McKee Case Update: How Did He Get Licensed? The Medical Board Failures Nobody's Talking About

Everyone's focused on the alleged murders. But there's a question that's been nagging at us since Michael McKee's arrest: How was this man still practicing medicine?

McKee is charged with the December 30, 2025 murders of Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe in their Columbus home. He was arrested eleven days later in Rockford, Illinois - still employed at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center, where he worked as a vascular surgeon. Eleven days. Still on staff. Still credentialed.

But the problems started long before that. Since 2023, a Nevada malpractice attorney had been trying to locate McKee to serve him papers. The addresses provided didn't exist. Phone numbers went nowhere. McKee's Nevada license expired in June 2025. And yet Illinois issued him a medical license in 2024.

In this episode, we examine the systemic failures of state medical boards that allowed McKee to slip through. The National Practitioner Data Bank - created specifically to catch doctors moving state to state - only tracks paid claims, not pending lawsuits. McKee's Nevada case was invisible to the system. And many state boards don't even bother to check the database.

This isn't just about McKee. Over 500 doctors disciplined in one state are practicing elsewhere with clean records right now. The system is broken. And until McKee's arrest, nobody was asking how he got licensed in the first place.

We're asking.

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