Michael McKee, an Illinois man accused of killing his former wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, allegedly provided fake information to avoid being served in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Franklin County, Ohio, jury indicted McKee on four courts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary earlier this month.
McKee, a vascular surgeon, is accused of killing the couple with an automatic firearm or silencer in their Columbus home on December 30.
In a civil lawsuit filed months before the murders, plaintiffs named McKee as one of the defendants in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
ABC 6 reports that “nearly a dozen failed attempts” were made to locate McKee, after he purportedly failed to properly train a physician’s assistant employed at Las Vegas Surgical Associates LLP, in Nevada, where McKee once worked.
Las Vegas attorney Dan Laird, who filed a lawsuit against the defendant, asserted that McKee provided a fake address for his former employer, and provided “an address that doesn’t exist.”
Laird’s process servicer reportedly noted nine different attempts to serve McKee, while a number provided to the business led to a fax machine.
Jacksonville State University Professor and “Body Bags” host, Joseph Scott Morgan, told FOX News Digital said that he believes that McKee had been showing strong signs of deceptions before carrying out violent crimes.
“Well, for me, from an investigative standpoint, it would seem to imply that there was maybe intent to disguise themselves,” Morgan said.
“Why are you going to deceive them to this level? Unless you’re trying to put people off of a scent. Because look, I mean, with a physical address, you have to think about if there’s going to be a warrant served.
“If there’s going to be any kind of papers that are served from a court, they’re literally going to go to a physical address and track you down.”
McKee is currently awaiting extradition from Illinois to Ohio, where he will be incarcerated in the Franklin County jail.
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[Feature Photo: Monique and Spencer Tepe/Handout]
