{"id":547329,"date":"2026-03-18T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:07:13","slug":"killer-mlb-star-dan-serafinis-mistress-samantha-scott-gets-slap-on-the-wrist-for-covering-up-shooting-of-his-wifes-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547329\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer MLB star Dan Serafini’s mistress Samantha Scott gets slap on the wrist for covering up shooting of his wife’s parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mistress of killer pitcher Dan Serafini <\/a>escaped with a slap on the wrist after admitting she covered up his 2021 deadly attack\u00a0on his in-laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Samantha Scott, who worked as a nanny for Serafini and his wife Erin Spohr\u2019s family, was sentenced to two years\u2019 probation Monday for helping the baseball star after he shot Spohr\u2019s parents<\/a> in a twisted bid to win her inheritance.<\/p>\n

Scott, 35, was the prosecution\u2019s key witness against Serafini<\/a> and told the jury how she drove Serafini from Nevada to the Lake Tahoe area on the day he shot his in-laws at their Lake Tahoe home.<\/p>\n

Scott with her defense attorney. Paul Kitagaki Jr.\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Serafini cried at his sentencing. ABC10<\/p>\n

Serafini\u2019s in-laws. Placer County Sheriff<\/p>\n

Scott also drove Serafini back to Nevada after the shooting and lied to investigators about it afterward, according to KCRA. She pled guilty to an accessory charge in February 2025.<\/p>\n

The former pitcher\u2019s mistress at her sentencing Monday said \u201cfear and misplaced loyalty\u201d clouded her judgment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart goes out to the victims and their family,\u201d said Scott in her appearance before a judge at a Placerville court. \u201cI cannot undo what happened, but I truly wish that I had acted differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Serafini, 52, last month was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering his father-in-law, Gary Spohr and shooting his mother-in-law, Wendy Wood, in the head. Wood recovered after Serafini shot her but subsequently took her own life.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Serafini] is a monster who knows no moral boundaries and has zero reservations about taking the lives of others to benefit himself,\u201d the victims\u2019 daughter, Adrienne Spohr, said of Serafini his sentencing, according to the news station.<\/p>\n

Spohr spoke out again about the terrible impact of her father\u2019s murder and her mother\u2019s death at Scott\u2019s sentencing this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHouse arrest with the ability to travel within 150 miles is not accountability,\u201d\u00a0said Spohr of Scott\u2019s punishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat radius allows vacation, leisure and freedom. My parents have none of that,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Scott said she is \u201ctruly sorry.\u201d Paul Kitagaki Jr.\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Serafini is doing life without parole. <\/p>\n

Smith at her arrest. Placer County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

The deadly ambush stemmed from a $1.3 million loan <\/a>intended for his wife\u2019s horse ranch business, prosecutors argued at his six-week trial last year, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

They alleged Serafini murdered his in-laws to claim their $23 million fortune through his wife\u2019s inheritance.<\/p>\n

Serafini, who was arrested with Scott in 2023<\/a>, was convicted in July of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and first-degree burglary.<\/p>\n

Serafini with the Angels. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The disgraced pitcher had a 22-year professional career. AP<\/p>\n

The former baseball player at his sentencing rejected the charges against him and railed against the justice system.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice is fragile. I am just a man,\u201d he whined, according to KCRA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am far from perfect, but I am no murderer. We live in a society that lacks compassion and empathy. A society that sadly thrives on hearing the misfortunes of others. I sit before you today, a broken man, humiliated, embarrassed, angry, and sad. But I am not a murderer. I am a survivor, but I am no murderer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Serafini was a No. 26 draft pick by the Twins in 1992 who finished his MLB career with the Rockies in 2007, when he was suspended 50 games for using performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n

Serafini revealed he had lost $14 million through bad investments and a divorce settlement during a \u201cBar Rescue\u201d episode showcasing the Nevada bar he opened in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mistress of killer pitcher Dan Serafini escaped with a slap on the wrist after admitting she covered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[44659,64,63,485,77750,1108,48,23741,591,85,3780],"class_list":["post-547329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-athlete-arrests","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-california","tag-celebrity-crimes","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}