Former Major League Baseball Desperate Prison Lovers Letters to Babysitter Reveals His Trial for Murdering Father-in-law

Former MLB pitchers are still continuing to suffer a dirty relationship with the nanny, even if they are both arrested for murder.

Dan Serafini, 51, who played for six Major League Baseball teams including the Minnesota Twins and the Chicago Bears, was accused of shooting his wealthy father-in-law, Gary Spohr, 70, and trying to kill his wife Wendy Wood, then 69.

He was arrested in October 2023 with the June 5, 2021 shooting, with 35-year-old Nanny Samantha Scott, after which he admitted to a “freckless, romantic relationship” with Serafini in court documents previously obtained by Dailymail.com.

She will now testify at Serafini’s long murder trial in California, which began Monday when prosecutors and Serafini’s defense both made opening remarks.

When the Assistant Chief Deputy Deputy Attorney claimed that Serafini and Scott’s affair continued in his jail last year, the bombshell came.

He told the jury how Serafini allegedly sent a message to Scott through another inmate in the fall of 2024: “We will be free soon. I love you, and will always,’ Sacramento Bee.

By January, Scott contacted prosecutors to explain her role in the 2021 shooting.

But her testimony could be refuted by Serafini’s wife Erin, 36, who defends her husband – and argues that her husband can’t kill her parents.

He was arrested in October 2023 with his babysitter, Samantha Scott

Retired businessman Gary Spohr, 70, and his wife, Wendy Wood, 69, were shot dead in 2021 at their home in Lake Tahoe.

Prosecutors claimed Serafini made a statement that he hated wealthy parents-in-law and even told others that he wanted them to die.

“‘I’m going to pay $20,000 to kill them. They’re wealthy S***.’ That’s what he said to his parents-in-law Gary Spohr and Wendy Wood,” Miller told jurors Monday.

He and Erin allegedly made comments in 2012 the same year he married. Then, just three months before the murder, Serafini was also allegedly eavesdropped by a deposit saying he wanted to kill them on an angry call.

Prosecutors claim that from the outset, Serafini and his in-laws had been confused as the former pitcher and his wife found themselves relying in part on handouts from wealthy parents.

In fact, on the day of the murder of Wood, when she, Spohr and her and Serafini’s two children decided to drive the boat to the lake, she, Spohr and her and Serafini’s two children handed Erin a check of $90,000.

Meanwhile, a masked man was sneaked into Tahoe City, Spohr by a camera shortly after 5 p.m.

Just over an hour later, five gunshots were quickly heard from the property, and the masked killer left home a few minutes before 9 p.m. and caught the gunshots.

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Police caught a masked intruder on surveillance camera on the evening of June 5, 2021 and entered the Hurricane Bay house in Spohrs

The man who was considered the killer, wearing a backpack and a black hoodie, was holding a hidden .22-caliber gun while walking around Lake Tahoe on the day of the murder

Police and prosecutors now say Serafini was Serafini who was driven to Tahoe City by his lover Scott.

They claim the former professional baseball player desperately needs cash in a much-needed divorce and failed bar joint venture, losing $14 million from his baseball career.

He allegedly sneaked into the home when he knew his wife and children and returned to their Reno home with a 0.22 caliber gun.

Then, when Spohr and Wood were watching TV before 9 a.m., Miller said Serafini fired.

Prosecutors claimed Spole was “executioned” by bullets, while Wood was hit by gunfire, vomited and bleeding from the couch, and then crawled to the bathroom where he managed to call 911.

She was so seriously injured that she could only breathe for the air.

Emergency responders rushed to the scene, where they found Spohr’s body as well as the casing of the bullet shell and blood around the luxury house.

Medical staff found wood in the bathroom and flew her to the hospital in Reno where she spent intensive care next month.

She ended up hanging herself in 2023, and her will is now the subject of a legal battle between Erin and her other daughter Adrienne, 39, who are working to maintain the couple’s property – they are estimated to be worth $10 million.

Prosecutors said Spole was “executioned” by bullets behind his head, while Wood was hit by gunfire, vomited and blew on the couch, and then crawled to the bathroom, where she managed to call 911

Robert Gary Spohr and Wendy Wood were killed in 2021

In the initial interview, Scott claimed to have been in Elko on the day of the murder and said Serafini was with her the night before at Red Lion Casino and returned to the Crescent Valley trailer with her at the Red Lion Casino.

But Scott’s story changes as police face her cell phones ping, which put her first in Crescent Valley, then Reno, and then the next one to travel through California, with her cell phone near Truckee – near the border town of Tahoe.

In Tahoe City, her tan Subaru was arrested at 6:42 p.m. that night in the home surveillance camera parking lot near Spohr’s residence.

I saw the car transfer from the parking space to the parking space and then drove at 9:22 PM that evening, allegedly driving with Serafini.

According to court documents, Scott admitted to driving the former large researcher to Tahoe City that day, but insisted she stayed there at the Fat Cat bar and grill because he said he needed to “pick up a pack” and then collect him into Crescent Valley a few hours later.

She allegedly said Serafini took apart the gun and threw it out the moving window along with his clothes and backpack – prosecutors admitted Friday that investigators had never recovered.

Scott admits to being an accessory after facts and will testify at Serafini’s trial

Prosecutors say their extramarital affair continues even after being arrested

Therefore, Serafini’s defense says there is no physical evidence to connect the former baseball player to the scene.

Attorney David Dratman argued that the masked figure in the security video appears to be young and has a smaller frame than his client.

Danny Serafini is not the one in the video. He did not shoot his wife’s parents,” the lawyer told the jurors in his opening speech.

“These are facts of the case.”

He went on to claim that Scott carefully looked at the prosecutor’s evidence at a summer hearing before deciding to provide an account “designated to fill the prosecutor’s weakness in the case of Serafini.”

He also noted that Scott had faced 25 years in prison before pleading guilty in February because she served as accessories afterwards and argued that prosecutors promised her that the felony charge would be thrown to a misdemeanor if she was to testify against his client.

Dratman claims Scott will be released after proving that he has served.

Serafini was detained in Winnemucca, Nevada and charged with murder while lying in waiting and danger as his two children were at home shortly before the shooting

The defense is expected to say there are many others who have reason to kill Spole and Wood, who were once nightmare neighbors, and have restricted orders when the attack occurred.

The court documents seen by dailymail.com assumed this.

Wood was found guilty of a man for fishing outside her home in 2018, and Spohr was involved in a laundry list of court cases dating back to 2011.

David Fischer, another attorney for Dratman and Serafini, also said that Adrienne, another daughter of Spols, has benefited greatly from the death of her parents. She is currently convicted of a convicted bank robber in court documents as “TH”.

Dailymail.com previously revealed that “Th” was 39-year-old Taylor Hatton, who was convicted in 2008 for robbing the first community bank in Taos, New Mexico, and wielding a gun during the robbery.

He was eventually arrested in Albuquerque and sentenced to jail in 2014, according to the Bureau of Prison Records.

The man caught on the camera might be Hatton, they said, although Richard Miller, who led the prosecution, pointed out in court last week that Hatton was only 5 feet 9 feet, while the masked man was closer to Serafini’s 6 feet 1 height.

Testimony at Serafini’s months-long trial will begin Tuesday as jurors go out to convict murder, attempted murder, lying waiting and endangering children as his two children were at home shortly before the shooting.

It is expected to last until July 25, and the jury is tentatively scheduled to review on July 18.