Surgeon accused of killing ex-wife and her dentist husband in Ohio indicted for murders

The surgeon accused of killing his ex-wife and her dentist husband at their Ohio home was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury Friday in connection with their murders.

The five-count indictment handed down against Michael McKee includes four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary — and revealed that at the time of the killings he was armed with a weapon equipped with a silencer.

“McKee has a firearm that was equipped with a firearm muffler or suppressor on or about his person or under his control while committing the offense,” the indictment states.

If convicted, McKee, 39, faces a maximum term of life in prison without parole.

McKee, who lives in Chicago, is the ex-husband of Monique Tepe, 39, who was found dead with her 37-year-old husband, Spencer Tepe, last month at their Columbus home.

He was arrested Saturday by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Rockford, Illinois, about 90 miles west of Chicago, where he is listed as a vascular surgeon at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center.

McKee appeared in an Illinois courtroom Monday and was represented by a public defender who said the physician plans to plead not guilty.

He is expected to be extradited to Columbus, but as of Friday he was still being held in the Winnebago County Jail in Rockford, police said.

McKee was indicted two days after police revealed that a weapon linked to the deaths of the couple was found at his home.

So far, police have not revealed a motive for the murders.

“What we can say, this was a targeted attack,” Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said Wednesday. “This was a domestic violence-related attack.”

There were no previous reports or calls involving the ex-husband at the Tepes’ home, which the couple moved into in 2020, Bryant said.

McKee and Monique Tepe married in 2015 and divorced because of “incompatibility” two years later, after they were already living separately, records show.

Family members said they lived together for only seven months and alleged that McKee was emotionally abusive.

The Tepes were discovered dead at their Columbus home on Dec. 30.

A friend of the slain dentist called 911 after he stopped by the Tepes’ home to check on him and found him lying next to his bed in a puddle of blood. The couple’s children were also in the home and were not harmed.

Police have said there were no signs of forced entry at the house, but they have not explained how McKee got inside his ex-wife’s home.