GUILTY PA - Jan Roseboro, 45, found murdered in her backyard pool, Denver, 22 July 2008

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While the news that Michael Roseboro was arrested and charged Saturday with murdering his wife was not unexpected for some, the shock of the nearly two-week-old crime remains.

"I can't believe it. I cannot believe it," Brenda Lutz, 67, said while going to the bank this morning in Denver.

The Reinholds resident who knew Jan Roseboro for many years through church, said that since the murder she had come to expect Michael Roseboro's arrest.

But she added: "We were hoping not. I mean it really is a nice family."

At the Park Place Diner and Restaurant in Denver, several customers expressed similar sentiments about the crime.


Jim Condon, 60, of Fivepointville, said the case proves that "you don't know what happens when the door closes."

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/225437
 
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another disgusting man who chose murder over divorce. I am sick of these types of crimes. Now there are 4 children whose lives have been invaded y this tragedy and have lost both of their parents. It is too sad.
 
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Thanks for the updates and links, everyone. I'm soooo glad to hear the husband has been arrested. My prayers for those innocent children and for all those that knew and loved the mother, Jan - may she rest in peace.
 
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Trial started either last week or this week. May I post a link to the best source of info?
 
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A question I want to pose since my funeral director friend is not answering me...
I'm not debating his guilt or innocence here, nor will I draw any conclusions until all of the evidence is presented at the trial.

Many of the witnesses say that Michael was not visibly upset in the days and weeks after the death of his wife. They say he was consoling others. Many people I know say this is a clear sign of his guilt but I draw another conclusion.

The accused is a funeral director. He dealt with death day in and day out. IMO after x years in the death services industry, his "role" in a death situation is to comfort grieving family memebers. He has most likely dealt with every type of death in his profession. He has most likely "hardened" himself to the effects of it.

Not to mention, everyone's grieving process is different. For if anyone here witnessed my grieving process, they'd think I was "guilty" of killing anyone close to me that has died.

Thoughts on the grieving process, and the grieving process alone, being an indicator of guilt vs. innocence?
 
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Trishy, thanks for the update. I wasn't at all familiar with this case and now I've spent the last half hour reading up on all the links.

I'm not sure how I feel about the lack of grief = murderer idea. I have to give that some more thought. I have used that criteria (along with other pieces of evidence) to develop an opinion that someone is guilty in other cases though. Not sure how the funeral director part of it fits in for me though. For them it's a job so you would think that perhaps IF the death were in their own family it might hit hard(er) because they are are so deeply involved in what happens with a body after death. It's a good question though.

Back to the case though....has anyone ever seen the 48 Hours episode they reference in some of the articles? I must have missed that one.

ETA: Apparently the 48 Hours episode will air THIS fall according to one of the articles.
 
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Question and comment:

WHY and HOW do these men suddenly forget or even seem to CARE about their very own biological children, when they do this to their mother????

I just can't fathom, being so LUSTFUL or IN LOVE (used loosely) with someone, that it would cause you to murder the mother of YOUR very OWN children!! Don't they even THINK at ALL, about how this will break the children's hearts ... and shatter their life forever ????

Also: I've heard of many doctors, nurses, emergency workers, state that if it's a stranger, they can detach for the most part, and just do their 'job' .. but if it's a family member (especially close), it's a different story, and most times will have to let others handle it.

I would think his 'detachment' was more of a show and/or just not caring ... not because he was 'use' to doing this ... this was his wife, if he truly loved her and had NOT killed her, I think he would have a really hard time dealing with it and a hard time detaching.

JMO
 
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aprilshowers said:
Also: I've heard of many doctors, nurses, emergency workers, state that if it's a stranger, they can detach for the most part, and just do their 'job' .. but if it's a family member (especially close), it's a different story, and most times will have to let others handle it.

I would think his 'detachment' was more of a show and/or just not caring ... not because he was 'use' to doing this ... this was his wife, if he truly loved her and had NOT killed her, I think he would have a really hard time dealing with it and a hard time detaching.

JMO
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~respectfully snipped~

I am an ICU nurse and I can firsthand tell you that what you said above, that I bolded, is absolutely true... Also, in my case (and many others I know in the same field), tend to really take family emotional situations MUCH harder... it is as if all the emotions that you turn off daily in the job get multiplied by a million!

Boy do I have a lot of reading and catching up to do on this case! ((nurse clicks on all the windows I have open regarding and pours a gallon of coffee for the ride))

small closing comment: Will these idiots :furious:ever get that their affairs will come to light? Cannot wait to read the "side dish's" testimony:eek:
 
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nursebeeme said:
~respectfully snipped~

I am an ICU nurse and I can firsthand tell you that what you said above, that I bolded, is absolutely true... Also, in my case (and many others I know in the same field), tend to really take family emotional situations MUCH harder... it is as if all the emotions that you turn off daily in the job get multiplied by a million!

Boy do I have a lot of reading and catching up to do on this case! ((nurse clicks on all the windows I have open regarding and pours a gallon of coffee for the ride))

small closing comment: Will these idiots :furious:ever get that their affairs will come to light? Cannot wait to read the "side dish's" testimony:eek:
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That's what I was alluding to in my post...that perhaps a funeral director, who deals with dead bodies on a daily basis, might take the death of someone close to him/her especially hard because of what they are exposed to daily.

Put your feet up and get comfy nursie...this story is a doozy. Especially the emails between him and said "side dish." Will they never learn????
 
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This happened just about 15 miles from my house. It's a small community, Roseboro's family run a funeral home and are well respected in the community. The 'mistress' had his baby, a boy. She did break off the relation since he's been in jail.

Another one of those lets get the wife out of the picture... I just don't understand how these people think that they can actually get away with murder. And of course being the selfish, self center person that he is, he didn't give a dang azz about his children. ARGGGGG
 
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lovelabs-since you are local-do you have any idea of how the Roseboro children are doing? I keep thinking of how difficult this must be on all 4 of them, in different ways.
 
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SleuthyMama said:
lovelabs-since you are local-do you have any idea of how the Roseboro children are doing? I keep thinking of how difficult this must be on all 4 of them, in different ways.
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No, I really don't know about the children other than they have been at Jan's parents house since Roseboro was taken into custody. I do know that they have been in the court room everyday.

Our local news has each days court highlights. And they read some of the emails that were sent back and forth. Talk about sickening mushy. Just things you normally wouldn't hear a guy say. I'm trying to find copys of their emails and texts to each other.

He made the comment to the mistress in a phone conversation from jail that he hoped to be out of jail free and clear by Aug....NOT
 
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lovelabs said:
He made the comment to the mistress in a phone conversation from jail that he hoped to be out of jail free and clear by Aug....NOT
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Wow... he is delusional too :bang:

How old are the children? Interesting they have been in court every day. That has GOT to be hard for them!

ETA: respectful snip to your original (and awesome) post
 
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I think I read in one of the articles that the kids are between 18-7 years old. Not only did they lose their mom but their dad is on trial for her murder, he has a mistress and they've had to hear about all their relationship AND they have a little half brother. That's a helluva lot for those kids to bear.

ETA: This has nothing to do with nurse's question but I still can't get over the fact this dude made 400 grand a year. That blew my mind. I mean I know funeral director's can do very well but I didn't realize HOW well.
 
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