Is it odd that the ex never remarried? He was a vascular surgeon, not bad looking, had $$ ( and even if he was a jerk there are plenty of women who don't care,sadly) obviously the victim loved him at one point. This is the strangest story. Those weren't his kids, they divorced 10 years ago, so a grudge like this is very odd, but the fact he didn't move on, ever, is very strange.

Sad story. And those kids...tragic way to lose parents.

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Anonymous wrote:To me it’s obvious - he married the pretty girl as he was studying to be a doctor and apparently he lived in his car and she bought her rings. In his mind, the pretty girl was going to stay with him through thick and thin and until he made it big. The pretty girl left him and embarrassed the smart big surgeon. He’s resentful and hates her and stews on it. The pretty girl marries another doctor and that video and wedding pictures show how in love they are and how great they are doing together. He’s jealous and angry because that was supposed to be his life, not a loser with no kids or family or pretty wife. He kills them both. This isn’t about kids or dogs, just his hatred of them both, her in particular for living the life she was supposed to have with him and taking his happiness away with the divorce. In his mind he has nothing to lose and he knows he’s a loser, just makes her pay for it.

If we accept your theory, why didn't he do this 8 or 5 or 3 years ago? Why...now?

He's not bad looking and a young surgeon isn't going to have any trouble meeting a pretty girl in Chicago who wants to be a SAHM.

I suspect this man is newly mentally ill and/or a drug addict; maybe even SSRI induced psychosis/amnesia.

+1 the PP doesn’t make sense. There is more going on. He is a tall surgeon, he could have moved on if he wanted to with another pretty girl who wants to stay home.

Maybe he was suicidal and decided to destroy her life along the way.

Most jilted exes don’t become murderers.

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Anonymous wrote:To me it’s obvious - he married the pretty girl as he was studying to be a doctor and apparently he lived in his car and she bought her rings. In his mind, the pretty girl was going to stay with him through thick and thin and until he made it big. The pretty girl left him and embarrassed the smart big surgeon. He’s resentful and hates her and stews on it. The pretty girl marries another doctor and that video and wedding pictures show how in love they are and how great they are doing together. He’s jealous and angry because that was supposed to be his life, not a loser with no kids or family or pretty wife. He kills them both. This isn’t about kids or dogs, just his hatred of them both, her in particular for living the life she was supposed to have with him and taking his happiness away with the divorce. In his mind he has nothing to lose and he knows he’s a loser, just makes her pay for it.

If we accept your theory, why didn't he do this 8 or 5 or 3 years ago? Why...now?

He's not bad looking and a young surgeon isn't going to have any trouble meeting a pretty girl in Chicago who wants to be a SAHM.

I suspect this man is newly mentally ill and/or a drug addict; maybe even SSRI induced psychosis/amnesia.

Could be a recent breakup with someone else. Or maybe watching their social media and was triggered.

Anonymous wrote:Since every outlet has blasted what the couple's Ohio home cost, has any outlet scooped what sort of pad the accused doc was living in? A bachelor surgeon in Chicago should have a nice lifestyle.

Lincoln Park area in Chicago. Looks like a condo or apartment he'd moved to fairly recently.

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Anonymous wrote:To me it’s obvious - he married the pretty girl as he was studying to be a doctor and apparently he lived in his car and she bought her rings. In his mind, the pretty girl was going to stay with him through thick and thin and until he made it big. The pretty girl left him and embarrassed the smart big surgeon. He’s resentful and hates her and stews on it. The pretty girl marries another doctor and that video and wedding pictures show how in love they are and how great they are doing together. He’s jealous and angry because that was supposed to be his life, not a loser with no kids or family or pretty wife. He kills them both. This isn’t about kids or dogs, just his hatred of them both, her in particular for living the life she was supposed to have with him and taking his happiness away with the divorce. In his mind he has nothing to lose and he knows he’s a loser, just makes her pay for it.

If we accept your theory, why didn't he do this 8 or 5 or 3 years ago? Why...now?

He's not bad looking and a young surgeon isn't going to have any trouble meeting a pretty girl in Chicago who wants to be a SAHM.

I suspect this man is newly mentally ill and/or a drug addict; maybe even SSRI induced psychosis/amnesia.

The Brown University shooter killed some innocent college kids at an elite institution he failed out of, then drove to Boston and murdered a gifted professor at MIT who had been the shooter’s classmate a quarter century earlier at university in Portugal. The classmate succeeded in his graduate and post graduate studies and became a professor and researcher into fusion energy, at the pinnacle of his field. The shooter went off the skids, failed out, was doing whatever and clearly descended into mental illness and ruminated (as the mentally ill tend to do) on his failures and the people he probably believed had unfairly achieved what was meant for him.

Who knows about this surgeon. I dated a surgical resident once and he was a malignant narcissist. Among doctors surgeons have a certain reputation - not all fit the stereotype but many do. It takes a certain mentality to feel confident cutting into other people’s bodies for a living. Research indicates surgeons score higher than the general population on the dark triad traits of psychopathy and surgeons have the highest rate of divorce of any medical speciality. Certainly a surgeon is an attractive potential mate when considering economics and employment, but psychopaths don’t make the greatest partners for women who want emotionally supportive and attentive partners. His ex left him after 7 months for a reason - and a decade later he murdered her for it. It will be interesting to see what comes out about his relationship history apart from the one he slaughtered alongside her beloved husband while her children slept in their beds down the hall.

Anonymous wrote:My guess is he couldn't get dates because people could find his quick divorce on the internet and figure out he was bad news. Which he was.

He probably also couldn’t get dates because he is a psychopath and ladies picked up on the vibes.

My guess is he couldn't get dates because people could find his quick divorce on the internet and figure out he was bad news. Which he was.

Since every outlet has blasted what the couple's Ohio home cost, has any outlet scooped what sort of pad the accused doc was living in? A bachelor surgeon in Chicago should have a nice lifestyle.

Anonymous wrote:To me it’s obvious - he married the pretty girl as he was studying to be a doctor and apparently he lived in his car and she bought her rings. In his mind, the pretty girl was going to stay with him through thick and thin and until he made it big. The pretty girl left him and embarrassed the smart big surgeon. He’s resentful and hates her and stews on it. The pretty girl marries another doctor and that video and wedding pictures show how in love they are and how great they are doing together. He’s jealous and angry because that was supposed to be his life, not a loser with no kids or family or pretty wife. He kills them both. This isn’t about kids or dogs, just his hatred of them both, her in particular for living the life she was supposed to have with him and taking his happiness away with the divorce. In his mind he has nothing to lose and he knows he’s a loser, just makes her pay for it.

If we accept your theory, why didn't he do this 8 or 5 or 3 years ago? Why...now?

He's not bad looking and a young surgeon isn't going to have any trouble meeting a pretty girl in Chicago who wants to be a SAHM.

I suspect this man is newly mentally ill and/or a drug addict; maybe even SSRI induced psychosis/amnesia.

Anonymous wrote:Public defender. Weird.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/12/michael-mckee-spencer-monique-tepe-ohio-murders/

No, it’s not weird. In most jurisdictions the public defender’s office has attorneys in court every day there are arraignments. Many defendants are initially repped by the PD at arraignment until some of them can arrange for private counsel. Arraignment is just a reading of charges and entry of NG plea, and potentially an initial attempt for bail depending on the crime. Ohio allows judges to deny bail for murder and given he has no substantial ties to the jurisdiction presently I would assume that he’d be denied bail.

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Anonymous wrote:I still think his office’s reaction is deeply strange. Who automatically and immediately assumes something horrific happened at their house when a guy isn’t on time for work and orders staff to drive 3 hours round trip to check on him and repeatedly call the police? Of course their intuition was right but what does that reveal? Does it suggest the dentist was sharing with colleagues her ex was being increasingly creepy? Or maybe their picture perfect relationship wasn’t totally drama free?

I’m a dentist and I think the office would call for a welfare check if I were 15 mins late with no notice! What you don’t understand is the office can’t run without us- all operations stop. This would be the case at any office I’ve worked at.

Right!

My dh works a job where they’d do welfare checks if 2 hours went by and he was unaccounted for. They’d be very distressed if they couldn’t locate me either.

We have a pattern of sending our kids to daycare late some days or not at all (I try to tell them but it slips my mind sometimes) so daycare wouldn’t necessarily be asking where our kids are.

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Anonymous wrote:To me it’s obvious - he married the pretty girl as he was studying to be a doctor and apparently he lived in his car and she bought her rings. In his mind, the pretty girl was going to stay with him through thick and thin and until he made it big. The pretty girl left him and embarrassed the smart big surgeon. He’s resentful and hates her and stews on it. The pretty girl marries another doctor and that video and wedding pictures show how in love they are and how great they are doing together. He’s jealous and angry because that was supposed to be his life, not a loser with no kids or family or pretty wife. He kills them both. This isn’t about kids or dogs, just his hatred of them both, her in particular for living the life she was supposed to have with him and taking his happiness away with the divorce. In his mind he has nothing to lose and he knows he’s a loser, just makes her pay for it.

Seems likely, but you didn't analyze the question of why he couldn't have met someone else and moved on in the nearly ten years since the divorce. Surgeons, even weird ones, typically don't have trouble finding people wanting to date them.

The anger and humiliation consumed him.

Anonymous wrote:To me it’s obvious - he married the pretty girl as he was studying to be a doctor and apparently he lived in his car and she bought her rings. In his mind, the pretty girl was going to stay with him through thick and thin and until he made it big. The pretty girl left him and embarrassed the smart big surgeon. He’s resentful and hates her and stews on it. The pretty girl marries another doctor and that video and wedding pictures show how in love they are and how great they are doing together. He’s jealous and angry because that was supposed to be his life, not a loser with no kids or family or pretty wife. He kills them both. This isn’t about kids or dogs, just his hatred of them both, her in particular for living the life she was supposed to have with him and taking his happiness away with the divorce. In his mind he has nothing to lose and he knows he’s a loser, just makes her pay for it.

Seems likely, but you didn't analyze the question of why he couldn't have met someone else and moved on in the nearly ten years since the divorce. Surgeons, even weird ones, typically don't have trouble finding people wanting to date them.

To me it’s obvious - he married the pretty girl as he was studying to be a doctor and apparently he lived in his car and she bought her rings. In his mind, the pretty girl was going to stay with him through thick and thin and until he made it big. The pretty girl left him and embarrassed the smart big surgeon. He’s resentful and hates her and stews on it. The pretty girl marries another doctor and that video and wedding pictures show how in love they are and how great they are doing together. He’s jealous and angry because that was supposed to be his life, not a loser with no kids or family or pretty wife. He kills them both. This isn’t about kids or dogs, just his hatred of them both, her in particular for living the life she was supposed to have with him and taking his happiness away with the divorce. In his mind he has nothing to lose and he knows he’s a loser, just makes her pay for it.