Former MLB player who was convicted of murder in the California home vasion

A former Major League baseball pitcher was found guilty of murdering his father-in-law in a financially motivated attack.

The 51-year-old Daniel Serafini was convicted on Monday for the first degree murder in 2021, shot Robert Gary Spohr's death.

According to proofs that were presented in court, Serafini entered the Spohrs' house on June 5, 2021, in which safety material caught a hooded number that arrived three hours in front of someone 911.

The public prosecutor said that Serafini was waiting for three hours with a caliber weapon of 0.22 in the house in the house before attacking. Two small children aged 3 and 8 months were at home during the shootout.

Wood survived the first attack, but died later in 2023 by suicide, with her family said that the trauma of the shootout had led to her death.

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The case focused on a dispute of 1.3 million US dollars by a Ranch renovation project. Text messages revealed that Serafini wrote in a message in which 21,000 US dollars were mentioned, “I will kill them one day”. The victims had given Serafini's wife 90,000 US dollars on the day of the shootings.

Serafini's baseball career included playing for six different teams after being designed by the Minnesota Twins in the first round in 1992. His career ended in 2007. In the same year, he was suspended for 50 games for using drugs with performance -ranging performance.

A second defendant, Samantha Scott, 33, who was described both as a close friend of Serafini's wife and his lover, owed to be an accessory in February 2025.

“This was a hideous and calculated crime,” said Adrienne Spohr, one of the victim's daughters, to KXTV and noticed that their parents were “incredibly generous”.

Serafini will remain in custody until his conviction, which is planned for August 18. He could have life in prison.