Michael McKee, a man from Illinois, is facing allegations of murdering his ex-wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe. He is also accused of misleading authorities with false details to dodge being served in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
A jury in Franklin County, Ohio, recently indicted McKee on charges including four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary related to this case, as previously covered by CrimeOnline. The indictment was issued earlier this month.
McKee, who works as a vascular surgeon, allegedly carried out the double homicide using an automatic weapon or silencer at the couple’s home in Columbus on December 30.
Prior to these tragic events, McKee was named as a defendant in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed several months earlier.
According to ABC 6, there were “nearly a dozen unsuccessful attempts” to track down McKee. These attempts were linked to claims he inadequately trained a physician’s assistant at Las Vegas Surgical Associates LLP in Nevada, where he was previously employed.
Dan Laird, a Las Vegas attorney who filed the malpractice lawsuit, claimed that McKee had given a fake address for his former workplace and even provided “an address that doesn’t exist.”
Laird’s process servicer reportedly noted nine different attempts to serve McKee, while a number provided to the business led to a fax machine.
Jacksonville State University Professor and “Body Bags” host, Joseph Scott Morgan, told FOX News Digital said that he believes that McKee had been showing strong signs of deceptions before carrying out violent crimes.
“Well, for me, from an investigative standpoint, it would seem to imply that there was maybe intent to disguise themselves,” Morgan said.
“Why are you going to deceive them to this level? Unless you’re trying to put people off of a scent. Because look, I mean, with a physical address, you have to think about if there’s going to be a warrant served.
“If there’s going to be any kind of papers that are served from a court, they’re literally going to go to a physical address and track you down.”
McKee is currently awaiting extradition from Illinois to Ohio, where he will be incarcerated in the Franklin County jail.
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[Feature Photo: Monique and Spencer Tepe/Handout]
