Ex- MLB pitcher, Serra High star Daniel Serafini gets life in prison without parole for 2021 murder

AUBURN — Former MLB pitcher Daniel Serafini, who was a star at San Mateo’s Serra High, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2021 shooting of his wife’s parents during a burglary at their home near Lake Tahoe, authorities said.

Serafini, 51, was convicted in July 2025 of first-degree murder of his father-in-law, Gary Spohr, attempted murder of his mother-in-law, Wendy Wood, and first-degree burglary. Spohr was killed and Wood survived, though she died a year after the shooting.