A tragic Ohio double murder is now tangled up in media spin and 911 “domestic dispute” coding that risks smearing an innocent conservative family even in death.
Story Snapshot
- A prior 911 “domestic dispute” call from the Ohio dentist’s home came from a party guest, not the murdered wife, according to the family.
- Police say the dentist and his wife were shot to death in their Columbus home, with no forced entry, no weapon recovered, and their children left unharmed.
- Investigators have rejected a murder-suicide narrative and released video of a person of interest seen near the home.
- The family is pushing back on early domestic-violence insinuations, highlighting how vague 911 codes and headlines can distort the truth.
Unusual Double Homicide Raises More Questions Than Answers
Columbus police discovered dentist Dr. Spencer Tepe, 37, and his wife Monique, 39, shot to death in their north Columbus home on December 30, 2024, after he failed to show up for work and colleagues requested a welfare check. Officers found the couple inside with apparent gunshot wounds, while their two young children were present but unharmed. Investigators quickly stated this did not appear to be a murder-suicide, reported no forced entry, and confirmed no firearm was recovered inside the home.
Those basic facts point away from the convenient “domestic violence gone bad” storyline that corporate media so often default to and toward a far more troubling scenario for law-abiding families: a likely outside actor who either had access to the home or was willingly let in. For readers who lock their doors at night, pay taxes, raise kids, and simply want government to keep violent criminals off the streets, this case underscores why public safety, not virtue-signaling agendas, must stay at the center of law and order policy.
The April 911 Call: Party Drama, Not Domestic History
Months before the killings, in the early morning of April 15, 2024, a crying woman called 911 from the same address, hung up, then told a returning dispatcher that “me and my man got into it,” stressing that nothing was physical and repeatedly asking to cancel the officers. Dispatch coded it as a “domestic dispute,” and that phrase resurfaced in headlines after the murders, immediately suggesting to many that the Tepes had a prior record of police-documented conflict inside the home.
After Fox News Digital obtained the audio and dispatch logs and reported the story, the Tepe and Khosla families issued a detailed clarification: the caller was not Monique and not a member of the household, but a party guest dealing with her own relationship issue that night. The family says neither Spencer nor Monique were involved in any domestic incident during that gathering. That single correction flips the meaning of the April call and exposes how generic 911 labels can fuel misleading narratives about ordinary families.
Media Framing, Narrative Shortcuts, and Conservative Concerns
When a double homicide involves a married couple, big outlets often rush to comb 911 logs for any prior “domestic” tags and then stitch together a tidy domestic-violence storyline before facts harden. In this case, the domestic-dispute code described a guest’s argument, not a pattern between husband and wife, yet the label still risked painting the victims as unstable or abusive. For many conservatives, this looks like another example of institutions preferring quick narrative framing over patient truth-seeking.
That pattern matters beyond one crime story. It parallels how bureaucracies and media sometimes handle issues like gun ownership, self-defense, or parental discipline: a broad category code gets slapped on, then later treated as proof of deeper guilt. Here, a simple party dust-up was logged in a way that could shadow the couple’s memory and distract from finding whoever actually carried out the killings. The family’s pushback is, in effect, a demand for due process for the dead and for their orphaned children’s legacy.
Investigation Focuses on Person of Interest, Not Family Conflict
Columbus police have emphasized that the case is being treated as a double homicide with an outside perpetrator, not an internal family tragedy. With no forced entry and no weapon recovered, investigators released surveillance video of an unidentified person of interest seen walking near the home around the time of the murders and asked the public for help identifying the individual. No suspects have been publicly named, and officials have not suggested that the April party-related 911 call is connected to the crime.
For a conservative audience already wary of soft-on-crime experiments and politicized law enforcement, several points stand out. A stable, working family is wiped out in their own home; their children survive but will carry lifelong trauma; and the most concrete lead so far is a mysterious figure caught on camera. Meanwhile, public discussion risked drifting toward unproven domestic-violence speculation instead of staying locked in on identifying and prosecuting the real killer.
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Ohio police release video of person of interest in killing of dentist and his wife
Short video related to Ohio dentist double homicide case
