Ex-MLB pitcher Dan Serafini was sentenced Friday to life in jail with out the potential for parole for the 2021 homicide of his father-in-law and tried homicide of his mother-in-law.
In a Placer County, California courtroom, the jury concluded that Serafini’s actions “had been deliberate and premeditated” when he shot his in-laws Robert Gary Spohr and Wendy Wooden at their dwelling in Lake Tahoe following severe monetary disputes. Wooden survived her accidents however died by suicide a 12 months later.
“He’s a monster that is aware of no ethical boundaries and has zero reservations about taking lives to profit himself,” Adrienne Spohr, Serafini’s sister-in-law, stated throughout his sentencing Friday.
Over the course of the six-week trial, jurors heard “about heated disputes over monetary obligations” and communications main as much as the homicide, the Placer County District Legal professional’s Workplace posted on Fb.
The previous MLB first-round draft choose was discovered responsible in July of ready inside his in-laws’ dwelling with a gun earlier than fatally capturing his father-in-law and gravely injuring his mother-in-law.
Serafini and his lover, Samantha Scott, had been arrested two years after the incident. Scott later testified that she gave Serafini a journey the day of the capturing, believing it was a drug deal earlier than Serafini later admitted that he had shot his in-laws.
Prosecutors accused Serafini of concentrating on his in-laws to entry a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
In accordance with Adrienne Spohr, Serafini and her sister Erin had taken thousands and thousands of {dollars} from her mother and father over time, together with over one million {dollars} for a horse property, and smaller installments for nanny providers and to repay bank cards. Spohr stated that Serafini and her sister continued to ask her mom for cash after the tried homicide.
“Dan confirmed no regret,” she stated. “He cashed in a $200,000 test made to him from his sufferer’s account simply weeks after holding a gun to her head and pulling the set off.”
Spohr stated her sister and Serafini fought her efforts to submit a reward announcement for her father’s assassin. “And now we all know why,” she stated throughout sentencing.
At sentencing, Spohr requested for her brother-in-law to be given the utmost sentence, together with a interval of solitary confinement, as Spohr feared Serafini may conspire with different prisoners to homicide her. “Dan Serafini ought to by no means see the surface of a jail once more,” Spohr stated.
Serafini continued to assert innocence throughout sentencing, calling the trial a “reputation contest” and giving his condolences to the “victims of this heinous crime.”
Serafini spent seven years within the large leagues, logging time with the Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres and Colorado Rockies. His busiest season was in 1998, going 7-4 with a 6.48 ERA for the Twins.
He additionally pitched professionally in Japan, Taiwan and Mexico.
