McKee Affidavit Unsealed: Pre-Offense Surveillance, Stolen Plates, and 16 Rounds That Killed Spencer and Monique Tepe

Everything investigators have been building is now on paper. The affidavit in the Michael McKee case has been unsealed and the Franklin County Coroner has released full autopsy reports for Spencer and Monique Tepe. The evidence spans eight years of alleged obsession and ends with sixteen gunshot wounds in a bedroom where two children slept feet away. Spencer was struck seven times. Monique was struck nine times. Both had defensive wounds on their hands and arms — evidence they were awake and fighting when the shooting started. A full magazine was discharged. Every round fired. The violence was contained to the bedroom but total within it — controlled enough to avoid waking the children initially, explosive enough to empty a weapon completely. That behavioral signature is what forensic psychologists call a "grievance collector" — someone who warehouses every perceived slight for years until the obsession becomes action. The affidavit traces that trajectory. Surveillance footage places McKee on the Tepe property while Spencer and Monique were at the Big Ten Championship game. Witnesses describe years of threats, including McKee allegedly telling Monique he could "kill her at any time" and that she would "always be his wife." Those statements don't exist in isolation — they form a documented escalation pattern prosecutors will present as evidence of premeditation. 

Stolen license plates were linked to McKee's vehicle. A silver SUV bearing a distinctive sticker was tracked between his address, his medical practice, and the area surrounding the Tepe home. Following his arrest, investigators found fresh scrape marks where the sticker had been removed — what prosecutors will characterize as post-offense evidence destruction. McKee's cell phone went completely silent from December 29th through the afternoon of December 30th. The murders are estimated to have occurred at approximately 3:50 a.m. on December 30th. That digital blackout window is not accidental in the prosecution's theory. The firearm specifications are charged in the alternative — automatic weapon or silencer-equipped firearm. Defense attorney Eric Faddis explains that this prosecutorial hedging reveals the limits of what investigators have confirmed about the weapon and creates specific defense opportunities. McKee was a vascular surgeon licensed in four states with a decade of elite medical training. He waived extradition from South Carolina, entered a not-guilty plea, and reserved the right to address bond at a later hearing. Faddis walks through what that defense posture communicates, how historical threat evidence faces admissibility challenges, where digital silence arguments succeed and fail, and how evidence of apparent tampering gets framed by both sides at trial. The autopsy tells us Spencer and Monique died violently, defensively, and together. The affidavit tells us the prosecution believes it can prove exactly who did this, why, and how long he allegedly planned it.

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