Dan Serafini convicted of murdering father-in-law in $1.3 million feud

Serafini, a 51-year-old who spent seven seasons in the majors from 1996-2007, was found guilty in the 2021 shooting of 70-year-old Robert Gary Spohr, and in the attempted murder of Spohr’s wife, Wendy Wood, ABC News reported. Serafini has also been convicted of first-degree burglary.

Former MLB pitcher Dan Serafini was convicted Monday of first-degree murder of his father-in-law and attempted murder of his mother-in-law over a financial dispute.

The former starter/reliever reportedly entered his in-laws’ house in Homewood, Calif., on June 5, 2021, three hours before an eventual 911 call, and waited with a .22 caliber gun for three hours before attacking the couple, prosecutors said, per ABC.

Two children, aged 3 and eight months, were also in the house at the time of the attack.While Wood survived the attack, she died by suicide in 2023, and her family said the trauma from that night led to her death, per the report.