HELLFIRE: MONIQUE TEPE, HUSBAND, SHOT 16 TIMES, HIT FACE, CHEEK & THROAT
episodePreviously titled “HELLFIRE: MONQUE TEPPE, HUSBAND, SHOT 16 TIMES, HIT FACE, CHEEK, THROAT” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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Guaranteed human. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Hellfire. Monique Tepe and husband shot 16 times. Monique hit in the face, the cheek, the throat, and more. Apparently, according to police, vascular surgeon Dr. Michael McKee, her ex-husband from almost 10 years ago, unloads a magazine on Monique and Spencer as they lay in their bed. When I look at her beautiful face and think of him standing over the bed in the middle of the night, the wee morning hours, unloading a magazine into the face of Monique Tepe, hell hath no fury. like what victims' rights and families are feeling all across our country tonight. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us.
What are the details of the tragic shooting of Monique and Spencer Tepe?
Monique Tepe was shot multiple times, not just Spencer, Monique as well, for children in the next room.
We begin to think about what kind of injuries they have.
We need to know what the range of fire is. If you have multiple gunshot wounds, this is gonna be a bloody mess. Monique is shot more times than Spencer. Nine gunshot wounds to the upper body, including a bullet to the head hitting Monique in the right cheek and three shots to her right chest, all clustered together. Monique also suffers bullet wounds to the right side of her torso, right forearm, right hand, and two shots to her left upper arm.
This is a lot to take in. Yes, I know it's bad enough that they're both shot as they lay in their beds, their children on the other side of the wall. But now to know that he allegedly disfigured her face in this way. Yelena Mandenberg joining us, investigative reporter for The Mirror, the Irish Star, the Express. Yelena, what do we know? And we're learning this from the autopsy. It's called the coroner report there. And it's very disturbing from the Franklin County Forensic Science Center. What have we learned tonight, Yelena?
Well, I said before, Monique Tepe shot nine times while Spencer Tepe was shot seven times, 16 bullets between them. The Franklin County Office of the Coroner determined that Monique Tepe was shot once in the face, three times in the chest, twice in the upper left arm, and once on the right side of her torso. once in her right forearm and once in the hand. Gunshot wounds of head, trunk, and extremities with visceral, skeletal, and soft tissue injuries, says the report. The report also added that in the autopsy, they were able to recover two bullets and bullet fragments left in the humerus fracture site. which means soft organ damage. It hit the lungs, it hit the liver, skeletal damage when the bones broke, when the bullets hit them.
Spencer Tepping's autopsy says he suffered seven gunshot wounds, also to the head, neck, trunk, and extremities with visceral, skeletal, and soft tissue injuries. once in the head, once in the neck, three times in the torso, twice in the upper extremities, and the bullet was also recovered from Spencer Tepe's body. Both list the same manner of death, homicide, death by gunshot wounds. Both documents mark the couple's time of death at 10, 11 a.m. on December 30th, which would be when paramedics were able to get into their home. and they were dressed for bed like any other night. Spencer was reported wearing shorts, Monique wearing a long sleeve and a T-shirt, and both were wearing their wedding rings on the night that they were killed.
Yelena Mandenberg. you should consider being a trial lawyer, because you just took so many pages of documents from this coroner's report, and you zoned in on what I zoned in on, and that was the soft tissue damages, the bullets cutting through Monique and Spencer's organs, the liver, the lung. I mean, that kind of gunshot wound causes you to bleed out internally almost immediately. You can't stop it. And as we predicted at the get-go, the way that bullet match was made was not just from the shells that were found, but from the bullets that were dug out of the victims' bodies at the medical examiner's office. Joining me to make sense of what we are hearing from Yelena Mandenberg is Dr. Kendall Crowns.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:21
2
What are the details of the tragic shooting of Monique and Spencer Tepe?
1:21–8:18
3
How many gunshot wounds did Monique and Spencer sustain?
8:18–14:17
4
What insights do the autopsy reports provide about the victims' injuries?
14:17–27:18
5
What role does the medical examiner play in such cases?
27:18–32:24
6
How does the discussion address the psychological aspects of the crime?
32:24–51:18
Speakers
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