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January 10, 2026 14 mins

Columbus Police just announced  they have arrested 39 year old Michael David McKee, a vascular surgeon and the ex husband of Monique Tepe.  Police say McKee is responsible for brutally murdering Monique and her husband Spencer while their toddlers were sleeping in the house.  Amy and T.J. go over the latest details in this developing story.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, January tenth, and an
arrest has been made in the double murder of a
young couple in Columbus, Ohio, shot dead in their home
with their one and four year old kids inside, who
have police now arrested her ex husband with that. Welcome

(00:34):
to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes, a case
we've been keeping our eye on for the past week
or so. I won't speak for you, but I will
have to say I didn't see this one coming.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I didn't either. This was such a mystery.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
This was I believe this happened ten days ago, December thirtieth.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
That is when.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Friends, concerned coworkers called police and found this couple shot
to death in there. It appeared to be in their
bedroom with their two children still alive, and there was
no forced entry. There was no firearm left at the scene,
so they ruled out murder suicide right away. And it
was just puzzling. This well liked dentist and his wife,

(01:17):
a stay at home mom, very active in the community.
This was a very quiet neighborhood with houses all next
to one another. This was not something that happened in
this area, and it seemed targeted. But they had no
explanation as to how someone got in and how someone

(01:37):
managed to.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Pull this off.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, and they had no enemies. They never announced any suspects.
I mean police were begging for any help they could.
They only released some grainy video where you couldn't tell
who was in that video. Really and now here we are,
but we're talking about Spencer and Monique tepe thirty nine
year old Monique thirty seven year old Spencer Teppee again,
like you said, a dentist in the area. But up

(02:00):
heart of the story, Robes that added to the horror
was the fact that scratching our heads, why is it
that a one and a four year old were left
inside unharmed? And why wouldn't anybody great they left the
kids alone? But why are you committing the crime knowing
that there's a one in a four year old in
the house.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right. It wasn't as if this was a robbery gone bad,
a home invasion where they were interrupted. This seemed like
the sole purpose was for someone to come in stealthily
and murder this couple, who yes.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Seemed to have no enemies.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
And so police have arrested Michael David McKee thirty nine
years old. He's out of Chicago, and yes, he is
Monique's ex husband. They were married for just two short years,
twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen. According to all the court
documents that journalists have already been going through, it seemed
as though it was an amicable, amicable divorce.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
There were no.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Threats or accusations of anything untoward. They didn't have kids together.
So this is very puzzling, especially when you consider Michael
David McKee's profession. He is a vascular surgeon outside of Chicago.
It's just not something you typically consider. Someone who's invested

(03:18):
that much time in their career is in a career
to help others, to save lives.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Not something you would expect.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
No, and we go back and again, folks, this has
been There is some relief, certainly in that area of
Columbus right now, given that they have been since December thirtieth,
been wondering who is on the run, if someone in
their community, is anyone else a possible target. Police have
been saying they didn't think anyone else was a target,
but you can imagine the horror in that community in
not knowing. So this was you go back to December thirtieth.

(03:49):
Police belief somewhere between two and five in the morning,
somebody went into this house and shot these two in
that house. Now, the next day, family members, friends, coworkers
started piecing together. They weren't hearing from Spencer. He was
very punctual. They couldn't get a hold of the wife,
so they knew something was up, asked police to go by.

(04:11):
Didn't see anything initially, but then friends continued to stay
on the case. They went over and that's when they
spotted what they thought was a body inside. Heard the
kids crying. So just a mess of a scene. So
that's kind of just to set up where we all
are and roads the only thing. Again, this is another
one of those cases where they were begging the public,
please if you got some video or ring camp, please

(04:31):
reach out to us. But they only had one little
piece of video that they released as part of evidence.
Is they help us if you recognize this guy. But
you couldn't see anything really, No, it was.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
A man walking down the street and he looked like
just about any other man. There was nothing distinguishing, and
you certainly couldn't see any features in him. So I
guess maybe you could recognize clothing or maybe the way
he was walking, but it.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Seemed like a long shot.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
However, in that plea for video, in that plea for anything,
any surveillance camera, it looks as though that did work.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
And we are seeing this.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Happen more and more and more because detectives are saying
they were able to identify a vehicle, so they must
have been able to trace this guy walking to his vehicle.
They were able to somehow zoom in on the vehicle
and find out where that vehicle was headed. So they
tracked the vehicle down. They located it in Rockford, Illinois.

(05:25):
Then they identified that Monique's ex husband was the owner
of that vehicle, and you know, at that point, boom,
you've got a connection. You've got somebody from her past
who was somewhere where he wouldn't have normally been at
the exact time that they believed Monique and her husband
were gunned down Monique and Spencer. So they connected those

(05:48):
dots and that led them directly to her ex husband.
But the motive and the why, that's still a big
question mark as of this recording right now.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, look, when you hear about X husband, there's all
kinds of reasons you could speculate, but right now they
have nothing. Why that guy was there. I'm trying to
find and trying to figure out, now, what is the
distance between because he would have had to drive it. Yes, yes,
on the distance between these two towns.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
That's not close, Illinois to Ohio. This was planned, this
was premeditated for him to make this drive. And it's
really fascinating when you think about the fact that she
filed for divorce in twenty seventeen, and by all accounts,
it was wrapped up pretty quickly. So if you're doing
the math as I am, you're talking almost nine years

(06:40):
ago her divorce was finalized, and he comes back, police
say now, and makes this drive premeditated to go and
murder her and her not even new husband. They were
about to celebrate their five year wedding anniversary. They have
two young kids. He has a successful practice. This guy

(07:01):
who police are now pointing to, seems like he's had
a pretty successful career in his life too. So there
are a lot of questions circulating right now as to.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Why and why now this doesn't Yes, it's hard to
make sense. And again, this guy is innocent to proven guilty,
he's only been I mean he has, he's been arrested
in charge. We've seen his bunk shot at this point.
With that again, we just talked wrote this a six
and a half hour drive. That's a commitment to something
to make that drive all the way there to take
two people out. I guess as possible, he was just

(07:33):
in the a happened to be in the area, but
that's not our understanding. He is from Illinois, is he not.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yes, And they say he was practicing outside of Chicago.
He has medical licenses in Illinois and California as a
vascular surgeon. We know he went to medical school at
Ohio State University. Also had a medical license in Nevada.
So it looks like he's moved around. That lapsed mid
last year, but he was able to practice medical in

(08:00):
three different states.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
And they also said he was living in Virginia, where
he was I believe.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Doing some more work to further his career, to further
his education. So he's moved around a lot, but he's
been a part of the medical community, and obviously to
become a vascular surgeon that takes a tremendous amount of
discipline and effort and intellect and education.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
So he's been.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Busy investing in himself, it would seem given where he
is in his career.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
But this is earlier right now. Again, he was just
arrested today as we're recording this. This is Saturday, so
the news about his arrest is just coming today and
everyone's digging into his background right now. But as of
this moment, from all accounts, he has a pretty clean background,

(08:50):
not a background of any trouble in his medical career, necessarily,
nothing you wouldn't expect, no arrest record, nothing to try
to piece together, folks, try to figure what exactly could
have possibly happened. But what happens next, we already know
when we might see this guy in courts. Stay here,
we'll explain what's next and this double homicide case. All right,

(09:21):
we continue here on this Saturday, January tenth on this
Aame and TJ.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Rose.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
This was not the episode we planned necessarily. I've been
saying for days now, man, we should get more upbeat stuff.
It's just the news has been horrible here lately, and
sure enough we got I guess, probably some accounts, I
guess a positive update to a very horrible story. But
an arrest made and a double homicide in Columbus, Ohio.
Young couple Spencer and Monique Teppe. We're killed December thirty

(09:51):
if their young children left in the home after they
were shot and killed. But now the ex husband of
Monique been arrested here on this Saturday, charge with two
council murder and rogue. We expect to see him as
early as Monday, that's right.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
So right now he is being held in Illinois.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
He is going to be extra guided back to the Columbus,
Ohio area, and then once he's bought brock brought back
to Ohio, he's going to have a hearing on Monday,
they believe where bond will be set. Then they say
that this case is likely going to be reviewed by
a grand jury so that they can have the correct indictments,
potentially additional charges. But right now he is charged in

(10:33):
the murders of Spencer and Monique Teppe. But this is
a story that really brought this community to a halt
because this is it was an unusual occurrence in this
little street along Columbus, Ohio, and so a lot of
folks were we were seeing the updates coming in from
concerned neighbors saying, hey, I had somebody, you know, rattling

(10:55):
my door and trying to break in. Maybe this person,
the person who killed the Teppees, is on the loose.
So there was a lot of fear in this neighborhood.
There were some reports made about a nine to one
one call that had come out of the Teppee home
earlier in the year, but it was like a party
guest who had an issue with someone else. Anyway, people
were just searching for answers who could be responsible for

(11:16):
this young couple's death, and there was a lot of fear.
So today, with word that this was a targeted killing
and b they've got the guy, they say who was
responsible in custody, I'm sure a lot of people in
that area are breathing a huge sigh of relief.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, I still have. I mean the question too, that
was a big part of the story of Ropes. There
was no forced entry, So how did he get in there?
How did he get out of there? Why was he there?
Why was he in their lives? Quite frankly in any
way at this point is so much time had passed,
so all those questions had come The family of the

(11:53):
Tepees did put out a statement saying nothing could undo
the devastating loss of the two lives taken far too soon.
But they said it does represent an import and step
at least right now towards justice. But this is just
one step. And again, I guess we'll keep our eyes
robes and once again in another courtroom. There's a lot
of court rooms and a lot of high profile cases.
It seems we'll keeping an eye on these days.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
And police did say in terms of more information, because
there is so much interest in this case, there are
so many questions as to why what the motive would
be With a seemingly amicable divorce and that much time
gone by, why then would he do what police say
he did and plan it out the way they claim
he did.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
But they said they will release.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Further information as appropriate, and they've already said they don't
want to compromise the investigation, so they are urging people
to please continue to contact them with information. It looks
like they're still trying to piece things together, but they're warning.
They're letting us know they're not going to be giving
out too much more information, at least in these early
stages as they try to get there their case together,

(12:53):
but on Monday, hopefully we will hear some more details
and we will see him at least in that initial hearing,
that bond hearing on Monday, and we will certainly be
keeping our eye on that story for all of you
because this has been it's become a national story of
interest and certainly a tragic one.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Good to know the kids are with the Teppe family.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
They did say that the children are being cared for
by the family, and they are really they're so young,
they don't even really know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
But it's sad, but good to know they're in a
good place.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
But Michael David McKee thirty nine years old, the ex
husband of Monique Teppe, now in jail charge with double
murder for the murder of his ex wife Monique and
her husband, Spencer Teppe, the Columbus couple that was shot
and killed. And they're one in four year old in
the house when it happened. Those kids unharmed at least physically.

(13:46):
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