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

[TIGER0822]

Looks like 50% of the male population between the ages of 16-40. There’s just nothing that stands out about him unfortunately. I’m hoping maybe this prompts more people to search their video for someone similar if nothing else. But if he’s not from the area it’s going to be a one and done sighting.

Can they do something with geofencing at that particular time/area?

There are a few things. He is thin. Long legged.

 

[getthefax]

Good video!

Are the knees of the jeans ripped?

I personally do not see ripped jeans--especially at the beginning of the video, I see intact pants across the knees.
As the video goes on, I feel like it's poor resolution over the parts of the pants where they fold/bend (hip joint, knee).

But as we know here on WS, almost everything is a bit of a Rorschach test...

 

[MassGuy]

What is he doing to his head at the 15 second mark? Pulling his hood down? Hitting himself?

To me it looks like his head is itching, or his hair is caught in the hood or something.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Looks like 50% of the male population between the ages of 16-40. There’s just nothing that stands out about him unfortunately. I’m hoping maybe this prompts more people to search their video for someone similar if nothing else. But if he’s not from the area it’s going to be a one and done sighting.

Can they do something with geofencing at that particular time/area?

Ugh. Almost like we are back to identifying Bridge Guy in the Libby and Abby case.

 

[PlainJane1]

What is he doing to his head at the 15 second mark? Pulling his hood down? Hitting himself?

It looks to me like he sneezed and then wiped his nose.

 

[Mayor Perk]

What is he doing to his head at the 15 second mark? Pulling his hood down? Hitting himself?

To me, that looks like a reaction when a hat or something is about to fall off. Perhaps concerned his hood when fall off and reveal his face.

Thanks for sharing the magnified video. Interesting to note that the POI is walking toward the Tepe residence.

 

[stmichael]

IMO young kids sleep thru everything at this time of night ( morning).

I am assuming for this scenario, that perhaps the two girls bunked together in the same room, with the baby in the crib and the 4 yr old in the big girl bed, maybe with the dog. Their door closed with probably a monitor inside. They all heard nothing.

We know so little. It well could be random. Someone mentioned maybe the rear door was left ajar inadvertently after they let the dog out. Someone walks by and sees an opportunity.

Why would someone/a robber go into an occupied house? Happens all the time.

They could have gone in and been “ casing the place” thought it was an easy grab the purse in the kitchen etc, when the husband heard something. He tells the wife to stay put while he checks things out. He goes down - locks eyes with the robber - runs back upstairs - robber runs after him shoots him at the side of the bed and shoots the wife who is in bed.

Robber freaks out and takes off bc he never intended for that to happen. Spur of the moment eff up and gets out.

obvi it could be any number of things.

I am mindful that the holiday season makes even stable people unstable. Lots of drinking drugging and people just generally. strung out. Economic pressure and exhaustion with trying to make ends meet, people do desperate things

JMO

Agree with a lot of this. Once clarification the 1 yr old was a boy the 4 year old was a girl. I've seen kids sleep through all sorts of ruckass.

Now this gentrified area they live in has had a recorded history of crime and there's a park just a walk away that is know for drug activity (even the interviewed neighbors said so and an 8 yr old girl was shot in that park a few years ago) so there's that around in walking distance. A bit more than "its just part and parcel of the city". And I say that as a person who's lived many years in the biggest city in the US.

The no sign of forced entry could be a lot of things as well. For my comfort levels I would expect more security in general in that house. Predation savors opportunity of weak links. They seemed like very nice people who were trusting. Maybe the wrong person noticed this as well.

 

[MassGuy]

Ugh. Almost like we are back to identifying Bridge Guy in the Libby and Abby case.

We're not at the "respirator" or "baby goat" stage, which is a plus.

It's one of those videos where everyone is going to notice different things though, some of which may not represent reality.

 

[Aquabot13]

PERSON OF INTEREST....??

1/5/26

To me, those look more like those sporty business casual pants than jeans. A Lululemon ABC jogger or one of the copycat styles. If that's the case, I'd be looking for a man in his 20s or early 30s who works a professional job.

MOO

 

[steeltowngirl]

I personally do not see ripped jeans--especially at the beginning of the video, I see intact pants across the knees.
As the video goes on, I feel like it's poor resolution over the parts of the pants where they fold/bend (hip joint, knee).

But as we know here on WS, almost everything is a bit of a Rorschach test...

Same. More like camera blurring is making the jeans seem ripped. I also thought maybe his jeans were muddy at the knees. Again, could be blurring.

 

[Maat99]

What is he doing to his head at the 15 second mark? Pulling his hood down? Hitting himself?

It does look like he gave himself a smack upside the head. He isn’t really walking a straight line at that point either. Maybe he is trying to wake up, sober up, or get ahold of himself for some other reason?

 

[midwesttowest]

I think this (grey building on left photo) is one on video. This is zoomed in ... if you get too close, it disappears as the Google dates change. But this looks like it to me ... then I spun around and you can see Tepe's garage up ahead on left in second pic. So I agree that the footage (if I am right) would be the person in the video walking TOWARDS the Tepe's house.

Yes I completely agree! And you can see the switch to more finished pavement as you get closer to the Tepes.

<modsnip: removed chatgpt image to avoid confusion. It was not a real image of the POI>

 

[Knox]

Ugh. Almost like we are back to identifying Bridge Guy in the Libby and Abby case.

Yes, except I never thought bridge guy looked young.

This guy, 20’s-30’s.

 

[kwins]

Video of a person of interest has been released

The knees in his pants stand out to me. Are the knees ripped, or gathered with extra stitching?

 

[hexicon]

It could be possible that the thief used a WiFi jammer to momentarily jam the Ring camera which prevented your Ring camera from recording the thief stealing your package.

In my experience, consumer-quality cameras are really lousy at being triggered by movement that is directly toward or away from the camera, and they are much better at responding to motion that is side-to-side.

Due to a past experience with stalking I have a couple of different brands posted around the exterior, and I can't believe how many times they've failed to trigger and send an alert when I've walked straight down the front steps or out of the garage. My cameras are set up to record continuously and I show up on the continuous recording when I scroll back, but the motion detector is not triggered, so I don't get a notification with an event recording. I've experimented with motion zones, sensitivity settings, and camera angles. I've concluded that the failure with oncoming movement is an overall weakness of entry-level cameras such as Blink and Wyze. It doesn't take something as sophisticated as a jammer to prevent them from doing a good job.

Not that it matters much when the police in my area don't care about property crime. I had a theft of some expensive urns from my yard and offered video of the perp and his vehicle, along with his OfferUp listing for the urns, and the police could not have cared less.

 

[Aquabot13]

The knees in his pants stand out to me. Are the knees ripped, or gathered with extra stitching?

I originally thought the knees were ripped, but after watching it a few times I think the camera has some dirt or ice on it and the pants are normal slacks. Curious what others think.

 

[acutename]

It does look like he gave himself a smack upside the head. He isn’t really walking a straight line at that point either. Maybe he is trying to wake up, sober up, or get ahold of himself for some other reason?

unless he has a hat and a hoodie on- what was the temp that day at 3 a.m.? If you are wearing a hat and a hoodie, they can dislodge each other, and you have to adjust them.

 

[armchairagatha]

GSR and ballistics would easily prove or disprove this. Police will definitively know this.

If the husband or wife discharged a firearm they would likely know by now and the ballistics/crime scene configuration would also be telling. If they were shot, even from across the room, the forensics/blood spatter, entry & exit wound angle, etc. will tell a different story so the "friend taking the gun" would not cover up a murder/suicide.

edit: btw the crime scene forensics will also be able to tell if they were both laying in bed when shot or if they were upright or one of them upright etc. etc.

Agreed. We will just need to wait for the forensics and autopsy report to give us more info. I am sure LE is working on those and in the meantime, they have this one POI lead that they want to get the Public's opinion on - to see if it leads to anything.

 

[Knox]

To me it looks like his head is itching, or his hair is caught in the hood or something.

Yep itching his head.

 

[getthefax]

I originally thought the knees were ripped, but after watching it a few times I think the camera has some dirt or ice on it and the pants are normal slacks. Curious what others think.

I agree. I think the pants are just folding at the knees, captured on a low-res camera.