Harrowing 911 audio reveals stranger's terrifying behavior at scene where dentist and wife had just been murdered
The unidentified neighbor called police at 2.44am on December 19, just days before Spencer and Monique Tepe were found dead in their homes, a three-minute walk away.
A neighbor of an Ohio dentist and his wife mysteriously murdered in their home, made a harrowing 911 call reporting a terrifying 'smashing' on her front door.
The unidentified caller contacted police at 2.30am on December 19, just days before Spencer and Monique Tepe were found dead in their home.
'Somebody is smashing on my door. I think they’re trying to get in. They’re banging on my doors,' she said in audio obtained by Fox News.
The caller is audibly terrified as she relays the incident at her Columbus home, just three minutes' walk from the Tepes.
She offered the dispatcher no description of the culprit who refused to leave her home because she could not see them.
When questioned if she'd asked what they wanted, the caller said no.
The suspect left by 2.44am and the police never arrived on the scene.
But just days later, on December 30, police swarmed the very same neighborhood after the Tepes were shot and killed in their $700,000 Weinland Park home.
Spencer and Monique Tepe's neighbor made a distressed 911 call just over a week before their murder
Eerie surveillance footage shows a hooded figure walking calmly through a snowy alley near the Tepe home during the time the couple were murdered
The couple was found in their $700,000 Weinland Park home the morning of December 30
Investigators said they did not suspect a murder-suicide was to blame.
Loved ones grew concerned when Spencer, 37, failed to show up for work at his Athens, Ohio, Dental Practice the morning of December 30.
Neither he nor Monique, 39, responded to concerned calls from friends and family. The couple shared two children.
Worried coworkers contacted police, who conducted an initial wellness check at the family's home but left after receiving no response at the door.
One hour later, friends returned to the residence themselves and immediately sensed something was wrong.
One called 911 just before 10am, telling the dispatcher that he 'thought he heard one of [the kids] yelling'.
When Columbus police arrived, their two children were found unharmed and sobbing inside the home, with both adults declared dead at the scene.
Officers found no obvious signs of forced entry or any firearm at the scene and are investigating the deaths as a double homicide.