TORPEDO HITS MONSTER-SURGEON: FAKE ALIBI BUSTED, WIFE & NEW HUBBY MURDERED IN BED
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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A torpedo hits the defense as a monster surgeon ex-hubby gives a fake alibi to police and it's busted wide open. This after the murder of his ex-wife and her new husband in their own bed. And tonight, the monster surgeon's ex-girlfriend speaking out and did a clerical error spark a murder spree. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. He's talking about on the dating apps how he wants children, how he wants to settle down, yet he's all alone.
What events led to the murder of Monique Tepe and her new husband?
I wonder why. They were married and murdered in the same home. How many nights did he hunch over his computer screen watching Monique? Does nobody watch true crime? Reportedly, the monster surgeon blurts out an alibi before he immediately invokes his right to the Fifth Amendment, but it's too late. He's busted in a lie. Joining us, an all-star panel, but first straight after crime stories, investigative reporter, Dave Mack. What in the, hey, you think? This is a guy who is an honor student. First of all, he performs at a very high level on the football field, okay? Then he is Dean's List honor student through undergrad. Then he gets to med school. Then he is an honor student in med school, becomes a vascular surgeon who is licensed to practice medicine in multiple states, and he blurts out a fake alibi?
Idiot! What happened?
Nancy, it seems as though before his arrest, police actually got up with Dr. McKee and asked, hey, where were you on this particular night on December 30th? not an uncommon thing to do with an ex-spouse and his story nancy is that he had booked a room at his hospital where he's a surgeon osf st anthony medical center in rockford illinois and that that's where he was the entire night investigators are able to bust that wide open
Joining me now, the investigative reporter for The Mirror and the Irish star, Yelena Mandenberg. Ruh-roh, oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
Busted! What happened, Yelena? Well, he left his phone at the hospital and he booked a sleep room at the hospital where he's a surgeon, which would be a normal, believable thing. Many, many doctors do. He left his phone, which we assume, allegedly, if he went out there was so it doesn't ping off the cell phone towers and so everything looks legit. However, all investigators had to do was probably check the video feed and the surveillance videos from the hospital where he works. It's really easy to overcome that alibi, even though it seems very legitimate for a doctor like him.
Yelena Mandenberg, joining us from the Mirror and the Irish Star, you're absolutely correct. Randy Kessler, veteran trial lawyer, defense attorney out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, and professor, Emory Law School, and former chairman of the ABA Family Law Section, that's the American Bar Association, author of Divorce, Protect Yourself, Your Kids, and Your Future. You better write another book. Shut your pie hole. That's just a suggestion for a title. Don't you just hate it when you get a medical doctor criminal defendant? Because you do know they know more than everybody else. But the way I see it, having a medical doctor as a criminal defendant client is like asking me to go perform heart surgery.
Now ask me to go try a serial killer. Sure. You're on. You've got a medical doctor trying to outsmart the justice system, or maybe he just took his cues from Brian Koberger. Oops, he got convicted for quadruple murder. So does the doctor and all of his wisdom try to outsmart law enforcement by planting a phony alibi, leaving his cell phone to ping at an overnight cot at a hospital?
You know, I don't think it's limited to just doctors. A lot of people try to outsmart the legal system and it's just, it's a system that we've been in, you and I, you know, maybe harder for me to represent lawyers or former prosecutors because they know the system and they're smart. But yeah, someone who's smart, but hasn't done this, like you said, someone who's a doctor asking you and you try to do surgery, you might be smart enough to figure it out, but there's nothing,
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:51
2
What events led to the murder of Monique Tepe and her new husband?
0:51–6:02
3
How did the accused, Michael McKee, attempt to establish his alibi?
6:02–9:05
4
What role did the investigation play in uncovering McKee's lies?
9:05–18:57
5
How do expert guests analyze McKee's psychological profile?
18:57–52:31
Speakers
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