The House: Home Renovation Homicide
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
CBS News
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On April 24th, 2018, then 39-year-old Shanti Cooper was found dead in a bathtub at home. Her husband, Dave Tronnes, called 911 saying he found her floating in the tub when he got home. Dave tells police he thinks that Shanti had slipped or fallen in the tub, but detectives believe she was extensively beaten based on the injuries to her body. There was also the issue of their home renovation, which Shanti had fronted all the money for despite Dave not including her on the property deed. Plus, detectives also discover a secret life Dave Tronnes had been living. Erin Moriarty takes you deeper into the 48 Hours episode, “Home Renovation Homicide”.
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| 0:35.0 | Erin, this is Florida. |
| 0:37.0 | Nothing strange here. |
| 0:38.0 | When did you first meet Shanty and David? |
| 0:41.0 | Dave just called me on the phone and asked if I'd come by and take a look at the project. |
| 0:44.8 | He said that they had done some work. |
| 0:47.0 | I wasn't at all prepared for what I saw when I got there. |
| 0:50.4 | They had fully disassembled this house to a degree that I'd never seen before. |
| 0:56.8 | It was rather astonishing. |
| 0:57.8 | It was largely wide open, like you're inside of a giant shoe box. |
| 1:03.1 | Keith Oury met Shanty Cooper and her husband, David Trones, because of their house, a massive |
| 1:09.5 | structure in Orlando, Florida that they were trying to turn into their dream home. |
| 1:15.3 | They had made a lot of mistakes and asked for help from Keith Oury, a home contractor, |
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