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Daniel Serafini, 51, killed his father-in-law Gary Spohr and attempted to kill his mother-in-law Wendy Wood by shooting the pair on June 5, 2021

He asked Samantha Scott, an occasional babysitter for his two children, to drive him to the Lake Tahoe home that day

Scott, 35, who would later begin an affair with Serafini, did not turn off her cell phone, allowing authorities to place her near the murder scene at the time of the shooting

It took authorities more than two years to arrest Daniel Serafini for the murder of his father-in-law Gary Spohr and attempted murder of his mother-in-law Wendy Wood , but they obtained crucial evidence needed to convict him long before that.

That evidence came from his accomplice-turned-mistress Samantha Scott , who would ultimately agree

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