A man was recently found guilty for first-degree murder for the death of his wife in 2018. David Tronnes allegedly murdered Shanti Cooper-Tronnes after she refused to appear on A&E’s home renovation show, Zombie House Flipping. The couple had been married for one year and moved into a fixer-upper home in Orlando, Florida.
Tronnes had the idea to go on the show to help pay for the improvements needed for the home. But his wife refused to commit to the show. She was found beaten to death days later.
The 55-year-old husband was handed a life sentence in October 2023. In 2015, Tronnes paid over $600,000 for the home he shared with Cooper-Tronnes and put it in a trust deed with his mom. His wife was never put on the deed, even after they wed in 2017.
It was later established Tronnes fatally beat and strangled his wife in her bedroom on April 24, 2018. He tried to clean up the crime scene and reported he'd found his wife dead in the bathtub after she had fallen.
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He claimed he had been walking his dogs when he found her body. After investigators spent four month gathering evidence, Tronnes was booked and charged with his wife's murder.
