The divorce case between accused killer surgeon Michael McKee and his slain ex-wife Monique Tepe — which was finalized years in the past — was mistakenly revived simply months earlier than McKee allegedly gunned down Tepe and her new husband of their Ohio dwelling.
McKee and Tepe had been married in Aug. 2015 earlier than they formally divorced in Might 2017, however the case obtained a brand new listening to that appeared on the docket in June 2025, in accordance with USA In the present day.
It confirmed a trial date set for September, nevertheless, court docket officers later confirmed that the revival of the case was a clerical error with the docket quantity and the September date was canceled, the paper reported.
McKee and Tepes’s divorce appeared mundane and civil on the time, in accordance with court docket information. Nevertheless, members of the family for the reason that killings have spoken out saying McKee would “torment” Tepe throughout their brief marriage.
“Variations have arisen between the events, and they’re now dwelling separate and other than one another,” their separation settlement, filed on April 28, 2017, said.
Within the divorce, McKee saved the couple’s $230,000 dwelling in Roanoke, Virginia, the place he was engaged on his residency. The house and mortgage had been each solely in his identify, USA In the present day reported.
Neither was ordered to pay spousal help and so they every saved their very own autos and their very own money owed, in accordance with the settlement.
The pair had no youngsters collectively and Monique Tepe, 39, married her new husband, dentist Spencer Tepe, 37, in December 2020.
McKee, 39, has been charged within the Tepes’ homicide after he allegedly snuck into their Columbus dwelling on Dec. 30 and shot them useless of their bed room, leaving their two youngsters, ages 4 and 1, unhurt in one other room, cops mentioned.
The vascular surgeon was arrested greater than per week later some 325 miles away in Rockford, Illinois, after police traced his automobile to the scene the evening of the murders.
Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant on Wednesday described the killings as a “focused” home violence assault and revealed police found the gun believed for use within the murders at McKee’s residence.
Investigators haven’t decided a motive within the killings.
McKee is at present awaiting extradition again to Ohio to face trial.
