Overview
- Serafini, now serving life without parole, spoke in a new Dateline interview from prison and said he is innocent.
- NBC plans to air a Dateline special on the case, which is drawing fresh attention to the verdict and the record built by investigators.
- A California jury found him guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and first-degree burglary in July 2025, and a judge imposed a life-without-parole sentence in February 2026.
- Investigators pointed to surveillance video showing a hooded man near the Lake Tahoe home and to a plea from former family nanny Samantha Scott, who admitted being an accessory.
- Prosecutors say he ambushed in-laws Gary Spohr and Wendy Wood in 2021 for inheritance money, and Wood later died by suicide after surviving the shooting.