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McKee's Stolen Plates and 18-Hour Blackout Weren't Enough to Hide the Tepe Murders
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Ohio plates. Arizona plates. Both allegedly stolen. Both allegedly used on the same SUV—the one surveillance footage captured near the home where Spencer and Monique Tepe were found dead with sixteen gunshot wounds between them.
Michael McKee is a surgeon. A planner. Someone who allegedly went dark on his phone for 18 hours during the murder window. Someone who allegedly scrubbed the distinctive sticker off his vehicle after the arrest.
He still got caught in 11 days.
Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers Live to explain exactly where McKee's counter-surveillance allegedly failed. The NIBIN ballistics database hit that linked a firearm in his Chicago condo to the Tepe crime scene in Columbus. The multi-jurisdictional coordination that moved faster than most single-agency homicides. The forensic trail that was waiting for investigators before they even knew his name.
What does an 18-hour phone blackout actually tell investigators? Coffindaffer explains how they reconstruct movements when someone has deliberately created a digital gap—and why silence can be just as incriminating as data.
Then defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis reveals how McKee's team will try to create reasonable doubt. The hearsay fight over three devastating statements Monique allegedly told friends before she was killed. The motion to exclude testimony about abuse that was never reported or prosecuted. The innocent explanations that might be offered for every piece of physical evidence.
McKee waived his bail hearing. Eric explains what that signals. The indictment alleges either an automatic weapon or a suppressor—charged in the alternative. What does that unusual structure reveal about what prosecutors are holding?
If acquittal isn't in the cards, what does a "win" look like for this defense team?
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