Slain Ohio dentist's brother-in-law says 'domestic dispute' 911 call came from party guest, not wife

The woman of an Ohio dentist who was aboriginal killed did not spot a 911 telephone reporting a "domestic dispute" months earlier their deaths, a household subordinate said. The telephone was made by idiosyncratic attending a location enactment the mates was hosting, helium said.

Police said they responded to the Columbus, Ohio location astir 10 a.m. connected Dec. 30, erstwhile they recovered Spencer Tepe, 37, and Monique Tepe, 39, some dormant with evident gunshot wounds. Two young children were located wrong the location unharmed. Police don't judge their deaths were a murder-suicide, adding determination were nary signs of forced introduction and nary limb was found, according to WSYX. Detectives judge the murders happened betwixt 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. connected Dec. 30.

Fox News Digital obtained a 911 telephone placed by an chartless pistillate astatine the aforesaid location wherever Spencer and Monique were killed. In the 911 call, made connected April 15, 2025 astatine 2:45 a.m., the pistillate told the operator, "me and my antheral got into it." She could beryllium heard crying portion she was talking to the 911 relation and yet said she didn't request constabulary officers to come.

While a sanction wasn't included successful the dispatch logs, Spencer's brother-in-law Rob Misleh told the "Surviving the Survivor" podcast that the idiosyncratic who called 911 was "not Monique," but idiosyncratic who attended 1 of their location parties.

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Spencer and Monique Tepe were recovered dormant connected Dec. 30. (Rob Misleh)

"So archetypal off, if you perceive to the voice, it's rather intelligibly not Monique. Everybody has seen the wedding video and has heard Monique speech and it's evidently not Monique who's calling. Furthermore, I've been precise outstated that Spencer and Monique had radical implicit a lot."

"I deliberation sometimes astatine these parties, radical get a small excessively drunk," helium added. "And from aggregate radical that I've talked to that were astatine this enactment person each stated, yes, we retrieve this happening. Somebody, the pistillate had conscionable a small spot of a freak-out for deficiency of a amended term. Maybe, you know, was having immoderate intelligence wellness issues astatine the time. But she called the cops from her cellphone."

Misleh said, "she was astatine this enactment and she conscionable had benignant of a lapse psychologically, I deliberation astatine the time."

Read a transcript of the telephone below:

Operator: "Hi, this is 911. We conscionable got a hang-up call. Is everything OK?"

Female voice: "Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm OK."

Operator: "Are you sure?"

Female voice: "Yeah, yeah, I'm OK, sorry."

Operator: "Well, it sounds similar you're crying. Do you request police, paramedics oregon anything?"

Female voice: "No, no. No, I'm OK. I promise. I'm conscionable emotional. [inaudible]"

Operator: "Well, tin I inquire what had you called 911 successful the archetypal place?"

Female voice: "Because maine and my antheral got into it, but I'm OK, I promise."

Operator: "Did thing ever get physical?"

Female voice: [Crying] "No."

Operator: "You guys were conscionable arguing, cipher deed each other?"

Female voice: "M'hm, yes."

Operator: "Well, I person the accusation here. I tin spell up and archer the officers to cancel heading implicit to your address…If thing changes, telephone america back."

Female voice: "Yes, yes, yes, I'm sorry…OK, I'm sorry."

A dispatcher astatine the Columbus Emergency Communications Center coded the telephone arsenic a "domestic dispute," aboriginal penning that assistance was "no longer needed."

While a fishy successful the deaths of Spencer and Monique hasn't been arrested, the Columbus Division of Police connected Monday evening released surveillance video showing a "person of interest" walking successful the alley adjacent the Tepes' residence successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Dec. 30.

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Spencer and Monique Tepe were preparing to observe their five-year wedding anniversary. (Rob Misleh)

The video showed a antheral walking dilatory successful an alley adjacent the Weinland Park location wherever Spencer and Monique lived. He's seen successful what appears to beryllium a acheronian overgarment and light-colored pants.

Spencer's employer, Mark Valrose, who owns Athens Dental Depot, was the archetypal idiosyncratic to telephone 911 and requested a payment cheque aft the dentist didn't amusement up to work.

At 10:03 a.m., 1 of Spencer's friends went to the Tepes' location and told a 911 relation that helium could spot a assemblage inside.

"There's a body," the idiosyncratic tin beryllium heard saying. "Our person wasn't answering his phone. We conscionable did a wellness check. We conscionable came present and helium appears dead. He's laying adjacent to his bed, disconnected of his furniture successful this blood. I can't get person to spot much than that."

Spencer and Monique Tepe pictured connected their wedding day. (Rob Misleh)

In a connection released Friday, the couple's household said they are "heartbroken beyond words," and called the deaths "tragic and senseless."

"They were bonzer radical whose lives were filled with love, joy, and heavy transportation to others," work the statement. "Spencer, a postgraduate of The Ohio State University, was known arsenic a devoted and arrogant father, a loving partner, and a person to everyone helium met," the household connection said, adding that helium was "intelligent, warm, and endlessly welcoming."

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Spencer and Monique Tepe pictured successful wedding photos. (Rob Misleh)

Monique was described by household members arsenic a "loving, diligent and joyful parent whose warmth defined her."

Rob Misleh, Spencer's brother-in-law, told WSYX that the mates was going to observe their five-year day adjacent period aft getting joined successful 2021.