Woman arrested in 2024 death of man in Orange City crash after telling police he committed suicide
By Hayley Crombleholme
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ORANGE CITY, Fla. (WESH) — Almost a year to the day after 53-year-old Gianfranco Scirocco was killed in Orange City in December of 2024, 55-year-old Renee Skinner was arrested in connection with his death.
Skinner is now facing vehicular homicide charges after it’s believed she was driving the truck that Scirocco was ejected from the passenger seat of before being hit by an oncoming car.
Witnesses said the truck was driving erratically and that the passenger door was opening and closing while the truck was moving.
The Orange City Police Department arrested Skinner on Sunday.
Skinner told police that her “boyfriend” committed suicide by jumping out of the truck, which is a change from her original version of events, according to the arrest report.
Eleonora Scirocco, Gianfranco’s wife, told WESH 2 her husband wasn’t Skinner’s boyfriend, but her employee. And he didn’t die by suicide.
“This woman became infatuated with him,” she said in a phone interview Monday. “Infatuated with him. He wouldn’t give her the time of day, and this is what happened. She snapped basically. She snapped.”
She described her husband as magical — a father of five and a grandfather.
She said she had been waiting a year for something to happen in his case. She finally got the call that an arrest had been made on Sunday.
“I was not expecting that. I was shaking, I was crying,” she said.
A judge granted Skinner a $25,000 bond. Jail records show she was released Monday night.
WESH 2 reached out to an attorney who confirmed he represented Skinner when she sought bond Monday, but he wouldn’t provide any comment on her case beyond that.
Court records show Skinner is due back in court next month.
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