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Tepe Killings: Suspect threatened ex-wife after their marriage, witnesses told police


The man accused of shooting and killing his ex-wife and her husband in Columbus made his first court appearance in Illinois on Monday. (WIFR via CNN Newsource)

The man accused of killing his ex-wife and her husband forced her to have unwanted sex, threatened her, and abused her during and after their marriage, according to allegations found in newly-obtained court documents.

ABC 6's Steve Levine on Tuesday obtained the documents that include those and other serious allegations against Michael McKee, who is charged with two counts of aggravated premeditated murder in the shooting deaths of his ex-wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe.

They were found dead in their Weinland Park home on Dec. 30.

A "witness told detectives that Michael D. McKee had told Monique that he could kill her at any time and would find her and buy the house right next to her, that she will always be his wife," according to the documents.

The documents also allege that McKee "had been abusive, and had made numerous threats on her life during and after their marriage."

One witness "told detectives that Monique Tepe had shared an allegation against Michael McKee of forced unwanted sex and of strangulation."

The documents also allege that McKee was seen near their Columbus-area home weeks before they were killed there. McKee, who worked as a surgeon at St. Anthony's Hospital in Illinois until his arrest, "was not on the schedule" to work on Dec. 6, according to the court records.

"More recently," the documents added, "while Monique and Spencer Tepe were at the Big Ten Championship game in Indiana on December 6, 2025, with several other couples, Monique went back to her hotel room early in the second half. Monique went back to her hotel room early in the second half. When identifiable friends asked Spencer why Monique had left the game, he told them she was upset about something involving her ex-husband and was going back to the hotel."

McKee has pleaded not guilty in the case.