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McKee Defense Strategy: The Lawyer Who Beat 14 Murder Charges Takes the Tepe Case
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Breaking down the defense strategy in the Michael McKee case.
The vascular surgeon accused of killing Monique and Spencer Tepe in their Columbus home has retained Diane Menashe — arguably Ohio's most successful defense attorney. Her resume includes walking Dr. William Husel after 14 murder charges and saving multiple clients from death row against overwhelming evidence.
Today on True Crime Today, we analyze what Menashe might do with a case that looks unwinnable on paper. The ballistics match through NIBIN that defense attorneys know isn't courtroom-proof science. The murky Ring camera footage that could become a battle of experts. The eight-year gap between McKee's divorce and the alleged murders that complicates the premeditation narrative. And McKee's documented spiral — malpractice suits he allegedly dodged with fake addresses, an expired medical license, colleagues saying he "just disappeared" — that could support a diminished capacity argument.
Prosecutors haven't disclosed a motive. They've called it "targeted domestic violence" but haven't explained why a surgeon would drive 325 miles to kill an ex-wife who left him eight years ago. Menashe will exploit that gap.
McKee isn't fighting for acquittal. He's fighting to avoid the harshest sentence — life without parole versus life with parole eligibility after 32 years. That's the game now.
The Tepe children — ages 4 and 1 — were in the house that night. They'll grow up without their parents. And the man accused of taking them has hired the best defense money can buy.
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