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According to the unsealed affidavit, witnesses told investigators Michael McKee strangled Monique Tepe during their marriage, forced unwanted sex on her, and told her he could end her life whenever he wanted. She divorced him in 2017 after seven months. No police report. No protective order. She told friends and family she was afraid—then got up every morning and lived her life. Fell in love again. Married Spencer. Raised two children.
Strangulation is one of the most significant predictors of future lethality in domestic violence research. If McKee did what witnesses allege, Monique was in extreme danger from the moment she left. Rob Misleh said publicly the family didn't fully understand the threats were real until it was too late.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent thirty years working with survivors of intimate partner violence. She's also a survivor—her ex-husband died by revenge suicide after she asked for divorce. She explains why there's so often a gap between what victims communicate and what the people who love them hear. What does eight years of constant threat assessment do psychologically?
Then there's the defendant's response. The state has surveillance footage, ballistics, a cell phone that went dark, years of documented threats. McKee pleaded not guilty. Waived bail but reserved the right to revisit—chess move, not surrender. Scott analyzes defendants who treat courtrooms like arenas. Ted Bundy cross-examined witnesses. Scott Peterson watched like a spectator. Chris Watts tried to con homicide detectives.
McKee is a surgeon who completed over a decade of elite medical training. Does that professional background feed the compartmentalization we see in courtroom detachment? The theory: the detachment that lets someone sit calmly facing murder charges is the same detachment that allegedly let them pull the trigger. Other people aren't fully real to them.
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Michael McKee is charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer. Surveillance footage allegedly shows his car near the scene. A firearm from his Chicago condo matched through national ballistics databases. Witnesses say Monique told them he'd threatened her for years—that he could "kill her at any time," that she'd "always be his wife." His phone went silent during the killings. Everyone already thinks he's guilty.
Defense attorney Bob Motta asks the questions nobody else wants to ask. That surveillance footage everyone's treating as a smoking gun—how reliable is it really? The hearsay testimony from friends—Monique's not alive to testify. Can prosecutors even use it? The phone going dark sounds damning, but Bob explains what juries don't hear about digital evidence.
Then there's the psychology of the not guilty plea. McKee waived extradition immediately and his bail hearing while reserving future rights. Most people think that signals defeat. Forensic experts see something else—what they call the "game player." Defendants who view prosecution as competition rather than consequence. The same pattern seen in Scott Peterson, Chris Watts, Ted Bundy. Men facing overwhelming evidence who refused to fold.
The same detachment that allows someone to treat a murder trial as an intellectual exercise may be the same detachment that allows them to commit the act. For the game player, other people aren't fully real. They're pieces on a board. The trial isn't punishment—it's the championship round.
This is an aggravated murder charge. Prosecutors must prove premeditation—not just that he did it, but that he planned it. Eight years passed between the divorce and the murders. Bob Motta explains why that timeline works for the defense as much as the prosecution.
McKee has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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The eighty-four-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie vanished from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning. But investigators may know exactly when she was taken—thanks to her pacemaker.
According to law enforcement sources, Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker stopped syncing with her Apple Watch at approximately 2 a.m. Sunday. It didn't malfunction. It lost its Bluetooth connection when Nancy was physically moved out of range. The watch was left inside. That disconnect is what investigators are using to narrow down the abduction window.
The crime scene evidence is disturbing. Multiple cameras at the property were smashed. The back door was left wide open. Blood was found inside the home and at the front door stoop. Retired FBI agent Maureen O'Connell analyzed footage and said the round blood droplets suggest Nancy may have been carried out.
Then the investigation took an unusual turn. Roughly thirty hours after the initial response, the scene was released—tape came down, activity slowed. Without explanation, everything reversed. Crime scene tape went back up. Multiple agencies surged in. Canine units arrived. Grid searches focused on the garage. Something pulled investigators back with urgency.
The investigation has reportedly turned toward family as standard procedure. Annie Guthrie's vehicle was impounded. FBI agents spent two hours at her home. Reports of ransom-style messages referencing cryptocurrency remain unverified. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings released a plea specifically requesting proof of life—language that signals concern about the credibility of communications received.
Nancy cannot walk fifty yards unassisted and requires daily medication that could be fatal if missed. Past the seventy-two-hour mark. When asked if they believe she's alive, Sheriff Nanos said: "We hope we are." A retired FBI agent was blunter: the blood evidence "let the air out of my tires."
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This is the complete picture. The pattern. The playbook. And the system that let it happen.
Mica Miller was ten years old when she met Pastor John-Paul Miller. According to her own words to police, he groomed her for years before making her his wife. By thirty, she was dead—found at a North Carolina state park with a bullet wound to her head, two days after serving him divorce papers. Ruled a suicide. But the woman who called police fourteen times begging for help had also told her family: "If I end up with a bullet in my head, it was not by me. It was JP."
The federal indictment alleges JP cyberstalked Mica for eighteen months: tracking devices on her car, a nude photo posted online without consent, over fifty contacts in a single day, and lies to federal investigators. He has pleaded not guilty.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent thirty years treating survivors of coercive control. She explains how the pattern in this indictment works—and why every system Mica reached out to failed her. In February 2024, Mica was involuntarily hospitalized for forty-eight hours. When released, her car was gone, her digital accounts locked, and JP had allegedly removed documents she'd been collecting about his abuse. JP told media Mica had "mental health struggles." In a sermon, he told his congregation a mentally ill person "doesn't know they're sick." Scott explains how abusers weaponize mental health narratives to discredit victims.
The story extends beyond Mica. JP's first wife alleges he confessed to sexual misconduct with minors. Chris Skinner drowned two weeks after allegedly confronting JP. Two civil lawsuits allege decades of sexual abuse by JP and his father. They deny everything. South Carolina still has no coercive control law.
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Three weeks before Spencer and Monique Tepe were found dead, surveillance cameras allegedly captured Michael McKee at their Columbus home. They were 300 miles away at the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis. According to court documents, Monique left the game at halftime—upset about something involving her ex-husband.
What did she know? What did she sense? And why didn't she report it?
True Crime Today examines both the behavioral psychology behind McKee's alleged eight-year obsession and the painful reality of why victims of stalking so often don't go to police—even when they know they're in danger.
Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke breaks down what McKee's alleged pattern reveals. Witnesses say he told Monique he could "kill her at any time," that she would "always be his wife," that he'd buy the house next to hers. Court documents allege he strangled her and forced unwanted sex during their marriage—violence that allegedly evolved into eight years of threats after their 2017 divorce.
Robin explains the distinction between threats made as manipulation and threats made as rehearsal. The December 6th surveillance trip wasn't impulse. It was allegedly reconnaissance—the behavioral signature of someone moving from fantasy to action.
We also examine the gap between knowing you're in danger and the system being able to help. What does Ohio law require for a protection order? What can police actually do when someone is being stalked by a person who technically hasn't committed a crime yet? What holds victims back from reporting—and what are the options if you're in that situation right now?
This isn't victim blaming. It's understanding why the space between fear and action is so hard to cross.
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