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The mistress of killer pitcher Dan Serafini escaped with a slap on the wrist after admitting she covered up his 2021 deadly attack on his in-laws.
Samantha Scott, who worked as a nanny for Serafini and his wife Erin Spohr’s family, was sentenced to two years’ probation Monday for helping the baseball star after he shot Spohr’s parents in a twisted bid to win her inheritance.
Scott, 35, was the prosecution’s key witness against Serafini 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.
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.
The former pitcher’s mistress at her sentencing Monday said “fear and misplaced loyalty” clouded her judgment.
“My heart goes out to the victims and their family,” said Scott in her appearance before a judge at a Placerville court. “I cannot undo what happened, but I truly wish that I had acted differently.”
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.
“[Serafini] is a monster who knows no moral boundaries and has zero reservations about taking the lives of others to benefit himself,” the victims’ daughter, Adrienne Spohr, said of Serafini his sentencing, according to the news station.
Spohr spoke out again about the terrible impact of her father’s murder and her mother’s death at Scott’s sentencing this week.
“House arrest with the ability to travel within 150 miles is not accountability,” said Spohr of Scott’s punishment.
“That radius allows vacation, leisure and freedom. My parents have none of that,” she added.
The deadly ambush stemmed from a $1.3 million loan intended for his wife’s horse ranch business, prosecutors argued at his six-week trial last year, prosecutors said.
They alleged Serafini murdered his in-laws to claim their $23 million fortune through his wife’s inheritance.
Serafini, who was arrested with Scott in 2023, was convicted in July of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and first-degree burglary.
The former baseball player at his sentencing rejected the charges against him and railed against the justice system.
“Justice is fragile. I am just a man,” he whined, according to KCRA.
“I 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.”
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.
Serafini revealed he had lost $14 million through bad investments and a divorce settlement during a “Bar Rescue” episode showcasing the Nevada bar he opened in 2013.
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