Surgeon ex in Ohio dentist murders job hopped across country, dodged lawsuits after divorce

In the 8 years betwixt his divorcement and his arrest, Michael McKee built a aesculapian vocation that spanned 4 states, adjacent arsenic the pistillate helium is present accused of sidesplitting built a caller beingness and household successful Ohio.

McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, was indicted Friday connected 4 counts of aggravated murder, each with firearm specifications, according to an indictment filed successful Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

Three of the aggravated execution counts see specifications alleging the usage oregon show of an automatic firearm oregon silencer, portion the 4th alleges a firearm was displayed oregon brandished. McKee is besides charged with 1 number of aggravated burglary, a first-degree felony.

Authorities allege McKee changeable and killed his ex-wife Monique Tepe, 39, and her hubby Spencer Tepe, 37, astatine their location successful Columbus’ Weinland Park vicinity betwixt 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. Dec. 30. McKee was arrested successful Illinois connected Jan. 10 and is being held astatine the Winnebago County Jail successful Rockford, awaiting extradition to Ohio.

Ohio dentist Dr. Spencer Tepe and his wife, Monique Tepe, were recovered changeable to decease wrong their location successful Columbus, Ohio connected Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (Athens Dental Depot)

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According to USA Today, the divorcement lawsuit betwixt McKee and his ex-wife, Monique, was mistakenly revived conscionable months earlier McKee allegedly murdered the couple.

Divorce records obtained by Fox News Digital amusement that McKee and Monique got joined connected Aug. 22, 2015, and separated by March 2016, with the matrimony lasting 7 months.

According to the archetypal divorcement ailment filed by Monique, she and McKee were "incompatible." By March 2016, Monique and McKee were surviving separately.

"Differences person arisen betwixt [the couple] and they are present surviving abstracted and isolated from each other," according to the complaint. Monique and McKee kept astir of their idiosyncratic assets, including slope accounts, and divided idiosyncratic spot to their "mutual satisfaction," the records show.

The brace had nary children unneurotic and their divorcement was finalized successful Franklin County Domestic Relations Court connected June 15, 2017.

Monique Tepe joined her caller husband, dentist Spencer Tepe, successful December 2020.

Spencer and Monique Tepe were preparing to observe their five-year wedding anniversary. (Rob Misleh)

Court records and aesculapian licensing boards supply a roadmap of his whereabouts successful the years pursuing the separation.

Here's a timeline of McKee's enactment history, according to records and sources:

2005 to 2009: Undergraduate pupil astatine Ohio State University.

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2009 to 2014: Studied to gain his aesculapian grade astatine Ohio State University.

2014 to 2015: General country internship astatine Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center successful Columbus, Ohio.

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2015 to 2020: General Surgery residency astatine Virginia Tech Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, Virginia.

2020 to 2022: Vascular Surgery fellowship astatine University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland.

Michael McKee appears successful tribunal astatine Winnebago County Justice Center, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, Rockford, Illinois. McKee is facing extradition to Ohio for the execution of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband, Spencer Tepe. (WIFR via Pool)

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2022 to 2025: Was licensed successful respective states, including California, Nevada and Illinois. From 2023 to 2024, helium worked arsenic a vascular surgeon astatine Las Vegas Surgical Associates.

2025 to 2026: Vascular surgeon astatine OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center successful Rockford, Illinois.

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Booking photograph of Michael David McKee, a 39-year-old from Chicago, is charged with 2 counts of execution successful the deaths of Dr. Spencer Tepe and his wife, Monique Tepe. (Winnebago County Sheriff's Office)

Following McKee's arrest, household members person said that Monique's ex-husband was a "monster," and was abusive.

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Rob Misleh, Spencer's brother-in-law, told NBC News that their household "quickly believed" that McKee was progressive successful their deaths.

"He was an emotionally abusive idiosyncratic erstwhile they were together, that is each I know," Misleh said.

Spencer and Monique Tepe pictured successful wedding photos. (Rob Misleh)

Court filings reviewed by Fox News Digital amusement that McKee was facing respective allegations of aesculapian malpractice and negligence successful the months anterior to being charged successful the deaths of the Ohio couple.

Federal tribunal records uncover that McKee was named arsenic a suspect successful a civilian rights and aesculapian negligence suit filed June 7, 2024, successful U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. In a abstracted matter, authorities tribunal records successful Clark County amusement that McKee is besides the superior suspect successful an progressive aesculapian malpractice suit slated for a assemblage trial.

According to Las Vegas-based lawyer Dan Laird, McKee managed to evade ineligible justness earlier helium allegedly killed the Tepes.

"They thin to beryllium highly liable people," helium told WSYX. "They’re not the benignant of radical who conscionable disappeared suddenly, and this was precise astonishing to us."