Overview

• A Placer County jury found Serafini guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder and first-degree burglary in the 2021 shooting of his in-laws.
• The attack on June 5, 2021, left his father-in-law, Robert Gary Spohr, dead and critically wounded his mother-in-law, Wendy Wood, who later died by suicide in 2023.
• Prosecutors argued Serafini carried out the killings to resolve a $1.3 million ranch renovation dispute, citing texts in which he threatened, “I’m gonna kill them one day.”
• Samantha Scott pleaded guilty as an accessory and testified that she drove Serafini to Lake Tahoe and helped dispose of gun parts after the shooting.
• Serafini remains in custody without bail and faces a potential life sentence when he is formally sentenced on August 18, 2025.