48 Hours - Lady in the Pool

Episode Date: July 20, 2023

This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 3/6/2010, begins on July 22, 2008, when Michael Roseboro, a funeral director in Denver, Pennsylvania, called 911 to report that he had just found the body of his wife, Jan, at the bottom of their swimming pool. Less than an hour later, she was pronounced dead. An autopsy revealed that she had been strangled, beaten and then drowned. Her death was ruled a homicide and the investigation that followed pointed to Michael's personal obsession. 48 Hours correspondent Harold Dow reports.Watch all-new episodes of 48 Hours on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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We get involved in trying to understand mysteries, trying to resolve pieces of a puzzle. Jan and Michael Roseboro would have been well-known in the community. Upstanding citizens because a Roseboro Funeral Home has been there for decades. Jan was a wonderful woman, kind, compassionate, a loving mother, just a great woman. Mike and Jan, I thought, man, this is like Barbie and Ken, you know, this is like the perfect couple. Lancaster County 911. I believe my wife is drowned. Is she breathing? No, she's not.

A woman is found unconscious in her swimming pool. I received a phone call that the J.N. Roseborough had been pronounced dead. I thought it was an accident for sure. I look at these bodies as a story and there's a plot. My role basically was to figure out how she died and why she died and she had by all appearances had drowned. Things began to change when I began looking deeper. The Lancaster County coroner has ruled the death of 45-year-old Jan Roseborough a homicide.

Someone obviously wanted to intentionally kill Jan Roseborough. Opportunity and motive as evidence piles up. There was more than a thousand phone calls, and there was more than a thousand text messages. Things started to come out, and it was like, whoa. I honestly did not know anything was going to happen. If I'd known, I would have stopped it. We can't believe it. How do you trust anybody again?

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It's a great place to raise your children. Michael Roseboro and his family all grew up here. He was a typical boy. He liked sports. He was lovable, worried about other people's feelings. That empathy naturally drew Michael into the family enterprise, a funeral home the Roseburrows have run for more than a century. Ann Roseborough, He decided in 11th grade that he too would like to be a part of the family business. Ann Roseborough is Michael's mother. Ann Roseborough, He was just so great in the business.

People loved him. Ann Roseborough, We've had so many people tell us what a caring, compassionate person he is. His younger sister, Melissa, agrees. Michael was always very gregarious, always had a lot of friends. Everyone always loved him. And in this town of only 3,000.

We knew Jan's family for many years. Michael didn't have to look far to fall in love. They dated about a year before they were married. That was 1989 when local girl Jan Binkley became Mrs. Michael Roseboro. They were always loving and patient. Friends who got to know Jan and Michael as a couple say they both shared similar qualities. He had a good heart. He just liked doing things for people, and he made a lot of money, so he shared it.

She was truly one of the kindest giving souls I've ever met. Becky Donahue was one of Jan's closest friends. And she did it without the need or the want for acknowledgement. Jan and Michael settled down and started raising a family. Their four children were the center of their lives. And she truly did live for the kids. She was involved in all their activities, their sports.

Mike also found time for sports, like lacrosse, sharing a passion for coaching with two other dads, Mark Banzner and Frank Tobias. We knew Mike as a family man. Being with Jan, every time we'd go out, we went out as couples. The family we knew and the time we spent with Mike and Jan, they were all good times. In fact, to anyone in their tight circle of friends, the Roseburrows seem pretty near perfect. Close friend, Ross Bansner. I never saw him belittle her.

He never, you know, really put her down in front of us. With the funeral business thriving, Mike and Jan were able to expand their home in 2008. Their brand new swimming pool was just open for the summer season. We were just together all the time. But everything suddenly changed the night of July 22, 2008.

Michael Roseborough placed an emergency call to 911. Is she breathing? No, she's not. Is she still in the water? No, I pulled her out. OK, do you want to try to start CPR on her? I will, I will. Yeah.

Sergeant Larry Martin of the East Cocalico Police Department was one of the first detectives at the scene. At least three of the children were asleep in the house at that time. Police got to the house just after 11 p.m. He told us that he had gone to bed, his wife had stayed out by the pool. He woke up approximately an hour later, noticed that the lights were on around the pool, went out to extinguish the lights,

and found Jan in the pool, got her out, and did CPR. 45-year-old Jan Roseborough, wife, mother, friend, was rushed to the hospital as Michael stayed back with the kids. But it was too late. She was pronounced dead just before midnight. Susie Van Zandt, her sister, came to my house and got me. What'd she say? Susie had to grab me and tell me that she was dead.

that she was dead. And that she had fallen in the pool, and Susie thought she had a heart attack and was dead. Other friends were equally stunned. We got a phone call and found out that Jan had had an accident and drowned in a pool. Extremely tough to take. It has touched all our families. I couldn't believe anything else happened

other than the way it was presented as an accident. We had had a pool party there two days before. I slipped on the side of the pool, caught myself. I can see where it happens. I can see where she would have slipped and fallen into the pool. Michael's sister, Melissa, rushed over to be at her brother's side. Every time someone else arrived at the house, Michael would start to cry. And then, in typical Michael fashion, he would pull it together.

He would hold his composure. He was a funeral director. Mike Roseborough wasn't only composed, he could not have been more cooperative. He came to this police station voluntarily, right? That is correct. And willingly. He never asked for a lawyer? When he initially came, yes, he came and just spoke with us.

Later, around 3 a.m., Roseboro even allowed detectives inside his home, where his three youngest children were still asleep. We were there by Michael's invitation. We did not have a search warrant at that time. Police found nothing unusual in their first walkthrough. I did not see anything suspicious.

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Less than an hour after Michael Roseboro called to report finding his wife's lifeless body in their swimming pool... He asked for a drowning class one. Jan Roseboro was pronounced dead at the hospital. Jan Roseboro was pronounced dead at the hospital. My reaction when I first came across the body of Jan Roseboro was essentially an open mind. I've got a drowning case here. But when Lancaster County's forensic pathologist, Dr. Wayne Ross, performed the autopsy,

things began to change. When you began to look on the inside of Jan Roseboro's body, what did you see? Well, then my concerns were raised significantly. There was bruises basically to the back of the neck. What did that tell you? I said, oh my goodness, we have a strangulation here. But we have a very particular type of strangulation. He says Jan was strangled with a carotid chokehold.

Along the sides here, you got your two carotid arteries. You got one here, 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 side the exact same time, and it takes seconds for somebody to go out. Wow. Wow. And the bruises are in the back almost as if it were hidden. As you continued looking, did you discover anything else?

We discovered bruises all over the scalp. That told me that she'd been bludgeoned, and she'd been hit about her head numerous times, numerous times. The cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries, and that was a combination of strangulation, blunt force trauma to the head, as well as drowning. It was only after I'd done the complete internal examination and I was convinced this was a homicide So what first appeared to have the hallmarks of an accidental drowning?

was now a murder investigation a Woman is found unconscious in her swimming pool and police tonight say she was killed It was a shock to this small town saying they are saying they have absolutely no suspects. Especially to the Roseboro family, still reeling from Jan's death. What was your reaction when you heard this? Disbelief. I thought, who could have done this? Who would do something like that to Jan? Yet strangely, it didn't appear to be as shocking

to Michael Roseboro. He was told this was not an accidental drowning, that it was actually, it was a homicide. They got no real reaction from him. You know, not surprised, not outraged. You mean murder? What about my family? What about myself?

What about our kids? Are we safe? We didn't hear any of that. I found that very unusual. I think that was a lot of his training for being a funeral director. He was supposed to keep his composure. But investigators weren't buying it. Their tone seemed to change over the course of the next 24 to 36 hours. Especially after the eye-opening tip they got unexpectedly the day after the autopsy.

One of our patrol officers received a phone call from a person who initially wanted to be anonymous, stating that she had information that Michael Roseboro was having an affair with a person by the name of Angela Funk. He made me feel beautiful. He made you feel beautiful? Yeah. 38-year-old Angela Funk.

Just an average, ordinary person, I guess. A married mother of two. My kids keep me going. Working as an insurance adjuster and living literally a stone's throw from the funeral home. He has to meet one day. What started with casual meetings

between two neighbors over morning coffee They couldn't stop thinking about me. quickly became an obsession. How did it become so intense so fast? Well, the communications, I mean, we didn't see each other a whole lot. It was more emails, phone conversations, and that kind of thing.

When police confronted Angela about the affair, it was just seven weeks old. I guess the date it started would be May 29th when he called me. Willingly, she turned over some emails. A more thorough police investigation later uncovered thousands of phone calls and text messages. There are more phone records. And more emails like this one, which Roseborough sent Angela just one week into their dangerous liaison.

We've had it narrated. Some would say I'm smitten. I say I'm in love. While Angela continued talking to investigators, Roseborough hired a lawyer. He was no longer so open with police or with his friends. No, I didn't know. Who now wondered who Michael Roseborough really was. When the detectives asked me about affairs, I was just like, well, I don't know anything about affairs. You just never saw that secret side of him?

Never saw it. And believe me, we've looked back and tried to, and we haven't. No, I mean, I think he wanted to keep this good guy image out. Kind of like Mike was, like, so pristine. Like like his hair was always in place, everything about him looked like he just walked off the cover of GQ magazine. I think he showed us the side he wanted us to see and that he was very good at it, very good at it. Whoever killed Jan Rosebarrow intentionally beat her in a way to disguise the injuries.

As police were taking a closer look at Michael Roseboro, they noticed minor scratches on his face. At that point, you know, you're starting 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 the exact sequence of events that occurred. At the crime scene itself, there were no apparent signs of a struggle, nor any evidence of blood found around the Roseboro pool, perhaps in part thanks to Mother Nature.

On the early morning of July 23, 2008, it rained extremely, extremely hard. I think one of the reasons there may have not been blood there is because of the heavy rainfall. He had weaknesses, but he absolutely would not have chosen murder. He would never commit murder, no matter what. he would never commit murder, no matter what. Michael's sister, Melissa, had her own suspicions about what really happened around the pool that summer night. I think that after Michael went to bed,

that Jan was alone out by the pool, and someone came onto the property and robbed her and assaulted her. Do you certainly feel that someone from the outside came and killed her and assaulted her. You certainly feel that someone from the outside came and killed her. Yes, absolutely. And murdered her. Yes. Melissa points to Jan's jewelry like this that suddenly was missing,

and she thinks Jan was wearing the jewelry that night. There was approximately $40,000 worth of jewelry missing from Jan's person. Roseboro's attorney, Alan Sadomsky. You're saying this was a robbery? There's no question it was a robbery. But investigators were more focused on what Roseboro was doing the day of Jan's murder. Roseboro was doing the day of Jan's murder. Turns out he and Angela had a three-hour afternoon tryst in this apartment miles away, their longest liaison yet. That same day Angela also sent Michael this email which we've had

narrated. You are everything to me and I love you. When you take me as your wife will be the happiest day of my life. Weeks before his wife was murdered, Michael Roseborough emailed his secret lover, Angela Funk. I am the happiest man alive. I am going to marry you, and I am going to make every day we are together feel like it is the first day we fell in 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 children. They were obsessed with each other, and that's all they were thinking about.

Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman read those emails and hundreds more. How would you describe this relationship between these two people? Twisted. I mean, I've never seen anything like it or heard of anything like it. I mean, these people just started this affair, apparently, and they're talking about what wedding dress she was going to wear, they had plans for where it was going to take place. Did Michael Roseboro ever discuss leaving his wife? He's never discussed particulars, no, but whenever we talked about it,

it would be leaving our spouses. It was never, there were never specifics discussed. Roseboro's attorney, Alan Sadomsky, dismisses the emails as just talk. The typical banter you got from him was every third or fifth or seventh word has something to do with sex. And that's unfortunately the type of relationship he had with Angela. There was very little specificity with regard to their relationship in the future. specificity with regard to their relationship in the future. But the day of Jan's murder, the emails were even more intense and sounding very specific. I need to be your husband, Angela. I need you to be my wife.

And those are needs that will never diminish or subside. I always wondered what it would be like to be your wife. I guess I won't have to wonder too much longer. Can you explain those in context of how they were written? Too much longer, I don't, it's, that doesn't mean it's going to be next week or next year. But you can see that it does sound like something is about to happen. What? Not that.

Not what? Maybe leaving his spouse, but not murdering anybody. I honestly did not know anything was going to happen. If I'd known, I would have stopped it. I would have said something. I would have called the police. I would have done something. I didn't know. With little other evidence,

police knew that talking with Roseboro's mistress, Angela Funk, was key to their investigation. The reason why we're here, obviously, is because you're kind of an important part in this homicide investigation. I couldn't tell you how many times the police talked to me. I have no idea. A lot. A lot.

Did they tell you they loved you? Yes. And you respected me. And you would do anything for me. Maybe nothing she told investigators was as surprising as what they told her. Well, we can assure you, Mike has had several affairs, at least for about 10 years. Wow.

And you were just unfortunately one of them. I just want to call him and say, you bastard. Remarkably, she did call him in the middle of the interrogation, right from her own cell phone. Michael, who's Kathy? You had an affair with her, apparently, according to her. How do I know that? I trusted you.

I don't know what to believe. They're telling me, you know, you're the only one that could have done it. Can't believe that you would ever jeopardize what we had. Yes, dear. Okay, okay, all right. I love you too. But his previous affairs were no surprise to Jan Roseboro's niece, Alison Van Zant, and Jan's close friend, Becky Donahue.

Did you ever hear that Michael was unfaithful to Jan in the past? Yes. What did you hear? I heard Jan told me. What did she say? And she told me that he had had an affair earlier. She told me that he had had an affair 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 Jan if I have another affair. And Becky knew exactly how Jan found out the last time, in 2003. What caught him with the other affair was the gigantic phone bill. What caught him with the other affair was the gigantic phone bill. This time, says the DA, another fateful and suspiciously large phone bill was just about in the mail. The cell phone bill was apparently coming to the house, and I believe Jan paid all the bills. Certainly, Mr. Roseboro would have known that was coming any day. I think the bill was cut the day before she was murdered.

She would have seen a $688 telephone bill. It's not going to take a brain surgeon to figure out what's going on based on the fact that he had cheated on her before. It would have been over, and he knows that. Jan didn't spew her guts about her hurts and her pain. She carried them a lot. And Becky was at the Roseboros just weeks before Jan's death when she witnessed a revealing conversation between Jan and her daughter.

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 it? I think she was beginning to suspect. Suspicion of another affair? Maybe so, but most stunning of all was the secret Angela says she revealed to Michael 10 days after the murder. August 1st, 2008, I took a pregnancy test. Did it come back positive? Yes.

Angela was certain that Michael Roseborough was the father since she knew her husband had had a vasectomy. When did you tell Michael about it? The same day. What was his reaction? Shock, dismay. What did he say? He said under normal circumstances, he would be happy, but this is obviously not under normal circumstances.

The day after he found out Angela was pregnant with his baby and 11 days after Jan's death, Michael Roseborough was arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of his wife. Roseborough spent the next eight months in this prison before ever talking to Angela again. Then in April 2009, just weeks after their baby was born, he called her. The prison made this recording. He looks just like you.

That's what Alan told me. Yeah, he is a fit image of you. Yeah. Poor guy. I don't think it's that bad. You don't have a chance. No, it's not bad at all. Oh my goodness, so good to hear your voice. Not bad at all.

Oh, my goodness. I'm going to hear your voice. Now, a confused Angela Funk is trying to make sense of the last year. It happened so fast that in one minute, now, I'm lonely cloud nine, and now I'm in hell. He was a greedy man. He wanted it all. So he made a choice to betray those closest to him, his wife of 19 years. And he murdered her to be with his girlfriend. There was no way that the affair that happened between the two of them was the motive or the reason for Jan Roseboro's death.

Nearly a year after Jan Roseboro was found in the pool, her husband is about to be tried for murder. I believe in Michael very much, and I believe Michael did not commit this crime. We don't have an eyewitness. We don't have a confession. There's work to be done, and it's going to be a battle to the end. there's work to be done, and it's going to be a battle to the end.

It's been a tough year for Michael, but a year in prison isn't good for anybody. Michael Roseborough has been incarcerated since August 2008, when he was arrested and charged with murdering his wife, Jan. I still have my dad. I talk to him every day. But 19-year-old Sam, the oldest of Michael's four children, believes his father's days in jail are numbered. I'm sure my dad's coming back, just because I know he's innocent. And you believe strongly that he'll be acquitted? Yeah, I believe 100%.

On July 13, 2009, almost one year to the day after Jan Roseboro's death, her husband's trial begins. Opening statements began today in the case of a Lancaster County funeral director accused of killing his wife. In his opening argument, District Attorney Craig Stedman describes a motive that he says is pretty straightforward. This case is about a man who was obsessed with being with

his girlfriend when he happened to be married to his wife, and he killed his wife to be with his girlfriend. That is the entirety of their case. Defense Attorney Alan Sadomsky points out there is no murder weapon, no eyewitness, and no confession. Even the DA admits his case has challenges. There was no one single piece of evidence that was going to say, okay, we got him or we're there. If it's a circumstantial case, it's putting the pieces together. One of the prosecutor's first pieces of evidence is Michael Roseboro's 911 call. Lancaster County 911. I believe my wife just drowned. What happened?

I had gone to bed about an hour and a half ago, and she was outside, and I came out, and I saw the wife just go in the pool. There is no urgency there whatsoever. In fact, one of the first things he ends up going into is essentially his alibi. I'm not exactly sure the appropriate way to behave on a 911 call. Roseboro's family believes anything he said would have been scrutinized.

If he had been hysterical, they would have said he staged the hysteria. Knowing Michael handled it exactly like I would have expected 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 apparently a nice, polite funeral director, respected in the community. On the other hand, he was spending essentially most of his waking days communicating with his mistress on how they could be together. And that communication left a trail of evidence. Records of more than 1,400 phone calls,

1,000 text messages, and of course those emails compiled into this 200-page booklet and read one by one to the jury over five hours. Then on the seventh day of the trial, the DA's star witness takes the stand. Mistress Angela Funk spent almost the entire day on the witness stand and she'll be back in a minute. How do you feel about walking into that courtroom for the first time? I was humiliated. Absolutely humiliated.

Stedman wastes no time confronting Angela about her communication with Roseboro on the day of Jan's murder. On that day, they spent more time together than they ever had done. They spent that whole afternoon together. We, you know, had sex. He gets home, he calls her again, he's talking to her for 17 minutes right before Jan Roseboro is killed. He was good at telling stories and jokes and stuff like that. That's basically all I can remember are the phone calls.

And again, another big coincidence. She was pregnant with the defendant's baby. I didn't know I was pregnant until after she was murdered. Do you think Angela fucking knows more than she's saying in court? There's significant evidence that she knew more. He thinks I'm holding something back, and I've told him everything I could possibly tell him. Angela's testimony stretches into a second day, but she doesn't waver.

Nevertheless, she does give the prosecution something it needs. Angela Fung clearly provided the motive in this case. Does that mean that she knew a murder was going to take place? No, I don't think she did. We have no evidence to that effect. Confident that he has established Roseboro's motive, the DA decides to attack

the defense theory that Jan was robbed and killed for her jewelry. He enters these security camera images into evidence. Somebody had seen Jan Roseboro in the bank that afternoon and knew that she wasn't wearing jewelry. And by the way, she was wearing the same clothes that afternoon as she was when she was murdered. The robbery story, Stedman argues,

was created by Roseborough only after he became a suspect. Random killers walking around looking for some housewife who happens to be sitting outside her pool by herself wearing $40,000 worth of jewelry at 10.30 at night. You know, incredibly absurd. The defense does not raise the issue again, but Michael's family insists that Jan's jewelry is still missing. Do 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 it was taken by whomever killed her. But no one else could have killed Jan, Stedman argues. What random killer is going to kill somebody and take time to clean up? He points to the crime scene. Police took these photos after Jan's death and before it started to rain. It was surprising to me that there wasn't evidence of blood at the scene.

It was surprising to me that there wasn't evidence of blood at the scene. Forensic pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross testifies that Jan Roseborough was brutally beaten before she drowned. Her head was impacted multiple times. We know there was a tear behind the left ear, which I believe would have bled fairly profusely. And that alerted me to the fact that the blood had been cleaned up by someone. And of course, who's better capable and has better knowledge of cleaning up blood than a funeral director? But potentially more damaging to Roseboro

is the next revelation about those scratches on his face. Michael claimed he got them while playing in the pool with his youngest daughter, Stella. We found out, after witness after witness, that Stella bit her nails down to the quick, to the point there's no way she could have scratched anybody. Her nails were short, so what does that mean? You can't scratch somebody if you have short nails? That's absurd.

Dr. Ross set out to determine if the scratches came from Jan's fingernails. What did you find? We were able to find Michael Rose roseborough's dna underneath his fingernails and if you look at that evidence and look at his face that indicates that she was fighting for her life you're basically saying that jan roseborough through forensic evidence was able to identify her killer oh there's no question about it she did testify uh through the forensic evidence that Michael Roseboro murdered her. And on that powerful last piece of evidence, the prosecution rests its case. Craig thinks that's their case. I mean, the DNA issue, I truly believe... Since no television cameras are allowed in criminal trials 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. Would you concede that the prosecution did make some points with the jury today when they talked about DNA evidence found under Jan Roseboro's fingernails? There's a reason for that, and I think that the jury's about to hear the reason for that. Roseboro's defense rests largely on one key witness, his son. Sam Roseboro tells the jury that he wasn't planning

to leave home on the night his mother died. So if this was a plan to murder Jan, what would have happened if Sam didn't go out that night? But Sam did go out, and he says he saw something important as he left. Mike and Jan were at the pool. As Sam left, Jan was scratching Mike's back.

And that, argues the defense, is how Michael's DNA ended up under Jan's fingernails. But Dr. Ross is highly skeptical. If it were just a light scratch, once he's in the pool that would have washed off and it didn't wash off and why is that because of the amount of DNA that was founded underneath the nails was a significant amount which meant that the fingernails were deeply embedded in skin we were not dealing with light scratches here. The defense calls only seven more witnesses.

The decision as to whether or not Michael was going to testify is ultimately up to Michael and always was. Roseboro does not take the stand. And after a day and a half, the defense rests. As criminal defense attorneys, the majority of what we do is we're counterpunchers.

We have to react to the evidence. And the evidence, Sadomsky says, does not prove that Michael Roseborough committed Jan's murder. It's now up to the jury to decide. All you need is one person. One person. One vote can change a verdict. It's a card from Michael's first grade teacher. I can't imagine what you people are going through. I'll always remember Michael as a very caring, supportive, friendly young man he is. Just wanted to let you know that you're in our thoughts and prayers.

With those sentiments and the prayers of supporters, Ann Roseborough awaits her son's fate, now in the hands of the jury. Just an hour into deliberations, jurors return unexpectedly to this Lancaster County courtroom. They want Roseboro's 911 call replayed. Okay, is she breathing? No, she's not. Is she still in the water? No, I pulled her out. What thoughts are going through your mind?

I think nothing but good for us because he's not asking for help. He never asked for help at all. He reports it as if he's calling in that there's a traffic light down on his corner of the street. I did not find the 911 tape to be devoid of emotion. I found it to be Mike Roseborough. I found it to be who he is.

I want to get her out of the pool. She's still in the pool? I thought you said she was out of the pool. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. She's out of the pool. He had a quiet desperation in his voice that I could hear. It was a quivery desperation. Whatever the true emotion, less than four hours later, jurors are back in court, this time with a verdict,

guilty of first degree murder in the death of his wife, Jan. Michael Roseborough is now convicted of first degree murder and will spend the rest of his life behind bars. I think my reaction was just total devastation. I just turned to my husband and sobbed. Your world is just completely fractured in that moment. You still believe in your son's innocence? I do. Absolutely.

For Jan's sister, the joy of a verdict is tinged with sadness. Jan was truly, truly a wonderful mother, sister, aunt, and friend. She was there for anyone, anytime. And she will be honored in heaven. And Jan's niece Allison unfortunately there's no truly happy ending to this tragic story I'm speaking on behalf of my family our thoughts and prayers go out to the Roseboro family at their difficult time right now but there's some satisfaction for investigators as a friends of path, my job is to solve the mystery. I believe quite clearly that we were able to solve

the mystery of Jan Roseboro's death. For District Attorney Craig Steadman, it's a time for reflection at the end of a year-long fight. You kept a picture of Jan Roseboro at your home, on your desk. Why'd you do that? I kept that picture there for inspiration for me, to keep me motivated when I needed to get motivated.

It's not a victory. I mean, the only victory would be bringing Jan back, and it's never gonna happen. I mean, it's justice. However, the Roseboro defense team is not ready to quit. Was justice served? Obviously, I don't believe it was.

I respect the jury, and I respect the jury and I respect the jury system in this case I believe the answer is the wrong one as for Michael Roseboro after a year of silence he's finally ready to talk just weeks after the verdict he agreed to an interview with 48 hours to discuss the case. Michael, how are you? I'm Harold Dowell. But the warden invoked his right to make the prison's own recording, and Roseboro's lawyer

objected. Okay, and you understand this? He has a statement, no questions, right? Yes. Okay. Instead, he said his client would only read a brief statement to me with no questions allowed. My name is Michael Roseboro.

I've been accused of killing my wife, Jan, who I've been married to for 19 years. I did not, and I would never kill my wife. I had nothing to do with her murder, and I miss her very much. Do you think he did it because he loved you? He didn't love me if he killed his wife for me. He used me.

He used you? That's how I feel, yeah. Then you feel bad about what's happened. Yeah, I feel terrible for those kids. Of those four kids, Sam Roseborough is now living with Michael's parents. The others are being raised by Jan's sister in the same house where their mother was 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, special person they were given for a very short time. Very short time. they were given for a very short time. Very short time. And just across town, Angela Funk is still living with her husband, their two children, and the baby she had with Michael.

How would you describe the state of your marriage right now? Day by day. Do you talk? About the essentials. What do you want people to know about you? I want people to know that I'm sorry for my indiscretions with Michael. I'm sorry to his family, to his kids, to Jan's family, to my family, and my friends. I hurt a lot of people. And I'm sorry. And as for the man who fathered her baby and was found guilty of murdering his wife...

If you could say something to Michael Roseborough, what would you say to him? Be honest. To your family. To your kids. And to Jan's family. They deserve to know the truth.