Overview

• A Placer County jury returned the guilty verdict on July 14 after nearly three days of deliberations following a six-week trial
• Serafini was convicted of first-degree murder, attempted murder and first-degree burglary for the June 5, 2021 ambush that killed father-in-law Robert Gary Spohr and wounded mother-in-law Wendy Wood
• Prosecutors argued the attack was driven by a $1.3 million feud over a ranch renovation and Serafini’s potential inheritance from his in-laws’ multimillion-dollar trust
• Surveillance footage, threatening text messages and testimony from co-defendant Samantha Scott established premeditation and linked Serafini to the getaway
• He remains jailed without bail ahead of his August 18 sentencing, where special circumstance findings expose him to life imprisonment without parole