Ex-MLB Pitcher Dan Serafini Sentenced to Life for Lake Tahoe Murder [Current Affairs]
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Former MLB pitcher Dan Serafini has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2021 murder of his father-in-law Gary Spohr and the attempted murder of his mother-in-law Wendy Wood at their Lake Tahoe home. Prosecutors argued Serafini carried out the attack with help from his secret lover, the family’s former nanny, in a case built largely on circumstantial evidence that ended with a guilty verdict in 2025 and sentencing in February 2026.
Current Affairs is Love Murder’s shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
- https://apnews.com/article/b20fc3ab30d435f1d2866d1208f21269
- https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/daniel-serafini-life-without-parole-21946269.php
- https://people.com/dan-serafini-sentenced-life-in-prison-for-shooting-in-laws-11916189
- https://nypost.com/2026/02/27/sports/ex-mlb-pitcher-dan-serafini-gets-life-in-prison-for-shooting-in-laws-in-california-home/
- https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48058116/ex-pitcher-serafini-sentenced-life-prison-2021-murder
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Kern Affairs, our show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now. |
| 0:14.4 | If this is your first love murder episode, tuned back in on Wednesdays for our main full-length episodes. |
| 0:20.1 | This episode is just a very quick but |
| 0:22.6 | important update in a previous case that we have covered full-length. Daniel Serafini was a former |
| 0:28.7 | Major League baseball pitcher, a first-round draft pick by the Minnesota Twins in 1992, who played |
| 0:34.5 | for six teams over an 11-year career and earned an estimated $14 million. |
| 0:41.6 | Well, he lost all of it. |
| 0:43.8 | Bad investments, a costly divorce, and by 2017, he was working as an underground gold miner in Nevada living in an RV. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, we'd be remiss not to mention the bar rescue episode, too. |
| 0:55.8 | He was also a failed bar owner. I guess that's included in the bad investments. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah, that one is quite the dozy. If you guys want to check out that one, the bar was called |
| 1:06.3 | The Bullpen. So he was married to Aaron Spore, whose parents, Robert Gary Spore, who was 70, and Wendy Wood, |
| 1:14.0 | who was 68, had built a $23 million real estate fortune through their own hard work. The couple |
| 1:21.5 | bankrolled nearly everything for Aaron and Dan, homes, cars, IVF treatments, school tuition, and over a million |
| 1:31.3 | dollars for their horse farm, I guess. They gave them roughly $2.5 million over five years. |
| 1:39.4 | On June 5, 2021, someone entered the Spore Home in Homewood, California, on the west shore of Lake Tahoe, through the garage and hid inside for approximately five hours. |
| 1:51.5 | After the grandchildren left, the intruder shot Gary Spore once in the back of the head, killing him instantly, then shot Windy Wood twice in the head and once in the wrist. |
| 2:00.3 | The weapon was a 22-caliber handgun |
| 2:02.9 | fitted with a homemade silencer. Wendy survived, called 911, and was eventually found by first responders, |
| 2:10.9 | slumped against the bathtub covered in blood. The case went cold for over two years. The victim's |
| 2:16.8 | younger daughter, Adrian, offered a $150,000 |
| 2:20.3 | reward for information. Dan Serafini and Aaron notably refused to participate in those efforts. |
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