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[Music] my name is Wayne Ross and I'm a friends of pathologist here in laner County friends of ologist by definition
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is someone who does autopsies I have performed over 8,400 autopsies we get involved in trying to
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understand Mysteries trying to resolve pieces of a puzzle Jan and Michael rosebar would
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have been well known in the community upstanding citizens because a Roseboro funeral home is been there for
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decades Jan was a wonderful woman kind compassionate a loving mother just a great woman Mike and Jan I thought man
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this is like Barbie and Ken you know this is like the perfect couple lster County 911 my wife just
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drown is she breathing no she's not a woman is found unconscious in her swimming pool
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and I received a phone call with the Dan Roseboro had been pronounced dead Oh I thought it was an accident for
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sure I look at these bodies as as a story and there's a plot my role basically was to figure out
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how she died and why she died and she had by all appearances had drowned things began to
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change when I began looking deeper the Lancaster County coroner has ruled the death of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro a
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homicide someone obviously wanted to intentionally kill Jan rosar opportunity and motive as evidence piles up there
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was more than a thousand phone calls and there was more than a thousand text messages things started to come out it
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was like waa I honestly did not know anything was going to happen if I known I would have stopped it we can't believe
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it how do you trust anybody again [Music] I have a strong literature background the great thing about literature is the
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fact that we know there's an end of the story but we don't know what the end of the story is my work is about the
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surprise ending in this case a dead woman spoke she pointed in the direction of of who
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her killer was lady in the pool w [Music] [Applause] [Music] Lancaster county is best known for its
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Amish Heritage and peaceful Pennsylvania lifestyle it's also home to the quiet town of Denver PA where nothing much
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ever happens and folks here like it that way everyone knows everyone else it's a
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great place to raise your children Michael Roseboro and his family all grew up here he was a typical boy he
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liked Sports he was lovable worried about other people's feelings that empathy naturally Drew Michael into the
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family Enterprise a funeral home the roseb have run for more than a century he decided uh in 11th grade that he too
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would like to be a part of the family business Anne Roseboro is Michael's mother he was just so great in in the
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business people people loved him we've had so many people tell us what a car compassionate person he is his younger
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sister Melissa agrees Michael was always um very gregarious always had a lot of friends everyone always loved him and in
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this town of only 3,000 well we knew Jan's family for many years Michael didn't have to look far to fall in love
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they dated about a year before they were married that was 1989 when local girl Jan Binkley became Miss is Michael
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rosebar they were always loving and patient friends who got to know Jan and Michael as a couple say
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they both shared similar qualities he had a good heart he just liked doing things for people and he made a lot of
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money so he shared it she was truly one of the kindest giving Souls I've ever met Becky Donahue was one of
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Jan's closest friends and she did it without the need or the want for acknowledgement Jan and Michael settled
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down and started raising a family their four children were the center of their lives and she truly did live for the
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kids she was involved in all their activities their Sports Mike also found time for sports like lacrosse sharing a
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passion for coaching with two other dads Mark bansner and Frank Tobias we knew Mike as a family man being with Jan and
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every time we'd go out we went out as couples the family we knew and the time we spent with Mike and Jen they were all
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good times in fact to anyone in their tight Circle of Friends the Roseborough seem pretty near perfect close friend
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Ross bansner I never saw him belittle her he never you know really put her down in
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front of us with the funeral business thriving Mike and Jan were able to expand their home in 2008 their brand
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new swimming pool was just open for the summer season we were just together all the
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time but everything suddenly changed the night of July 22nd 2008 Michael Roseboro
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placed an emergency call to 911 is she breathing no she's not is she still in the water no I pulled her out okay do
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you want to try to start CPR on her I will I will yeah Sergeant Larry Martin of the East Calico Police Department was
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one of the first detectives at the scene at least three of the children were asleep in the house at that time police
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got to the house just after 11:00 p.m. he told us that he had gone to bed his wife stayed out by the pool he woke up
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approximately an hour later noticed of the lights were on around the pool went out to extinguish the lights and found
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Jan in the pool got her out and did CPR 45-year-old Jan Roseboro wife mother friend was rushed to the hospital as
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Michael stayed back with the kids but it was too late she was pronounced dead just before midnight Susie F's her
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sister came to my house and got me what'd she say Susie had to grab me and tell me that that she was
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dead and that she had fallen in the pool and had Susie thought she had a heart attack and was dead other friends
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were equally stunned we got a phone call and found out that Jan had had an accident and drowned in a pool extremely
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tough to take it has touched all our families I couldn't believe anything else happened other than the way it was
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presented as an accident we had had a pool party there two days before I slipped on the side of the pool caught
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myself I can see where it happens I can see where she would have slipped and fallen into the pool Michael's sister
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Melissa rushed over to be at her brother's side every time someone else arrived at the house Michael would start
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to cry and then in typical Michael fashion he would pull it together he would hold his composure he was a
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funeral director Mike Roseboro wasn't only composed he could not have been more Cooperative he came to this police
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station voluntarily right that is correct and willingly he never asked for a lawyer when he initially came came yes
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he came and and and just and spoke with us later around 3:00 a.m. roseb even allowed detectives inside his home where
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his three youngest children were still asleep we were there by Michael's invitation we did not have a search warn
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at that time police found nothing unusual in their first walk through I did not see anything
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suspicious but one phone call was about to change everything he made me feel like a woman
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a beautiful woman I believe my wife just Dr is she breathing no she's not is she still in
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the water no I pulled her out caller woke up to found his wife in the pool less than an hour after Roseboro called
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to report finding his wife's lifeless body in their swimming pool for a drowning class one Jan Roseboro was
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pronounced dead at the hospital my reaction when I first came across a body of Jan
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rosebar was essentially an open mind I've got a drowning case here but when Lancaster County's
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forensic pathologist Dr Wayne Ross performed the autopsy things began to change when you began to look on the
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inside of Jen roseboro's body what did you see well then my concerns were raised significantly there was bruises
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basically to the back of the nck what did that tell you I said oh my goodness we have a strangulation here but we have
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a very particular type of strangulation he says Jan was strangled with the koted
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choke hoold along the sides here you got your two cored arteries you got one here
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one here so if I take my arm like this and position it like this right I can compress the left side and the right
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side the exact same time and it takes seconds for somebody to go out wow W and the bruises are in the back almost as if
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it were hidden as you continued looking did you discover anything else we discovered bruises all over the scalp
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that told me that that she had been blood and she been hit about her head uh numerous times numerous
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times the cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries and that was a combination of strangulation uh blun
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force trauma to the head as well as uh drowning it was only after I done the complete internal examination and I was
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convinced this was a homicide so what first appeared to have the Hallmarks of an accidental drowning was now a murder
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investigation a woman is found unconscious in her swimming pool and police tonight say she
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was killed it was a shock to this small town are saying they have absolutely no suspects especially to the Roseboro
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family still reeling from Jan's death what was your reaction when you heard this disbelief I thought who who
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could have done this who would who would do something like that to Jan yet strangely it didn't appear to be
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as shocking to Michael Roseboro he was told this was not an accidental drowning that it was actually
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it was a homicide um they got real no R reaction from him you know not surprise not
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outrage you mean murder what about my family what about myself what about our kids are we
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safe uh we didn't hear any of that I found that very unusual I think that was a lot of his
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his training for being a funeral director he was he was supposed to to keep things supposed to keep his
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composure but investigators weren't buying it their tone seemed to change over the course of the next 24 to 36
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hours especially after the eye-opening tip they got unexpectedly the day after the autopsy one of our Patrol officers
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received a phone call from a person who initially wanted to be anonymous um stating that she had information that
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Michael Roseboro was having an affair with a person by the name of Angel Funk he made me feel beautiful he made you
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feel beautiful yeah 38-year-old Angela Funk just an average ordinary person I guess a married mother
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of two my kids keep me going working as an insurance adjuster and living literally a Stones Throw from the
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funeral home he has to meet one day what started with casual meetings between two
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neighbors over morning coffee they couldn't St thinking about me quickly became an
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obsession how did it become so intense so fast well the communications I mean we didn't see each other a whole lot it
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was more emails phone conversations and that kind of thing when police confronted Angela about the affair it
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was just 7 weeks old I guess the day it started would be May 29th when he called
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me willing ly she turned over some emails a more thorough police investigation later uncovered thousands
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of phone calls and text messages more phone records and more emails like this one which Roseborough sent Angela just
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one week into their dangerous liaison we've had it narrated some would say I'm smitten I say I'm in
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love while Angela continued talking to investigators Roseboro hired a lawyer he was no longer so open with police or
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with his friends really didn't know who now wondered who Michael rosebar really was when the detectives asked me about
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Affairs I was just like well I don't know anything about Affairs you just never saw that Secret side of him never
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saw it and and believe me we've looked back and tried to and we haven't no I mean I I think he wanted to keep this
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good guy image up kind of like Mike was like so pristine like his hair was always in place everything about him
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looked like he just walked off the cover of GQ magazine I think he showed us the
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side he wanted us to see and that he was very good at it very good at it whoever killed Jam rosebar
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intentionally beat her in a way to disguise the injuries as police were taking a closer look at Michael Roseboro
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they noticed minor scratches on his face that that point you know you're starting
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to think he may have been scratched by the victim yet it was by no means a clear-cut case it's impossible to know
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the the exact sequence of events that occurred at the crime scene itself there were no apparent signs of a struggle nor
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any evidence of blood found around the Roseboro pool perhaps in part thanks to Mother Nature on the early morning of
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July 23rd 2008 it rained extremely EXT extremely hard I think one of the reasons they may
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have not been blood there is because of the heavy rainfall he had weaknesses but he absolutely would not
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have chosen murder he would never commit murder no matter what Michael's sister Melissa had
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her own suspicions about what really happened around the pool that summer night I think that after Michael went to
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bed said that Jan was alone out by the pool and someone came on to the property and robbed her and assaulted
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her do you certainly feel that someone from the outside yes came and abs and murdered her
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yes Melissa points to Jan's jewelry like this that suddenly was missing and she thinks Jan was wearing the jewelry that
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night there was a approximately $40,000 worth of jewelry missing from Jan's person roseboro's attorney Alan
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sodomsky you saying this was a robbery there's no question it was a robbery but investigators were more
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focused on what Roseboro was doing the day of Jan's murder turns out he and Angela had a
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3-hour afternoon Trist in this apartment miles away their longest liaison yet that same day Angela also sent Michael
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this email which we've had narrated you are everything to me and I love you when
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you take me as your wife will be the happiest day of my life weeks before his wife was murdered
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Michael Roseboro emailed his secret lover Angela funk I am the happiest man alive I am going to marry you and I am
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going to make every day we are together feel like it is the first day we fell in
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love and she clearly had similar thoughts I will be your wife I want to be your wife I want to love you and your
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children they were obsessed with each other and that's all they were thinking about Lancaster County District Attorney
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Craig stemman read those emails and hundreds more how would you describe this relationship between these two
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people Twisted I mean I've never seen anything like it or heard of anything like it I mean these people just started
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this affair apparently and they're talking about what wedding dress she was going to wear they had plans for where
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it was going to take place did Michael rosebar ever discuss leaving his wife he's never discussed particulars no but
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whenever we talked about it it would be leaving our spouses it was never there were never specifics
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discussed Ro roseboro's attorney Alan sodomsky dismisses the emails as just talk the typical banter you got from him
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was every third or fifth or seventh word has something to do with sex and that's
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unfortunately the type of relationship he had with Angela there was very little uh uh specificity with regard to their
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relationship in the [Music] future but the day of Jan's murder the emails were even more intense and
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sounding very specific specific I need to be your husband Angela I need you to be my wife and those are needs that will
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never diminish or subside I always wondered what it would be like to be your wife I guess I won't have to wonder
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too much longer can you explain those in context of how how they were written too
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much longer I don't it's that doesn't mean it's going to be next week or next year or but you can
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see that it does sound like something is about to happen right not that maybe leaving his spouse but not
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murdering anybody I honestly did not know anything was going to happen if I known I would
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have stopped it I would have said something I would have called the police I would have done something I didn't
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know with little other evidence police knew that talking with roseboro's mistress Angela Funk was key to their
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investigation the reason why we're here obviously cuz you're kind of important part in H investigation I couldn't tell
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you how many times the police talked to me I have no idea a lot a lot did he tell you they loved you
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yes and he respected me and he would do anything for me maybe nothing she told investigators was as
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surprising as what they told her well we can assure you Mike has had severals at
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least one back 10 years and you were just unfortunately one of the I just want to call him to
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say you bastard remarkably she did call him in the middle of the interrogation right
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from her own cell phone Michael who's Kathy you had an affair with her apparently according to her how do I
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know that I trusted you well I don't know what to believe they're telling me you
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know you're the only one that could have done it can't believe that you would ever jeopardize what we have
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Yes dear okay okay all right I love you too but his previous Affairs were no surprise to Jan roseboro's niece Allison
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VanZant and Jan's close friend Becky Donahue did you ever hear that Michael was unfaithful to Jan in the past yes
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what did you hear I heard Jan told me what did you say and she told me that he had had an affair
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earlier I don't know the details but I do know that he had mentioned something I can't have another affair I'll lose
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Jan if I have another affair and Becky knew exactly how Jan found out the last time in 2003 what caught him with the
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other Affair was the gigantic phone bill this time says the da another fateful and suspiciously large phone bill was
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just about in the mail the cell phone bill was apparently coming to the house and I believe Jan paid all the bills
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certainly Mr Roseboro would have known that was coming any day I think the bill was cut the day before she was murdered
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she would have seen a $688 telephone bill is not going to take a a brain surgeon to figure out what's going on
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based on the fact that he had cheated on her before it would have been over and and he knows that Jan didn't spew her
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guts about her hurts and her pains she carried them a lot and Becky was at the Rose borrows
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just weeks before Jan's death when she witnessed a revealing conversation between Jan and her daughter
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Jan said it's funny how much paperwork your dad's having at the funeral home all of a sudden you think she knew about
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it I think she was beginning to suspect suspicion of another affair maybe so but
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most stunning of all was the secret Angela says she revealed to Michael 10 days after the murder AUST 1st 2008 I
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took a pregnancy test and did it come back positive yes Angela was certain that Michael
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Roseboro was the father since she knew her husband had had a vasectomy when did you tell Michael about it the same day
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what was his reaction shock dismay what did he say he said under normal circumstances he would be happy but this
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is obviously not under normal circumstances the day after he found out Angela was pregnant with his baby and 11
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days after Jan's death Michael Roseboro was arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of his
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wife Roseboro spent the next 8 months in this prison before ever talking to Angela again then in April 2009 just
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weeks after their baby was born he called her the prison made this recording he looks just like you that's
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what Alan told me yeah he is spitting image of you yeah poor guy I don't think it's that bad you don't have a chance no
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it's not bad at all oh my goodness so good to hear your voice now a confused Angela Funk is
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trying to make sense of the last year it's happened so fast that in one minute no I'm lonely Cloud n and now I'm in
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hell he was a greedy man he wanted it all so he made a choice to betray those closest to him uh his wife of 19 years
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and he murdered her to be with his girlfriend there is no way that the affair that happened between the two of
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them was the motive or the reason for Jan roseb bur's death nearly a year after Jan Roseboro
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was found in the pool her husband is about to be tried for m Mur I believe in Michael very much and I believe Michael
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did not uh commit this crime we don't have an eyewitness we don't have a confession um there's work to be done
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and uh it's going to be it's going to be a battle to the [Music] end it's been a tough year for uh
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Michael but the year in prison isn't good for anybody Michael Roseboro has been incarcerated since August 2008 when
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he was arrested and charged with murdering his wife Jan I still have my dad I talk to him every day but
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19-year-old Sam the oldest of Michael's four children believes his father's days
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in jail are numbered I'm sure my dad's coming back just cuz I know he's innocent and you believe strongly that
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he'll be acquitted yeah I believe 100% on July 13th 2009 almost one year to the day after Jan Roseboro death her
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husband's trial begins opening statements began today in the case of a Lancaster County funeral director
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accused of killing his wife in his opening argument district attorney Craig Stedman describes a motive that he says
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is pretty straightforward this case is about a man who was obsessed with being with his girlfriend when he happened to
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be married to his wife and he killed his wife to be with his girlfriend that is the entirety of their case defense
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attorney Alan sodomsky points out there is no murder weapon no eyewitness and no
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confession even the da admits his case has challenges there was no one single piece of evidence that was going to
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going to say okay we got them or we're there it was a circumstantial case it's putting the pieces
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together one of the prosecutor's first pieces of evidence is Michael roseboro's 911 call bankster County 911 I believe
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my wife just drowned what happened I had going to bed about an hour and a half and she was outside and I came out I Saw
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The Light p on the pool there is no urgency there whatsoever and you fact one of the first things he ends up going
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into is essentially his Alibi I'm not exactly sure the appropriate way to behave on a 911 call roseboro's Family
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believes anything he said would have been scrutinized if he had been hysterical they would have said he
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staged the hysteria knowing Michael handled it exactly like like I would have expected
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him to but just how well did they really know him no question he was leading a double life on the one hand he was
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apparently a nice polite uh funeral director respected in the community on the other hand he was spending
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essentially most of his waking days communicating with his mistress and how they could be together and that
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communication left a trail of evidence records of more than ,400 phone calls 1,000 text messages and of course those
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emails compiled into this 200 Page booklet and read one by one to the jury over 5 hours then on the seventh day of
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the trial the da star witness takes the stand mistress Angela funks been almost the entire day on the witness stand and
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she'll be back how do you feel about walking into that courtroom for the first time I was
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humiliated absolutely humiliated stemman wastes no time confronting Angela about
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her communication with Roseborough on the day of Jan's murder on that day they spent more time together than they ever
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had done they spent that whole afternoon together we you know had sex he gets home he calls her again he's
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talking to her for 17 minutes right before Jan Roseboro is killed he was good at telling stories
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and jokes and and stuff like that that's basically all I can remember the phone calls and again another big coincidence
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she was pregnant with the defendant's baby I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant to her after she was
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murdered do you think Angela Funk knows more than she's saying in court there significant evidence that she knew more
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he thinks I'm holding something back and I've told him everything I could possibly tell
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him Angela's testimony stretches into a second day but she doesn't waver nevertheless she does give the
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prosecution something it needs Angela Funk clearly provided the motive in this case does that mean that
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she knew a murder was going to take place no I don't think she did um we have no evidence to that effect
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confident that he has established roseboro's motive the da decides to attack the defense theory that Jan was
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robbed and killed for her jewelry he enters these security camera images into evidence somebody had seen Jan rosor in
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the bank that afternoon and knew that she wasn't wearing jewelry and by the way she was wearing the same clothes
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that afternoon as she was when she was murdered the robbery story stemman argues was created by Roseboro only
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after he became a suspect random Killers walking around looking for for some housewife who happens to be sitting
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outside her pool by herself wearing $40,000 worth of jewelry at 10:30 at night uh you know incredibly
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absurd the defense does not raised the issue again but Michael's family insists that Jan's jewelry is still missing do
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you think she had the jewelry on when she was picked up by the coroner no what are you saying then I'm saying that that
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that it was taken by whomever killed her but no one else could have killed Jan stemman argues what random killer is
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going to kill somebody and take time to clean up he points to the crime scene police took these photos after Jan's
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death and before it started to rain it it was surprising to me that there wasn't evidence of blood at the scene
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forensic pathologist Dr Wayne Ross testifies that Jan Roseboro was brutally beaten before she drowned her head was
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impacted multiple times we know there's a tear behind the left ear which I believe would have bled fairly profusely
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and that alerted me to the fact that the blood had been cleaned up um by someone
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and of course who's better capable and has better knowledge of cleaning up blood than a funeral director but
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potentially more damaging to Rose burrow is the next Revelation about those scratches on his face Michael claimed he
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got them while playing in the pool with his youngest daughter Stella we found out after witness after witness that
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Stella bit her nails down to the quick to the point there's no way she could have scratched anybody her nails were
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short so what does that mean you can't scratch somebody if you have short nails um that's absurd Dr Ross set out to
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determine if the scratches came from Jan's fingernails what did you find we were able to find Michael Rose's DNA
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underneath his fingernails and if you look at that evidence and look at his face that indicates that she was
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fighting for her life you're basically saying that Jan Roseboro uh through forensic evidence
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was able to identify her killer oh there's no question about it she did testify uh through the forensic evidence
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that Michael Roseboro murdered her and on that powerful last piece of evidence the prosecution rests its case Craig
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thinks that's their case I mean the the DNA issue I truly since no television cameras are allowed in criminal trials
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here in Pennsylvania we've come to the defense attorney's office to get a sense of how this team feels its case is going
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would you concede that the prosecution did make some points with the jury today when they talked about uh DNA evidence
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found under Jan roseboro's fingernails there's a reason for that and uh I think that uh the jury's about to hear the
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reason for that roseboro's defense rests largely on one key witness his son Sam rosebar did take the stand and for the
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Sam Roseboro tells the jury that he wasn't planning to leave home on the night his mother died so if this was a
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plan to murder Jan uh what would have happened if Sam didn't go out that night but Sam did go
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out and he says he saw something important as he left Mike and Jan were at the pool as Sam left Jan was
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scratching Mike's back and that argues the defense is how Michael's DNA ended up under Jan's fingernails but Dr Ross
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is highly skeptical if it were just a light scratch once she's in the pool that would have washed off and it didn't
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wash off and why is that because the amount of DNA that was founded underneath the nails was a significant
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amount which meant that the fingernails were deeply embedded in skin we were not
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dealing with light scratches here the defense calls only seven more witnesses the decision as to whether or
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not Michael was going to testify is ultimately up to Michael and always was Roseboro does not take the stand and
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after a day and a half the defense rests as criminal defense attorneys the majority of what we do is we're counter
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punchers we have to react to the evidence and the evidence sadamy says does not prove that Michael Roseboro
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committed Jan's murder it's now up to the jury to decide all you need is one person one person
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one vote can change a [Music] verdict it's a card from Michael's first grade teacher
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I can't imagine what you people are going through I'll always remember Michael as a very caring supportive
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friendly young man he is just wanted to let you know that you're in our thoughts
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and prayers with those sentiments and the prayers of supporters Anne Roseboro awaits her son's fate now in the hands
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of the jury just an hour into deliberations jurors return unexpectedly to this Lancaster County courtroom
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lster County 911 they want roseboro's 911 call replayed okay is she breathing no she's not is she still in the water
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no I pulled her out what thoughts are going through your mind I think nothing but good for us because he's not asking
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for help he never asked for help at all he reports it as if he's calling in that
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there's a traffic light down on his corner of the street I did not find the 911 tape to be uh devoid of emotion I
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found it to be Mike Roseboro I found it to be who he is I want to get out of the pool she still
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in the pool I thought you said she was out of the pool oh my God she I'm sorry she's
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at the pool he had a quiet desperation in his voice that I could hear it was a a quivery
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desperation whatever the true emotion less than 4 hours later jurors are back in court this time with a verdict guilty
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of first-degree murder in the death of his wife Jan Michael Roseboro is is now convicted of first-degree murder and
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will spend the rest of his life Behind Bars I think my reaction was just total devastation I just turned to my husband
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and sobbed your world is just completely fractured in that moment you still believe in your son's innocence I do
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absolutely for Jan's sister the joy of a verdict is tinged with with sadness Jan
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was truly truly a wonderful mother sister aunt and friend she was there for anyone any time and she will be honored
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in heaven and Jan's niece Allison unfortunately there's no truly happy ending to this tragic story I'm speaking
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on behalf of my family our thoughts and prayers uh go out to the rosebar family at their difficult time right now but
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there's some satisfaction po investigators as a friend of pathologist my job is to solve the mystery I I
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believe quite clearly that we were able to solve the mystery of jam Rose's death
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for district attorney Craig Stedman it's a time for reflection at the end of a yearlong fight you kept a picture of Jan
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rosebar at your home on your desk why' you do that I kept that picture there for inspiration for me to keep me
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motivated when I needed to get motivated it's not a victory I mean the only Victory would bring Jan back and and
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it's never going to happen I mean it's Justice however the Roseboro defense team is not ready to quit was Justice
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served obviously I don't believe it was I respect the jury and I respect the jury system uh in this case uh I believe
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the answer is the wrong one as for Michael Roseboro after a year of Silence he's finally ready to talk just weeks
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after the verdict he agreed to an interview with 48 hours to discuss the case Michael how are you I'm Harold D
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but the warden invoked his right to make the prison's own recording and Rose Burrow's lawyer objected okay and you
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understand this he has a statement no questions right yes okay instead he said his client would only read a brief
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statement to me with no questions allowed my name is Michael Roseboro I've been accused of killing my
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wife Jan who I've been married for 19 years I did not and I would never kill my wife I had nothing to do with her murder
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and I miss her very much do you think he did it because he loved you he didn't love me if he killed
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his wife for me he used me he used you that's how I feel yeah and you feel bad about what's happened yeah I feel
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terrible for those kids of those four kids Sam rosebar is now living with Michael's parents the
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others are being raised by Jan's sister in the same house where their mother was
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found dead in the pool I just hope that there is some peace and I hope they can at some point recognize what a special
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special person they were given for a very short time very short time and just across town Angela Funk is
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still living with her husband their two children and the baby she had with Michael how would you describe the state
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of your marriage right now day by day do you talk about the essentials what do you want people to
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know about you I want people to know that I'm sorry for my indiscretions with Michael
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I'm sorry to his family to his kids to Jan's family to my family and with my friends I hurt a lot of
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people and I'm sorry and as for the man who fathered her baby and was found guilty of murdering his
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wife if you could say something to Michael Roseboro what would you say to him be
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honest to your family to your kids to Jan's family they deserve to know the truth
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