Surgeon Charged in Murder of Ex-Wife and Dentist Husband Extradited to Ohio

A surgeon charged in the fatal shooting deaths of his ex-wife and her dentist husband has been booked into an Ohio jail following his extradition from Illinois.

Michael McKee was transferred to Franklin County on Tuesday afternoon and is expected to make his first appearance in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas as early as this week.

A grand jury indicted McKee on four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated robbery in connection with the deaths of Monique Tepe, 39, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, 37.

The couple was found dead from apparent gunshot wounds inside their Columbus home on Dec. 30—just feet from their sleeping toddlers, authorities said.

McKee was taken into custody on Jan. 10 by federal agents near his medical office in Rockford, about 80 miles west of Chicago. He was initially booked into the Winnebago County Jail, where he remained until his extradition on Tuesday.

So far, McKee has invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and declined to speak with investigators.

At his first court appearance in Illinois on Jan. 12, the public defender assigned to represent him told the judge that McKee planned to plead not guilty to the two murder charges he faced at that time.

McKee and Monique Tepe met while attending Ohio State University and married in 2015. According to a copy of their divorce filing, they separated after seven months and were not officially divorced until June 2017. Monique met Spencer the following year.

Monique and Spencer married in December 2020 and were parents to a 4-year-old daughter and an 18-month-old son.

McKee had previously been living in Las Vegas but relocated to Illinois at some point in the past two years, where he purchased a penthouse apartment in Chicago.

Three months before the killings, McKee was named as a defendant in an amended complaint accusing him of medical malpractice while working at a clinic in Las Vegas.

Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said at a news conference last week that detectives sought an arrest warrant for McKee after linking him to a vehicle seen near the Tepes’ home around the time of the shootings.

Investigators later searched McKee’s property and recovered a weapon matching the firearm police believe was used to kill Monique and Spencer, authorities said.