More than eight months before Ohio dentist Spencer Tepe and his wife Monique were murdered in their home on Dec. 30, a crying woman called 911 in the middle of the night regarding a “domestic dispute” at the same Columbus address.
The unidentified woman spoke with dispatchers at 2:45 a.m. on April 15 before hanging up, triggering a call back, according to records obtained Tuesday by Fox News Digital.
“We just got a hang-up call. Is everything OK?” asked the dispatcher.
“Yeah, I’m sorry, I’m OK,” said the woman, who reiterated the sentiment when asked if she was sure.
The woman declined the operator’s offer for “police, paramedics or anything,” insisting she was “OK” and “just emotional.”
She explained she’d called 911 after “me and my man got into it,” but tearfully denied the altercation turned physical. Though she was calling off responding officers, the dispatcher told the woman to call back “if anything changes.”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’m sorry…OK, I’m sorry,” said the woman.
There were no signs of forced entry when Spencer, 37, and Monique, 39, were found deceased at their home during a welfare check on Dec. 30, after the former failed to show up for work. Their 1-year-old and 4-year-old were also found in the home, though both were unharmed.
A motive and suspect remain unclear to the public, though Columbus Police released surveillance footage of a hooded figure in an alley near the couple’s home, not long after police believe they were fatally shot “sometime between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m.” that day. The couple was pronounced dead hours later at 10:11 a.m. Autopsy and toxicology results are pending.
