Police video reveals man ‘fake cried’ for his wife and ‘lied about finding her dead in a bathtub at their upscale Florida home’, during interview over her death
David Tronnes called police on April 24, and claimed his wife of a year, Shanti Cooper-Tronnes had fallen while getting into the bath
Tronnes, 50, was later arrested for her strangulation and charged with the murder of his 39-year-old Shanti
Responding officers found her body and the bath were both dry minutes after the call, contradicting David Tronnes’ version of events
Police interviews with Tronnes reveal he did not shed a tear over wife’s death
While Tronnes told claimed his wife slipped and fell while getting into the bathtub, her injuries were too severe to have come from a fall,cops said
An autopsy determined the cause of death was blunt-force trauma to the head and strangulation.
He was charged with first-degree murder Aug 29, he’s held without bond
David Tronnes [left] and Shnti Cooper-Tronnes 1David Tronnes told investigators he’d found his wife dead in a half-full bathtub, he believed she’d fallen while getting in. But police say Shanti Cooper-Tronnes was dry, as was the bath, when officers arrived within three minutes of the call

Police slammed a man charged with his wife’s murder for ‘fake crying’ and his ‘hogwash’ account of how the 39-year-old died in newly released interview recordings.
David Tonnes, 50, was indicted on a first degree murder charge after he called police to his Orlando home in April, claiming he had found his wife of only a year, Shanti Cooper-Tronnes, dead in a half-full bathtub.
During his interview with police, he suggested his wife slipped and fell while trying to get in the bath – though an autopsy showed she had died of strangulation and blunt-force trauma to the head.
When police arrived a at the home in the 200 block of East Copeland Drive on the edge of the Delaney Park neighborhood., they found the bathtub and Cooper-Tronnes’ body were both dry.
Detective Teresa Sprague is heard in an audio recording, obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, telling Tronnes his story did not match any of the evidence at the scene.

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Murder suspect: David Tronnes [photo] faces first-degree murder, accused of killing his wife and lying to police that she fell in a half-full bathtub
Tronnes told investigators he’d found his wife dead in a half-full bathtub, and hypothesized she’d fallen while getting in. But police say Shanti Cooper-Tronnes was dry – as was the bath – when they arrived minutes later

One investigator said his account was “hogwash.”
“Common sense would tell you if you pull a woman — soaking wet — out of a tub at 3 o’clock and call the police within six minutes, that everything will be soaking wet when police arrive within three minutes of that,” Detective Teresa Sprague said. “That’s common sense.”
Tronnes responded: “So how did everything dry out?”
“That’s our question,” Sprague said.
Tronnes didn’t have an answer.

David Tronnes' police interview 3Investigators said Tronnes’ account of events the night his wife died was ‘hogwash’ and claimed he ‘fake cried’ and didn’t show ‘a lick of remorse’

As the questioning became aggressive, Tronnes grew more reserved.
“Trust me: The evidence and her body speak for itself and your story is B.S.,” another investigator, Barb McClelland, said late in the interview. “So you’d better figure it out before it goes too far, because I’m telling you right now — nobody is going to believe that. Nobody.”
“If you maintain that,” she added, “you’re going to look like a fool.”
David Tronnes, an avid renovator met his Shanti Cooper on Match.com in 2013, and moved his life to Florida to be with her just months later. Cooper had an eight-year-old son from a prior relationship.
Tronnes married her a year ago, and told investigators they were in the process of renovating their home.

David Tronnes [left] and Shnti Cooper-Tronnes' new home 1Crime scene: Shanti Cooper-Tronnes had been married to husband David for just a year, when she was found dead in her home [photo], the couple had been renovating
David Tronnes [left] and Shnti Cooper-Tronnes 2David and Shanti Tronnes [seen with Shanti’s son from a previous relationship],  had been married for a year after meeting on Match.com in 2013. he told police they hd been renovating their home
While Tronnes painted of a blissful marriage, happy and full of love, police were less believing. Sprague, who had called his account of events leading up to Cooper-Tronne’s death ‘hogwash’, said the accused had failed to portray any emotion expected of a man who had tragically lost his beloved wife.
‘You’ve fake cried for about seven or eight hours today,’ she said.
‘Not one tear came out of your eyes – not one.
‘You have fake cried over this woman’s death since we made contact with you … There is not a lick of remorse for what you did to this woman.’
While Tronnes told detectives he believed his wife slipped and fell while getting into the bathtub. They said her injuries were too severe to have come from a fall. An autopsy determined the cause of death was blunt-force trauma to the head and strangulation.
The details were included in a hours-long audio interview between Tronnes and Orlando police detectives that was released Wednesday by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office.