The murders of Monique Tepe and Spencer Tepe happened on Dec. 30 in Columbus, Ohio, but the suspect, Dr. Michael McKee, wasn’t arrested until last weekend.
Why did it take more than 10 days to make an arrest?
From the moment the bodies were discovered, the victims’ family said they believed that McKee, a surgeon from Chicago, had something to do with it. Official records cited a vehicle that arrived prior to the homicides and left shortly after; the vehicle was linked by police to McKee. But there was something else that they said connected him to the crime, and it was on video.
The security video, of a darkened figure lurking near the murder scene, and it took time to determine who was walking in the shadows.
The man in the video, according to prosecutors, was responsible for shooting the couple to death. Their young children were home at the time but weren’t injured.
Spencer and Monique Tepe were found dead hours later during a wellness check requested by someone at Spencer’s dental office.
Monique was married to McKee from 2015 to 2017, when the two divorced. A relative of Monique’s new family said that she had been emotionally abused by McKee during their two-year marriage.
Police and prosecutors in Ohio said the video, car and crime trace back to McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon and resident of a Lincoln Park high rise. He is currently assigned to a hospital in Rockford.
McKee was arrested on Saturday. Charges against him were upgraded on Monday to felony murder, which carries possible sentences of life in prison or even the death penalty in Ohio.
McKee, a vascular surgeon accustomed to wearing blue scrubs and carrying a scalpel, on Monday afternoon had his hands shackled and shuffled into a Rockford courtroom wearing a canary yellow jumpsuit. He was in court for a very short hearing, during which he offered not to fight a transfer to Ohio, where he said he would plead not guilty. McKee will remain in Winnebago County Jail until Columbus police arrive to pick him up.
The Chicago doctor and both victims are graduates of Ohio State University. McKee attended both undergraduate and medical school at the university. He is licensed as a surgeon in Ohio and Illinois and most recently operated at Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, which is where he was taken into custody last weekend.
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