Former Major League Baseball world Danny Serafini was convicted on Monday for the first degree murder of his father-in-law and attempted murder of his mother-in-law.
The Placer County District Attorney’s Office confirmed in a press release On Facebook, Serafini, 51, was found guilty of the fatal shooting in 2021 by Robert Gary Spohr, 70, in the community of Homewood near Lake Tahoe, California.
Serafini was also convicted of shooting the 68-year-old wife of Spohr, Wendy Wood, twice in the head. She survived, but died about a year later by suicide.
“The jury also found the suspect guilty of the first degree burglary and found the accusations of special circumstance of lying and crime murder, as well as related accusations of firearms, where,” was the press release.
The judgments follow a six -week process with “witness to dozens of witnesses and the presentation of physical evidence, including digital, mobile phone and other forensic evidence,” according to the release.
Serafini will be convicted on August 18.
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Serafini, a resident of San Francisco Bay Area, played for the Minnesota Twins and the Chicago Cubs, including Major League teams, from 1996 to 2007, When he was suspended After a failed performance -enhancing drug test.
After his exit of the MLB, he owned by the Bullpen Bar In Sparks, Nevada, with his wife, in Spohr. The bar – which was shown in an episode of the Reality series “Bar Rescue” in 2015 – has since been closed.
After an investigation of two years, the authorities arrested Serafini With Samantha ScottThe former babysitter of his children, for the attacks on Spohr and Wood in 2023. Scott, who had a romantic relationship with Serafini at the time of the attacks, pleading guilty To be an accessory in February.
According to Sacramento-based newsstation ABC 10Founded public prosecutors that Serafini had had a financial dispute with his in -laws for years. Much of the tension came from a renovation project of $ 1.3 million ranch. Serafini reportedly wrote e -mails and text messages with the text: “I come after you” and “I am going to kill them one day”, including threats.
During her husband’s process, Spohr testified that she did not believe that Serafini had killed her father or shot her mother, According to ESPN. She also said that she and her husband had an open marriage and that she was aware of his romantic relationship with Scott.
View a report from NBC branch KCRA 3 about Danny Serafini’s test below.
