Police responding to requests for a welfare check on slain Ohio couple Monique and Spencer Tepe initially went to the wrong address on Dec. 30, per local law enforcement.
Monique, 39, and Spencer, 37, were found dead inside their home after Spencer’s co-workers and a friend made several 911 calls for a welfare check on the couple.
They grew concerned when Spencer did not show up for work and after one co-worker had tried in vain to contact him for three hours, per 911 call recordings obtained by PEOPLE.
The couple’s two children were found physically unharmed. A friend who previously called 911 from outside the residence told dispatchers he could hear the children, ages 4 and 1, crying inside.
Columbus police initially said officers responded to the residence and knocked multiple times, but left without getting an answer.
However, Columbus police now tell PEOPLE that officers conducting the first welfare check around 9:22 a.m. had gone to the wrong address.
The information was first reported by The Columbus Dispatch.
In separate 911 call records obtained by PEOPLE, two of Spencer’s co-workers and a friend are heard expressing their concern over couple not responding to their calls.
In one of the calls, made by Spencer’s friend, the dispatcher is heard telling him that they’d already sent someone to the Tepe residence.
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