Accused psycho surgeon Michael McKee allegedly lurked outside his ex-wife’s Ohio home weeks before returning to fatally shoot her and her husband, chilling new court documents revealed.
McKee, 39, a vascular surgeon in Illinois, was caught on video driving near Monique and Spencer Tepe’s Columbus home on Dec. 6 before walking onto the property and scoping out the house, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
Court records, obtained by the Dispatch, said the accused killer left the home “a few hours later” after sinisterly surveilling the residence.
Then on Dec. 30, McKee allegedly returned to the house, snuck in, and gunned down his ex and her husband.
McKee — who was married to Monique, 39, for two years before she filed for divorce in 2017 — allegedly carried out the eerie stakeout while the couple was at the Big Ten Championship football game.
Monique left the game early at halftime to return to the hotel, with Spencer telling friends she “was upset about something involving her ex-husband,” prosecutors alleged.
Her grief-stricken family called her ex emotionally abusive during their brief marriage, while friends told investigators a harrowing story of the torment Monique allegedly endured at his hands.
After the Tepes’ deaths, friends told police that Monique had described moments when McKee “forced unwanted sex,” strangled her, and threatened to “kill her at any time,” warning that he “would find her and buy the house next to hers, that she will always be his wife,” court records showed.
Prosecutors said McKee traveled some 325 miles from Rockford, Illinois, to the couple’s home, where surveillance footage captured his car near the property numerous times, including before and after the heinous killings, which police said were “targeted” and happened around 3:50 a.m.
Court records also showed the accused gunman left his phone at his Rockford medical practice, which recorded no activity from Dec. 29 until after noon on Dec. 30, the outlet reported.
Police tracked the silver SUV — tied to McKee’s previous addresses — to a hospital where he worked and nabbed him nearly two weeks later on Jan. 10 at a nearby Chick-fil-A, according to the court docs.
He was extradited back to the Buckeye State and booked at the Franklin County jail to face trial. McKee, who holds medical licenses in both Illinois and California, was indicted on four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary.
He has since pleaded not guilty to the charges.
McKee faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted in the double murder case.
