AUBURN, Calif. – A former Minnesota Twins pitcher, Danny Serafini, was arrested in Nevada for the shooting of his in-laws in North Lake Tahoe, California, in 2021. Arrested too was Serafini’s companion, Samantha Scott, 33. The arrests culminated a two-year investigation. On June 5, 2021, police received a 911 call and found Robert Gary Spohr, 70, and Wendy Wood, 68. wounded. Spohr later died. Woods recovered. Surveillance video showed a hooded man wearing a face-covering and a backpack walking to the residence several hours before the homicide. About the arrests Placer County Sheriff Wayne Wo gave no new details but said the process of extraditing Serafini and Scott back across Nevada border to California was under way. The charges: Murder and attempted murder.
Serafini then and now. Played 104 games between 1996 and 2007 for the Minnesota Twins and fove other major league teams.