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Ex-MLB pitcher Dan Serafini faces sentencing for shooting wife's parents

Dan Serafini was convicted of first-degree murder and burglary after a dispute over a $1.3 million loan led to the fatal shooting of his father-in-law and injury to his mother-in-law.

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AUBURN, Calif. (AP/Court TV) — Retired MLB pitcher Daniel Serafini is facing life in prison without parole after being convicted in the shootings of his wife’s parents. In July, a Placer County jury found the 51-year-old guilty of killing his father-in-law, Gary Spohr, and severely wounding his mother-in-law, Wendy Wood, on June 5, 2021, at their home on Lake Tahoe’s west shore. Wood received extensive rehabilitation but died a year after the sh…

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Court TV broke the news in on Monday, August 18, 2025.
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