A Placer County Superior Court jury on Monday convicted former Major League Baseball pitcher Dan Serafini of first-degree murder, attempted murder and burglary for the 2021 ambush shooting of his in-laws at their Lake Tahoe home. Prosecutors said Serafini, 51, fatally shot his father-in-law, Robert Gary Spohr, 70, and wounded his mother-in-law, Wendy Wood, with a .22-caliber handgun after waiting inside the house for roughly three hours. Wood survived the attack but died by suicide in 2023. Jurors heard six weeks of testimony detailing a bitter $1.3 million financial dispute over a ranch renovation that prosecutors argued motivated the crime. Text messages presented at trial showed Serafini threatening the couple, including a note stating, “I’m gonna kill them one day.” Two young children were inside the Homewood residence during the shooting. A second defendant, Samantha Scott, 33—Serafini’s former nanny and romantic partner—pleaded guilty in February to being an accessory after the fact and testified that she drove him to and from the scene. Investigators spent two years analyzing surveillance video, digital evidence and phone records before arresting the pair in October 2023. Serafini, who will remain in custody without bail, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced on Aug. 18. A San Mateo native, he was the Minnesota Twins’ first-round draft pick in 1992 and pitched for six MLB clubs through 2007, when a 50-game performance-enhancing drug suspension ended his playing career.