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  Speaker 1: H on Prime Crime.
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  Speaker 2: Noting.
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  Speaker 3: The untimely death of a young mother sends ripples of
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  Speaker 3: sorrow through an upscale suburb to pick her up.
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  Speaker 4: She's somehow, She's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 3: As investigators on earth the truth, they discover layers of deception, obsession,
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  Speaker 3: and lurking secrets.
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  Speaker 5: Shanty was ambush, was blindside, never knew what was coming.
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  Speaker 6: He was a very great woman. Everything about her was upstanding.
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  Speaker 6: Could never accept it and happen.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, I'm Jesse Weber and welcome to Prime Crime,
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  Speaker 3: where we break down the most compelling and memorable true
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  Speaker 3: crime cases from across the country. In April of twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: a young mom in Orlando, Florida, suddenly dies under very
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  Speaker 3: strange circumstances. Is this an accident or something more?
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Trying to see the I ca Okay, listen to me.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, and who is this?
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  Speaker 3: This is dead?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Your name is David?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, who is it that's not breathing?
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  Speaker 2: Take a dread.
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  Speaker 3: That's the voice of forty nine year old David Tranis.
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  Speaker 3: He calls nine to one one to report he came
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  Speaker 3: home to find his wife, thirty nine year old Shanty
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  Speaker 3: Cooper tranis dead, face down in the bathtub in the
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  Speaker 3: garage apartment of the couples up Gala home.
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  Speaker 2: What happened here?
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  Speaker 8: Tied in the shower and.
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  Speaker 2: She passed away.
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  Speaker 7: Is she awake right now? No? Is she breathing?
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  Speaker 2: Awake her?
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  Speaker 4: I tried to do DPR. I can't get her to freeze.
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  Speaker 7: Can you get her out of the shower?
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  Speaker 6: I pulled her eye and you don't know what happened
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  Speaker 6: or when anything happened.
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  Speaker 9: Back on April twenty fourth of twenty eighteen, David Trantas
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  Speaker 9: called nine one one seemingly hysterical.
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  Speaker 7: Has she been sick or something?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Jesus, yes, oh God, I haven't.
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  Speaker 8: Say.
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  Speaker 9: She had had appendicitis a couple months earlier and had
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  Speaker 9: surgery that she had some difficulty recovering from first responders
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  Speaker 9: think that they're going to be coming into an accidental
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  Speaker 9: death or a fall or something like that. Shanty was
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  Speaker 9: found on the floor next to her bed, and they
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  Speaker 9: can just immediately tell that this is not a fall.
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  Speaker 9: Rigor mortis had already started to set in.
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  Speaker 10: Her right arm was up unsupported, up off the ground.
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  Speaker 10: She was lying on her back, and she was lying
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  Speaker 10: on a mattress pad that was full of blood.
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  Speaker 11: She had some very unusual abrasions on her in very
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  Speaker 11: unusual places, on her hands and her knees.
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  Speaker 10: She'd been beaten and strangled. She's pronounced to cease immediately.
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  Speaker 5: The attack was so brutal that it blew a hole
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  Speaker 5: in her cheek, ripped off portions of her ear, fractured
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  Speaker 5: the back of both of her eye sockets, and broke
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  Speaker 5: her nose. She was manually strangled. Shanty was ambush, was blindsided,
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  Speaker 5: never knew what was coming.
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  Speaker 3: And this unexpectedly brutal scene leads detectives to believe something
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  Speaker 3: more is going on.
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  Speaker 10: One of the things we both noticed about the bed,
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  Speaker 10: not only was it hastily made and the sheets were
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  Speaker 10: different collars. They were white, but they almost looked like
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  Speaker 10: brand new sheets on the bed that were crisp white
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  Speaker 10: and still had decreases. From the box, there was cash
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  Speaker 10: and plane view. Her purse was open in plane view
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  Speaker 10: and no credit cards were taken, no cash was taken,
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  Speaker 10: nothing else of value was removed. Shanty was a thirty
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  Speaker 10: nine year old, very beautiful mother.
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  Speaker 12: She was a professional woman.
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  Speaker 10: She had worked for a software company that built manufacturing
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  Speaker 10: software and then started her own business. She had a
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  Speaker 10: nanny that would assist her not only with Jackson, but
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  Speaker 10: also with her business.
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  Speaker 6: She don't have to spend time with her family. She
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  Speaker 6: also loved her job. She loved what she did. I
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  Speaker 6: can't tell you what she did.
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  Speaker 7: At all, but she definitely.
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  Speaker 6: Loved her fare only she left our dogs. We love
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  Speaker 6: theme parks. We'd always do the theme parks. You know,
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  Speaker 6: watched by the month. She was scared to go on
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  Speaker 6: a lot of ride. She chick it out like four
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  Speaker 6: times a way. You know.
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  Speaker 7: When work was done and we were able to relax,
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  Speaker 7: it was relaxing. Barbecue on the lake, just hanging out
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  Speaker 7: with friends, their kids, Jackson, nothing crazy, just when it
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  Speaker 7: was time to relax. That's what we want to do.
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  Speaker 7: I remember kind of day.
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  Speaker 6: She was having. She'd always got a smile on her face.
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  Speaker 6: She went and left the bad things that happened that
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  Speaker 6: day affect at the moment. She was a very great woman.
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  Speaker 6: Everything about her was bystanding. She was just over all
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  Speaker 6: the best mother that anyone had ever asked before.
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  Speaker 3: Now detectives need more answers as to what happened to Shanti,
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  Speaker 3: and they want to hear from David tranis. So he's
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  Speaker 3: brought into the police station to talk you here.
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  Speaker 4: That's funny, say so, and when did you move to forward?
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  Speaker 4: And it's Wenesday thirteen, five months after I mentioned did.
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  Speaker 13: You meet her here or there?
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  Speaker 4: That's im? Sorry, you take your time.
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  Speaker 5: He worked in Minneapolis as an engineer. David ultimately was
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  Speaker 5: divorced and met Shanty online. Their relationship evolved very quick
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  Speaker 5: and led to David moving from Minnesota to Orlando to
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  Speaker 5: be with Shanty.
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  Speaker 4: You said something about having a great weekend shanty head
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  Speaker 4: APPENDIXO on February. I want to say twenty third, and
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  Speaker 4: she's been in a lot of pain. I'm sorry, I
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  Speaker 4: can't talk about her love. He was so happy.
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  Speaker 9: Shanty was a hard working mother. They were both coming
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  Speaker 9: out of previous marriages back when they met. By all accounts,
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  Speaker 9: it seems like her and David were very much, you know,
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  Speaker 9: in love or you know, in that sort of honeymoon
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  Speaker 9: faith high family.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I have to do here my gud.
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  Speaker 4: Job because I don't know and we'll find it. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you so much. Have a good nights night, okay.
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  Speaker 9: David worked back in Minnesota since he moved down to
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  Speaker 9: Florida in twenty thirteen. He didn't work at all. Her
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  Speaker 9: background was in finance and accounting. She had her own company.
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  Speaker 12: She was very successful.
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  Speaker 10: She had been previously married to Jackson's father, Jim Cooper.
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  Speaker 10: They had been divorced about a year or two. At
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  Speaker 10: the time that she met David.
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  Speaker 4: She had recently divorced. She she gets Dan it was
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  Speaker 4: beyond a crimonious I mean they were ajus, you know,
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  Speaker 4: natter Jackson kind of thing, blaming.
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  Speaker 11: You always in any investigation start at your inner circle
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  Speaker 11: and you work your way out.
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  Speaker 10: We don't believe she was alive on Tuesday morning, so
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  Speaker 10: it was important where Jim was the night before.
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  Speaker 11: Jim ended up picking up Jackson and bringing him to
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  Speaker 11: the house. He shows up and there's all these police there.
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  Speaker 11: So we had quite a long, extensive interview with Jim.
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  Speaker 11: We were able to vet everything that he told us,
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  Speaker 11: so we absolutely had to rule him.
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  Speaker 7: Out on that day that it happened. There was almost
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  Speaker 7: a chance that I didn't pick him up. He would
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  Speaker 7: have been in that home when this happened. And I can't.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine police know Jim didn't hurt Shanty. The question is
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  Speaker 3: who did To answer that, Let's go back to understanding
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  Speaker 3: David Tranis's timeline of events.
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  Speaker 12: Tell me about Monday night.
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  Speaker 4: What happened? We were getting ready to bed at midnight.
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  Speaker 4: He sleep separately most of the time. Yeah, see here
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  Speaker 4: sleep back then? So where would you sleep? Dancers in
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  Speaker 4: the couch.
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  Speaker 10: They wanted a complete renovation of the main house, so
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  Speaker 10: they were living in the.
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  Speaker 12: Loft above the garage.
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  Speaker 10: So he would often sleep in the garage with the dogs.
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  Speaker 14: And you wake up Tuesday morning and what do you do?
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  Speaker 4: The pools full of leaves from the magnalia, And I
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  Speaker 4: cleaned the pool out. She said she was going to
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  Speaker 4: try to sleep in a little bit, so I think
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  Speaker 4: she came down after seven o'clome. What'll we She said
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  Speaker 4: she wasn't feeling very well. She had chipped her tooth
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  Speaker 4: the day before, and she had made a dentist appointment
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  Speaker 4: this morning. She said she wasn't sure if she wanted together.
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  Speaker 4: Does she find out of gathered that the resty?
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  Speaker 12: He said.
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  Speaker 10: She went back up and came down a second time,
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  Speaker 10: and then went back up and came down a third
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  Speaker 10: time around nine in the morning, and still had not
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  Speaker 10: showered yet or was not ready to leave for her appointment.
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  Speaker 9: She has all this pain and she just no called
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  Speaker 9: to no showed that appointment that she made the day before.
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  Speaker 9: That doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 4: And I put the dogs in the car. Clean too
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  Speaker 4: part of Americas before.
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  Speaker 12: Do you see anyone at the park that you know?
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: David said that Shanty went on with her day. He
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  Speaker 5: went on with his day by taking the dogs to
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  Speaker 5: a dog park and is unaccounted for for several hours.
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  Speaker 12: So you think you got home about what time.
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  Speaker 4: And put the dogs in I can I feed them.
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  Speaker 4: We have construction serving in a couple of weeks, so
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  Speaker 4: I'm cleaning the courtyard. I cleaned the pool up again.
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  Speaker 14: And what happened was when you enter the home.
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  Speaker 12: Anything usual.
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  Speaker 4: I could hear the water is running. I just walked upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't hear her. She's not saying anything. Doesn't seem right.
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  Speaker 5: David told the police that at about three o'clock he
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  Speaker 5: went upstairs and found Shanty face down in the bathtub.
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  Speaker 4: She's submerged partially. Whenever her legs it's kind of sticking
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  Speaker 4: up and out. Little the water in the tub it
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  Speaker 4: was tin shrimp. I pulled her out into the other room.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know what to do. At first, I tried
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  Speaker 4: to do CPR. She was she was stiff. I was
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  Speaker 4: losing it. I thought I was losing her.
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  Speaker 9: Her body is stiff. This is clearly a person that
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  Speaker 9: is beyond CPR.
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  Speaker 4: Her clothing is wet. Yeah, she found called. I tried
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  Speaker 4: to see that her head she's had she's blood. I
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  Speaker 4: mean do her thos. I grabbed the fash's covert it
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  Speaker 4: under her head is something. He's trying to cry. Somehow
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  Speaker 4: she's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 3: It is a chilling account, but upon a careful review
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  Speaker 3: of the details, a few things start to stand out
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  Speaker 3: coming up. Detectives wonder how could Shanty Cooper Tranis's body
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  Speaker 3: end up so battered if she had simply slipped and fell.
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  Speaker 3: Does her husband David know more than he's saying.
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  Speaker 4: I think that you've.
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  Speaker 13: Told us a significant amount of information. You've been very cooperative,
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  Speaker 13: But I also think that you've left some stuff out.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, but there's something that happened between.
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  Speaker 4: I tried to pick her up. I'm kind of moving her,
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  Speaker 4: trying to get to shake her a little bit, and
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  Speaker 4: trying to get the water out of her lungs. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: know what to do.
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  Speaker 3: April twenty eighteen, Orlando, Florida, Forty nine year old David Tranis,
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  Speaker 3: a self described contractor, says he found his wife just
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  Speaker 3: one year Shanty Coopertron is dead after a fall in
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  Speaker 3: the couple's garage apartment bathroom, where they'd been staying temporarily
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  Speaker 3: while their home was undergoing renovations.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the bruise way, here is the house.
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  Speaker 3: However, detectives quickly determine something about Shanti's death was not
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  Speaker 3: adding up.
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  Speaker 13: So the last communication in any way on the phone
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  Speaker 13: would have.
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  Speaker 15: Been Monday, and other than that you would have been
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  Speaker 15: pretty much together. We wor too all the times, all right,
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  Speaker 15: So now I'm concerned she was okay when I left.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I wouldn't either time to check on her.
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  Speaker 5: Her iPhone last moved at about eleven thirty PM on
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  Speaker 5: April the twenty third. Shanty was a busy business woman
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  Speaker 5: who was involved in lots of meetings and discussions and calls,
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  Speaker 5: and her phone remained in the same place on that
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  Speaker 5: night stand the entire day.
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  Speaker 12: When was the last time you had telephone?
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  Speaker 10: Text on a Facebook and it's a communication via phone?
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  Speaker 5: WI shonton good David, for he knows that Shanti is busy,
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  Speaker 5: but he also knows that Shanti has a broken two
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  Speaker 5: but he never texts. Shanti never checks in for about
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  Speaker 5: four or five hours, David's cell phone is quiet and
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  Speaker 5: in essence dead to the world.
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  Speaker 3: And one thing investigators quickly home in on is David
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  Speaker 3: and Shanti's living situation.
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  Speaker 4: They closed from the house uncle in April of twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't move in right away. He's gived a few months,
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  Speaker 4: so we're on.
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  Speaker 5: David was able to buy the house for six hundred
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  Speaker 5: and eight thousand dollars in cash. It's a historic home
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  Speaker 5: from the nineteen twenties and became the focus of David's
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  Speaker 5: life through the renovating of the house.
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  Speaker 13: So you closed in May twenty fifteen and you started
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  Speaker 13: doing work.
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  Speaker 12: It was it in the condition that it's in now?
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  Speaker 4: Was it under renovation or it was fully liveable? It
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  Speaker 4: was some older Victorians and shouldn't you want to completely
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  Speaker 4: in concept? As we got into every film, more and
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  Speaker 4: more issues.
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  Speaker 12: You guys have completely cutted it down to the studs
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  Speaker 12: pretty much.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, as time progressed. But there was a bunch of
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  Speaker 9: renovation plan. The entire living space of the house, you know,
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  Speaker 9: the kitchen, the living room, all of that was completely
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  Speaker 9: essentially destroyed.
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  Speaker 10: David's job basically was to be the contractor for this renovation.
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  Speaker 10: He had convinced her that he knew what he was doing,
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  Speaker 10: and after hiring and firing subcontractors for almost two years,
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  Speaker 10: I think she realized he did not know what he
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  Speaker 10: was doing. So someone in the neighborhood had recommended to
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  Speaker 10: both of them that they called this particular builder who
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  Speaker 10: was on this TV show.
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  Speaker 4: I'm basically the general contractor for the project. I'm hiring
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  Speaker 4: subcontractors and I hired a consultant to help us do that,
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  Speaker 4: and who is that? As soon as Keith Keith does
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  Speaker 4: a TV show in March, she asked us to be
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  Speaker 4: on the show.
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  Speaker 10: They had a meeting the week before her death, and
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  Speaker 10: she was dismissive.
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  Speaker 12: She did not want to come down to the pool
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  Speaker 12: area and meet with him.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe perhaps she wasn't as interested in doing the show
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  Speaker 10: as David was.
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  Speaker 5: When talking about that day and about Shanti and about
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  Speaker 5: their relationship, David was somewhat reserved. When detectives would talk
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  Speaker 5: about things such as the house, his demeanor completely changes.
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  Speaker 5: He becomes very calm, but engaged, animated, really wanting to
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  Speaker 5: talk about this house and the improvements in the role
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  Speaker 5: that he played.
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  Speaker 14: Has there been work crewis at the house.
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  Speaker 4: We finished the demo and started the framing that you
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  Speaker 4: see in January. We did the foundation in November and December.
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  Speaker 4: It's been moving slowly. Let it soon. It's a huge person.
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  Speaker 10: We kept an open mind the entire time. Where the
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  Speaker 10: construction and the contractors a possibility, where the workers a possibility.
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  Speaker 9: They followed up to see if there was an issue
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  Speaker 9: with potential like transience in the area because there was
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  Speaker 9: a hospital nearby. They took DNA, they took Layton Prince,
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  Speaker 9: and ultimately none of that came back to anyone except
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  Speaker 9: for the people that lived in the home, So there
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  Speaker 9: was just no indication that this was some random stranger
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  Speaker 9: or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: David ends up making several strange comments about his relationship
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  Speaker 3: with Shanti that raises serious red flags.
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  Speaker 5: David was volunteering how much he and Shanti were in
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  Speaker 5: love and wanted to paint a picture of a remarried
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  Speaker 5: couple who was blissfully happy and talking about the rest
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  Speaker 5: of their lives.
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  Speaker 4: We just felt that we found like it's a great rhythm.
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  Speaker 4: We just we're both really really happy. We were talking
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  Speaker 4: more or it was great, really really really happy. And
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  Speaker 4: Saturday night, I think was the first night that she
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  Speaker 4: she really enjoyed just being kind of out and relaxing
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. Since you're stature, you hadn't have sex,
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  Speaker 4: and she wanted to.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: Try the had He offered up to us without asking
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: that they had been intimate on Saturday and again on Sunday.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: We both keyed in on that because we did not
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: ask them about their sex life. I'm sitting there looking
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: at him, thinking, what is he trying to say?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: It was messy, so very messy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 14: So are you saying that that blood is got where?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: We did get on the bedspread and they did use
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: the bed the sheet.
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: It was a very unusual statement.
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: We tried to narrow down where he meant we would
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: find blood on the bed.
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: He just kept saying it was everywhere. It was everywhere.
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: That was an indicator to us that we needed to
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: look further on that bed.
• 21:20
  Speaker 13: Is there something covering that up now or no, we
• 21:24
  Speaker 13: changed the sheets so there shouldn't be blood on the
• 21:27
  Speaker 13: bed now, or is that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: There shouldn't be She was pleasing. I would guess that
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: is what I would guess there is. I would guess
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: there is. So we picked up the sheets and we
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: left that.
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: If you pull apart that interview and you look at
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: the things that he said, he's trying to cover it up.
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: He's trying to explain it away before we find it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: They go back on multiple search warrants and they find
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: blood on the bed rails. It looks like it's been
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: wiped on the visible side, but you can see where
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: it had run down and had been wiped on the
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: sort of the side that you wouldn't see just looking
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: at it with a naked eye. So it's just one
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: of the thousand little pieces that come together and paint
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: a picture of a person's who's not being truthful.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Investigators know David Tranis isn't being one hundred percent transparent
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: with them, and they want to know why.
• 22:20
  Speaker 13: You could give two about what happened to Shati tonight.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: I told you she was murdered. Murdered.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: You can't even bake it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 13: That's how much you could give it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 14: Talk around in circles, trust me. The evidence and her
• 22:45
  Speaker 14: body state for itself, and your story is bs.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: You either made a mistake. Very cool by Kim, Which
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: one are you?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: It's April twenty eighteen, and homicide detectives in our Lando, Florida,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: are questioning forty nine year old David Tranis over the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: suspicious death of his thirty nine year old wife, Shanty
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Cooper Tranis. He says he came home to find her
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: dead in the bathtub, a standard slip and fall accident,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: but the evidence isn't adding up.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Did you too, argue? No, absolutely no.
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: Did you harm Shanty in any way?
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Absolutely not? Did you chow her. Absolutely, did you strangle her?
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Without questioning him?
• 23:31
  Speaker 13: Shanti did not fall and get those injuries, okay, without question?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Who was the last time in two you argue very
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: briefly on Saturday?
• 23:42
  Speaker 15: If Jackson felt like you two argued about the house routinely,
• 23:47
  Speaker 15: Is that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Accurate or not? I don't think most of the time
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: they were arguing about it. I can understand that might
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: be his perception.
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: Has any fight ever turned physical on between two?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: There were fights and arguments about the home renovation and
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: the money involved, and it was pretty clear there was
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: a financial aspect to this.
• 24:13
  Speaker 14: The injuries that this woman sustained absolutely one, in my opinion,
• 24:22
  Speaker 14: not possible from a slimp in a fall in a bathtub.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: David reported that he found Shati in the bathtub full
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: of water and then took her out of the tub
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: in order to give her CPR.
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: There was no water anywhere, There was no water huddled
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: on the bathroom floor. There was no water marks on
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: the carpet where she would have been dragged from the bathroom.
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: Using some luminescent chemicals, they were able to see that
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: there had been blood in the tub up to a
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: certain line. They were able to find some Laighton prints
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: around the tub and on the doorframe that ultimately came
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: back to either Shanty or to David.
• 25:03
  Speaker 13: For you to see the significance of her injuries up
• 25:06
  Speaker 13: close and personal like you did, and come up with
• 25:08
  Speaker 13: this conkommi theory that she fell into her head is
• 25:13
  Speaker 13: just baffling to me that you thought we would believe
• 25:15
  Speaker 13: that you strangled her.
• 25:18
  Speaker 12: There is no one.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Home but you.
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: This is not looking goodfient.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I have never ever what you would. Never ever.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: We always say the body doesn't lie, but people do.
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: Her injuries and what had happened to her in that
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: house was not lying to us, and the evidence doesn't lie,
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: but clearly he was.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Despite all of this, there's still not quite enough evidence
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: to hold David tranis. But months later investigators learned there
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: was a different side to his life, one that few
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: knew about.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: What day yourful name. My name is Arthur Adams.
• 26:00
  Speaker 12: We are now at the seven to eleven. You work here, yes,
• 26:03
  Speaker 12: and you have a second job as well. Yes.
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: There were definitely indicators to us that there was possibly
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: trouble in the marriage. We learned from canvassing in the
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: neighborhood that David had a whole other life.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Where is that a Club Orlando?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: It's a gay men's.
• 26:22
  Speaker 14: Gym, SPA.
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: Is David a member of the club?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: How many times in the last eighteen months do you
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: think you've seen David on average?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Like at least twice a week?
• 26:35
  Speaker 13: And the last time you saw David at Club.
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: Orlando maybe five days before the murderer.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: David's life was one of smoke and mirrors, of using people,
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: of denial of reality. David never referred to Shanty as
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: his wife, but only his partner. This was something that
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: stood out as being questionable. As we later investigated and
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: found David's complete second life, including trips to the men's
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: bathhouse just two miles down the street from their home,
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: it definitely raised the suspicion of whether David did have
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: a complete second life unknown to Shanty.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Having a double life is not a crime, but it
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: does lead investigators to name David Tranis is their number
• 27:23
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• 27:27
  Speaker 3: something is still missing.
• 27:30
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  Speaker 3: Orlando detectives know there's still work to be done to
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  Speaker 3: nail David Tranis for the murder of his wife, Shanti
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  Speaker 3: Cooper Tranis, who he says was found dead in the bathtub,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: And it all comes back to one key piece of evidence.
• 30:01
  Speaker 14: Where's your wedding ring?
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Pardon me, where's your wedding ring? Money?
• 30:07
  Speaker 12: She has a wedding band on.
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: Her left hand, correct, so today's she had on her
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: wedding ring.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: One thing that the detectives notice when they arrived on
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: the scene that night was that Shanti didn't have her ring,
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: and her ring was not accounted for.
• 30:26
  Speaker 10: Shanty wore her wedding set every single day, so for
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: her not to have it on when we observe her body,
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: there could have been a number of explanations for that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: When we asked David, he's saying it's on her finger,
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: and we both knew it wasn't.
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: Ultimately, we found it in his possession, in his bedroom
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: in a suitcase at his mother's house.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: The first thing that came to my head was, checkmate,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: we found the trophy that David kept from that day.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Now was it a remembrance of the relationship they had?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Maybe?
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Was it a remembrance of being able to do and
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: get away with this crime for months and months? I
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: think that's also likely.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: With holes in Tranas's story, forensic evidence and a very
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: telling crime scene, detectives have enough to arrest and charge
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: David Tranas with first degree murder. But it's something that
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: happens nearly a year later that brings the case to
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: a stunning conclusion.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: I got a phone call from David's criminal defense attorney.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: He realized that he had an item of physical evidence
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: in his possession.
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: He had an attorney pretty much the day after her
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: body was discovered. We put a camera on the house
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: within a few days of her death, and the camera
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: captured two private investigators removing evidence from the house. One
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: of the things we were looking for from the very
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: beginning is what I like to.
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: Call blood spatter at inception.
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: So where did this event occur, and if there was
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: blood on the mattress pad, there should be blood on
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: the sheets, and there was no blood on the sheets
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: on that bed. His first set of attorneys hired the
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: private investigator to remove the sheets from the home. The
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: sheets had been laundered to the point where if you
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: saw them on a search, you wouldn't think they were bloody.
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: Once we got them, we spread them out and you
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: can see blood spatter, likely where her pillow would have been.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: The Orlando Police Department asked the Florida Department of Law
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Enforcement to conduct an investigation about the concealing of this evidence,
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: and ultimately decisions were made by the State Attorney's office
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: to not file charges against the initial defense attorneys.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: But David Tranas's cage didn't happen right away, as his
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: defense initially argued he was not competent to stand trial.
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: It was extremely difficult for so long, so many hearings,
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: just it was all about him and his rights, and
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: it didn't really seem to be about her.
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: When I started going to hearings around the third or
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: early fourth year of this being dragged out, I got
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: a picture of my mom did every single hearing as
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: a reminder that even though she's not here physically, he's.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: Always with us.
• 33:20
  Speaker 16: I also fought.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Off a picture at the end of every hearing just
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: to show you and there's just more than just a
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: name on a paper, and more than just a news headline.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: He's more than just that.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: We were going to keep making sure that everybody would
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: see her face because we weren't going to go away.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Five years after Shanti's death in October twenty twenty three,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: prosecutors finally get the chance to lay out their case
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: before a jury.
• 33:47
  Speaker 17: Back in twenty thirteen, David Trnes moved to Florida to
• 33:52
  Speaker 17: beat a shanty. When he moved to Florida, he was
• 33:55
  Speaker 17: able to purchase a beautiful ternal to you argue and
• 34:01
  Speaker 17: digger about the harm and instruction and what was going
• 34:04
  Speaker 17: on and her having any ownership in the home.
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: There were indications she was funding that renovation, but he
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: was very much treating this beautiful half million dollar residents
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: as his and not as theirs.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: The house is everything to David. It's his identity, it's
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: his passion project, It's really the focus of his life,
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: even more than his wife. He loved that house more
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: than anything else. Shanti controlled the destiny of that house,
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: and how desperate was David to make sure that the
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: renovations went through and his gem was polished.
• 34:44
  Speaker 17: As the house became progressively more and more unlittle under
• 34:48
  Speaker 17: that car an obvious tension in the relationship.
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: This home show was the lifeline out of this mess
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: with this house that they've dug themselves into, and she,
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: a week before her murder, was not into it.
• 35:03
  Speaker 10: The likely motive, I think is he had an alternate
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: lifestyle where he was behind her back seeing men, and
• 35:10
  Speaker 10: then one of the last things that he had tried
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: to do right before we arrested him, is he had
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: made a request to get her life insurance. With all
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: of the accounts and the life insurance, he stood to
• 35:22
  Speaker 10: gain over a million dollars.
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: This was a murder of rage, of anger, of extreme violence.
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: The only reasonable explanation for Shanti's death is sitting right there.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: The state starts presenting their witnesses from David and Shanty's
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: friends to neighbors and experts.
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: As a couple, did they appear to be affectionate towards
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: each other?
• 35:46
  Speaker 12: No?
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: I never saw them hold hands, touch kiss.
• 35:55
  Speaker 12: It was a little strange.
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: Were you ever made aware any tensions related to the
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: house that they lived in?
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: It?
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: I mean it was being that it was under the renovation.
• 36:07
  Speaker 12: There was a lot of tension, a lot.
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: Of fights when he walked alone? Did he have any
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: canine companions?
• 36:14
  Speaker 12: Almost always?
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: On April twenty fourth of twenty eighteen, did you see
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: either Schanti, Cooper Troonis, or David Tronis the defendant walking?
• 36:23
  Speaker 12: Yes? I saw David.
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: Did he have any canine companion or companions with him?
• 36:28
  Speaker 12: Not?
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: On this day, a local neighbor told law enforcement that
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: she was coming home from the grocery store and saw
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: David walking alone in the neighborhood. Police showed a picture
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: of David that day to the neighbor, and the neighbor
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: said that David was wearing different clothes at twelve pm
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: than the ones that he was wearing at four pm.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: You know, it's little facts like that that really stands
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: out when you have somebody telling a story that doesn't
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: match up.
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: Row thirteen's entry. According to Ian f Is four twenty three,
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: twenty eighteen eleven nineteen pm, there is no other entry
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: until April twenty fourth, twenty eighteen, at ten eleven pm.
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: Correct.
• 37:13
  Speaker 12: That's correct.
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: So this device registered no distance, no steps, essentially twenty
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: three hour span of time.
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: Yes, Shanty had a step tracker on her phone that
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: recorded her going up and down the stairs. She always
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: had her phone with her. There was no steps tracked
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: of her at all on April twenty fourth. Then that
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: doesn't fit with his telling of that day. There's evidence
• 37:37
  Speaker 9: that she got a text message work related very early
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: in the morning about six fifty eight that she never
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: read and never responded to. The theory was that this
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: attack either happened around midnight when she was going to
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: bed or early in the morning as she was getting up.
• 37:55
  Speaker 12: This kind of is a theory.
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: But if she's seated on the edge of the bed
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: above where the blood dripped to the slots, when she
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: is removing her right earring, she's looking possibly at David,
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: and maybe they're arguing over the renovation, or maybe you
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: know the relationship is ending.
• 38:11
  Speaker 12: But the moment she goes.
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: To her left earring, her head would have been turned
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: away from him. And so if she's starting to remove
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: this earring, that's when she takes this blow to the
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: left side of her head.
• 38:23
  Speaker 12: She never saw it coming.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: Was there anything other than the defendant's statement to you
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: and Detective Sharp that indicated that Chante Trones was alive
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: past the steps the night before at eleven nineteen pm.
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: There's nothing that indicates any sign of life past.
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: Monday night.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: But the defense paints a different picture without calling any
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: witnesses of their own.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: They would have you believe that this was an unhappy marriage,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: that they lived separate lives, that the marriage was crumbling.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: This is the case about a rush to judgment, it's
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: about a sloppy investigation, it's about circumstantial evidence.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: All this financial motive. It's who we.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: The theme that the defense tried to develop was police
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: didn't do a thorough investigation and they targeted David.
• 39:21
  Speaker 18: You're out here, you're up here is a solid run.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: You're here deserming.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: If the government has a Truman, they.
• 39:30
  Speaker 18: Had a ledge and Shapers was murdered and David Trons
• 39:36
  Speaker 18: is the person who did it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: That's good.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: April the twenty fourth, did you tell him that this
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: was a domestic violence assault before even speaking to mister.
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: Trounas, No I told him that the husband was the
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  Speaker 10: one who called us, and that what his statements were.
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  Speaker 10: No I did not indicate who was responsible for her death.
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  Speaker 12: We didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: You were suspicious though, aren't you of the.
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  Speaker 12: Story of the inconsistency?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, supports.
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  Speaker 10: They basically blamed our investigation and said it was lacking
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: in substance and that we had made a lot of errors.
• 40:12
  Speaker 12: That the police investigation was shoddy.
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  Speaker 4: Is true.
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  Speaker 2: You can go mister Cross as a person an interest
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: or suspect.
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  Speaker 1: From jump that you didn't believe a word out of
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: his mouth.
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  Speaker 12: That's not true.
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  Speaker 2: Oh judge him for the lack of emotion.
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  Speaker 10: No I did not prejudge him for the lack of emotion.
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  Speaker 12: Her ex husband was just as much of a suspect
• 40:29
  Speaker 12: as he was.
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: But you have to be able to eliminate people, and
• 40:32
  Speaker 10: you have to start with the person who called nine
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: one one.
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  Speaker 2: You became concerned with some of the details you noted
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: at the crime scene, correct.
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  Speaker 10: I became concerned with some of the details I noted
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: in the crime scene as discussed. No water, no wet
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  Speaker 10: that those things. Yes, I became very concerned with inconsistencies.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, as this case developed, there was no real coherent defects.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: There were no facts to establish any other identity of
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  Speaker 5: any other person, no primarks on doors to show a burglar,
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: no stolen valuables, no evidence of animosity or bad relationships
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  Speaker 5: with Shati.
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  Speaker 4: And other people.
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  Speaker 7: During that trial, it was long days. We didn't sleep
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  Speaker 7: at night. When the jury got the case. For a
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: couple hours that seemed like an eternity. They kept coming
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: back with questions and we were trying to decipher what
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: they meant. That really made us crazier than we already were.
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  Speaker 3: After nearly five hours of deliberations, the jury returns their verdict.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, Porta versus David Sounnas. The jury finally have been
• 41:51
  Speaker 18: a guilty a first degree murder, as Sergeant the indictment,
• 41:55
  Speaker 18: so it says we all.
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  Speaker 5: In that moment when the verdict is actually an ounced,
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: it's like time stops. And I remember looking over at
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: Jackson and he waited for that day for so long
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: and in the span of ninety seconds from when the
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: jury entered the room. So the verdict was read by
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: the court clerk, justice was delivered.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: For my heart was recently like a couple hundred thousands
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: paces a minute. But when I heard the verdict as overjoyed,
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: and it was probably that's one of my left.
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  Speaker 7: The night of the verdict, we were walking to the
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: truck and Jackson was shrugging his shoulders. I said, what
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: are you doing? He said, I feel lighter, like a
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: way to be lifted.
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  Speaker 3: David Tranis is found guilty of first degree murder and
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: faces a possible life sentence in prison.
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  Speaker 5: To me, the greatest satisfactory in this case was David
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: having to be faced with the truth of what he did.
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  Speaker 4: When this parasite came into our lives.
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  Speaker 7: He took something from us, and most importantly from Jackson,
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: and what he took is not replaceable.
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  Speaker 4: He lost a good parent.
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  Speaker 7: It is still unfathomable to me what he put Jackson through.
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  Speaker 7: I couldn't looked at him. I knew if I looked
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: at him, I would do something I would regret, and
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say his name. He doesn't deserve that. He
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: told a lot of lies. So I just wanted to
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: set the record straight and let the judge know that
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: it needs to be life without parole.
• 43:46
  Speaker 16: My mom was the best person I ever knew.
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: He worked a lot, but she never put.
• 43:53
  Speaker 16: Her family over work. Early twenty eighteen, she was taken
• 43:57
  Speaker 16: from me and my family. It's like a whole heart
• 44:00
  Speaker 16: that I can't fill or fix. She didn't die peacefully.
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  Speaker 16: She did not deserve anything that happened to her that night.
• 44:08
  Speaker 16: She was the best moment I could ever ask for.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 14: Court will adgdicate you guilty.
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  Speaker 13: I'll sentence you to life imprisonment.
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: David took control of so many things. He took control
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: of the house, he took control of finances, he took
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: control of how long Shati lived.
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: Personally hard like so people don't know how hard will
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: work or she was. She knew how to get stuff done,
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: and she did it with one hundred percent precision. She
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: was very good at what she did. She was more
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: than just someone that was murdered.
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: If it can happen to her, it can happen to anybody.
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: If one person hears her story and might think they're
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: in that kind of a relationship, then maybe they can
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: get out before it's too late, and then that would
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: be something positive that came from her memory.
• 44:56
  Speaker 10: We both worked as hard as we worked on this
• 44:58
  Speaker 10: case for Jackson because of the tragedy to that little boy,
• 45:02
  Speaker 10: for him having to grow up without his mom. There's
• 45:04
  Speaker 10: not a day that goes by that they won't grief
• 45:06
  Speaker 10: for her. That grief is really just love with no
• 45:09
  Speaker 10: place to go.
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  Speaker 5: In the end, this case largely centered on the house
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: and the remodeling and the arguments. We're fighting for the
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: house for Jackson so that Jackson can decide at some
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: point in the future what to do with this place
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: that brought the worst incident that he'll ever have in
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: his life, and whether Jackson sells it, whether Jackson takes
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: a sledgehammer and knocks it to the ground. Our fight
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: now is to give Jackson control of what happens to
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: this place.
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: It's kind of weird, you know, having the same routine
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: for six years, they all of a suddenly being over.
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: It's like a new normal. We have many more good
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: days than bad days. Now the trial's over. We just
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: had Mother's Day, so we went to the beach and
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: the flowers in the ocean. So she looked going to
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: the beach with him. We talk a lot about her,
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: just try to honor her memory.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: It was a long road for Shanti's family to finally
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: see justice for Shanti's murder. And while David Tranas fights
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: his case on appeal, he sits in prison. The man
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: wanted to have it all now has nothing. That's all
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  Speaker 3: we have for you here on this episode of Prime Crime. Everybody,
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  Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining us. I'm Jesse Webber
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  Speaker 3: and until next time, stay safe.