Authors: M. William Phelps
Detective Sergeant Larry Martin knew Jan Roseboro’s husband, funeral director Michael Roseboro.
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Jan’s husband, Michael, took over the family funeral business from his father.
(Courtesy of Shawn Roseboro)
The Roseboro Funeral Home has been a staple in Denver, Pennsylvania, for over a century.
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Angela Funk became the center of Michael Roseboro’s affection and obsession in the weeks before Jan’s murder.
Angela Funk lived directly across the street from the Roseboro Funeral Home. She and Michael exchanged hundreds of emails, over one thousand phone calls and hundreds of text messages in the seven weeks of their adulterous affair.
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Angela Funk came from a conservative Mennonite background.
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Jan Roseboro walked into Fulton Bank, in Denver, wearing the same clothes she was later found murdered in. Note that Jan is not wearing any jewelry—a fact that would help convict her killer.
(Courtesy of the East Cocalico Township Police Department)
This diagram shows the Roseboros’ in-ground pool. It seems unlikely that an intruder would have murdered Jan and then lit five tiki torches (below) before fleeing the scene.
(Courtesy of the East Cocalico Township Police Department)
This diagram shows the “circular puncture-type wound with an L-shaped marking” that Jan Roseboro sustained to the back of her left ear. The deep gash went all the way to her skull.
(Courtesy of the East Cocalico Township Police Department)