Former main league pitcher Dan Serafini was allegedly having an affair along with his household nanny earlier than the pair have been arrested over a lethal 2021 ambush involving his in-laws.
Particulars of the obvious tryst have been laid naked in court docket paperwork because the 51-year-old faces trial for allegedly murdering his father-in-law, Gary Spohr, and making an attempt to kill Spohr’s spouse, Wendy Wooden, of their Lake Tahoe, California, residence, the Each day Mail reported.
The nanny, Samantha Scott, 35, is slated to be among the many prosecution witnesses who will testify in opposition to Serafini throughout the trial.
Serafini and his alleged mistress have been arrested on the similar time after Scott was accused of driving the pitcher to his in-laws’ residence the night time of the deadly capturing.
Scott took a plea deal earlier this 12 months.
Prosecutors have alleged the motive behind the slaying was a decades-old household feud over cash.
Whereas Wooden initially survived the capturing, she ended up killing herself in 2023.
Serafini, who pitched for six completely different groups between 1996-2007, is married to the couple’s daughter, Erin Spohr.
His spouse is about to testify in his protection.
