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Witnesses told investigators Michael McKee strangled Monique Tepe during their marriage, forced unwanted sex on her, and told her directly he could end her life whenever he wanted. She divorced him in 2017 after seven months. She never filed a police report. She never obtained a protective order. She told friends and family she was afraid—and then she lived her life anyway. 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 statistically in extreme danger from the moment she left. She knew it. Her family knew something was wrong. Rob Misleh said publicly they 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—and she's a survivor herself. 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 actually hear. What does eight years of constant threat assessment do to someone psychologically?

Then there's McKee's courtroom behavior. The state has surveillance footage, a ballistics match, a cell phone that went dark during the murder window, and years of documented threats. His response: not guilty plea. Waived bail hearing but reserved the right to revisit—a chess move, not surrender. Scott analyzes defendants who treat courtrooms like arenas. Ted Bundy represented himself. Scott Peterson watched his trial like a spectator. Chris Watts tried to con detectives days after killing his family. The theory: the detachment that lets someone sit calmly facing murder charges is the same detachment that allegedly let them pull the trigger.

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