Lake Tahoe Bloodbath: Ex-MLB Pitcher Dan Serafini & the $14M Mystery | Signal 51 Chronicles

This is the signal fifty one chronicles. I'm John Henry. This is my compadre here to my left. Your right, Jake White. We come to you from an undisclosed location in Fort Worth, Texas. This part of the Sunset Lounge DFW. We tell stories of true crime around our area, state, even the nation as we're gonna do today. Yeah. We're going pretty far on this one. Some guy named Chris Serafini. I believe you were searching for Chris Serafini. Oh, yeah. Serafini. Yeah. He had no idea. Oh, I'm clueless a lot of times. They call this planning at its finest, the way we run this thing. Yeah. Flying by the seat of our pants, is often what happens in the life of police officers. Ain't that right, Jake? Yeah. Yeah. That does happen from You gotta think on your feet. Think on your feet. Be quick. Pivot. Turn, pivot. Yeah. Shoot. When in doubt, Well, baskets. Oh, okay. There. Shoot baskets. Shoot baskets. Yes. Just launch it up, man. So on the other side of our table is our producer, Ashley. Hello, Ashley. Hello. I'm glad y'all fly by the seat of your pants because some of us don't fly by the seat of our pants. And we drive those who don't know. Crazy. And then, I mean, where would we be without Ashley? At home on the couch? Yeah. No. Definitely not here doing this. So instead, we drive Ashley crazy. There's worse things. I like you. Nobody can see all the crap in here. Could you imagine if we had to set Just wouldn't happen. All of this stuff up? Yeah. It just would not happen. No. We'd have to I don't know what we well, why Guarantee you, we would convince ourselves like, no, dude. Our phone video is just fine. It's fine. That works. And it would evolve to a webcam. We'd be doing it down trying to do it down at Oscar's. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Let's just do audio only. That's a lot. But I think people like Wait. Wait. That's how we did it the first time, y'all. I know. But well, it is. But that's what it would evolve to. Let's go to blotter and go. Let's go to the Let's go to blotter. We played enough grab ass already today. Yes. Go ahead. Fort Worth, Texas, July 1900, Jake. Oh, okay. A young man who was too much intoxicated to give his name to the police was robbed of his hat, coat, and shoes while lying asleep on the porch of a residence at the corner of 6th And Calhoun Streets. The police believe that whatever valuables the man may have had on him were also taken by the thief as there was nothing on this person when he was taken to the police station and searched. The theft was committed by a man who was passing the place where the man had fallen asleep, but the police had no idea where he was as of that night. Although there was a good description of him which may lead to his arrest soon, they hope. So you tell me, in all your days of policing, have you ever run across somebody so drunk or so stoned or whatever else that they didn't know who they were? Often. Okay. And to top it off, I mean, we're we're modern day. I mean, I'm hell almost five years removed. But the one the other common thread to that, you find them we go down to what I call the new Hell's 0.5 Acre, West 7th. Yeah. Lot of violence down there. Nothing's being done. Anyway, don't get me started. Don't get me started over here. Like over there, you would find people passed out in the stairwells and on the sidewalk. Yeah. And I do I actually do have a video on my phone. I'll share it with you. In in fact, I think we're on the ten year anniversary of this video. I'm I'll pull it up. I'm pretty sure or I think 09/11 was the ten year anniversary of this video. Anyhow, whenever you find them passed out, yes. Do they they I mean, they may be able to mumble through their name or have their ID in their pocket. But the other common theme I noticed, their phones are either dead or on 1%. Mhmm. Nobody knows a phone number. So even if you're like, hey. Let's just get somebody to come pick you up. Yeah. Well, then you can't freaking find anybody to come pick them up because they don't they barely know their name. They definitely don't know a phone number, and then their phones are on one person. We're not talking about like pick your pick your label homeless or unsheltered. No. No. Yeah. We're talking about people who've just gone out and had too much been drinking all day or had too Mhmm. Yeah. Now with that story, the one thing I never had the opportunity to do it in that context, but it would have been fun being the decoy. They used to do that back in the day. So you would if there was a series of of robberies, thefts from a person, whatever you whatever you wanna title the offense, the police would have an undercover playing the drunk guy, laying past that on a bus bench and then people coming up and, like Trying to steal from him? Trying to steal Oh, That would've been oh, the oh, they I never did that. Did do that. Yeah. They used to do that. I never did that. I I guess we never really thought of it. I'm without question, would've that would have been that would have been cool. Okay. Also, when we went to Kansas City this week, we were I didn't realize Kansas City had that big of a homeless population anymore. Like, I thought the couple of time when I lived there, it wasn't as bad as it is. We walked into the parking garage, went to go get on the elevator and somebody's passed out in the back of the elevator. Literally just laying there like a like a dead person. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was I wasn't expecting that. Reminds me of Camp Bowie. Yeah. Yeah. We you know, I saw another one there. So a few weeks ago, Jake sent me a picture of a homeless guy laid out under the the bridge at Camp Bowie. And I thought he would I thought he would ask. Yeah. Same here. I was I was convinced. As you happen to be driving back around that way, the EMTs were coming up to help this guy. It looked like he'd been aroused and or aroused and Yeah. Was alive. Pardon my was that Freudian? Yeah. Actually, So it but but you mentioned that he he had to have been barely alive because you could You couldn't see it. Like, I was sitting there watching his looking for him breathing. Yeah. And then I thought, okay. If he's not breathing, you're just down the street. I'll go pick you up. Yeah. Yeah. You can do mouth to mouth resuscitation on this guy. There was definitely I'm not that good of a Christian, Jake. There were certainly no signs of life, and I was like, man, well, you know, it's what I call the new Camp Bowie, just, you know. So you've Jake, if you don't know, is retired sergeant in narcotics. So you've seen a lot of that type of stuff, some guy blown out of his mind or dead from some sort of overdose. What do you think, you think heroin probably is he got ahold of? I mean, who knows? It's all fentanyl. Oh, you think it's all fentanyl? Yeah. Okay. Well, when I think of fentanyl, I think of somebody who's like the fentanyl fold, and there's like, you know, whatever. Well, that's more or less what he was doing, just laying down. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Must have been two or three weeks later, I saw I don't think it was the same guy, but in the exact same you going east, right? On Camp Bowie under the bridge? Correct. This guy was laying on a mattress and there were actually the law had And already they were standing around this guy, actually they weren't standing around him, were standing aside, I don't know, waiting probably for somebody to show up and get him. I don't know if was gone or not but he was just laying there on a mattress and they were sitting there standing there kinda. Yeah. Like, what are we supposed to do? Like, were just yeah. Like, they're waiting. And and that's a legitimate question. Yeah. What are they supposed to do? I don't know. Not a police problem? Not at that point. No. No. But guess who gets called every time? The police. I hear it. I hear you. I know it. I don't know. Well, wouldn't that be a better job for the, what do they call, the mental health unit or whatever? Well, it's not right. To me, it's not a job. Mean, outside of a criminal offense, it's not a job for the police. But the police are the catchall. Right. Of course. But what what what's the mental health unit called? Re re re resource office or something or mental health something or another? I don't remember. I'll have to look it up. Alright. Well, it's not that drunk. Pardon our expert on police affairs here. Yeah. That's a good point. I don't know what it is. Alright. You familiar with Crowley, Texas? Yes. Really? Oh, yeah, you were. Texas Wesleyan, of course. So this headline says, this is from 1914. This headline says, Crowley farmer identifies the saddle as his, while horse's owner is sought. So so selling a horse and saddle to Edward's brothers of the North Side for $32.50. When the horse and saddle appeared to be worth three or four times as much, created suspicion, which led to the arrest Tuesday of a young man who gave his home state as Mississippi. Alex Henry. I know where this is going. Alex Henry. Yes. A Crowley farmer called police headquarters and identified the saddle on the horse as one stolen from him a few days ago. He says he had never seen the prisoner before. The prisoner maintains that he bought the horse from a man near the courthouse Tuesday morning. Officers are trying to locate the owner of the horse. It is what they call a, quote, flea bitten gray. Now, do you know who Alex Henry is, Jake? That would be probably, like, your great, great, great uncle or grandfather. It's my great grandfather. Oh yeah, forget how old you are. I doing math, nineteen fourteen. Did hear that, Ashley? You see how he does me? That was brutal. It's not necessarily how old I am, Jake, it's how old my family is. Okay. They all started, you know, a little bit later and. Yeah. Jake. That is pretty interesting though. You're getting up there. Don't hate on John too much. Exactly. No, I, yeah, I know. I know. I'm not saying I'm not. Exactly. Gray beard. I know, man. It used to be red. Ginger of sorts. Same way, I was glad to read that my great grandpa got his saddle back. Fleabitten graze. He went horse wasn't his. Oh, okay. Alright. You ever been involved in any type of animal theft or No. No saddles? Mm-mm. No. Alright. Let's go to our case today, which involves more sports. More yeah. More sport. This is Major League Baseball pitcher Dan Serafini. Not Chris Serafini. Not Chris Serafini. Have you all noticed a lot of things are happening in baseball? Like what? Well, we did Tyler Skaggs the other day too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's got a little, I guess, kind of a theme. I'm just fascinated with it. Now I've I've never heard of Dan Serafini as a pitcher. Me either. But he was sentenced in February. Mhmm. Yep. We In California. Yeah. I believe it's where this Lake Tahoe area, in fact. Nice area. Never been, but by all accounts, super nice. Kind of stumbled on this one. I think when we were when I was looking at the Tyler Skaggs story, this one popped up as well. Yeah. Tyler Skaggs is the guy the the Angels pitcher who died from a drug overdose in Southlake while they were here playing the Rangers. Was that ten years ago? Ten years ago? Yeah, probably. Something like that? So this one, we're going to North Lake Tahoe, California. Mhmm. Now if you're not familiar with the area, Lake Tahoe splits, half Nevada. You say Nevada or Nevada? Nevada. I think somebody criticized me for pronouncing wrong. Nevada. It's Nevada. See? There we go. I think I think the locals called Nevada. Same here. Same here. I lived there. And they called it Nevada. And they always thought you were wrong. Nevada. Nevada. Because I used to say Nevada. And now I say Nevada. I know I've been corrected by by a little bit. Pronounce that state where the Rocky Mountains are? Reno. Colorado. So you think it'd be you know, you think it's Colorado? I'd say Colorado. Well, yeah. That's what I did I say you said Colorado. Oh, what'd you say? Colorado. Oh, you say Colorado. Yeah. No. It's not that. I think it is. It's 100% not Colorado. How do you say Lafayette? Lafayette. It's Lafayette. It's Lafayette. The one Guys, you guys need some you guys need some English lessons. I'm getting this directly from the places that I lived. What are you talking I I was for, I'm gonna say decades or so, criticized on my pronunciation of certain words at my own house. Of course, you were. Where's your wife from? From here. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, you Do you say crayons or crowns? Trouble for breathing over there. Is it crayons or crowns? Crayons. You say what? Crown. My sister-in-law says it too, and it drives me crazy. But I used to Crown. Crowns. Like a crown. Like a And I have a box of crowns. A like a like what Queen Elizabeth wears or wore. Yes. I mean, the same pronunciation. Crayola. Crayon. Yeah. I mean, I phonetically, I could see that. Okay. Well, so We were gotten so freaking derailed today. So how okay. How do you say the the city of the Panhandle, Texas? Amarillo? That's right. Amarillo. K. How do other people say it? Amarillo? Wouldn't that be the her next? I just wanted to see if you could pronounce that. I just shocked you. Alright. So we're in Nevada. Oh, no. I'm sorry. We're actually in California. We're in North Lake Tahoe, California. So we've gone through Donner Pass. Mhmm. Yes. We're not cannibals. We're on 06/05/2021. Police gets, police get dispatched. A 911 call comes in to 3105 or from 3105 Westlake Boulevard, again, in North Lake Tahoe, California. The caller on the other end, not speaking. The 911 dispatcher could hear labored breathing, a TV on in the background, but no voice. Just labored breaths. So they attempt to trace the location of the call. Mhmm. I would assume they use technology based on the cell phone where you can you can typically get it into a pretty close area, but you might have a nine or 27 meter margin of error. Right? So maybe the next door house, the house behind, which I've had happened to me. Why does that have to be meter? I don't know. That's just how it was phrased. Like, I mean Can we play yards here? We could play yards. It just that's a very good point. I mean, it just it is always in meters or was it? Maybe maybe they've changed it to yards. On on the really? That's interesting. I've had that happen, though, where they came to the wrong house at my house at 03:00 in the morning banging on my door. Because the officers didn't know what the meet what how would a meet what meet I mean, it it would have been like, okay. The 911 calls within 27 meters of right here at this point, and that could encompass four houses. Mhmm. Right? So, I mean, they're gonna go knock on all doors. The reason I say that that's what happened to Woodhaven. Anyway Go ahead. Okay. We'll get to that. I'm I'm more curious where the story's going. So the first responding agency was the North Tahoe Fire Protection District. So probably a fancy way of saying a fire department. K? Now, obviously, they've got the forest fires and things like that, so maybe I don't know. So they they get dispatched, but they get sent originally to the wrong house, a neighbor's house. They realize, hey. This isn't it. Again, those cell phone pings aren't precise. So they start going door to door. According to the Sacramento News and Review, the local paper or nearby local paper says, quote, they soon moved on they soon moved on to arrive to the stately home of multimillionaire Gary Spore and his wife, Wendy Wood. There were no signs of movement beyond the window panes. Firefighters circled the dwelling's shadows with their flashlights, calling out for anyone in earshot. There was no response. One captain Gary Nelson. Nelson could only make out two agitated dogs barking somewhere above. Mhmm. The responders decided to make entry. So we call that exigent circumstances. Yeah. So they get a 911 call. They hear labored breathing. No voice on the other end. They go to the wrong house first. They realize, hey. We need to start checking some of these other houses. So they get to this house at 3105 Westlake Drive, and their probably their gut, their intuition, agitated dogs barking, they realize, we probably need to go in here. Somebody's called 911. Somebody's in trouble or having probably a medical problem is what they're thinking. So they enter the home, and when they do, they find 70 year old Gary Spore on the couch. He's got that typical relaxed lean, if you will, or pose on a couch. His feet on the coffee table, his head against the cushion. They don't know if it was Spore who calls, so they search for a pulse. They don't find one. They move Spore to the floor to start CPR. And when they do, they discovered blood and a gunshot wound to the back of his head. Additional firefighters who were in the house noticed a trail of blood and those two agitated dogs moving between the first responders and the primary bedroom. Some say dogs are have a way of communicating. Right? Like, hey. Y'all need to go here, basically, is what I picture. Yeah. So following the trail of of blood, the agitated dogs, first responders enter the bedroom and continue to follow the trail of blood into the primary bathroom. Your dogs have that capability, by the way? Do mine? Communicate with you. No. Go ahead. No. Cooper just be laying there like, what's up, man? Bridgette just be biting him and wrestling. Jumping on jumping on them. Jumping on them. Yeah. So they go into the primary bathroom, and there, they discover 68 year old Wendy Wood. She was on the floor, slumped against the bathtub. Her shirt and hair covered in blood. They see blood smeared on the counter, bathtub and floor. Wood's in grim shape, critical condition, but alive. She was able to provide first responders with her name. Mhmm. The critically wounded Wood was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Reno, Nevada. Whatever you say. So the 911 call, they get there. They make agents of circum an entry into the house on these agents of circumstances, a deceased Gary Spore on the couch, gunshot wound to his head, Wood in the bathroom covered in blood. All she can say is her first name. Wood was the 911 caller, by the way. K. So crime scene secured. Police start their investigation. A Placer County, California Signal 51. Here well, yeah, I guess yeah. An investigation. Yeah. Signal 51. Thanks. You're welcome. Man, we're we're losing it. So they start the investigation. They have a crime scene technician. This is a mouthful reading this. A Platier County, California Sheriff's Office crime scene technician. Good god. Her name's Katie Weldon. She describes the scene as extraordinarily bloody. Yeah. Thousands of blood drops, five fired cartridge casings Mhmm. And some digital media evidence. Like a phone or something maybe? Yeah. Is that what that means? Yeah. Well, we're we're gonna get to the digital stuff. I'm getting ahead of myself here. But one thing she did find, I thought this was interesting. A trapdoor. Trapdoor. I'm always fascinated by the concept of the trapdoor. In a closet under the staircase, this is a multistory house. If you look at it online, it's a cool I mean, every house in Lake Tahoe is gonna be cool. Right? It's a cool looking place, expensive as hell. Yeah. You gotta have a little money. You gotta have some scratch to live to live Yeah. So in this closet, under the staircase, they find the trapdoor. Behind the trapdoor was a second closet, which we're gonna get into. K. So Here's your digital evidence. Yep. So we we talk about the digital evidence. By that, I'm referring to video from the surveillance cameras around the exterior of the home. Quickly, police were able to view that surveillance footage. Now that's not always as easy as it sounds. Right? Every system's different, and this is where some of these forensic style, you know, understanding how to process digital media or digital evidence is important. I would be terrible at that. Can police just go up and take that, Or do they have to go through a judge and get all that stuff or investigate? Well, yeah, I mean, they would need a warrant. Even from the victim's home, they would have to get a warrant for that? So I suppose if you're deceased, you'd have no expectation of privacy. Wood was not deceased. I I couldn't see a scenario where they don't get the warrant at some point. But, again, I'm not a homicide detective. I always operated under the theory that it's it's easier and safer just to get the warrant. Mhmm. Right? I just wonder if they just go up there and grab it and they probab I I don't know. Because, I mean, this is, you know, this is hours after the fire department entered the house. So I don't know how they got it, but they they get video from that surveillance camera system. And, again, that's hard to do. So what they find, in the early afternoon hours, Spore, Gary Spore, his daughter Aaron Spore, Wood, and Aaron's children, so Gary and Wendy's grandkids. Yeah. At approximately 4PM, they depart the home to go boating on Lake Tahoe. I mean, they literally live across the road from the lake. So they leave at four at 05:09PM with the family gone. At 05:09PM with family at Lake Tahoe, the security camera picks up a person clad in a a dark hooded sweatshirt, white or light pants, a face mask, and a backpack. Suspicious. Even more suspicious, the masked intruder person, we don't know, guy, girl, who knows Yeah. Walks up the driveway, opens the garage door using the access code on the keypad. K. So they know the key they know the code. Yep. Enters the residence. About thirty minutes later, 05:40PM, Gary, Wendy, Aaron, and the grandkids return back to the house. They hang out. They go in the house, nothing afoul. Gary cooks dinner. At 07:45, Aaron and her kids leave. Erin doesn't leave empty handed though. Thought this was interesting. She leaves with a check for $90,000 from Wendy. You that's I mean, you've done that with your folks. Know. Just left with a check for 90. For 90 Yeah. Who doesn't? That's it. Thanks, I guess. I mean, whatevs. So they leave at 07:45. Aaron, grandkids Yeah. 90 k richer. For for an indoor riding equestrian facility. There's We're gonna we're gonna get into that. There's some there's some controversy surrounding that that that we'll get into. So one hour later at 08:51, the same security camera that picked up the intruder at 05:09PM detected the sounds of six gunshots in the house. Five to five to six gunshots. Five minutes later, that same intruder is seen leaving the home. So we're 08:56PM. The guy leaves after the gunshots are picked up on the camera. At 09:26PM is when Wendy made that 911 call. So you're talking thirty minutes. You know, we've other ones we've done, the Coslow case Yeah. Similar, right, where where Jack Kozlo escapes the house and goes to the neighbors to make the 911 call. You know, it's a little different. I mean, cell phones, things like that. But there's still that thirty minute period where, you know, Gary's dead on the couch. Wendy, who knows, maybe she's unconscious, regain consciousness. I don't know. So police are there for hours after, you know, conducting that that investigation. One of the first steps was a neighborhood canvas for surveillance video. During a hearing that we'll discuss later, a detective testified that he went through the neighborhood looking for cameras. Very normal. Right? You're you're you're gonna go up and down. And now so many houses, the majority of houses have doorbell cameras or the cameras attached to the exterior. In a neighborhood like this, they all got them. They all got them. But the houses are spread out pretty far. You know, this isn't like a a normal cookie cutter neighborhood, you know, on 6,500 square foot wide. Yeah. But he's got acreage. Yeah. These are this is a I mean, it's a nice area. So the investigators collected, obviously, the security camera from Sport, the Sport Wood home. And detect detective sergeant Chris Carlton later worked through the time stamps and movements captured on the recordings. The video investigation expanded well beyond the immediate house. Like I said, they're gonna canvas the neighborhood looking for more. Ultimately, police assembled footage from the victim's residence, three neighboring homes, a residence in Crescent Valley, Nevada, the Red Lion Inn in Reno, and Tahoe Area Regional Transit. The TART. The TART. Here we call it DART. Over there. Yes. Or over there, Yeah. I should This allowed investigators to begin a begin building a geographical timeline around the masked man and a vehicle that was associated with the case. The vehicle I'm referring to, a tan Subaru. Okay. Very popular car up there, I would assume. A Subaru. I guess. You know, mean, all those mountainous areas. Kind of a desert vehicle with the way Well, that's you know, the outdoorsy vehicle, man. Alright. There you go. You know, you see them all over. So a camera on Sequoia Avenue. It's about 1.4 miles from the Spore home recorded a Subaru parked there. The video showed activity of a female around that associated with that Subaru. Mhmm. Between 06:44 and 09:20 and 09:22PM on June 5. That's the time frame we're talking about here. That's the time frame. So they've got some video evidence they've collected. Now they need to start talking to people. So they begin interviewing people connected to Gary and Wendy. One especially important date is 06/07/2021, two days after the shootings. Detective John Riella interviewed Our man, Dan Serafini. Dan Serafini. So let's get into Serafini real quick. Yeah. Let's do that. So Daniel Joseph Serafini, born 01/25/1974 in San Francisco, California. He grew up in the Bay Area and attended Junipero. Sara High School in San Mateo. Just thank god it's not Nevada. Well, this high school has a quite famous alumni or alumna. Is that alumna if we're referring to I say alum. Alum? Barry Bonds. Barry Bonds. Yes. Barry Bonds. Speaking of Notorious. Yeah. Yeah. He this is a completely side note, but I do find this interesting about Barry Bonds. Number one, I loved watching him hit. Well, I think Barry Bonds is a Hall of Famer before. Correct. I would agree with that. Discovered, allegedly. Before he put on, like, 75 pounds of muscle in, like, two years. And his head grew six inches. Head grew six inches. I could care less. I'm a steroid era baseball fan. We've gone over this. There was nothing more enjoyable back then. Well, I mean, they say, you know, I mean, look. They it was fun. It was a fun watch. You got to admit this. So Bonds is the Barry Bonds famous alumni from from Serafini's high school. But there's also this Serafini guy. There's Serafini. I know what I was gonna say. Totally off topic on this story. Do you watch Jeff Fry's social media? Occasionally. I've seen it. Yes. And he is just going off on this modern day hitting, much like you do. Thank you, Jeff Fry. We appreciate traffic. I can't argue with him. Right? So this guy, I can't remember his name. He's a hitting coach. He's a 60 year old dude, not as probably you know, maybe played baseball when he was a kid or something, but he wanted to recreate the perfect swing. Oh, yeah. Okay. The launch angle and all of the stuff that you can't stand. Slowly, I turned. Yes. He, on some accounts that I've seen, has created or is teaching the Barry Bond swing, which I think is true. It has something to do with the how they Yeah. Barry Bond's a good who's a great hitter. Yeah. It worked for Barry Bonds. Barry Bonds Barry Bonds just slapped the ball around. He wasn't just a home run hitter for sure. This but this is the same guy who's Aaron Judge's batting coach. Okay. It works for Aaron Judge. But there's also another guy, Scott. He was in the Philly system. This Nolan? Scott No. No. No. No. No. No. This is an a a modern more a more modern day guy. Some have attributed that that swing ruined this guy's career. Richard Richard Shank? Shank? Yes. Yes. Widely known online as Teacher Man? Teacher Man. That's it. Teacher Man. And Jeff Fry just goes off on this guy, which I love watching. Alright. I mean, you know, Jeff Fry was a he was a ball player, dude. He was legit. Yeah. He was. So we're getting back on topic here with Serafini. Serafini was a pitcher, left handed pitcher. 1992, he was the Minnesota Twins first round pick. 26 overall. 26 overall. Very high. High. Directly out of high school, signs according to Baseball America, gets that 350 k signing bonus. Back then, that's pretty I mean Yeah. Still good money. Sure. It's real good money back then. Get that in the third round now, not the first. Yeah. Serafini does the typical Journey through the minors. Yeah. Yep. Makes his debut on 06/25/1996, I think. Four years later. Four years later. At 22, that's pretty good. I think so. I don't he doesn't turn out to be a star pitcher. Mhmm. Over the part of the over the next seven seasons, he pitches for the Twins, the Cubs, the Padres, Pirates, Reds, and the Rockies. Yep. His MLB career totals were 104 appearances, 33 starts, a fifteen and sixteen record, 6.04 ERA, and 127 career strikeouts. Serafini's baseball fame or or success, though, if you will, was not here, was not in the MLB. It was in the Japan League. Japan. Make a lot of money over there. Well, we're gonna get to that, in fact. So he joins the I'm I'm just gonna call them the marines in 2004. In 2005, he goes eleven and four with a 100 and, 117 strikeouts, helping the marines win the pacific league pennant and the japan series. Serafini was the winning pitcher in the game four victory that clinched the two thousand and five Japan Series championship. That performance made him valuable enough that several other Japanese clubs pursued him. He subsequently signed a two year contract with the Oryx Buffaloes Sure. For for the 2006, 2007 seasons. He eventually returns back to The US, makes more one more run with the Rockies in 2007. He doesn't stop there. 2013, he's in the World Baseball Classic pitching for team Italy. Yeah. I mean, at this point, the dude's getting he's getting up there. 2013, I mean, on almost 40. Yep. 39 years old. So he had a good a good run. Good enough that over this pretty lengthy career Twenty two seasons is what I just saw. Yeah. From '92 to Well, no. From '88. You know, you could Oh, yeah. '88 to '13, I guess. No. That's that yeah. That can't be twenty two seasons because he got drafted in '92. No. He got drafted in oh, it was '92. You're right. '92. So he gets drafted in '92. His last appearance is 2013 in the in the, WBC. According to Los Angeles Times, twenty two seasons. Okay. So '20 let's let's say twenty two seasons, however they slice or dice it. He makes $14,000,000. Yeah. So he's making, what, $7.50 a year on average. Doing better than I'm doing. Pretty good scratch there. Mhmm. Right? So Serafini is also Set for life is what that should be. Yeah. You in in theory, you should be. So he retires 2013, and he enters the bar business. They say the bar business is typically a short lived venture, typically averaging about five years. Well, that's like a that's like a pro professional sports career. Yeah. Yeah. Now now that that is a short run. I mean, five years. Yeah. Compared to what we're used to. Oh, yeah. I mean, hell, Oscar just celebrated what their seventeenth year and the old mule. The mule would still be open if not for, you know, a landlord dispute landlord dispute. Yeah, it would be. I wish it was too. All right, so hold on a second. So should we cut it right here? We have this Dan Seraphini who is clearly a person of interest in this case that we're discussing. So why don't we cut it here? We'll return next week with probably the conclusion of this case. Mhmm. That means we're gonna have to record in, three weeks, just FYI. Because this is probably a two parter. Okay. So I'm fine with that, though. 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