48 Hours: Lady in the Pool

Lancaster County is best known for its Amish heritage and peaceful Pennsylvania lifestyle. It's also home to the quiet town of Denver, Pa., where nothing much ever happens… and folks here like it that way.

Michael Roseboro and his family all grew up here.

"Everyone knows everyone else. And it's a great place to raise your children," according to Michael's younger sister, Melissa Voler.

"He was a typical boy. He liked sports," Michael's mother, Ann Roseboro, explained. "He was loveable, worried about other people's feelings."

That empathy naturally drew Michael into the family enterprise - a funeral home the Roseboro family has run for more than a century.

"He decided in 11th grade, that he, too, would like to be a part of the family business," Ann told "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Harold Dow. "He was just so great in the business, people loved him. We've had so many people tell us what a caring, compassionate person he is…"

"Michael was always very gregarious, always had a lot of friends," Voler added. "Everyone always loved him."

In this town of only 3,000, Michael didn't have to look far to fall in love.

"Well, we knew Jan's family for many years. They dated about a year before they were married," said Ann.

That was 1989, when local girl Jan Binkley became Mrs. Michael Roseboro. Friends who got to know Jan and Michael as a couple say they 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," said Mark Bansner.

"She was truly one of the kindest, giving souls I've ever met," said Becky Donahue, one of Jan's closest friends. "And she did it without the need or the want for acknowledgment."

Jan and Michael settled down and started raising a family. Their four children were the center of their lives.

"She truly did live for the kids," Donahue explained. "She was involved in all their activities, their sports."

Michael also found time for sports like lacrosse, sharing a passion for coaching with two other dads: Mark Bansner and Frank Tobias.

"We knew Mike as a family man, being with Jan. Every time we'd go out, we went as couples," said Bansner.

Added Tobias, "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 Roseboros seemed pretty near perfect.

Said close friend Ros Bansner, "I never saw him belittle her. He never 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 opened for the summer season.

"We were just together all the time" said Mark Bansner.

But everything suddenly changed the night of July 22, 2008. Michael Roseboro placed an emergency call to 911:

911: OK, is she breathing?
Michael Roseboro: No, she's not.
911: Is she still in the water?
Michael Roseboro: No, I pulled her out.
911: OK, do you want to try to start CPR on her?
Michael Roseboro: I will, I will, yeah.

Listen to the 911 call

Sgt. Larry Martin of the East Cocalico Police Department was one of the first detectives at the scene. Police got to the house just after 11 p.m.

"At least three of the children were asleep in the house at that time," Sgt. Martin explained. "[Michael Roseboro] told us he'd gone to bed, his wife stayed out by the pool. He woke up - approximately an hour later, noticed 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."

Jan Roseboro, 45, was rushed to the hospital as Michael stayed with the kids. But it was too late; she was pronounced dead just before midnight.

Donahue heard the surprising news from Jan's sister. "Suzie Van Zant came to my house and got me… Suzie had to grab me and tell me that - that she was dead and that she had fallen in the pool and Suzie 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 an accident and drowned in the pool. Extremely tough to take," Mark Bansner said. "I couldn't believe anything else happened other than the way it was presented as an accident."

"It has touched all our families," said Ros Bansner. "We had a pool party there two days before. I had slipped on the side of the pool, caught myself. I can see where she would have slipped and fallen into the pool."

Michael's sister rushed over to be at her brother's side.

"Every time some else arrives 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," Voler explained.

Michael Roseboro wasn't only composed; he could not have been more cooperative. Sgt. Martin said he came to the police station "voluntarily and willingly" and never asked for a lawyer.

"When he initially came, yes, he came and spoke with us," Sgt. Martin told Dow.

Later, around 3 a.m., Michael even allowed detectives inside his home where his three youngest children were still asleep.

"We were there by Michael's invitation," Sgt. Martin explained. "We did not have a search warrant at that time."

Police found nothing unusual in their first walkthrough. Said Martin, "I did not see anything suspicious."Less than an hour after Michael Roseboro called to report finding his wife's lifeless body in their swimming pool,
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," said Lancaster County Forensic pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross.

As Dr. 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?" Dow asked.

"Well, then my concerns were raised significantly," Ross explained. "There were bruises basically to the back of the neck. I said, 'Oh, my goodness. We have strangulation here. But we have a very particular type of strangulation."

Dr. Ross said Jan was strangled with a carotid chokehold.

He explained that along the sides of the neck are two carotid arteries. "I can compress the left side and the right side at the exact same time and it takes seconds for somebody to go out," he said while demonstrating the position on Dow. "And the bruises are the in the back, almost as if it were hidden."

Dr. Ross also discovered bruises all over Jan's scalp.

"That told me that she had been beaten. She had been bludgeoned. And she'd been hit about her head numerous times. Numerous times," he explained. "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 I was convinced this was a homicide."

So what first appeared to have the hallmarks of an accidental drowning was now a murder investigation.

It was a shock to this small town and especially to the Roseboro family, still reeling from Jan's death.

"I thought who - who could have done this? Who would do something like that to Jan?" said Ann Roseboro.

Yet strangely, it didn't appear to be as shocking to Michael Roseboro.

"He was told that… it actually was a homicide. It got no real reaction from him - not surprise, not outrage. '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," said Sgt. Martin.

"I think that was a lot of his training for being a funeral director," Voler said. "He was supposed to keep his composure."

But investigators weren't buying it - 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 initially wanting to be anonymous, stating that she had information that Michael Roseboro was having an affair with a person by the name of Angela Funk," Sgt. Martin said.

Angela Funk, 38 and a married mother of two, was working as an insurance adjuster and living literally a stone's throw from the funeral home.

"He asked to meet one day," she told Dow.

What started with casual meetings between two neighbors over morning coffee quickly became an obsession.

"He made me feel beautiful," Angela said, "He couldn't stop thinking about me."

"How did it become so intense so fast?" Dow asked.

"Well, communications," she replied. "We didn't see each other a whole lot. It was more e-mails, phone conversations and that kinda thing."

When police confronted Angela about the affair, it was just seven weeks old.

"I guess the date it started would be May 29 [2008] when he called me."

Willingly, she turned over some e-mails. A more thorough police investigation later uncovered thousands of phone calls and text messages and more e-mails… like one which Michael Roseboro sent Angela just one week into their dangerous liaison.

[June 5, 2008] Some would say I'm smitten, I say I'm in love.

While Angela continued talking to investigators, Roseboro hired a lawyer. He was no longer so open with police or with his friends who now wondered who Michael Roseboro really was.

"When the detectives asked me about affairs, I was like, 'I don't know anything about affairs.'" Mark Bansner told Dow.

"You just never saw that secret life, that secret side of him?" Dow asked.

"Never saw," he replied. Ros Bansner added, "And believe me, we've looked back and tried to, and we haven't."

"You know, I think he wanted to keep this good guy image up," Mark continued. "Mike was so pristine. Like his hair was always in place, everything about him, it looked like he just walked off the cover of GQ magazine."

"I think he showed us the side he wanted us to see," Ros said. "And that he was very good at it. Very good at it."

As police were taking a closer look at Michael Roseboro, they noticed minor scratches on his face.

"Whoever killed Jan Roseboro beat her in a way to disguise the injuries," said Dr. Ross.

"By that point, we started to think he may have been scratched by the victim," Sgt Martin said.

Yet it was by no means a clear-cut case. "It's impossible to know the exact sequence of events that occurred," said Dr. Ross.

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," Sgt. Martin said. "I think one of the reasons there wasn't blood there was because of the heavy rainfall."

"He had weaknesses," his mother, Ann, admitted. "But he absolutely would not have chosen murder."

"He would never commit murder, no matter what," said Voler, who shared with Dow 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," she said.

"So, you certainly feel that someone on the outside came and killed her? And murdered her?"

"Yes. Absolutely. Yes," Voler replied.

Melissa pointed to Jan's jewelry, a diamond ring and expensive watch worth about $40,000 that was suddenly missing. And, she thinks Jan was wearing the jewelry that night.

"There's no question it was a robbery," said Roseboro's attorney, Allan Sodomsky.

But investigators were more focused on what Michael Roseboro was doing the day of Jan's murder. It turns out he and Angela had a three-hour afternoon tryst in an apartment miles away, their longest liaison yet. That same day, Angela also sent Michael this e-mail:

[July 22, 2008:] 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 Roseboro e-mailed his secret lover, Angela Funk:

[July 8, 2008:] 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:

[July 8, 2008:] I will be your wife…I want to be your wife… I want to love you and your children

Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman read those e-mails and hundreds more.

"They were obsessed with each other. And that's all they were thinking about," he told Dow, describing their relationship as "twisted."

"I mean, I've never seen anything like it or heard of anything like," Stedman said. "I mean, these people just started this affair, apparently. And they're talking about what wedding dress they're gonna wear. They had planned for where it was gonna take place."

When asked if Michael Roseboro ever discussed leaving his wife, Funk told Dow, "He's never discussed particulars, no. But when we talked it would be - whenever we talked about it, it would be leaving our spouses. It was never - there were never specifics discussed."

Roseboro's attorney dismissed the e-mails as just "talk."

"The typical banter you got from him was every third or fifth or seventh word had something to do with sex. And that's the - unfortunately, the type of relationship he had with Angela," Allan Sodomsky said. "There was very little specificity with regard to their relationship in the future."

But the day of Jan's murder, the e-mails were even more intense and sounded very specific:

[July 22, 2008:] "I absolutely will never let you go. … I need to be your husband Angela. I need you to be my wife …and those are needs that will never diminish or subside."

[July 22, 2008:] "I always wondered what it would be like to your wife. I guess I won't have to wonder too much longer."

"Can you explain those in context of how they were written?" Dow asked Funk.

"'Too much longer.' …that doesn't mean it's gonna be next week or next year," she explained.

"But you can see that it does sound like something is about to happen, right?" pressed Dow.

"Not that," she replied. "Maybe leaving his spouse, but not murdering anybody… I honestly did not know anything was gonna happen. If I'd known I woulda stopped it. I woulda 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.

"I couldn't tell you how many times the police talked to me. I have no idea," she told Dow.

Police: Did he tell you that he loved you?
Angela Funk: Yes.
Police: A lot?
Angela Funk: Yes. And he respected me and he would do anything for me.

Angela Funk tells investigators about how her affair with Michael Roseboro began
Funk is asked about her contact with Roseboro on July 22, 2008 - the day of his wife's murder

Maybe nothing she told investigators was as surprising as what they told her.

Police: Well, we can assure you, Mike has had several affairs... at least going back 10 years.
Angela Funk: Wow.
Police: And you were just unfortunately one of the -
Angela Funk: I just wanna call him and say, "You bastard."

She did call him in the middle of the interrogation, right from her own cell phone.

Angela Funk: Who's Cathy? Michael, who's Cathy? You had an affair with her, apparently, according to her.
Angela Funk: How - how - how do I know that? I trusted you.
Angela Funk: I don't know what to believe. They're tellin' me, you know, you're the only one that could've done it. Can't believe that you would ever jeopardize what we had.
Michael Roseboro: Angela.
Angela Funk: Yes, dear. OK. OK, I love you, too.

Listen to more of Angela Funk's call to Michael Roseboro

But Michael's previous affairs were no surprise to Jan Roseboro's niece, Allison Van Zant, and Jan's close friend, Becky Donahue.

"Jan told me," Donahue said. "And she told me that he had had an affair earlier."

"I don't know the details," Van Zant said, "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 Donahue knew exactly how Jan found out the last time in 2003.

"What caught him with the other affair was the gigantic phone bill," she said.

This time, said the D.A., another fateful and suspiciously large phone bill was just about "in the mail."

"Certainly, Mr. Roseboro woulda known that was coming any day," Craig Stedman explained. "I think the bill was cut the day before she was murdered… She woulda seen a $688 telephone bill. …It's not gonna take a brain surgeon to figure out what's going on based on the fact that he had cheated on her before. And it would have been over and he knows that."

Donahue said, "Jan didn't spew her guts about her hurts and her pains. She carried them a lot." But she was at the Roseboro's just weeks before Jan's death and witnessed a revealing conversation between Jan and her daughter.

"And Jan said, 'It's funny how much paperwork your dad's having at the funeral home all of a sudden.'" Donahue recalled.

"Do you think she knew?" Dow asked. "I think she was beginning to suspect," Donahue replied.

Suspicion of another affair - maybe so, but Jan could never have suspected the stunning secret Angela Funk revealed to Michael 10 days after the murder.

On Aug. 1, 2008, Funk said she took a pregnancy test which came back positive.

Since her husband had had a vasectomy, Funk was certain that Michael Roseboro was the father. She told Michael about it the same day.

"Shock, dismay," was how described Michael's reaction. "He said under normal circumstances he would be happy. But this is obviously not under normal circumstances."

The day after he found out Angela Funk was pregnant with his baby and 11 days after Jan's death, Michael Roseboro was arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of his wife.

Michael Roseboro spent the next eight months in prison before ever talking to Angela Funk again. In April 2009, just weeks after their baby was born, he called her. The prison made this recording:

Angela Funk: He looks just like you.
Michael Roseboro: That's what Allan told me.
Angela: Yeah, he is a spittin image of you. Yeah.
Michael: Poor guy.
Angela: I don't think it's that bad.
Michael: He don't have a chance.
Angela: No. It's not bad at all.
Michael: Oh my goodness, it's so good to hear your voice.

Hear more of Michael Roseboro's call to Angela Funk

Now, a confused Angela Funk was trying to make sense of the last year.

"It's happened so fast that, you know, one minute, you know, I'm lonely, cloud nine, and now I'm in hell," she told Dow.

According to Stedman, "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 is no way that the affair that happened between the two of them was the motive or the reason for Jan Roseboro's death," Sodomsky said.

Nearly a year after Jan Roseboro was found floating in the pool, her husband was about to be tried for murder.

"I believe in Michael very much and I believe Michael did not commit this crime," Sodomsky said.

"We don't have an eyewitness. We don't have a confession. There's work to be done," said the district attorney. "And it's gonna be a battle to the end."Michael Roseboro 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," said 19-year-old Sam, the oldest of Michael's four children. He believes his father's days in jail are numbered. "I'm sure my dad's comin' back, just 'cause I know he's innocent."

Sam told Dow he "believes 100 percent" that is father will be acquitted.

On July 13, 2009, almost one year to the day after Jan Roseboro's death, her husband's trial begins.

In his opening argument, District Attorney Craig Stedman described a motive that he said is pretty straight forward.

"This case is about a man who was obsessed with being with his girlfriend when he happened to be married to his wife," Stedman said. "And he killed his wife to be with his girlfriend."

"That is the entirety of their case," said defense attorney Allan Sodomsky, who pointed out there is no murder weapon, no eyewitness, and no confession.

Even the D.A. admitted his case has challenges.

"There was no one single piece of evidence that was gonna say, "OK. We got him" or "We're there," Stedman explained. "It was a circumstantial case. It's putting the pieces together."

One of the prosecutor's first pieces of evidence was Michael Roseboro's 911 call:

911: Lancaster County 911
Michael Roseboro: I believe my wife just drowned.
911: What happened?
Michael Roseboro: I had gone to bed about an hour and a half ago and she was outside and I came out and saw the lights on by the pool.

Listen to the 911 call

According to Stedman, "There is no urgency there whatsoever. And in fact, one of the first things he ends up going into was his - essentially his alibi."

"I'm not exactly sure the appropriate way to behave on a 911 call," Sodomsky told Dow.

Roseboro's family believes anything Michael said would have been scrutinized.

"If he had been hysterical, they would have said he staged the hysteria," his mother Ann Roseboro told Dow.

"Knowing Michael, he handled it exactly like I would have expected him to," said his younger sister, Melissa Voler.

But just how well did they really know him?

"No question, Michael Roseboro was leading a double life," Stedman said. "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."

That communication left a trail of evidence. Records of more than 1,400 phone calls, 1,000 text messages and the e-mails, which were compiled into a 200-page booklet and read one by one to the jury over five hours.

Then, on the seventh day of the trial, the D.A.'s star witness, Angela Funk, took the stand.

"I was humiliated, absolutely humiliated," she told Dow of walking into the courtroom for the first time.

Stedman wasted 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," Stedman explained. "He gets home. He calls her again. He's talking to her for 17 minutes right before Jan Roseboro is killed."

"We, you know, had sex," Funk told Dow. "He was good at telling stories and jokes and stuff like that. That's basically all I can remember of the phone calls."

"And again in another big coincidence, she was pregnant with the defendant's baby," added Stedman.

"I didn't know I was pregnant 'til after she was murdered," she told Dow.

When asked if he thinks Angela knows more than she's saying in court, Stedman told Dow, "There's significant evidence that she knew more."

Funk told Dow, "He thinks I'm holding something back. And I've told him everything I could possibly tell him."

Her testimony stretched into a second day, but Funk doesn't waver. Nevertheless, she did give the prosecution something it needs.

"Angela Funk clearly provided the motive in this case," Stedman said. "Does that mean that she knew a murder was gonna take place? No, I don't think she did. We have no evidence to that effect."

Confident that he established Roseboro's motive, the D.A. attacked the defense theory that Jan was robbed and killed for her jewelry. He entered security camera images into evidence.

"Somebody had seen Jan Roseboro in the bank that afternoon and knew that she wasn't wearing jewelry," Stedman pointed out. "And by the way, she was wearing the same clothes that afternoon as she was when she was murdered."

The robbery story, Stedman argued, was created by Roseboro 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," he said.

The defense does not raise the issue again, but Michael's family insists that Jan's jewelry is still missing.

His sister, Melissa Voler, said she believes the jewelry "was taken by whomever killed her."

But Stedman argued that no one else could have killed Jan. "What random killer is going to kill somebody and take time to clean up?"

He pointed to the crime scene. Police took 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," said forensic pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross. He testified that Jan Roseboro was brutally beaten before she drowned.

"Her head was impacted multiple times," he said. "We know there's a tear behind the left ear, which I believe would have bled fairly profusely. And that alerted me to 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?" Stedman pointed out.

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 [talking with] witness after witness that Stella bit her nails down to the point there's no way she could have scratched anybody," Stedman said.

"Her nails were short. So, what does that mean? You can't scratch somebody if you have short nails? That's absurd," said Sodomsky.

Dr. Ross set out to determine if the scratches came from Jan's fingernails.

"We were able to find Michael Roseboro's DNA underneath those fingernails," he said. "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 Roseboro, through forensic evidence, was able to identify her killer?" Dow asked Stedman.

"Oh, there's no question about it," he replied. "She did testify, through the forensic evidence, that Michael Roseboro murdered her."

"In this case a dead woman spoke," Dr. Ross said. "She pointed in the direction of who her killer was."

And on that powerful last piece of evidence, the prosecution rested its case.

Since no television cameras are allowed in criminal trials in Pennsylvania, "48 Hours" went to the defense attorney's office to get a sense of how this team felt its case was going.

"Would you concede," Dow asked, "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," Sodomsky replied.

Roseboro's defense rested largely on one key witness: his son. Sam Roseboro told 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?" Sodomsky asked.

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," Sodomsky said.

And that, argued the defense, is how Michael's DNA ended up under Jan's fingernails.

Dr. Ross 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 wash off," he told Dow. "And why is that? Because the amount of DNA that was found 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 attorney called only seven more witnesses.

"The decision as to whether or not Michael was gonna testify is ultimately up to Michael and always was," Sodomsky said.

Roseboro does not take the stand. And after a day and a half, the defense rested.

"As criminal defense attorneys, the majority of what we do is we're counter punchers. We have to react to the evidence," explained Sodomsky.

And the evidence, he said, does not prove that Michael Roseboro committed Jan's murder.

"All you need is one person," Sodomsky said. "One person, one vote can change a verdict."

It's now up to the jury to decide. With the thoughts and prayers of supporters, Ann Roseboro awaited her son Michael's fate, which was now in the hands of the jury.

Just an hour into deliberations, jurors unexpectedly returned to the Lancaster County courtroom. They wanted Roseboro's 911 call re-played.

Listen to the 911 call

911: OK is she breathing?
Michael Roseboro: No she's not.
911: Is she still in the water?
Michael Roseboro: No, I pulled her out.

"What thoughts are going through your mind?" Dow asked the district attorney.

"Nothing but good for us," Craig Stedman said, "because he's not asking for help. It's as if he's calling in that there's a traffic light down on his corner of his street."

"I did not find the 911 tape to be devoid of emotion," said defense attorney Allan Sodomsky. "I found it to be Mike Roseboro."

Michael Roseboro: I wanna get her out of the pool.
911: She's still in the pool?
Michael Roseboro: Yeah
911: I thought you said she was out of the pool?
Michael Roseboro: I, 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," said Ann Roseboro of the 911 call.

Whatever the true emotion, less than four hours later, jurors were back in court with a verdict: guilty of first degree murder in the death of his wife, Jan.

Michael Roseboro will spend his life behind bars.

"I think my reaction was just total devastation," his mother said. "I just turned to my husband and sobbed as quietly as I could. But it was just your world was just completely fractured in that moment."

Asked if she still believes in her son's innocence, Ann Roseboro replied, "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," Suzy Van Sant told reporters following the verdict.

"Unfortunately there's no truly happy ending to this tragic story," Jan's niece Allison said at the press conference. "Speaking on behalf of my family, our thoughts and prayers go out to the Roseboro family at their difficult time right now."

But there is some satisfaction for investigators.

"As a forensic pathologist, my job is to solve the mystery," Dr. Ross said. "I believe quite clearly that we were able to solve the mystery of Jan Roseboro's death."

For District Attorney Craig Stedman, it's a time for reflection at the end of a year-long fight.

"You kept a picture of Jan Roseboro I believe at your home on your desk. Why'd you do that?" Dow asked.

"I kept that picture there for inspiration for me to keep me motivated when I needed to get motivated," Stedman explained. "It's not a victory. I mean, the only victory would bring Jan back. And that's never gonna happen. I mean its justice."

However, the Roseboro defense team is not ready to quit.

"Was justice served?" Dow asked Allan Sodomsky.

"Obviously, I don't believe it was," he replied. "Although I respect the jury and I respect the jury system, in this case, I believe the answer's the wrong one."

As for Michael Roseboro, after a year of silence, he was finally ready to talk. Just weeks after the verdict, he agreed to an interview with "48 Hours" to discuss the case.

But the warden invoked his right to make the prison's own recording and Roseboro's lawyer objected. Instead, Sodomsky said his client would only read a brief statement, 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?" Dow asked Angela Funk.

"He didn't love me if he killed his wife for me," she said. "He used me… That's how I feel."

"And you feel bad about what's happened?"

"I feel terrible for those kids."

Of those four children, Sam Roseboro is now living with Michael's parents while 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," Becky Donahue said. "And I just hope they can at some point recognize what a special, special person they were given for a very short time, very short time."

Just across town, Angela Funk is still living with her husband, ¬their two children and the baby she had with Michael.

She described the state of her marriage as "day by day."

"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," she said in tears. "I hurt a lotta 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 Roseboro what would you say?" Dow asked.

"Be honest to your family, to your kids and to Jan's family. They deserve to know the truth."

Michael Roseboro's motion for a new trial was denied.

Last month, the Roseboro family sold the funeral home they owned for more than a century.