Overview

• A Placer County jury found Serafini guilty on July 14 of first-degree murder, attempted murder and first-degree burglary in the June 2021 attack.
• Prosecutors said he ambushed his in-laws at their Homewood home with a .22-caliber gun after a financial dispute tied to a $1.3 million ranch renovation.
• Investigators used surveillance video, cell-phone location data and a threatening text message saying “I’m gonna kill them one day” to tie Serafini to the crime.
• Samantha Scott, Serafini’s former lover and co-defendant, pleaded guilty in February to accessory after the fact and testified that she drove him to the scene.
• Serafini remains jailed without bail until his sentencing, where prosecutors intend to seek life in prison for the premeditated killings.