Monique Tepe & Richard Tepe Murder: What Michael McKee's Defense Team Will Argue at Trial

Michael McKee is expected to plead not guilty to the aggravated murders of Monique Tepe and Richard Tepe. He's hired a defense attorney. He has resources. And his legal team is already looking for every weakness in the prosecution's case. Criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis—a former felony prosecutor who's tried 45+ jury trials from both sides—breaks down what McKee's defense will likely argue. The murder weapon was allegedly found in McKee's Chicago apartment, but that's 300 miles from the crime scene. Defense will attack chain of custody. The search warrant that led to the weapon's discovery? Potentially vulnerable. 

McKee's reported statements to police? Possibly suppressible or at minimum explainable. And here's the fundamental problem prosecutors face: there are no eyewitnesses placing Michael McKee inside the Tepe home on the night of the murders. Every piece of evidence is circumstantial. That's where reasonable doubt lives. We examine how defense counters the "obsessive ex-husband" narrative without putting McKee on the stand, whether diminished capacity could reframe the prosecution's theory, and what changes if Ohio seeks the death penalty. Juries trust doctors. They also trust forensic evidence. McKee's defense has to navigate both instincts while convincing twelve people that the prosecution hasn't proven its case. Eric Faddis shows us how they might do it.

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