reminder that, just as we don't know who among us are the predators, neither do we know which of us can become the prey, nor when or where. Sometimes life feels like a lottery.

I agree, I had a neighbor that was keeping track of our schedules when I came home from work early one day. He was in our backyard setting traps for gophers. I looked outside and saw the traps, he came running over and said “you’re home early today “, and took the traps home. I was stunned and when my husband got home, he went over to his house to chat. It never happened again, but it made me aware that you never know who’s watching you.

 

[Speculaytor]

The time line has been narrowed down to between 2am-5am. I find it hard to believe she would open the door. My first instinct would be to call my husband and figure out what to do.

I agree, if it was a 2 am knock at door. Interesting, I wonder why the reduced timeframe, what do they know? I am assuming they have seen something on the street cameras, and need more.