Michael McKee was transferred from the Winnebago County Jail in Illinois to the Franklin County Jail in Ohio on Tuesday afternoon
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The surgeon charged with murdering his ex-wife and her dentist husband has been booked into an Ohio jail.
Michael McKee was extradited from Illinois to Franklin County on Tuesday afternoon where he is expected to make his first appearance in the Franklin Court of Common Pleas as early as this week.
A grand jury voted to indict him on four counts of aggravated murder and a single count of aggravated robbery in connection with the deaths of Monique Tepe, 39, and her husband Spencer, 37.
The couple was found dead from apparent gunshot wounds in their Columbus home on Dec. 30, just a few feet away from their sleeping toddlers.
McKee was taken into custody on Jan. 10 by federal agents near his medical office in Rockford, approximately 80 miles west of Chicago.
He was booked into custody at the Winnebago County Jail, where he remained until his extradition on Tuesday.
The suspect has thus far invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to speak with detectives.
At his first court appearance in Illinois on Jan. 12, the public defender assigned to represent him told a judge that he planned to plead not guilty to the two murder charges he was facing at that time.
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McKee and Monique met while attending Ohio State University and were married in 2015.
They separated after just seven months, according to a copy of their divorce filing obtained by PEOPLE, but were not officially divorced until June 2017. Monique met Spencer the following year.
The couple married in December 2020 and were parents to a 4-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son.
McKee had been living in Las Vegas but moved to Illinois at some point in the past two years, where he purchased a penthouse apartment in Chicago.
Three months before the murders, he was named as a defendant in an amended complaint accusing him of medical malpractice while working at a clinic in Las Vegas.
Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said at a news conference last week that detectives sought an arrest warrant for McKee after linking him to a vehicle seen near the Tepe’s home at the time of the killings.
A subsequent search of his property later uncovered a weapon matching the one police believe was used to kill Monique and Spencer.
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