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The Tepe Murders: The Case Against Michael McKee
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On December 30, 2025, Dr. Spencer Tepe and his wife Monique were found shot dead inside their Columbus, Ohio home. Spencer, a 37-year-old dentist, was shot multiple times. Monique, 39, was shot at least once in the chest. Their two young children — a 4-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy — were discovered alive in separate rooms, physically unharmed but left alone with the bodies of their parents.

There was no forced entry. Nothing was stolen. Three 9mm shell casings were recovered from the bedroom.

Eleven days later, police made an arrest that shocked no one in the family — but stunned everyone else.

Michael David McKee. A 39-year-old vascular surgeon. Monique's ex-husband. A man with no criminal record, no malpractice history, no visible red flags. They divorced in 2017 after a seven-month marriage. Eight years of silence. And then, according to police, he allegedly drove 300 miles from Chicago to Columbus, executed his ex-wife and her husband, and drove home.

The murder weapon was allegedly found in his penthouse apartment.

This podcast follows every detail of the case against Michael McKee. Every court hearing. Every motion. Every piece of evidence. Every question the prosecution will have to answer — and every hole the defense will try to exploit.

But this is more than a legal case. It's a study in obsession, control, and the kind of danger that hides behind respectable careers and friendly faces. Monique's family says she never called McKee by name after the divorce. Just "her ex-husband." They say she talked about emotional abuse and threatening behavior. That she was always worried about him.

She did everything right. Left early. Didn't fight. Moved on. Built a new life.

It wasn't enough.

The Tepe Murders: The Case Against Michael McKee examines how this happened, what the evidence actually shows, and what this case reveals about domestic violence, grievance obsession, and a legal system that often can't act until it's too late.

New episodes as the case develops. Full trial coverage when it begins.

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  • Monique Tepe: You Are What You Build After—Healing From Coercive Control

    Monique Tepe: You Are What You Build After—Healing From Coercive Control
    Mar 1 2026

    She chose love again. She chose parenthood. She chose a partner who mentored kids and showed up for his community every day. She chose joy while carrying years of alleged terror.

    That's not foolishness. That's the most courageous thing a human being can do.

    This is the final episode of our five-part series on coercive control—and it's for everyone still building.

    But building doesn't mean the fear disappears. According to the unsealed affidavit, surveillance footage shows Michael McKee walking through the Tepes' yard while Monique was at a football game in Indianapolis. She left at halftime. There's no documented tip-off. Her body just knew.

    That response isn't paranoia. That's what years of alleged coercive control do to a human nervous system. The hypervigilance that never switches off. The amygdala stuck in overdrive. PTSD rates among domestic violence survivors that match combat veterans. Triggers hiding in ordinary moments that outsiders can't see.

    This episode examines the long shadow—what life looks like when the relationship is over but the person who entered it has been systematically disassembled. We cover trauma-informed therapy and its limits. The shame survivors carry that was installed by someone who needed them to believe they were the problem. The revolutionary act of setting boundaries after years of being punished for having them.

    And we talk to the people nobody talks to: the partners of survivors. People like Spencer Tepe who inherit the fear alongside the person they love. That behavior isn't baggage. It's battle damage. And loving someone through it is its own form of courage.

    Monique wasn't defined by what she allegedly survived. She was defined by what she built after.

    You are not the names you were called. You are not the rules you followed. You are not the fear you carried. You are what you build after.

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    30 min
  • Monique Tepe: From Love Bombing to Cage—Understanding What Happened

    Monique Tepe: From Love Bombing to Cage—Understanding What Happened
    Feb 28 2026

    If something in this episode sounds familiar—not from a case file, but from your own life—that recognition is the first step.

    According to witnesses closest to Monique Tepe, her seven-month marriage to Michael McKee allegedly progressed from overwhelming devotion to death threats, strangulation, and forced sex. There is not a single police report. No restraining order. No documented complaint. From the outside, this looked like a short marriage between a surgeon and a yoga instructor that simply didn't work out.

    That's coercive control working exactly as designed.

    This educational series uses the Tepe case as a connective thread to examine a pattern affecting millions of people who will never make the news. We map the escalation from love bombing to surveillance, from charm to cage. The constant texts that feel like being chosen. The overwhelming attention that feels like devotion. The "I've never felt this way about anyone" that feels like finally being seen.

    In real time, none of it looks like red flags. It looks like everything you wanted.

    We break down the full toolkit of coercive control as lived experience rather than clinical checklist: isolation from the people who know you best, monitoring disguised as care, financial dependence built through small concessions, weaponized intimacy, identity erosion so gradual you don't notice who you've stopped being, and the invisible rulebook you learn through consequences rather than words.

    "At least he doesn't hit me" is the most dangerous measuring stick in domestic violence. It tells you that unless there are bruises, what's happening isn't abuse. It is. And understanding that distinction—between physical violence and systematic destruction of autonomy—is what this series is about.

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    32 min
  • She Built It Anyway — Monique Tepe, Spencer Tepe, and Refusing to Be Defined by Abuse

    She Built It Anyway — Monique Tepe, Spencer Tepe, and Refusing to Be Defined by Abuse
    Feb 28 2026

    Spencer mentored kids through Big Brothers Big Sisters. Monique was described as a devoted mother by everyone who knew her. They went to football games. They celebrated birthdays. They built a home. And Monique did all of it while carrying years of alleged fear from her previous marriage to Michael McKee.

    She didn't wait for the fear to leave before she started living. She built alongside it. That's not denial. That's defiance.

    The final episode of our 5-part series is about what she built — and what every survivor builds when they refuse to let the abuse have the last word. Identity after erasure. Therapy and its limits. Shame that doesn't belong to you. Boundaries rebuilt from nothing. And the community of survivors who understand what you've been through in ways no one else can.

    This one isn't about what was taken. It's about what was built. For Monique. For Spencer. For everyone still building.

    You are not the names you were called. You are not the rules you followed. You are not the fear you carried. You are not the shame you were made to feel. You are what you build after. And building is a choice you can make today.

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    17 min
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