Ohio police hunt killer after dentist, wife found shot to death with children safe inside home: timeline

A manhunt is underway for the idiosyncratic who changeable and killed a dentist and his woman successful Columbus, Ohio, who died conscionable a period earlier their 5th wedding anniversary.

The Columbus Police Department said officers responded to the location connected Tuesday greeting for a wellness cheque erstwhile they recovered Spencer and Monique Tepe dormant with gunshot wounds. Dispatch records authorities that Spencer was changeable "multiple times" and Monique was changeable "at slightest erstwhile done the chest." Two young children were recovered harmless astatine the house.

According to WSYX, constabulary don't judge their deaths were a murder-suicide. Officials added determination wasn't a weapon recovered astatine the country and determination were nary signs of forced entry.

Here's a timeline of events associated with the shooting of Spencer and Monique Tepe:

POLICE SEEK SUSPECT AFTER DENTIST AND WIFE FOUND SHOT DEAD AT HOME WHILE 2 YOUNG CHILDREN ARE UNHARMED

Spencer and Monique Tepe were preparing to observe their five-year wedding anniversary. (Rob Misleh)

2 a.m. to 5 a.m.: Times constabulary are requesting video from neighbors oregon witnesses.

The Columbus Police Department is requesting video from immoderate neighbors oregon individuals betwixt 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. successful the country wherever the Tepes lived.

9:03 a.m.: First 911 call.

The archetypal 911 telephone was placed by the proprietor of Athens Dental Depot, Mark Valrose, wherever Spencer worked. Valrose called 911 and requested constabulary behaviour a wellness cheque astatine the Tepe residence aft Spencer didn't amusement up to work. 

"Spencer works with maine and helium did not amusement up to enactment this greeting and we cannot get ahold of him oregon his family," Valrose said. "He is ever connected clip and helium would interaction america if determination is immoderate issues whatsoever…we're very, precise acrophobic due to the fact that this is precise retired of quality and we can't get successful interaction with his wife, which is astir apt the much concerning thing."

9:22 a.m.: Columbus Police Department serviceman arrives astatine the Tepes' house.

Following the 911 call, telephone logs obtained by Fox News Digital revealed that a Columbus Police Department serviceman went to the Tepes' location and knocked connected the beforehand and backmost doorway "multiple times" with nary answer.

9:57 a.m: Tepe's person calls 911 from their house, says they tin perceive kids.

One of Spencer's friends went to his location and called 911 astatine 9:57 a.m., telling the dispatcher that helium "thought helium heard 1 of [the kids] yelling," according to the telephone log.

NEWLYWED COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN CAR FROM MURDER-SUICIDE DAYS BEFORE FIRST ANNIVERSARY, POLICE SAY

Spencer and Monique Tepe were recovered dormant connected Dec. 30. (Rob Misleh)

10:04 a.m.: Another 1 of Tepe's friends calls 911, reports seeing a assemblage wrong their house.

A abstracted 911 caller told the dispatcher that a assemblage could beryllium seen wrong the Tepes' house.

"We conscionable came present and helium appears dead. He's laying adjacent to his bed, disconnected of his furniture successful his blood. I can't get person to spot much than that," the caller said. "I tin archer he's evidently not breathing oregon anything."

A babe was besides heard crying wrong the house, according to the dispatch records.

Spencer and Monique Tepe pictured connected their wedding day. (Rob Misleh)

10:13 a.m.: Bullet casings are recovered by police.

At 10:13 a.m., dispatch records uncover that slug casings were recovered astatine the transgression scene.

In a connection released Friday, the couple's household said they are "heartbroken beyond words," and called the deaths "tragic and senseless."

"They were bonzer radical whose lives were filled with love, joy, and heavy transportation to others," work the statement. "Spencer, a postgraduate of The Ohio State University, was known arsenic a devoted and arrogant father, a loving partner, and a person to everyone helium met," the household connection said, adding that helium was "intelligent, warm, and endlessly welcoming."

Spencer was progressive with the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, his household said.

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Spencer and Monique Tepe pictured successful wedding photos. (Rob Misleh)

Monique was described by household members arsenic a "loving, diligent and joyful parent whose warmth defined her."

Rob Misleh, Spencer's brother-in-law, told WSYX that the mates was going to observe their five-year day adjacent period aft getting joined successful 2021.

Fox News Digital's Julia Bonavita and Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.