Ex-MLB Pitcher Daniel Serafini Convicted Of Murder

Ex-MLB pitcher Daniel Serafini — the Minnesota Twins’ first-round choose within the 1992 draft — was discovered responsible of homicide on Monday.

In keeping with the Placer County District Legal professional’s Workplace, the baseball participant was additionally convicted of tried homicide and first-degree housebreaking following a jury trial.

The costs stemmed from allegations that Serafini had brutally attacked his in-laws, Gary Spohr and Wendy Wooden, throughout a 2021 incident in Tahoe Metropolis.

Investigators alleged Serafini gained entry to the couple’s residence whereas they had been out, waited for them to return, after which shot them with a .22 caliber gun. Serafini was arrested in 2023.

Spohr was killed, and whereas Wooden survived, she later died by suicide in 2023.

In the course of the trial, it was revealed Serafini, Spohr and Wooden had at instances had a strained relationship over cash … although Serafini’s attorneys argued that they had all the time recovered from the quarrels.

“The responsible verdicts come after a 6-week trial throughout which the jury heard testimony from dozens of witnesses and the presentation of bodily proof, together with digital, mobile phone, and different forensic proof,” the Placer County District Legal professional’s Workplace stated Monday night.