I have read elsewhere posts or comments about people not wanting to read or experience any further commentary on the murder or the trial or any of the nasty components it contains.
I have to say this with all respect.
To log on to any website is a choice.
If what you find is offensive on any site, just don't visit that site.
I have nothing but compassion for the families who have lost so very much. And I have nothing but disdain for Angela Funk.
I will continue to point out the inconsistencies and the lies. And I will hope that the unanswered questions are answered, someday. No matter how long it takes.
To "make nice" and "move on" is not on the table for many of us.
We will never intentionally create pain for any of the victims here.
But as Suzy said, we will keep the family in our thoughts and prayers.
Certain people want this to die down and go away. And that way, no more questions will be asked.
Not gonna happen.
Those with nothing to hide, hide nothing.
And those who have done nothing wrong, have nothing to fear.
I love those quotes!
So many of us won't forget. And the whole story has yet to see the light of day.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Okay, I Guess Thousands Sharing The Same Opinion Have To Be In Error...
Well folks, we're crazy. And just plain wrong. And that includes you, DA Steadman! Angie Funk is not a liar, or a cheat. Or the motive for Mike to kill his wife.
She did nothing wrong. She never cheated on her first husband. She never mocked Randy and broadcast how funny she thought it was that he was a virgin.
She never farmed her kids out to have sex with Mike.
The condom really did break.
There was NEVER another sexual episode where they thought she might have gotten pregnant.
We are all so so wrong. She is remorseful and repentant. She says it and she shows it.
She never lies. Not to Randy, her family, her friends or her church.
She never planned on having an affair with Mike (she was somehow going to marry him and do it by skipping that little step????)
She WAS forthcoming on the witness stand.
It is perfectly normal to make out behind the funeral home when Jan is lying on a slab, dead.
It is a total coincidence that Angie made the remarks she did about being Mike's wife SOON and then hours later, Jan was killed.
They never really planned on getting married! Everyone goes wedding dress shopping and planning hairstyles with someone they just met weeks ago.
She never intended to leave Randy. We all imagined that she said she had no idea how long she could stand to be with him.
Give us our meds now, please. We must need them. To hear Angie tell it, she's a victim here. And any of us who think she's a lying, cheating, husband stealing wench are just downright mean.
And that poor woman has gotten the brunt of it.
Oh, after you medicate me, could you please pass the Kleenex?
She did nothing wrong. She never cheated on her first husband. She never mocked Randy and broadcast how funny she thought it was that he was a virgin.
She never farmed her kids out to have sex with Mike.
The condom really did break.
There was NEVER another sexual episode where they thought she might have gotten pregnant.
We are all so so wrong. She is remorseful and repentant. She says it and she shows it.
She never lies. Not to Randy, her family, her friends or her church.
She never planned on having an affair with Mike (she was somehow going to marry him and do it by skipping that little step????)
She WAS forthcoming on the witness stand.
It is perfectly normal to make out behind the funeral home when Jan is lying on a slab, dead.
It is a total coincidence that Angie made the remarks she did about being Mike's wife SOON and then hours later, Jan was killed.
They never really planned on getting married! Everyone goes wedding dress shopping and planning hairstyles with someone they just met weeks ago.
She never intended to leave Randy. We all imagined that she said she had no idea how long she could stand to be with him.
Give us our meds now, please. We must need them. To hear Angie tell it, she's a victim here. And any of us who think she's a lying, cheating, husband stealing wench are just downright mean.
And that poor woman has gotten the brunt of it.
Oh, after you medicate me, could you please pass the Kleenex?
Other questions challenged Funk on when she learned she was pregnant with Roseboro's child. Funk said she learned of the pregnancy when she bought a home pregnancy test August 1, but later admitted she and Roseboro were both aware of an earlier incident in which she could have become pregnant.
Roseboro’s mistress wrote,” My biggest fear is that Jan will want to rekindle your relationship.”
"I always wondered what it would be like to be your wife...I guess I won't have to wonder too much longer, "
It was only hours after that email exchange on July 22nd 2008, Michael Roseboro called 9-1-1 after he said he discovered Jan's beaten and strangled body floating face down in their pool in the backyard of their Reinholds home.
An e-mail sent July 22, the day of the killing, from Funk to Roseboro read: "I always wanted to be your wife. I guess I won't have to wonder too much longer."
An agitated Stedman demanded to know whether the e-mail was "pure coincidence." Funk responded that it was.
Roseboro’s mistress wrote,” My biggest fear is that Jan will want to rekindle your relationship.”
"I always wondered what it would be like to be your wife...I guess I won't have to wonder too much longer, "
It was only hours after that email exchange on July 22nd 2008, Michael Roseboro called 9-1-1 after he said he discovered Jan's beaten and strangled body floating face down in their pool in the backyard of their Reinholds home.
An e-mail sent July 22, the day of the killing, from Funk to Roseboro read: "I always wanted to be your wife. I guess I won't have to wonder too much longer."
An agitated Stedman demanded to know whether the e-mail was "pure coincidence." Funk responded that it was.
On Tuesday, the jury spent almost the entire day observing Funk.
A 39-year-old Denver mother of three — including Roseboro's three-month-old son — Funk held her head high as she took the witness stand.
For hours, she answered questions from District Attorney Craig Stedman in a defiant tone, mostly replying "I don't remember" or "I don't know."
Angela Funk, who has short brown hair and wore a hot pink, short-sleeve top and dark brown pants, seemed to take the stand calmly and confidently.
But the exchange with Stedman soon turned heated as the questioning continued.
"Ever say you want to be his wife and that day cannot come soon enough," Stedman asked.
"Yes," she replied.
"You loved him?"
"I'll always love him," Angela Funk replied. "He's the father of my son."
"He's not your future anymore?"
"No," Angela Funk answered.
"He said to you in April he plans to be out of jail in August," Stedman said. Reading from a transcript of a phone call, he continued, "Your reply is, 'Let's hope so.' He says, 'Don't give up on us.' You say, " 'I haven't.' Have you given up on him?"
"I have now," Angela Funk replied.
"What changed?"
"I don't know," she said, "I've had a change of heart."
Twice last April, Roseboro called Angela Funk from prison, and they expressed love for one another during the conversations, according to testimony.
After the second call, Angela Funk said she had her attorney tell him to stop.
"I just thought it best if he didn't call," she said. "It could hurt me. It could hurt him. It could hurt everybody."
"Mrs. Funk," Stedman asked, "what is it that you know that you don't want us to know?"
"I just didn't want him to say anything, because that is what you're using as a motive," she shot back at Stedman.
"If he's found not guilty, you could be together," he said. "You could move into his house."
Now tell me Craig Steadman doesn't KNOW HER NOW.
Prosecution Challenges Truthfulness Of Mistress
Angela Funk answered questions from the prosecution about her relationship Michael Roseboro, and the communications the two had in the days before and after the murder. Her 1-and-a-half hours of testimony on Wednesday followed more than four hours on Tuesday.
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Angela Funk testified that she and Michael Roseboro were acquaintances for 5 years before their affair began May 29, 2008.
Funk lives one block away from the Roseboro Funeral Home and would see Michael drive down the road often. Angela Funk testified that prior to her affair with Michael, she and her girlfriend, Tammy Good, would talk about how Angela would be Michael's future wife. Angela said she has always thought Michael was nice and attractive.
Funk told the jury her marriage to Randy Funk was "very poor" around the time she had cheated on him. Angela and Randy Funk have been married 9 years and have two young daughters together. Angela and Randy are still married and still live together.
Randy Funk testified Tuesday morning. He said Angela was home the night of Jan's murder, July 22, 2008. Upon leaving the witness stand, Randy stared Michael down for a number of seconds.
Then, Angela Funk took the stand. Funk said she and Michael began having daily "chit-chat" in the Spring of 2008, when she started working for an insurance company. Angela said she and Michael started to see eachother at the Turkey Hill, while getting their morning coffee. On May 29, Funk said Roseboro called her at home, and their affair began. The couple's first sexual encounter started the 2nd week of June. The affai lasted approximately 39 days before Michael's wife, Jan, was murdered.
Angela said Michael was the first to say "I love you" and the first to bring up marriage. Funk said she saw Michael almost everyday in June and July of 2008.
Today in court:
DA Stedman: Did you discuss financial consequences of a divorce?
Angela Funk: All I said was a wife can bleed you dry. A woman 'scorned'. Michael told me he was going to put the Funeral Home in his dad's name, so he couldn't lose it to Jan.
Funk says she and Michael would either hang out at an apartment in Mt. Joy, which her mom owned, they'd meet at the funeral home at night, hang at the Ephrata Cloister and once, the pair went shopping at Costco.
Funk testified she and Roseboro had sex once at the funeral parlor and other times in an apartment.
Funk said although many of their emails stated their marriage would be a "reality soon", there was no wedding date scheduled and no specific timeframe.
Funk said she knew it would only be a matter or time before Jan Roseboro would find out about their affair, as their phonebills became more and more expensive. She said when she and Michael would talk about leaving their spouses, they figured Michael would leave first because Funk would have no place to go.
On July 22, 2008, Funk said it was a special day for she and Michael because they hung out for 3 hours-the most time they ever hung out together. Between 1:30 and 4:30 p.m., Michael and Angela ate lunch and had sex, just hours before Jan's murder. Angela said she and Michael talked at 8:42 p.m. on July 22nd. Angela said Michael said he wasn't feeling well and was headed to bed; that's all she claimed to remember from the conversation, though earlier in the investigation, Funk told police they discussed leaving their spouses.
Angela said Tuesday in court that although in April she told Michael she hand't given up on them, she has now moved forward. Funk told prosecutors that a future with Michael Roseboro is not an option. She is trying to work things out with her husband, Randy Funk. Angela Funk testified she and Randy had a "very poor" relationship. She said she will always love Michael, because he's the father of her newborn baby, Matthew, born March 27, 2009.
Funk said she found out she was pregnant with Michael's baby on August 1st, that's when she shared the news with Michael, whom she said was "shocked and in disbelief".
While Michael and Angela had plans to marry eachother and knew Jan Roseboro could find out about the affair at any time, Funk testified the two did not have a plan, should Jan uncover their relationship.
During Tuesday's testimony, Angela Funk had difficulty remembering details of phone and email contact she had with Roseboro throughout the Summer of 2008.
Funk cried a couple of times while up on the stand Tuesday.
Angie and Mike In Their Own Words...
So it hurts, Angie?Did it hurt Jan to have her head bashed against the side of the pool?
Did it hurt you to leave your kids with family so you could sleep with Jan's husband?
Oh you are a REAL piece of work.
www.cbs21.com has it in their own words.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Rest In Peace, Jan Binkley Roseboro
The jury rendered its verdict this afternoon.
Michael Alan Roseboro has been convicted of first degree murder in the brutal killing of his wife, Jan.
There are no winners here. There is more loss.
The precious children now will live out their days with prison phone calls and tactile-free visitation.
They have lost their Mom and now their Dad as well. No hugs, no kisses, no laughter with Dad.
And Dad did this to them.
Just as he brutalized their loving mother, he ripped their hearts out of their chests.
Jan's family has been through hell and will suffer for what Mike did for all of their days as well.
Mike's family is devastated. I cannot begin to fathom what his parents are feeling right now.
The toll this has taken on them is evident and visible.
Devastation and unbearable pain. And for what?
For Angie Funk?
A lying, cheating manipulator who isn't worthy of washing Jan Roseboro's feet?
I hope the authorities keep a close eye on Angie Funk. For the rest of her life.
Now the silence begins.
The busy work is over.
Soon there will be moments of quiet, when the activities and work of preparing for the trial are no longer required. And in those moments, the loved ones of Jan Roseboro will deal with their rage, their pain and their grief.
They haven't been able to just let go yet. There was so much to be done to care for the children, and fight tooth and nail for justice for Jan.
And now, taking care of her children will be the life's work of so many who are here to do it for Jan.
And in their quiet moments, they will grieve. They have earned our respect, love and compassion.
A beautiful family was ripped apart, a loving Mom was brutally murdered and there is nothing but pain left. And all of this happened because Mike Roseboro saw Angie Funk shake her ass at him and he couldn't resist.
On one side so much beauty and class and love. And on the other, pure trash.
This will confound us all forever.
But now Jan can watch over her children with a smile. She is with her parents and her grandparents.
She will be with her children on the last day of summer and the first day of school.
She will be there in Suzie's hands when they cry. She will be there when they win and when they need reassurance.
Jan will live on through and with her children. She was a Mom. And nothing will keep her from her children, not even her passing.
She will be a butterfly landing on a flower near them. She will be a much loved song on the radio.
She will be a scent of perfume wafting through the house. And she will be an almost imperceptible stroke in her childrens' hair.
Jan isn't gone. She's just gone on ahead.
God bless you Jan for your life. And for what you endured in your death, we are so very sorry.
We've learned much about you in the past year and we learned more about ourselves.
The jury didn't let Mike get away with killing you. And for that we are grateful.
Mr. Steadman, thank you for fighting for justice for Jan Roseboro. In doing that, you fought for justice for every one of us.
Michael Alan Roseboro has been convicted of first degree murder in the brutal killing of his wife, Jan.
There are no winners here. There is more loss.
The precious children now will live out their days with prison phone calls and tactile-free visitation.
They have lost their Mom and now their Dad as well. No hugs, no kisses, no laughter with Dad.
And Dad did this to them.
Just as he brutalized their loving mother, he ripped their hearts out of their chests.
Jan's family has been through hell and will suffer for what Mike did for all of their days as well.
Mike's family is devastated. I cannot begin to fathom what his parents are feeling right now.
The toll this has taken on them is evident and visible.
Devastation and unbearable pain. And for what?
For Angie Funk?
A lying, cheating manipulator who isn't worthy of washing Jan Roseboro's feet?
I hope the authorities keep a close eye on Angie Funk. For the rest of her life.
Now the silence begins.
The busy work is over.
Soon there will be moments of quiet, when the activities and work of preparing for the trial are no longer required. And in those moments, the loved ones of Jan Roseboro will deal with their rage, their pain and their grief.
They haven't been able to just let go yet. There was so much to be done to care for the children, and fight tooth and nail for justice for Jan.
And now, taking care of her children will be the life's work of so many who are here to do it for Jan.
And in their quiet moments, they will grieve. They have earned our respect, love and compassion.
A beautiful family was ripped apart, a loving Mom was brutally murdered and there is nothing but pain left. And all of this happened because Mike Roseboro saw Angie Funk shake her ass at him and he couldn't resist.
On one side so much beauty and class and love. And on the other, pure trash.
This will confound us all forever.
But now Jan can watch over her children with a smile. She is with her parents and her grandparents.
She will be with her children on the last day of summer and the first day of school.
She will be there in Suzie's hands when they cry. She will be there when they win and when they need reassurance.
Jan will live on through and with her children. She was a Mom. And nothing will keep her from her children, not even her passing.
She will be a butterfly landing on a flower near them. She will be a much loved song on the radio.
She will be a scent of perfume wafting through the house. And she will be an almost imperceptible stroke in her childrens' hair.
Jan isn't gone. She's just gone on ahead.
God bless you Jan for your life. And for what you endured in your death, we are so very sorry.
We've learned much about you in the past year and we learned more about ourselves.
The jury didn't let Mike get away with killing you. And for that we are grateful.
Mr. Steadman, thank you for fighting for justice for Jan Roseboro. In doing that, you fought for justice for every one of us.
A Verdict By The End of The Day?
If Judge Cullen charges the jury at nine o'clock this morning, and speaks for an hour, the jury will get the case by ten thirty at the latest.
If by eleven they have begun deliberations, and take an hour for lunch, the afternoon could signal the end of this trial.
There isn't that much to debate.
I do wonder about the "premeditation" factor, but the DA made it clear that even minutes before the murder was finished, Mike could have stopped. To continue the brutal attack equals premeditation.
I am hoping the verdict is handed down by the end of today.
They have to appoint a foreman.
And they will start with a vote.
They have the prosecution's evidenced to review.
There is not much to review from the defense. They have simply the "wasn't him" defense.
No jury wishes to appear hasty or lacking in taking the time to reach the right verdict, or else they could be back by mid or early afternoon.
I am praying that the verdict is rendered by the close of business today.
Let Jan rest and let her family start to work on healing.
If by eleven they have begun deliberations, and take an hour for lunch, the afternoon could signal the end of this trial.
There isn't that much to debate.
I do wonder about the "premeditation" factor, but the DA made it clear that even minutes before the murder was finished, Mike could have stopped. To continue the brutal attack equals premeditation.
I am hoping the verdict is handed down by the end of today.
They have to appoint a foreman.
And they will start with a vote.
They have the prosecution's evidenced to review.
There is not much to review from the defense. They have simply the "wasn't him" defense.
No jury wishes to appear hasty or lacking in taking the time to reach the right verdict, or else they could be back by mid or early afternoon.
I am praying that the verdict is rendered by the close of business today.
Let Jan rest and let her family start to work on healing.
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt? Way Beyond It.
QUOTE (caninegroomer @ Jul 30 2009, 07:41 AM) 
I think some are missing the point on the DNA. Jan struggled for her life. There wasn't anyone else's DNA under her fingernails, just Mikes. Do you think, not only the intruder cleaned up the murder site he scrubbed her nails clean?
You are one thousand percent right!
The last person to have contact with Jan Roseboro, in her fight for her life, left his DNA under her fingernails!
It is quite simple. She was attacked. She fought for her life. And her killers identity is in the DNA under her nails. ID that DNA and you have the killer. The affair and the history are extraneous to that.
There is no mystery DNA. There was none found mixed with the identifiable DNA.
If she was scratching Mike's back, and then later was attacked by another person, that DNA would have appeared, even if mixed with Mike's.
Case closed. I just hope the jury is seeing that.
Dealing With The Aftermath
Today the jury will be charged, by the judge, in the Roseboro murder trial.
Then the deliberations will begin.
No one with any true conscience envies anyone on that jury.
They will have to decide if Mike Roseboro goes home to his children and family, or remains in prison for the rest of his life.
What a sobering and scary responsibility.
Either verdict will produce deep and loud reactions.
If he is acquitted, those who have no doubt as to his guilt will feel cheated and betrayed by the system. This will stand as the ultimate expression of the sheer lack of fairness in life.
The sadness and despair they will feel will take a long time, if ever, to deal with and work through.
They want justice for Jan. Just justice for Jan.
Her life goes on in her children. But for those who know in their hearts that Mike bludgeoned and drowned Jan, it will feel as if she suffered alone and no one ever stood up to ultimately defend her.
If Mike is convicted, his children will be the ultimate victims again. Not of the system, but of their own father, whose choices led to this culmination of depravity and violence.
His family will be able to visit him but the hope of ever even trying to recreate a life that they knew before will be forever denied.
From the first steps she took past the funeral home in hopes of attracting Mike Roseboro's eye, Angie held her children away from her, choosing her priorities.
And from the first chat over coffee and the ensuing invitation to lunch that Mike made to Angie, Mike effectively turned his back on his kids and followed a road that mattered only to him.
Every time each one answered their cell phone to take a call from the other, they added one more brick to their road.
And from the emails and even the much later prison calls, there was never a pang of guilt over what all of this had done or could do to the kids.
Angie didn't care if her daughters would "puke" at seeing her kiss Mike. Now THAT'S a Mom?
Hardly.
When Mike had sex with Angie in the funeral home, did he feel a twinge over betraying Jan and risking the stability and base for his kids' lives? Hardly.
If the affair did indeed only last seven weeks up until the murder, there were twenty fours in each day that offered each one of them the opportunity to stop the affair.
Not once have we seen a shred of evidence that the affair even caused a miniscule amount of discomfort or hesitation over the kids and what this would do to them.
Mr. Sodomsky has tried to portray this affair as simply based on sex.
I absolutely disagree.
There was a phone bill on the way and they both knew it.
There was no attempt to circumvent that bill from finding it's way into Jan's hands.
It would precipitate an explosion in the Roseboro home.
It would pierce Jan's heart, again, knowing that her husband was having another affair.
And it would blow the marriage out of the water.
If Mike didn't want that result, he would have taken other steps to conceal the affair.
Have a secret, private cell phone. Rent a PO box to get that bill....there were many things he could have done if he was just playing around and intended to maintain his marriage to Jan.
Angie knew they were walking on the line of being discovered and it was what she was waiting for as well.
She had said to several that she didn't know how much longer she could take being married to Randy. She was done. She just didn't have the spine to end the marriage in the right way.
She didn't have the spine or respect to tell Randy that to his face and then move out and file for divorce. She needed to line up her next landing spot before her marriage to Randy could end.
She wanted a smooth transition.
No matter the verdict, much is known now, thanks to the trial.
We know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Mike and Angie are the consummate liars.
No doubt remains about that.
Even on the stand, after placing her hand on the Word of God, Angie lied to the DA. She feigned a poor memory.
She couldn't even fake being remorseful there, in full view of Jan's loved ones.
What kind of a person could sit there, knowing her part in this tragedy and not hang her head and cry, telling the whole world how sorry she is?
That was her perfect opportunity to show that she was sorry for her role in this. But to say that you have to feel it. And she simply doesn't feel it.
The DA stood there for all of us in his incredulity. I know that he has encountered criminals, and sociopaths and even psychopaths.
But he stood there and faced a person with no remorse. A cold, calculating person who feels no responsibility for her part.
The fact that Angie and Mike made out behind the funeral home so shortly after Jan's death is the writing on the wall.
The calls and texts continued.
Even if Angie still had feelings for Mike, didn't it ever strike her as grossly inappropriate for him to be calling her when his wife had just been murdered and his children were devastated. Wouldnt' that have shown so clearly, to a normal person, that the wiring in Mike's makeup was a bit twisted?
No. She went and met Mike. We're all still shaking our heads over that one.
If the Roseboro marriage was over, for all intents and purposes, what of the nineteen years of marriage that had been invested. If the giddy I love you was gone from the marriage, didn't Jan even matter enough as the mother of his kids to make Mike sick at heart over her brutal death?
Nope.
He needed to be in Angie's arms.
Jan was nothing to Mike. Absolutely nothing.
If he wasn't her killer, didn't he cry over what a murderer did to her?
Didn't the years he knew her count for anything? No.
We know much about Mike and Angie now.
And what happens from here will tell us more.
If Mike is convicted, Angie will run with Plan B. Or Plan C, for now.
I ask you all this...
Angie was in love with Mike and promised to be by his side forever, no matter what.
So what changed? What changed so abruptly and so concretely for her to dump him from the witness stand?
Many think that Angie suspects strongly that Mike will be convicted. Why would that change the LOVE she has for him? If convicted, why wouldn't Angie, if she loved Mike, stick by him anyway? Many woman maintain love relationships with incarcerated husbands and boyfriends.
She could be the martyr, living from visit to visit.
Instead, she bailed on him. Why?
Mike is still there in the sense of love and his spirit.
Apparently that's not really enough for Angie.
She needs the rest of him to stay in love with him.
If he's convicted, there's no more money, other than what he can earn in the prison system.
Suddenly Mike's no longer looking like the catch of the century and she bailed on him.
Poor Mike. Not.
She constantly pushed the tone of their communications back to being Mrs. Angela Lynn Roseboro. How many times did she say she wanted to be Mrs. MICHAEL Roseboro?
Not so many.
It was about her being who she wanted to be, not about her love for being the wife of a man she adored.
If Mike would have just paid attention maybe he would have wised up before he chose his path.
Angie was telling him the truth, if he just paid attention. It was there, between the lines, the whole time.
So now we'll wait for the verdict.
If he's set free, what will Angie do?
What a dilemma!
Mike will be free and able to continue to earn money. And live large.
And now Angie went and shot her mouth off on the witness stand.....oh the dilemma she'll be in....
How long will she be able to stand knowing that all that money is still there, and more to come...and she chose to say she's done with Mike.
Angie never burns all of her bridges....she made sure of that too.
She still loves Mike deeply. She can't just turn it off.
So if he's set free...she can say that she just couldn't stop loving him....
Randy, keep a bag packed by the door, just in case....
It might take a while, but if Mike and his money are available, you're history, dude!
If Mike is convicted, Angie will remain with Randy, for a while. But not that long.
She'll have her next soft spot to land lined up in due time.
All we have to do is watch.
There have been places all along the road of this tragedy and afterward, where both of them have had the opportunity to choose.
Angie could have faced the courtroom and showed remorse. And she could have said how sorry she was to Jan's family. Even if they didn't believe her, she could have stood by her words and done the right thing.
Mike could have stopped cheating. He could have done the right thing.
But they were focused on themselves.
And now we'll see even more truth about both of them, no matter the verdict.
And I hope that the DA and the investigators are still burning with questions.
You're not done yet, Mr. Steadman.
Don't let those questions go totally unanswered. Let Jan sit on your shoulder until you know the whole story. There is far more to learn. And even if takes years, please don't stop looking for those answers. Mike's verdict will either set him free and unable to ever be charged again for this crime or it will send him to prison for life.
But the whole truth did not come out in the courtroom.
Please don't let the truth stay hidden forever.
Then the deliberations will begin.
No one with any true conscience envies anyone on that jury.
They will have to decide if Mike Roseboro goes home to his children and family, or remains in prison for the rest of his life.
What a sobering and scary responsibility.
Either verdict will produce deep and loud reactions.
If he is acquitted, those who have no doubt as to his guilt will feel cheated and betrayed by the system. This will stand as the ultimate expression of the sheer lack of fairness in life.
The sadness and despair they will feel will take a long time, if ever, to deal with and work through.
They want justice for Jan. Just justice for Jan.
Her life goes on in her children. But for those who know in their hearts that Mike bludgeoned and drowned Jan, it will feel as if she suffered alone and no one ever stood up to ultimately defend her.
If Mike is convicted, his children will be the ultimate victims again. Not of the system, but of their own father, whose choices led to this culmination of depravity and violence.
His family will be able to visit him but the hope of ever even trying to recreate a life that they knew before will be forever denied.
From the first steps she took past the funeral home in hopes of attracting Mike Roseboro's eye, Angie held her children away from her, choosing her priorities.
And from the first chat over coffee and the ensuing invitation to lunch that Mike made to Angie, Mike effectively turned his back on his kids and followed a road that mattered only to him.
Every time each one answered their cell phone to take a call from the other, they added one more brick to their road.
And from the emails and even the much later prison calls, there was never a pang of guilt over what all of this had done or could do to the kids.
Angie didn't care if her daughters would "puke" at seeing her kiss Mike. Now THAT'S a Mom?
Hardly.
When Mike had sex with Angie in the funeral home, did he feel a twinge over betraying Jan and risking the stability and base for his kids' lives? Hardly.
If the affair did indeed only last seven weeks up until the murder, there were twenty fours in each day that offered each one of them the opportunity to stop the affair.
Not once have we seen a shred of evidence that the affair even caused a miniscule amount of discomfort or hesitation over the kids and what this would do to them.
Mr. Sodomsky has tried to portray this affair as simply based on sex.
I absolutely disagree.
There was a phone bill on the way and they both knew it.
There was no attempt to circumvent that bill from finding it's way into Jan's hands.
It would precipitate an explosion in the Roseboro home.
It would pierce Jan's heart, again, knowing that her husband was having another affair.
And it would blow the marriage out of the water.
If Mike didn't want that result, he would have taken other steps to conceal the affair.
Have a secret, private cell phone. Rent a PO box to get that bill....there were many things he could have done if he was just playing around and intended to maintain his marriage to Jan.
Angie knew they were walking on the line of being discovered and it was what she was waiting for as well.
She had said to several that she didn't know how much longer she could take being married to Randy. She was done. She just didn't have the spine to end the marriage in the right way.
She didn't have the spine or respect to tell Randy that to his face and then move out and file for divorce. She needed to line up her next landing spot before her marriage to Randy could end.
She wanted a smooth transition.
No matter the verdict, much is known now, thanks to the trial.
We know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Mike and Angie are the consummate liars.
No doubt remains about that.
Even on the stand, after placing her hand on the Word of God, Angie lied to the DA. She feigned a poor memory.
She couldn't even fake being remorseful there, in full view of Jan's loved ones.
What kind of a person could sit there, knowing her part in this tragedy and not hang her head and cry, telling the whole world how sorry she is?
That was her perfect opportunity to show that she was sorry for her role in this. But to say that you have to feel it. And she simply doesn't feel it.
The DA stood there for all of us in his incredulity. I know that he has encountered criminals, and sociopaths and even psychopaths.
But he stood there and faced a person with no remorse. A cold, calculating person who feels no responsibility for her part.
The fact that Angie and Mike made out behind the funeral home so shortly after Jan's death is the writing on the wall.
The calls and texts continued.
Even if Angie still had feelings for Mike, didn't it ever strike her as grossly inappropriate for him to be calling her when his wife had just been murdered and his children were devastated. Wouldnt' that have shown so clearly, to a normal person, that the wiring in Mike's makeup was a bit twisted?
No. She went and met Mike. We're all still shaking our heads over that one.
If the Roseboro marriage was over, for all intents and purposes, what of the nineteen years of marriage that had been invested. If the giddy I love you was gone from the marriage, didn't Jan even matter enough as the mother of his kids to make Mike sick at heart over her brutal death?
Nope.
He needed to be in Angie's arms.
Jan was nothing to Mike. Absolutely nothing.
If he wasn't her killer, didn't he cry over what a murderer did to her?
Didn't the years he knew her count for anything? No.
We know much about Mike and Angie now.
And what happens from here will tell us more.
If Mike is convicted, Angie will run with Plan B. Or Plan C, for now.
I ask you all this...
Angie was in love with Mike and promised to be by his side forever, no matter what.
So what changed? What changed so abruptly and so concretely for her to dump him from the witness stand?
Many think that Angie suspects strongly that Mike will be convicted. Why would that change the LOVE she has for him? If convicted, why wouldn't Angie, if she loved Mike, stick by him anyway? Many woman maintain love relationships with incarcerated husbands and boyfriends.
She could be the martyr, living from visit to visit.
Instead, she bailed on him. Why?
Mike is still there in the sense of love and his spirit.
Apparently that's not really enough for Angie.
She needs the rest of him to stay in love with him.
If he's convicted, there's no more money, other than what he can earn in the prison system.
Suddenly Mike's no longer looking like the catch of the century and she bailed on him.
Poor Mike. Not.
She constantly pushed the tone of their communications back to being Mrs. Angela Lynn Roseboro. How many times did she say she wanted to be Mrs. MICHAEL Roseboro?
Not so many.
It was about her being who she wanted to be, not about her love for being the wife of a man she adored.
If Mike would have just paid attention maybe he would have wised up before he chose his path.
Angie was telling him the truth, if he just paid attention. It was there, between the lines, the whole time.
So now we'll wait for the verdict.
If he's set free, what will Angie do?
What a dilemma!
Mike will be free and able to continue to earn money. And live large.
And now Angie went and shot her mouth off on the witness stand.....oh the dilemma she'll be in....
How long will she be able to stand knowing that all that money is still there, and more to come...and she chose to say she's done with Mike.
Angie never burns all of her bridges....she made sure of that too.
She still loves Mike deeply. She can't just turn it off.
So if he's set free...she can say that she just couldn't stop loving him....
Randy, keep a bag packed by the door, just in case....
It might take a while, but if Mike and his money are available, you're history, dude!
If Mike is convicted, Angie will remain with Randy, for a while. But not that long.
She'll have her next soft spot to land lined up in due time.
All we have to do is watch.
There have been places all along the road of this tragedy and afterward, where both of them have had the opportunity to choose.
Angie could have faced the courtroom and showed remorse. And she could have said how sorry she was to Jan's family. Even if they didn't believe her, she could have stood by her words and done the right thing.
Mike could have stopped cheating. He could have done the right thing.
But they were focused on themselves.
And now we'll see even more truth about both of them, no matter the verdict.
And I hope that the DA and the investigators are still burning with questions.
You're not done yet, Mr. Steadman.
Don't let those questions go totally unanswered. Let Jan sit on your shoulder until you know the whole story. There is far more to learn. And even if takes years, please don't stop looking for those answers. Mike's verdict will either set him free and unable to ever be charged again for this crime or it will send him to prison for life.
But the whole truth did not come out in the courtroom.
Please don't let the truth stay hidden forever.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Public's Reaction To Mrs. Funk
Angie Funk took the witness stand with her head held high.
When she misspoke about her baby son's name, her answer was met with disbelief and disgust from the gallery. Their utterances spoke for the entire community.
Now that the emails and phone calls and texts have been revealed, and there is no question as to her immorality, what will the community reaction be to her?
Until the trial, she was strutting all over Denver with her trophy baby, head held so high. Cocky and haughty, she showed no shame for what she's done.
We know alot more about her now.
We know the full extent of her ability to lie.
She took the oath and faced that courtroom and never flinched in her attitude. She is cold, callous and she's trash.
She helped create the tragedy that took Jan's life and when it was clear the payoff wasn't going to be forthcoming, she bailed.
She stuck it to Mike, royally. Shoved one to him where the sun don't shine, so to speak.
It's all about Angie and it always has been.
Will the people in the community continue to keep quiet and just shake their heads in disgust as she walks by?
Will people cancel their policies that are in any way related to her employment?
Will Mom's actually call the school and request that Angie not be allowed to be in proximity of their children as a volunteer?
Her seedy, whorish side is out there for all to see.
Her money grubbing, gold digging soul isn't just known to her closest circle anymore.
We all know.
I wouldn't want her anywhere near my children. Nowhere near.
And as I said before, now we'll see how much Angie really wants to work it out with Randy....
If Mike is acquitted, they'll be ordering a wedding dress and plane tickets before the summer is over....
She's heading for the winning team. Whichever team that is.
Hearing about the other affair (s) really jacked her up LOLOL She truly thought she was the only one to ever make Mike feel the way he said he felt for her...Oooops! Sorry Ang, but you're just the latest, not greatest, roll in the hay he's had.
There's plenty that didn't come out. More affairs. The wedding scenario was used before.
Mike was creepily obsessed with a previous mistress.....
Silly thing!
But I do think you'll be well known now! You will become a verb.
Whenever a slut entices a lowlife husband into another affair, manipulates him and intentionally gets pregnant to get her hands on his money....and puts his cahones in a vice and twists them till he snaps and kills his wife....that will be called "pulling an Angie."
You're a lot of nouns. And a really disgusting, criminal verb.
When she misspoke about her baby son's name, her answer was met with disbelief and disgust from the gallery. Their utterances spoke for the entire community.
Now that the emails and phone calls and texts have been revealed, and there is no question as to her immorality, what will the community reaction be to her?
Until the trial, she was strutting all over Denver with her trophy baby, head held so high. Cocky and haughty, she showed no shame for what she's done.
We know alot more about her now.
We know the full extent of her ability to lie.
She took the oath and faced that courtroom and never flinched in her attitude. She is cold, callous and she's trash.
She helped create the tragedy that took Jan's life and when it was clear the payoff wasn't going to be forthcoming, she bailed.
She stuck it to Mike, royally. Shoved one to him where the sun don't shine, so to speak.
It's all about Angie and it always has been.
Will the people in the community continue to keep quiet and just shake their heads in disgust as she walks by?
Will people cancel their policies that are in any way related to her employment?
Will Mom's actually call the school and request that Angie not be allowed to be in proximity of their children as a volunteer?
Her seedy, whorish side is out there for all to see.
Her money grubbing, gold digging soul isn't just known to her closest circle anymore.
We all know.
I wouldn't want her anywhere near my children. Nowhere near.
And as I said before, now we'll see how much Angie really wants to work it out with Randy....
If Mike is acquitted, they'll be ordering a wedding dress and plane tickets before the summer is over....
She's heading for the winning team. Whichever team that is.
Hearing about the other affair (s) really jacked her up LOLOL She truly thought she was the only one to ever make Mike feel the way he said he felt for her...Oooops! Sorry Ang, but you're just the latest, not greatest, roll in the hay he's had.
There's plenty that didn't come out. More affairs. The wedding scenario was used before.
Mike was creepily obsessed with a previous mistress.....
Silly thing!
But I do think you'll be well known now! You will become a verb.
Whenever a slut entices a lowlife husband into another affair, manipulates him and intentionally gets pregnant to get her hands on his money....and puts his cahones in a vice and twists them till he snaps and kills his wife....that will be called "pulling an Angie."
You're a lot of nouns. And a really disgusting, criminal verb.
I remember watching a case on television in which the young woman who had been snatched and abducted was sure she was going to be ultimately killed. And she was.
But what led the investigators to know that she anticipated her own death was that they found her DNA via epithelial skin cells all over the backseat and interior of the car in which the attackers placed her.
They found it on the doors, the ceiling, the seats, the floor. In the most obscure nooks and crannies.
They found it in places it would not have been even in the midst of a brutal attack and killing.
They were able to tell that that poor young woman intentionally touched everything she possibly could, rubbed her arms on all surfaces, leaving her identity behind.
She was removed from the back of the car, brutally bludgeoned to death and then buried in an obscure and well-hidden grave.
She was reported missing by her family. Weeks later when an abandoned car was found a state away, her DNA was all over the rear interior of that car.
Her case as a missing person was very active. The detectives were on it and the tests they ran told the story. They knew that she had been in that car.
That determination led them to further locations and ultimately to her grave, and her killer.
That young woman did the only thing she could do to make sure someone knew where she had been and what had happened to her in the event of her violent death.
She left a message for everyone.
Jan Roseboro did the same thing.
In her fight against her attacker she scratched him as he subdued her and killed her.
And in her hand was his identity.
It didn't wash away.
It wasn't diluted beyond analysis.
If Jan was attacked by robbers, she would have fought back just as hard.
She would have their identity under her fingernails.
Despite flailing and struggling in the pool, that DNA remained....
Thank God it did.
It's Jan's way of telling us all who brutalized her and broke her.
I pray the jury is truly listening.
But what led the investigators to know that she anticipated her own death was that they found her DNA via epithelial skin cells all over the backseat and interior of the car in which the attackers placed her.
They found it on the doors, the ceiling, the seats, the floor. In the most obscure nooks and crannies.
They found it in places it would not have been even in the midst of a brutal attack and killing.
They were able to tell that that poor young woman intentionally touched everything she possibly could, rubbed her arms on all surfaces, leaving her identity behind.
She was removed from the back of the car, brutally bludgeoned to death and then buried in an obscure and well-hidden grave.
She was reported missing by her family. Weeks later when an abandoned car was found a state away, her DNA was all over the rear interior of that car.
Her case as a missing person was very active. The detectives were on it and the tests they ran told the story. They knew that she had been in that car.
That determination led them to further locations and ultimately to her grave, and her killer.
That young woman did the only thing she could do to make sure someone knew where she had been and what had happened to her in the event of her violent death.
She left a message for everyone.
Jan Roseboro did the same thing.
In her fight against her attacker she scratched him as he subdued her and killed her.
And in her hand was his identity.
It didn't wash away.
It wasn't diluted beyond analysis.
If Jan was attacked by robbers, she would have fought back just as hard.
She would have their identity under her fingernails.
Despite flailing and struggling in the pool, that DNA remained....
Thank God it did.
It's Jan's way of telling us all who brutalized her and broke her.
I pray the jury is truly listening.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Eight Defense Witnesses
Dr. HoffmanZachary Martin
Officer Eelman
Mary Stewart (friend of Ann's)
Sam
Detective Odenwalt
Dave Sauder
Brandy Walls
The Defense Rests!
The defense has rested it's case......
Unreal. Unless the jury has heard much, much more than has been reported, there is an overwhelming sense of "is that all there is"?
I maintain that Sodomksy won't pursue further avenues in an effort to keep the DA from following him with his own information and theories.
If Sodomsky doesn't open the door, Steadman can't steamroll through it.
So now, how say you?
Unreal. Unless the jury has heard much, much more than has been reported, there is an overwhelming sense of "is that all there is"?
I maintain that Sodomksy won't pursue further avenues in an effort to keep the DA from following him with his own information and theories.
If Sodomsky doesn't open the door, Steadman can't steamroll through it.
So now, how say you?
Details We Aren't Aware Of
I don't have much time to post today, but I will add some citations or sources that reveal more of what has been testified to in the Roseboro trial. It's only natural that unless the newspapers reprint the trial transcript in an incomplete form, we are not going to be aware of the testimony in its totality.
I've been reading various newspapers and visiting their sites along with the television stations covering the trial. I am finding mention of things from all sites that give us a more complete record of evidence and testimony.
This is from CBS21:
Brian Binkley is Jan's older brother. Brian testified Wednesday that he noticed changes in Michael's behavior the month before Jan's murder. Binkley claimed Michael began acting "possessive", a trait he had never seen in Michael before. Binkley says Michael started claiming ownership around the house, which was unusual because Mike and Jan were always welcoming.
There will be more as I can add them.
The jury needs to deliberate and determine if they can find Mike guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We want to know what happened.
With no confession and so many questions, it's likely we'll never, ever really know. But we can use all the evidence and facts that we find to reach a decision for ourselves.
I've been reading various newspapers and visiting their sites along with the television stations covering the trial. I am finding mention of things from all sites that give us a more complete record of evidence and testimony.
This is from CBS21:
Brian Binkley is Jan's older brother. Brian testified Wednesday that he noticed changes in Michael's behavior the month before Jan's murder. Binkley claimed Michael began acting "possessive", a trait he had never seen in Michael before. Binkley says Michael started claiming ownership around the house, which was unusual because Mike and Jan were always welcoming.
There will be more as I can add them.
The jury needs to deliberate and determine if they can find Mike guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We want to know what happened.
With no confession and so many questions, it's likely we'll never, ever really know. But we can use all the evidence and facts that we find to reach a decision for ourselves.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Making It All So Real....
Today's revelations of the details of the autopsy findings and the probable course of the attack on Jan Binkley Roseboro have affected many people in many ways.Cognitively, everyone has known that Jan was murdered by beating, strangling and drowning.
The testimony as to the extent of her injuries and the details of how the pathologist believes the injuries were sustained, and in what order has caused some folks to simply stop in their tracks.
We now have a totally plausible theory of the course of the attack.
And it has made some of us cry. Some of us are incredibly sad. And some are nauseated.
To know, in detail, how Jan suffered is sobering if not incomprehensible.
She was alert and aware during most of the attack. She was able to see the face of her killer.
And she knew at some point that this attack wasn't just an attack. She knew in her heart that the person she was looking at fully intended for her to die.
The terror and fear she had to have felt is unreal.
She fought hard for her life. She struggled.
After the blow that pierced her scalp to the bone, she fought back.
After the carotid hold, she eventually fought back.
When she was taken or thrown in her own swimming pool, in her own back yard, she fought back.
As her killer forcefully shoved her head in the water, she fought back.
She gulped pool water as she fought for her life.
The last minutes of Jan's life are now a cold, vicious reality.
A monster attacked her from behind and beat the life out of her until she was dead.
Her head was bashed repeatedly on the side of the pool.... What rage there had to have been for that aspect of the attack....
This testimony has affected people in ways that they haven't been affected before.
For Jan's family and friends, this is surreal and sickening.
Their pain is unbearable.
There are no words to offer to them. Just know that we care. We feel as much as we can and we have cried for what Jan went through.
No matter the verdict, everyone will make up their own minds.
Even the children.
When they are old enough to be able to examine the record, they will come to a place where they know what the truth is. Years from now, they will need even more love and support.
Many people are bit quieter this afternoon. We're thinking about Jan.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
It's Important To Note....
I thought it important to share this with any of the new readers of my blogs. Those of you that know me and have shared posts with all of us on the Denverpaonline.com site are already aware of the situation and events that have led to many of my posts.
There are people directly related to the families in this tragedy who have not been able to speak for themselves. Some want desperately to avoid hurting others with their opinions and beliefs, but feel so strongly about their beliefs that they wanted them to be shared.
Others have held back out of a desire to not be identified and have unwanted attention heaped upon them.
Others just needed to vent. Or to have someone to talk to.
I have maintained their privacy and will continue to do so.
They have shared not only their beliefs, theories and opinions. They have told me facts.
What was posted as conjecture and a what if? was based in fact.
And that has been borne out time and time again.
I was contacted today by some of the people who have been calling and emailing me, and they wanted to make sure I shared with you all that this hasn't been simply opinion or conjecture.
They passed on the truth. And it has turned out that we've learned even more, even more salacious things the longer the trial has gone on.
Their worst fears were realized. They were hoping that the worst details of the relationship between Mike and Angie wouldn't see the light of day. Especially in open court.
But it's all been necessary in presenting the evidence.
We all have been warned several times to not believe what is said by Angie Funk.
She has made clear comments that call into question her testimony at even the preliminary hearing. And she actively chose to "not remember" most of her interaction with Mike until pressed by DA Steadman.
Hostile witness is putting it mildly.
A cheating husband does not a murderer make, necessarily. That is absolutely true.
But you can tell much about a person from their actions.
If a person will lie about one thing, will they lie about another?
Can a person be considered moral in other areas of their life if proven to be amoral in others?
I believe that knowing a person's choices in given situations gives all a clear picture of what they are capable of.
Each person in this tragedy has to be accountable for their own actions.
No one MADE anyone do anything.
Could Mike have been pushed, goaded, pressured to act?
Absolutely.
But what accountability is there for Angie Funk is she did indeed push him to act?
Where on the spectrum of responsibility does she lie?
There are people directly related to the families in this tragedy who have not been able to speak for themselves. Some want desperately to avoid hurting others with their opinions and beliefs, but feel so strongly about their beliefs that they wanted them to be shared.
Others have held back out of a desire to not be identified and have unwanted attention heaped upon them.
Others just needed to vent. Or to have someone to talk to.
I have maintained their privacy and will continue to do so.
They have shared not only their beliefs, theories and opinions. They have told me facts.
What was posted as conjecture and a what if? was based in fact.
And that has been borne out time and time again.
I was contacted today by some of the people who have been calling and emailing me, and they wanted to make sure I shared with you all that this hasn't been simply opinion or conjecture.
They passed on the truth. And it has turned out that we've learned even more, even more salacious things the longer the trial has gone on.
Their worst fears were realized. They were hoping that the worst details of the relationship between Mike and Angie wouldn't see the light of day. Especially in open court.
But it's all been necessary in presenting the evidence.
We all have been warned several times to not believe what is said by Angie Funk.
She has made clear comments that call into question her testimony at even the preliminary hearing. And she actively chose to "not remember" most of her interaction with Mike until pressed by DA Steadman.
Hostile witness is putting it mildly.
A cheating husband does not a murderer make, necessarily. That is absolutely true.
But you can tell much about a person from their actions.
If a person will lie about one thing, will they lie about another?
Can a person be considered moral in other areas of their life if proven to be amoral in others?
I believe that knowing a person's choices in given situations gives all a clear picture of what they are capable of.
Each person in this tragedy has to be accountable for their own actions.
No one MADE anyone do anything.
Could Mike have been pushed, goaded, pressured to act?
Absolutely.
But what accountability is there for Angie Funk is she did indeed push him to act?
Where on the spectrum of responsibility does she lie?
The Defense
The defense will soon have the floor.We know that their basis of refuting the prosecution's claims is that an unknown intruder entered the Roseboro property on July 22, 2008 and beat, strangled and drowned Jan Roseboro in a successful attempt to steal her jewelry. They claim the jewelry in question is valued at approximately $40,000.
We will learn if anyone recalls seeing Jan wear the jewelry in question in the hours immediately preceding her death.
We will learn when the first claim was made that the jewelry was no longer on her person or in her possession or that of the hospital, morgue or family.
For a robber to have committed this crime, he or she must have been enraged at some point in the commission of the crime. The injuries that Jan received, save for the head wound, were committed by bare hands. This was, indeed, a personal attack.
If the jewelry was the object of the crime and attack, when was it taken from Jan?
Does anyone really think that Jan would have not thrown the jewelry at her attacker to get the beating to stop?
Jan's priority wouldn't have been her jewelry. If she was being robbed, she would have willingly given up anything to stay alive for her children.
Jan fought back. That much is evident. No amount of jewelry would have made her fight for her life. The attack wouldn't have progressed to that point.
Facing an attacker the way she did that night, the only thing on her mind would have been her children.
There was a rage and no brakes in the attack she suffered.
Robbers usually don't plan on killing their victims. They rob. Sometimes when things go badly, they become killers.
Did the alleged robbers see the jewelry on Jan as she was out by the pool?
Or did they spot her earlier in the day and lay in wait in the dark, out on Creek Road?
Why wouldn't they have held her at gunpoint or knifepoint, demanding she hand over the jewelry quietly "and no one gets hurt."?
Purse snatchings are done with bare hands. They are quick, instantaneous and over in a very short period of time.
The snatchers don't wrestle with their victims long, even when the victim puts up a fight.
Robberies are quick as well. The goal is to get in. get the stuff, and get out.
Robbers don't hang around and continue to beat the life out of their victims. Once the bounty is taken, it's over and they make a hasty getaway.
Which makes me ask this...if this was a robbery, why did it have to go on until Jan was floating in the swimming pool? Did the robber and Jan end up in the pool, where he or she then removed the rest of the jewelry?
I believe that if faced with the fight that Jan did put up, as much as she could have, once struck so viciously in the back of the head, the robber would have cut his or her losses and left in a hurry......
But instead, we are to believe that the robber took all the time needed to not only rob Jan but to make sure she was left for dead in the pool? And they only left after ALL of the jewelry had been taken?
Just some thoughts....
Marian Louise Baker
I haven't posted much in regard to the Marian Louise Baker murder in quite a long time. My attention and efforts have been directed to the current tragedy. I did want to share one comparison in the two cases.
Both of the accused men in the murders are from prominent families.
The Gibbs family, of Pitman, New Jersey was seen as not only financially well off but as pillars of the community. They were highly respected in their own right. Those who knew them described them as affable, friendly and given to respect the law and order in their communities.
Their son was a "golden child" to the family. He was the pride of his uncles, as well as his parents.
His mother was quite nervous and her oppressive loving nature toward Ed Gibbs was a major point to some who reviewed his upbringing.
Ed Gibbs claimed that a feeling "came over" him as he was driving south, out of Lancaster, with Marian Louise Baker. They were not dating and he claims to have never made an advance on her.
But he did crush her skull with a lug wrench and drag and hide her body under the Mylin cottage.
Ed Gibbs eventually raced into one of the offices at Franklin and Marshall College, confessing to the killing of Miss Baker.
He was forthright and more than willing to offer up most details and even showed the authorities where had disposed of her purse.
But there was a point he couldn't get past.
He never gave an explanation that was satisfactory to most, including his own counsel, Hensel Brown, as to why he so brutally killed Marian Louis Baker.
Some surmise there was something yet not revealed that would have shamed his family so much that Ed just couldn't utter the words or describe it.
It was almost as if he was demonstrating that in his world and that of his family, killing is wrong, killing is horrible, but the events in the car that day were even more heinous. Some have felt that he spared his parents and family the ultimate shame, resulting from behavior he committed that would have devastated his mother even more than the fact that he actually killed Miss Baker.
It's noteworthy that if indeed he did make a pass at Miss Baker and she rebuffed him, that misstep in being sexually forward with her would have shamed him more than the fact that he took her life. In a very odd way, I get it.
Edward Lester Gibbs went to his death in the electric chair never revealing more about the events leading up to the attack and murder of Miss Baker.
Those who knew Hensel Brown said that the Gibbs trial was a marker in Brown's life. He was never the same man after that case. It wasn't just the loss of the trial and the execution of Gibbs. It was that Brown had absolutely no success in having the man reveal the whole truth to him.
Brown was almost self-tormented by that case. He wondered if only had he been able to get Gibbs to tell the whole story, maybe he could have been spared the electric chair.
The murder of Jan Roseboro also involves a prominent family, one who has been a solid and strong pillar of the community for generations. Given the nature of the family business, mortuary care and service, the Roseboro's have seen many of us at our lowest and most devastated moments. Many will say that it's their job. Of course they will care and comfort, it's what they do. But there is a sincerity and a genuineness that isn't just a facade that they wear like a sharp suit.
The Roseboro family's reputation precedes them. They are good people and always have been.
Outside the funeral home care and service, they have been pillars of the community. Anyone that has encountered them knows that.
The events of the summer of 2008 rained down upon that family as well as the family of Jan Binkley Roseboro. Most of us can't comprehend how they have maintained their composure and their lives with what has happened. And yet, they continue to be good people, with respect, compassion and morals.
Their son, Michael, is on trial for the murder of his wife. He has pleaded not guilty. Because of the sheer salaciousness and smutty nature of the affair that was going on between their son and his mistress, things have gotten dirty. The most embarrassing personal emails have been read in open court. Clearly obsessive behavior on the part of Mike and his mistress is not even a question.
Edward Lester Gibbs was held accountable for the brutal killing of Marian Louise Baker. It was an abberation, a crime so heinous that the verdict included his execution in the electric chair. But Ed Gibbs chose behavior as a grown man.
We all are the product of nature/nuture. And there were issues offered in court about Ed's childhood that may have had some bearing on how he dealt with the building, pressing anxiety that filled him up to and including the afternoon that he killed Miss Baker.
But Ed Gibbs committed the crime. Not his parents. The family had to endure the shame and embarrassment of all that was known after the crime. But Ed stopped short of shaming his family even further, to the point of taking facts to his grave.
Even in the attempt to save his life, he stopped short of what he must have considered the ultimate shame of his family.
In the end, some said that Ed Gibbs "died like a man".
In the Roseboro murder trial, there is a defense being offered. The strength of that defense has yet to be seen.
But in the course of the trial thus far, extremely embarrassingl, tawdry and sexually explicit communications have been read in open court. The shame is flung around the room with almost a wanton disregard for family, friends and the children involved.
There is no confession here. So the trial must follow it's path.
But the Roseboro family isn't on trial. The verdict has been an ongoing determination about them for years. Generations in fact. They are good people. They have cared for the people of the area for years. They have treated us with respect and empathy in moments when we couldn't see straight in our grief and our upheavel.
There is only one defendant. That is Mike Roseboro.
And his family loves him. That doesn't make them cold or uncaring. They love their son.
They have heard what he's told them. And their decision to believe him or not is their decision alone.
He was their son as a tiny baby. He was their son each and every Christmas morning. He was their son when he went to college. He was their son when he presented them with four beautiful grandchildren. He is their son today.
I have no doubt that the community has nothing but love and respect for this family.
And they will not be the recipient of any errant or ill thought comments or offenses in the community.
Jan Binkley's family was and is well known in the area as well. I can remember the characteristics associated with just hearing the mention of her father's name. He was a good and successful man. Her mother was so very well thought of. The name of her sister and brother only brought descriptions of good people, whose character was evident to anyone that met them or knew of them.
Jan wasn't just popular. She was well thought of in the real sense. She was admired by people and that is evident today.
This family has shown grace, love and strength beyond measure in the aftermath of this killing.
It's evident of what they're made of.
I love the phrase that "we stand on the shoulders of greatness". All of us are made up of the qualities and components of those who have come before us.
It's clear that the Roseoboro and Binkley families are standing on the greatness of those who came before and who still stand by them today, even if unseen.
They all are the ones picking up the pieces and trying with all their might to do the very best for the kids. That is the measure of their character.
Their needs don't come first. They have done the right thing. They always have. And it's clear that they always will. I don't think they even have a choice. It's what they're made of.
Both of the accused men in the murders are from prominent families.
The Gibbs family, of Pitman, New Jersey was seen as not only financially well off but as pillars of the community. They were highly respected in their own right. Those who knew them described them as affable, friendly and given to respect the law and order in their communities.
Their son was a "golden child" to the family. He was the pride of his uncles, as well as his parents.
His mother was quite nervous and her oppressive loving nature toward Ed Gibbs was a major point to some who reviewed his upbringing.
Ed Gibbs claimed that a feeling "came over" him as he was driving south, out of Lancaster, with Marian Louise Baker. They were not dating and he claims to have never made an advance on her.
But he did crush her skull with a lug wrench and drag and hide her body under the Mylin cottage.
Ed Gibbs eventually raced into one of the offices at Franklin and Marshall College, confessing to the killing of Miss Baker.
He was forthright and more than willing to offer up most details and even showed the authorities where had disposed of her purse.
But there was a point he couldn't get past.
He never gave an explanation that was satisfactory to most, including his own counsel, Hensel Brown, as to why he so brutally killed Marian Louis Baker.
Some surmise there was something yet not revealed that would have shamed his family so much that Ed just couldn't utter the words or describe it.
It was almost as if he was demonstrating that in his world and that of his family, killing is wrong, killing is horrible, but the events in the car that day were even more heinous. Some have felt that he spared his parents and family the ultimate shame, resulting from behavior he committed that would have devastated his mother even more than the fact that he actually killed Miss Baker.
It's noteworthy that if indeed he did make a pass at Miss Baker and she rebuffed him, that misstep in being sexually forward with her would have shamed him more than the fact that he took her life. In a very odd way, I get it.
Edward Lester Gibbs went to his death in the electric chair never revealing more about the events leading up to the attack and murder of Miss Baker.
Those who knew Hensel Brown said that the Gibbs trial was a marker in Brown's life. He was never the same man after that case. It wasn't just the loss of the trial and the execution of Gibbs. It was that Brown had absolutely no success in having the man reveal the whole truth to him.
Brown was almost self-tormented by that case. He wondered if only had he been able to get Gibbs to tell the whole story, maybe he could have been spared the electric chair.
The murder of Jan Roseboro also involves a prominent family, one who has been a solid and strong pillar of the community for generations. Given the nature of the family business, mortuary care and service, the Roseboro's have seen many of us at our lowest and most devastated moments. Many will say that it's their job. Of course they will care and comfort, it's what they do. But there is a sincerity and a genuineness that isn't just a facade that they wear like a sharp suit.
The Roseboro family's reputation precedes them. They are good people and always have been.
Outside the funeral home care and service, they have been pillars of the community. Anyone that has encountered them knows that.
The events of the summer of 2008 rained down upon that family as well as the family of Jan Binkley Roseboro. Most of us can't comprehend how they have maintained their composure and their lives with what has happened. And yet, they continue to be good people, with respect, compassion and morals.
Their son, Michael, is on trial for the murder of his wife. He has pleaded not guilty. Because of the sheer salaciousness and smutty nature of the affair that was going on between their son and his mistress, things have gotten dirty. The most embarrassing personal emails have been read in open court. Clearly obsessive behavior on the part of Mike and his mistress is not even a question.
Edward Lester Gibbs was held accountable for the brutal killing of Marian Louise Baker. It was an abberation, a crime so heinous that the verdict included his execution in the electric chair. But Ed Gibbs chose behavior as a grown man.
We all are the product of nature/nuture. And there were issues offered in court about Ed's childhood that may have had some bearing on how he dealt with the building, pressing anxiety that filled him up to and including the afternoon that he killed Miss Baker.
But Ed Gibbs committed the crime. Not his parents. The family had to endure the shame and embarrassment of all that was known after the crime. But Ed stopped short of shaming his family even further, to the point of taking facts to his grave.
Even in the attempt to save his life, he stopped short of what he must have considered the ultimate shame of his family.
In the end, some said that Ed Gibbs "died like a man".
In the Roseboro murder trial, there is a defense being offered. The strength of that defense has yet to be seen.
But in the course of the trial thus far, extremely embarrassingl, tawdry and sexually explicit communications have been read in open court. The shame is flung around the room with almost a wanton disregard for family, friends and the children involved.
There is no confession here. So the trial must follow it's path.
But the Roseboro family isn't on trial. The verdict has been an ongoing determination about them for years. Generations in fact. They are good people. They have cared for the people of the area for years. They have treated us with respect and empathy in moments when we couldn't see straight in our grief and our upheavel.
There is only one defendant. That is Mike Roseboro.
And his family loves him. That doesn't make them cold or uncaring. They love their son.
They have heard what he's told them. And their decision to believe him or not is their decision alone.
He was their son as a tiny baby. He was their son each and every Christmas morning. He was their son when he went to college. He was their son when he presented them with four beautiful grandchildren. He is their son today.
I have no doubt that the community has nothing but love and respect for this family.
And they will not be the recipient of any errant or ill thought comments or offenses in the community.
Jan Binkley's family was and is well known in the area as well. I can remember the characteristics associated with just hearing the mention of her father's name. He was a good and successful man. Her mother was so very well thought of. The name of her sister and brother only brought descriptions of good people, whose character was evident to anyone that met them or knew of them.
Jan wasn't just popular. She was well thought of in the real sense. She was admired by people and that is evident today.
This family has shown grace, love and strength beyond measure in the aftermath of this killing.
It's evident of what they're made of.
I love the phrase that "we stand on the shoulders of greatness". All of us are made up of the qualities and components of those who have come before us.
It's clear that the Roseoboro and Binkley families are standing on the greatness of those who came before and who still stand by them today, even if unseen.
They all are the ones picking up the pieces and trying with all their might to do the very best for the kids. That is the measure of their character.
Their needs don't come first. They have done the right thing. They always have. And it's clear that they always will. I don't think they even have a choice. It's what they're made of.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
The narcissist perceives every disagreement – let alone criticism – as nothing short of a threat. He reacts defensively. He becomes indignant, aggressive and cold. He detaches emotionally for fear of yet another (narcissistic) injury. He devalues the person who made the disparaging remark.
Most narcissists react defensively. They become conspicuously indignant, aggressive, and cold. They detach emotionally for fear of yet another (narcissistic) injury. They devalue the person who made the disparaging remark, the critical comment, the unflattering observation, the innocuous joke at the narcissist's expense.
The narcissist over-values people (when they are judged to be potential sources of such supply), uses them, devalues them (when no longer able to supply him) and discards them nonchalantly. This behaviour pattern tends to alienate and to distance people.
Gradually, the social circle of the narcissist dwindles (and ultimately vanishes). People around him who are not turned off by the ugly succession of his acts and attitudes – are rendered desperate and fatigued by the turbulent nature of the narcissist's life.
The positive characteristics of the Net are largely lost on the narcissist. He is not keen on expanding his horizons, fostering true relationships, or getting in real contact with other people. The narcissist is forever the provincial because he filters everything through the narrow lens of his addiction. He measures others – and idealizes or devalues them – according to one criterion only: how useful they might be as Sources of Narcissistic Supply.
These are the victims upon which the narcissist designs, maliciously and intentionally, to inflict his wrath and bad intentions. The narcissist is both sadistic and masochistic. In hurting others he always seeks to hurt himself. In punishing them he wishes to be penalised. Their pains are his.
Thus, he attacks figures of authority and social institutions with vicious, uncontrolled, almost insane rage – only to accept his due punishment (their reaction to his venomous diatribes or antisocial actions) with incredible complacency, or even relief. He engages in vitriolic humiliation of his kin and folk, of regime and government, of his firm or of the law – only to suffer pleasurably in the role of the outcast, the ex-communicated, the exiled, and the imprisoned.
The punishment of the narcissist does little to compensate his randomly (rather incomprehensibly) selected victims. The narcissist forces individuals and groups of people around him to pay a heavy toll, materially, in reputation, and emotionally. He is ruinous, and disruptive.
Gaslighting can also play out in a "quote me and I'll deny it" form, whereby (for example) the gaslighter exposes him/herself to the gaslightee as having done something evil - then, when the gaslightee repeats it in front of the gaslighter and third parties in an attempt to expose the gaslighter, the gaslighter acts genuinely surprised and confused and denies everything, thus making the gaslightee appear to be paranoid or malicious or "crying wolf". This is especially effective if there is no evidence of the gaslighter's evil deed, thus making it his/her word against the gaslightee's - which isn't worth much in the eyes of the third parties, since the gaslightee just appeared to discredit him/herself.
Dear Becky
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OutOfTowner July 19th, 2009 at 13:46
Becky, are you aware that you’re being totally bashed on LOL?? Might want to check it out.
I think totally bashed is a bit strong. I have my supporters! BeachGirlFromPa is a nutjob who will soon be in a mental institution. I will have more to say about her after the trial! So far she has called Judge Cullen, the DA, Sodomsky, LNP and court administration. LOL.
And not to mention she’s been in contact with author William Phelps because she’s just so damn important. LOL!
I said I will leave it alone and I have been for months. There will be one post on my site after the trial is over. Be careful on the internet. Their are a lot of stalkers and crazy people out there!
I will withhold any comments about that site until after the trial. Then I will post once and be done with it.
The above sentences are directly from Becky Holzinger's blog, Lipnews.com about yours truly and Denverpaonline.com.
I failed to see her comments about me until today when I was reading some of the comments on her site.
I see that once again, I am a "nutjob" LOLOLOL I think I should get that tattooed on my forehead or something, in case Becky and I meet on the street, so she knows that it's really, really me!
As I had posted a few times on the Denverpaonline.com site before my hiatus, what Becky does is called "gaslighting". I will include a source explanation for it in this post. But in a nutshell, usually it is a person with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder that "gaslights" anyone who calls them to task or reveals a truth about the person with NPD. If they can discredit the person who has taken a stand against them and told the truth about them, no matter the lies and confabulations they use against that individual, they can hope to avert others from ever believing the claims of the person "outting" them.
It's a classic defense/offense move by a person with NPD. If Becky can call me "nutjob", "nutcase" or "wackjob" often enough to call my integrity into question, then perhaps what I have to say about her will not be believed.
It can be frustrating for anyone who is on the receiving end of mistreatment by a person with NPD. But fortunately, I've received far more validation thus far in the process of dealing with Becky than I ever could have hoped for.
And facts always win out.
Becky now is a woman without a forum.
She has been banned from the Talkback forum of the Lancasteronline.com site.
She has been at least suspended from the Denverpaonline.com site.
And none of it was without reason.
As you all know, I was her fiercest defender and supporter. I took a good bashing for doing so but I lived and learned. I made my apologies to those who I took a stand against, in defense of Becky.
And at one time, Becky showered me with praise and kudos. She asked me repeatedly to take over the Roseboro coverage on her blog. That hasn't been lost on quite a few readers.
And then, I discovered that she was a ringleader in sharing publicly information that was considered private, between Becky and myself. It wasn't that she shared it. It was that she never took one second to pick up the phone and ask if she could. And then she used a public chat room to share that information with people who are complete strangers to me.
Even at that point, it wasn't that bad.
It was the sneaky subterfuge she tried to use to keep me from ever finding out what she had done.
I remember, being totally unaware of what she had done, reading her blog while I was sick last winter.
And one line seemed to jump off the page at me....
"What goes on in chat, stays in chat!" were her words....
And I got a very odd feeling. So I read more....
And before too long, I have discovered what Becky had done, behind my back, in a public chat room.
I had been real and sincere with her, unaware of her lack of character and abysmal lack of human empathy.
Once I was onto her, and made it clear I was going to pursue the truth about that chat, about me, she immediately went into attack mode.
And she has remained there ever since.
She has disparaged me. She has participated in some very questionable activities on the Denverpaonline.com site while I was actively off the site.
But I kept my guard up and soon all of those covert actions were revealed as well.
I had been warned to not attribute to Becky what most normal people hold to be important and vital in their behavior and thought processes. I wish I would have listened to the many people who had been hurt or attacked by Becky. I thought better of her. My bad....
Even an apology would have helped. But one never came.
No acknowledgement ever arrived either. It has been a pure case of "Wasn't me!" since last year.
She did make one comment that has puzzled me, but I've learned there is no cohesive route with her.
She said to me, "You will thank me one day."
I'm still waiting to see what I am to be so grateful for.
I have angered Becky.
Others have walked away from her much sooner than I have. I'm still standing here.
Whether it be out of pity or sheer surreal frustration, others haven't called her to task with any resolve.
They cringe and walk away, hoping to just avoid any contact, mention or interaction. And they surely hope to not see their screennames or real names on her blog.
She has mocked me, ridiculed me, slung names at me. I'm not fazed.
She accused me of always running to a lawyer. Not true. I do utilize the services of our attorney whenever I need to. And if that would be the avenue to have Becky Holzinger leave my name off of her blog or out of her mouth, I'd schedule yet another appointment.
But her opinions and posts really don't matter.
I have been far more fortunate than most people who have been attacked by a person with NPD.
Her gaslighting hasn't worked.
I have already been validated by people whom I hold in such high regard.
The people that matter see the truth. And they know the truth.
So Becky, post whatever vile, fallacious comments about me you care to.
I am quite forthright with the truth and many, many people know me and know of me.
People from many walks of life know about you and your vendettas. Your hateful words say far more about you than they ever will about me.
You can state any opinion of me you wish. In fact, it's rather complimentary in the end to have you dislike me as much as you do. It shows the world that you and I are so very different from one another.
You spew hate for everyone and everything. That comes from issues that you have.
No one knows, on any given day, who the latest target will be.
Rick Gray, Ron Harper, Detective Joe Geesey, me, the Lancaster City Police Department, Lancaster City as a whole, various member of the Talkback forum....the list goes on and on.
I was told recently that you've even attacked posters that have never interacted with you once. Ever.
As for the Denverpaonline.com site?
Yes, I came back. Jesse extended the invitation a while back and I finally was ready to rejoin the good people there. I can't tell you how the words of welcome made me feel. After months of being trashed by you and your friends, it was quite a change. The normal people came back to the site, rather than just emailing or calling me.
It has started to become a place where peope can be who they are and post their thoughts without fear of reprisal or investigation.
In the course of coming back to the Denver site, I did discover that Jesse owns a site with your name. Exactly as he owned one in my name. He is the legal owner of www.beckyholzinger.com......
You and Jesse have parted ways. I asked you on my blog to address that issue with your readers, if you would only tell them the truth as to why you have finally been suspended from the only community forum where you were welcome.
Jesse was an excellent source of news for you, since you aren't local.
He and I have reached a point of cooperation. We spoke at length about the past and the mistakes that were made along the way.
You and your friends were almost responsible for the complete demise of the Denver site. Almost.
I have learned that Jesse is a very formidable ally. And I am glad that he and I are cooperating.
He is as anxious as I am to see your "final" post about me. And about him or his site.
You know Jesse. You know his knowledge and you know his acumen when it comes to the law and the internet.
For your benefit, Becky, I posted sources about PA Law regarding privacy, libel and the internet.
There I go again LOLOL Miss Law Crazy LOLOL
It is all fact.
Post away about me, but as you have learned over the last several months, I am one who will never take it from you and just walk away. You have attacked so many good people. I'm sure that will resume once the trial is over.
But if you attack me, I will respond. Clearly.
You aren't a rogue, Becky. You have to answer for your actions like the rest of the real world.
I do believe that it's because of everyone just walking away from you in disbelief or in a chuckle fest that you have come to believe that you can steamroll anyone, post lies about anyone, Photoshop photos of anyone and post them, claim inaccuracies at any time, with no reprisal or consequences. Not true.
Your dysfunction is apparent. That is my opinion. And that of many.
I have received all the validation I needed. If I truly ever needed any, anyway. But I will admit to the pedestrian satisfaction of having others whose opinions I value highly see this exactly as I've seen it.
People I have never met but hold in extremely high regard do a "hoooo boooyyy" when they read your posts.
And some have wondered if the lies you post about me bother me.
Do they? No. Not anymore.
If I thought anyone believed you, they might. But your blog reveals you.
That is more than enough.
So, old girl, have at it.
Post away about me. Photoshop or create pics of me, post your lies about me. Call me pretty little names.
Whatever floats your boat, Becky.
It will just be your way of stirring up crap because things will have died down with the trial.
You thrive on chaos and disruption.
But it takes two to argue. And you've made my case already.
I can't speak for Jesse. But I seriously doubt that he's finished just yet. And I am glad to have him as an ally.
My suggestions to you to focus on the city of Philadelphia were genuine. There is so much going on there that you could be posting a hundred times a day. You have the motherlode right there at your fingertips!
Many have wondered why you don't blog about that or even go back to working as a reporter for any of the many media outlets in Philly. It's certainly worth thinking about......
Friday, July 24, 2009
It's Going To Take Some Time. A Long Time....
Someone posted on the Denverpaonline.com site that emotions are running high right now. Some people are experiencing highs and lows that they've never experienced before.
The two camps, Guilty and Not Guilty haven't gotten nasty. They haven't come to blows.
From the internet interaction that we've seen since the murder took place, there has been a question of guilt from the start. It remains. We all may have our own personal gut feeling but none of us knows for sure.
But as the trial continues, we learn of the dirty details. The lies, the confabulations and the strategic deceptions, such as the letter Mike wrote to the Tobias family claiming Jan had had an affair and he was the wounded party.
I compare that letter and his mindset to his making out with Angie Funk behind the funeral home right after Jan's death.
The Dad of four motherless children was behind the funeral home making out with Angie Funk.
If he was heartless and cold enough to want to, why on earth was Angie thinking that was normal?
With all of the questions and the analysis we all have done over the past year, this may end up being so very simple.
Two sociopaths met. Period.
We can't comprehend it because it's not who we are or part of our reality.
I heard a psychologist this week make a comment that a sociopath's thinking doesn't follow the same routes and paths of "normal" people. I believe that.
I can't grasp it, really, but I believe it.
Most of us are still banging our heads against our computer screens. We just can't twist and turn enough to understand what Mike and Angie did. We can bang our heads all day and we're never going to get it. We keep digging for that one, miniscule detail that finally makes us understand or makes it all make sense to us. We'll never agree or condone what they did, but maybe that one elusive detail would give us all an "Aha!" moment.
Friends, we're wasting our time. But we're not at the place where we're ready to give up yet.
The trial is far from over. Facts will be revealed we knew nothing about. The defense will present its case and we'll start all over analyzing it.
If they stick with the randonm intruder theory, we won't hang in for long. That ship has sailed.
There better be some damned compelling evidence to make anyone even consider that for a second.
The defense really has to do nothing in a criminal trial such as this one.
They don't even have to present a case. They don't bear the burden of proof.
But they know that the evidence presented by the DA is compelling at pointing to a logical conclusion.
That is the ONLY place where logic has been a part of this tragedy.
The affair defied logic.
Mike and Angie's actions to this day defy logic.
Randy Funk's behavior defies logic.
Those who want us to all let Angie have "normal" again, defy logic.
But in the absence of concrete forensic evidence, we do have a logical path, thanks to Mr. Steadman.
The world is far fuller of horses than zebras. And the defense has to pull a zebra out of it's hat and convince the jury they can see it.
One plus one equals two. It doesn't equal 45. And that is where our minds would have to go at this point to swallow the defense's claims.
Having the jury return a verdict of guilty will heal no one. It will only balance the scales for those who fully believe in Mike's guilt.
A not guilty verdict will create a much greater reaction.
I pray that for their own sakes, the jury follows the letter of the law. No matter the verdict.
We could be any of the people in this tragedy and trial.
We need to pray for justice and fairness and truth. No matter what it is.
Our human nature wants to see the ones responsible for this, pay. That is just a sense of humanity. And accountability.
A guilty verdict will mean more loss and pain. For the children and the families.
A not guilty verdict will create the same for the families.
Angie Funk is the only one involved that can pull off and live with a "nevermind!"
There are none left.
Jan Roseboro is dead.
Her children will spend the rest of their lives without her.
She wasn't even eulogized and Mike and Angie were making out in the back of the funeral home.
Can you get any colder and devoid of a soul than that?
Unbelievable.
Now, tell me again how Angie just wants some "normal" in her life......
Normal? She hasn't been "normal" for years. And those that keep standing there, letting her get away with it, without even a harsh word or a kick in the ass are either as devoid of morals themselves or they see themselves in Angie.
Perhaps to come down hard on Angie would be coming down hard on themselves?
The two camps, Guilty and Not Guilty haven't gotten nasty. They haven't come to blows.
From the internet interaction that we've seen since the murder took place, there has been a question of guilt from the start. It remains. We all may have our own personal gut feeling but none of us knows for sure.
But as the trial continues, we learn of the dirty details. The lies, the confabulations and the strategic deceptions, such as the letter Mike wrote to the Tobias family claiming Jan had had an affair and he was the wounded party.
I compare that letter and his mindset to his making out with Angie Funk behind the funeral home right after Jan's death.
The Dad of four motherless children was behind the funeral home making out with Angie Funk.
If he was heartless and cold enough to want to, why on earth was Angie thinking that was normal?
With all of the questions and the analysis we all have done over the past year, this may end up being so very simple.
Two sociopaths met. Period.
We can't comprehend it because it's not who we are or part of our reality.
I heard a psychologist this week make a comment that a sociopath's thinking doesn't follow the same routes and paths of "normal" people. I believe that.
I can't grasp it, really, but I believe it.
Most of us are still banging our heads against our computer screens. We just can't twist and turn enough to understand what Mike and Angie did. We can bang our heads all day and we're never going to get it. We keep digging for that one, miniscule detail that finally makes us understand or makes it all make sense to us. We'll never agree or condone what they did, but maybe that one elusive detail would give us all an "Aha!" moment.
Friends, we're wasting our time. But we're not at the place where we're ready to give up yet.
The trial is far from over. Facts will be revealed we knew nothing about. The defense will present its case and we'll start all over analyzing it.
If they stick with the randonm intruder theory, we won't hang in for long. That ship has sailed.
There better be some damned compelling evidence to make anyone even consider that for a second.
The defense really has to do nothing in a criminal trial such as this one.
They don't even have to present a case. They don't bear the burden of proof.
But they know that the evidence presented by the DA is compelling at pointing to a logical conclusion.
That is the ONLY place where logic has been a part of this tragedy.
The affair defied logic.
Mike and Angie's actions to this day defy logic.
Randy Funk's behavior defies logic.
Those who want us to all let Angie have "normal" again, defy logic.
But in the absence of concrete forensic evidence, we do have a logical path, thanks to Mr. Steadman.
The world is far fuller of horses than zebras. And the defense has to pull a zebra out of it's hat and convince the jury they can see it.
One plus one equals two. It doesn't equal 45. And that is where our minds would have to go at this point to swallow the defense's claims.
Having the jury return a verdict of guilty will heal no one. It will only balance the scales for those who fully believe in Mike's guilt.
A not guilty verdict will create a much greater reaction.
I pray that for their own sakes, the jury follows the letter of the law. No matter the verdict.
We could be any of the people in this tragedy and trial.
We need to pray for justice and fairness and truth. No matter what it is.
Our human nature wants to see the ones responsible for this, pay. That is just a sense of humanity. And accountability.
A guilty verdict will mean more loss and pain. For the children and the families.
A not guilty verdict will create the same for the families.
Angie Funk is the only one involved that can pull off and live with a "nevermind!"
There are none left.
Jan Roseboro is dead.
Her children will spend the rest of their lives without her.
She wasn't even eulogized and Mike and Angie were making out in the back of the funeral home.
Can you get any colder and devoid of a soul than that?
Unbelievable.
Now, tell me again how Angie just wants some "normal" in her life......
Normal? She hasn't been "normal" for years. And those that keep standing there, letting her get away with it, without even a harsh word or a kick in the ass are either as devoid of morals themselves or they see themselves in Angie.
Perhaps to come down hard on Angie would be coming down hard on themselves?
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
In Honor Of Jan Binkley Roseboro
Please visit the other blog, The Book Of Beautiful Things, and share any memories, stories or anecdotes you have from your life that brought you joy. We can all share in remembering Jan for the classy, beautiful soul she is. And I mean IS.
Uplifting, even tearful, happy moments are welcome as are funny and light moments that has made one of your days on this earth more than worth it.
Anyone is welcome to post and share! We will fill the spaces with joy and light. And we can add pics and art as well. We'll know when it's time to print it and compile it. It can then be available for anyone in the general public to have, and any donations can be made to any charity we agree is appropriate to the memory of Jan.
Uplifting, even tearful, happy moments are welcome as are funny and light moments that has made one of your days on this earth more than worth it.
Anyone is welcome to post and share! We will fill the spaces with joy and light. And we can add pics and art as well. We'll know when it's time to print it and compile it. It can then be available for anyone in the general public to have, and any donations can be made to any charity we agree is appropriate to the memory of Jan.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Angie Funk's Show.....A Poor Attempt At Keeping Her Eye On The Prize
Angie's backed against the wall as I type...Lie after lie is being told or else she simply replies, "I don't remember."
Did any of us really expect her to give up any truth? No.
Apparently her tight alibi isn't quite so tight. I maintain that the only reason she has yet to be charged is the lack of enough evidence to secure not only an indictment but an iron-clad conviction.
With the evidence against Mike circumstantial, if he walks, he can never be charged again for killing Jan.
If they forged ahead and prematurely charge Angie the same thing could happen.
It's bad enough that it could happen with one of these evil shells but for both of them to get away with murder would just be too much.
This is one of the most depraved situations most have ever heard of.
Clearly Randy is still harboring strong feelings for Angie, while Angie is harboring strong feelings for Mike's money.
And in the middle of this muckfest are all the children.
For what all of them have done, they should be incarcerated so they can't hurt them any further.
Angie is pedalling as fast as she can to end up on top, and to end up Mrs. Angela Lynn Roseboro.
I think it is very important that she was asked how far her home is from Jan Roseboro's home.....
pay attention here.
That wasn't a filler question to kill some time.
There is WAY more to this story and I pray to God that the investigators and Mr. Steadman at least suspect it. They have the rest of Angie's life to dig up more evidence. And stranger things have happened. In other cases, people have come forward long after the fact. Evidence has been uncovered that beforehand was unknown.
Mike really ran into a doozy this time. And I hope that sooner or later they both pay for their part.
Mike said he would give up everything he had to be with Angie. Good job Mike, at least there you're a man of word. You've lost it all already. And the barracuda in those sexy white pants still has a firm chomphold on your ass. Right where your wallet used to slide into your rear pocket.
Did any of us really expect her to give up any truth? No.
Apparently her tight alibi isn't quite so tight. I maintain that the only reason she has yet to be charged is the lack of enough evidence to secure not only an indictment but an iron-clad conviction.
With the evidence against Mike circumstantial, if he walks, he can never be charged again for killing Jan.
If they forged ahead and prematurely charge Angie the same thing could happen.
It's bad enough that it could happen with one of these evil shells but for both of them to get away with murder would just be too much.
This is one of the most depraved situations most have ever heard of.
Clearly Randy is still harboring strong feelings for Angie, while Angie is harboring strong feelings for Mike's money.
And in the middle of this muckfest are all the children.
For what all of them have done, they should be incarcerated so they can't hurt them any further.
Angie is pedalling as fast as she can to end up on top, and to end up Mrs. Angela Lynn Roseboro.
I think it is very important that she was asked how far her home is from Jan Roseboro's home.....
pay attention here.
That wasn't a filler question to kill some time.
There is WAY more to this story and I pray to God that the investigators and Mr. Steadman at least suspect it. They have the rest of Angie's life to dig up more evidence. And stranger things have happened. In other cases, people have come forward long after the fact. Evidence has been uncovered that beforehand was unknown.
Mike really ran into a doozy this time. And I hope that sooner or later they both pay for their part.
Mike said he would give up everything he had to be with Angie. Good job Mike, at least there you're a man of word. You've lost it all already. And the barracuda in those sexy white pants still has a firm chomphold on your ass. Right where your wallet used to slide into your rear pocket.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Last Moments
Jan Roseboro's last moments were spent fighting for her life.
She took her last breaths in her own swimming pool.
We know from the autopsy that she was alive when she inhaled the pool water.
The L-shaped wound on her head has been a focal point for many of us.
We don't know that much about it but it has made us all assume there would have been alot of bleeding. Especially from a head wound.
If she ended up in the pool seconds after being struck there would be no blood to find outside the pool. Was the head injury sufficient to knock her out or simply stun her?
How did she end up in the pool and was she alert enough to be fighting once she was in there?
I am wondering if we've been hung up on a clean up that wasn't really necessary.
I think this killing took far less time to commit and even less to clean up than we thought.
The call was made right after 11 pm to 911. Mike only picked up that phone when he knew she was dead.
He knew it at 11pm or a few minutes after that.
He needed time to pull her out of the pool and position her as if he had been doing CPR. That was just a few minutes.
This may have been much simpler than anyone realizes. The "tool" may be something quite simple too.
He snapped, the attack began and it got way out of control. In a rage he beat her, strangled her and threw her in the pool or they both ended up in there.
She died essentially due to drowning. How did she drown? Did he actively hold her under the water or did he just let her go once she was in the pool unconscious?
This all may have taken much less time than anyone realizes.
She took her last breaths in her own swimming pool.
We know from the autopsy that she was alive when she inhaled the pool water.
The L-shaped wound on her head has been a focal point for many of us.
We don't know that much about it but it has made us all assume there would have been alot of bleeding. Especially from a head wound.
If she ended up in the pool seconds after being struck there would be no blood to find outside the pool. Was the head injury sufficient to knock her out or simply stun her?
How did she end up in the pool and was she alert enough to be fighting once she was in there?
I am wondering if we've been hung up on a clean up that wasn't really necessary.
I think this killing took far less time to commit and even less to clean up than we thought.
The call was made right after 11 pm to 911. Mike only picked up that phone when he knew she was dead.
He knew it at 11pm or a few minutes after that.
He needed time to pull her out of the pool and position her as if he had been doing CPR. That was just a few minutes.
This may have been much simpler than anyone realizes. The "tool" may be something quite simple too.
He snapped, the attack began and it got way out of control. In a rage he beat her, strangled her and threw her in the pool or they both ended up in there.
She died essentially due to drowning. How did she drown? Did he actively hold her under the water or did he just let her go once she was in the pool unconscious?
This all may have taken much less time than anyone realizes.
It Just Gets Weirder and Weirder....
Amy Rothermel has indicated that the Funks are still together...
What?
Angie loves Mike. She had his baby. She has made it clear she wants out.
But the Funks are still together......
This is like a sci fi movie........
Oh, wait, I get it now!
The Funks are still together.
Mike wanted Jan, not Angie.
A random intruder beat the life out of Jan.
Mike tells the truth.
Angie tells the truth.
I didn't realize I was reading fiction.
You have got to be kidding me.
Every day we read lines that make no sense. Facts that are clearly erroneous. Statements that are clearly challenged by verifiable facts.
No one "thought" Angie and Mike told each other of their love and devotion back in April of this year. It's taped.
No one "thought" Angie said she wants Mike and she's waiting for him. She said it out loud.
No one "had a damned good inkling" that Mike and Angie were plotting for their wedding and life together, without their spouses. The emails show that clearly.
This is simply a case of "Nope, wasn't me!"
That just clears it all up!
What?
Angie loves Mike. She had his baby. She has made it clear she wants out.
But the Funks are still together......
This is like a sci fi movie........
Oh, wait, I get it now!
The Funks are still together.
Mike wanted Jan, not Angie.
A random intruder beat the life out of Jan.
Mike tells the truth.
Angie tells the truth.
I didn't realize I was reading fiction.
You have got to be kidding me.
Every day we read lines that make no sense. Facts that are clearly erroneous. Statements that are clearly challenged by verifiable facts.
No one "thought" Angie and Mike told each other of their love and devotion back in April of this year. It's taped.
No one "thought" Angie said she wants Mike and she's waiting for him. She said it out loud.
No one "had a damned good inkling" that Mike and Angie were plotting for their wedding and life together, without their spouses. The emails show that clearly.
This is simply a case of "Nope, wasn't me!"
That just clears it all up!
Friday, July 17, 2009
The Blackout Has Surely Been Lifted
Many people are very surprised by the amount of coverage and the details that the news media is providing now that the trial is actually underway. Kudos to them!
WGAL is really doing well and needs to be commended.
They have had to edit what is included with each entry or broadcast but they seem to have a handle on what's "news" and what's salacious and drippy gossip or description.
Becky, we've already read the email from Angie to Mike after Jan's killing, so please don't tag it "Breaking News!"
And please, one more time, use SPELL CHECK.
It's free....
Also, Becky, the number of views of your blog reminds me of the number of cars that head out to see the worst wreck of the weekend on the highway...lots of lookie loos but they end up all looking away in horror......
Time for dinner here....steamed shrimp, corn on the cob, potato salad and then strawberry and rhubarb pie....
I'll be back :)
WGAL is really doing well and needs to be commended.
They have had to edit what is included with each entry or broadcast but they seem to have a handle on what's "news" and what's salacious and drippy gossip or description.
Becky, we've already read the email from Angie to Mike after Jan's killing, so please don't tag it "Breaking News!"
And please, one more time, use SPELL CHECK.
It's free....
Also, Becky, the number of views of your blog reminds me of the number of cars that head out to see the worst wreck of the weekend on the highway...lots of lookie loos but they end up all looking away in horror......
Time for dinner here....steamed shrimp, corn on the cob, potato salad and then strawberry and rhubarb pie....
I'll be back :)
Angela Funk Always Gets Her Man! I Mean, YOUR Man....
Things are not adding up here.
Mike has been charged and is on trial. So far, so good.
But we all are learning, in excruciating detail, that Mike certainly wasn't in this situation alone.
There are a few things that have really been red flags to many of us.
This affair was supposedly only seven weeks long when Jan was killed?
Some dispute that based on the intensity it had reached by the night Jan was murdered. Most normal people could not be as far along in the process as Mike and Angie were after only seven weeks of "dating"....
I think it speaks more to the level of sickness and depravity of these two.
In such a little bit of time, not only had they started having much sex, they were both planning a wedding, discussing hairstyles and using a dearly departed grandfather's funeral as a setting for an covert date....
I knew my husband for years before we got married and not once did he even think about how I was going to wear my hair...and for those of you that knew him, he truly was crazy about me lol
But my hairstyle? Ummmm....no.
This affair got sick in a hurry.
There is no doubt to many that Mr. Steadman was sending a message when he said that Mike was a "rock star" to Angie....she likes MONEY and his looks. She knew about him, of him, before they ever met.
And just how did it happen that they ever met?
Angie knew of Mike's money and looks...and she started walking a particular route....which just happened to be past the family funeral home...she banked on it and it paid off...they met. And just as he had to many females in the past, Mike asked her out.
Most married women would have been flattered and turned him down politely. And with a smile. Or maybe a hiss LOLOL
But Angie jumped at the chance.
And that is where the road was set. There was no other outcome possible here, I am truly afraid of that.
They had already discussed how much Mike would lose in a messy divorce. And Angie liked Mike's MONEY and looks....
A divorce wasn't an option. Not for Angie.
And not for Mike.
They wanted it all. The wedding, the house, the business, THE MONEY.
Wow. what a love affair.
They aren't the first to have an affair! It happens all the time. And sometimes the partners are so in love that they are willing to walk away and give up everything they own, their children and their families to be with "the one".
Again, that's not the case here.
If it were, they would have taken off together and left it all behind.
This wasn't about love. It was about MONEY and sex.
It is becoming increasingly clearer that Angie was at the helm here. She knew of Mike, she wanted him. And she saw to it that she would have him.
No one knows at this point just who beat the life out of Jan Roseboro. But don't even hint that Angie wasn't in charge.
Mike thought he was a master manipulator....That's almost funny in a very sick way.
He fell for Angie hook line and sinker....and he did what Angie wanted him to do. He became "single".
Only seven weeks into this affair and she's infected the Roseboro family with all the help in the world from Mike.
I pray that the evidence will someday arise that causes Angie to be held responsible for her role in this.
Pushing someone, or emotionally manipulating them could be considered conspiracy.
I don't doubt for a minute that Angie saw the future very clearly. And it surely didn't include Jan. Not even as an ex wife.
That would have been messy.
And expensive. And Angie thought he was a rock star......she liked his MONEY.......
Mike has been charged and is on trial. So far, so good.
But we all are learning, in excruciating detail, that Mike certainly wasn't in this situation alone.
There are a few things that have really been red flags to many of us.
This affair was supposedly only seven weeks long when Jan was killed?
Some dispute that based on the intensity it had reached by the night Jan was murdered. Most normal people could not be as far along in the process as Mike and Angie were after only seven weeks of "dating"....
I think it speaks more to the level of sickness and depravity of these two.
In such a little bit of time, not only had they started having much sex, they were both planning a wedding, discussing hairstyles and using a dearly departed grandfather's funeral as a setting for an covert date....
I knew my husband for years before we got married and not once did he even think about how I was going to wear my hair...and for those of you that knew him, he truly was crazy about me lol
But my hairstyle? Ummmm....no.
This affair got sick in a hurry.
There is no doubt to many that Mr. Steadman was sending a message when he said that Mike was a "rock star" to Angie....she likes MONEY and his looks. She knew about him, of him, before they ever met.
And just how did it happen that they ever met?
Angie knew of Mike's money and looks...and she started walking a particular route....which just happened to be past the family funeral home...she banked on it and it paid off...they met. And just as he had to many females in the past, Mike asked her out.
Most married women would have been flattered and turned him down politely. And with a smile. Or maybe a hiss LOLOL
But Angie jumped at the chance.
And that is where the road was set. There was no other outcome possible here, I am truly afraid of that.
They had already discussed how much Mike would lose in a messy divorce. And Angie liked Mike's MONEY and looks....
A divorce wasn't an option. Not for Angie.
And not for Mike.
They wanted it all. The wedding, the house, the business, THE MONEY.
Wow. what a love affair.
They aren't the first to have an affair! It happens all the time. And sometimes the partners are so in love that they are willing to walk away and give up everything they own, their children and their families to be with "the one".
Again, that's not the case here.
If it were, they would have taken off together and left it all behind.
This wasn't about love. It was about MONEY and sex.
It is becoming increasingly clearer that Angie was at the helm here. She knew of Mike, she wanted him. And she saw to it that she would have him.
No one knows at this point just who beat the life out of Jan Roseboro. But don't even hint that Angie wasn't in charge.
Mike thought he was a master manipulator....That's almost funny in a very sick way.
He fell for Angie hook line and sinker....and he did what Angie wanted him to do. He became "single".
Only seven weeks into this affair and she's infected the Roseboro family with all the help in the world from Mike.
I pray that the evidence will someday arise that causes Angie to be held responsible for her role in this.
Pushing someone, or emotionally manipulating them could be considered conspiracy.
I don't doubt for a minute that Angie saw the future very clearly. And it surely didn't include Jan. Not even as an ex wife.
That would have been messy.
And expensive. And Angie thought he was a rock star......she liked his MONEY.......
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Somone, Anyone......
.......please come forward and share one reason we shouldn't all be absolutely sickened by the email exchanges of Michael Roseboro and Angela Funk.
Angela Funk. What on earth can I or anyone say.
You are a pig. Plain and simple. A dirty, lousy, filthy tramp.
There are not enough words in the human vocabulary for you.
And now, the world knows it. So many claimed it. So many suspected it.
And now, we all know.
I cannot imagine the shame your family is feeling tonight. I would be sickened to my core if you were in any way tethered to me.
Since the investigation began, you KNEW what we all would read and hear.
You KNEW that we were going to see clear and true evidence of your character and lack of morals.
And still you have strutted all over Denver with your whoreish head held high, as if you are above it all.
My God, you have attended family events, gone on as if you're normal!
For many of us, simply being involved with Mike would have been enough to make us ashamed of ourselves, run to our damaged husband and family and beg for forgiveness.
But you KNEW the dirty details. And you still have no remorse or shame. Unbelievable.
You love Mike!
That is your only concern.
You are a clinical entity in need of treatment, clearly.
I sincerely hope that someone in the County makes a report to Children and Youth to have your family situation evaluated.
Your behavior is so far askew from normal, even with the standard deviations we all learned about in Statistics, that you need to be evaluated and your girls need to have an ombudsman or a liason step in on their behalf.
This is now much more than sick.
You didn't care if the girls would "puke" if they saw you kissing?
Your disregard for your own daughters is appalling and evil.
While having a salacious email session with your illicit lover, you even thought or mentioned your daughters????
How sick are you?
Now I want someone, anyone to tell me that Angela Funk is a victim.
If you even entertain that thought, you're as pathological as she is.
This woman needs clinical help. And she needs to be investigated and kept under a microscope until all the facts are in.
If anyone thinks Angela Funk stood idly by while Jan Roseboro lived the last days of her life, you're as crazy as Angela is.
It's time for some authorities to take a look at the lives of the little girls. They have been able to remain with Angela Funk this far and now it's public knowledge what this woman is and what she's made of.
Someone needs to take a stand for those girls.
Angela Funk. What on earth can I or anyone say.
You are a pig. Plain and simple. A dirty, lousy, filthy tramp.
There are not enough words in the human vocabulary for you.
And now, the world knows it. So many claimed it. So many suspected it.
And now, we all know.
I cannot imagine the shame your family is feeling tonight. I would be sickened to my core if you were in any way tethered to me.
Since the investigation began, you KNEW what we all would read and hear.
You KNEW that we were going to see clear and true evidence of your character and lack of morals.
And still you have strutted all over Denver with your whoreish head held high, as if you are above it all.
My God, you have attended family events, gone on as if you're normal!
For many of us, simply being involved with Mike would have been enough to make us ashamed of ourselves, run to our damaged husband and family and beg for forgiveness.
But you KNEW the dirty details. And you still have no remorse or shame. Unbelievable.
You love Mike!
That is your only concern.
You are a clinical entity in need of treatment, clearly.
I sincerely hope that someone in the County makes a report to Children and Youth to have your family situation evaluated.
Your behavior is so far askew from normal, even with the standard deviations we all learned about in Statistics, that you need to be evaluated and your girls need to have an ombudsman or a liason step in on their behalf.
This is now much more than sick.
You didn't care if the girls would "puke" if they saw you kissing?
Your disregard for your own daughters is appalling and evil.
While having a salacious email session with your illicit lover, you even thought or mentioned your daughters????
How sick are you?
Now I want someone, anyone to tell me that Angela Funk is a victim.
If you even entertain that thought, you're as pathological as she is.
This woman needs clinical help. And she needs to be investigated and kept under a microscope until all the facts are in.
If anyone thinks Angela Funk stood idly by while Jan Roseboro lived the last days of her life, you're as crazy as Angela is.
It's time for some authorities to take a look at the lives of the little girls. They have been able to remain with Angela Funk this far and now it's public knowledge what this woman is and what she's made of.
Someone needs to take a stand for those girls.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Can You Look Around At The Families and Not Think of Jan?
Hi all.....My daughter came home early this morning for some Mom and Daughter time. We are very close and it refuels our souls to have days like today.
I like my daughter as a person. Of course I love her. But I genuinely like her. We have always been able to spend time together talking, laughing and discussing so many things. Don't get me wrong, we have battled too. Our personalities are very similar. But under even those tense moments there has always been love and respect.
We spent the day in Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. Swimming in the Delaware Bay, walking on the sand, shopping on The Avenue in Rehoboth, later shopping for shrimp, and the rest of her birthday dinner fixins was a wonderful way to create more memories. Her birthday is on Friday but she will be back home in Laurel then. So we celebrated with her today. Her wonderful husband had to work or he would have joined us. He has a wonderful day planned for her on Friday :)
As we talked and laughed on the sand, I did what I always do. People watch. I'm naturally inquistive and I love to watch people just being themselves.
Today though, it felt a little different to me.
As I watched families laugh and play together all I could think of was Jan Roseboro and her children. Last July she was laughing and playing with her kids....she was enjoying the wonderful home and pool that they had completed. She had previously enjoyed the trip to Niagara Falls with her family. And the trip to the Outer Banks was soon approaching. This was a good time in her life.
And all the while, her husband was planning a wedding with Angela Funk.
She was so betrayed and mistreated by the lies and the cunning, sneaky trysts between Mike and Angie. That is one of the saddest things in this world.
Jan was being Jan. She did seem a bit "off" to some of her friends in the weeks before she was killed. Why, no one really knows. Unless she saw something new and different about Mike and she wondered if this new fling was "it". She had gone through rough patches with Mike before but this time may have seemed more serious.
Even so, Jan just wanted her family. That was all she ever wanted.
And as I watched all those families on the beach today, I wanted to cry. I wanted to cry for all that Jan wanted and for all that she never had. For all she and her children lost.
I want to cry for the way Jan died. It may seem morbid, but many of us have tried to imagine the actual details of the last moments of her life. It is surreal to imagine Jan looking into the face of her killer as he attacked her with the intent to end her life.
She had to be so scared, so confused and so terrified that things had taken this turn.
She had to be reeling that a man that she had spent so many years with, a man who she had children with and built a life with, could beat her, strangle her and want to kill her.
That is almost unimaginable. For what she suffered in her last moments of awareness, many of us cry.
I know that many of us have found ourselves in a situation where we thought our moment had come. Mine came as a car that was approaching me on a wide curve lost control and over-corrected. The car slid sideways and headed straight for my car. I veered to the right to try to avoid the impact and in the blink of an eye thought to myself that this was how I was going to die. I have never had such a horrible, dark feeling in my entire life. And in that blink of an eye, I thought of my children. I don't know how much time actually ticked on the clock from the moment I saw that car approach that curve and go into the sideways slide, but it was enough time for me to realize that there was a very good chance I would never make it home. And time enough to think about my children and how sad I was that I wasn't going to see them again.
Those thoughts and feelings were a reaction to a stranger, in a car, about an impending accident, a bad decision to speed into a curve. There was no intent for that driver to crush the life out of me and leave my children motherless.
So very different from what Jan experienced. There was intent to kill her, to take her away from her children. And to inflict horrible pain upon her. And until she lost consciousness, she knew it.
For that I want to cry.
The betrayal and lies were painful enough.
Wasn't that enough Mike? Angie?
You hadn't hurt her enough by what you two did?
You had to beat her and choke the life out of her?
And when you tossed her into the pool, did you care that maybe she still had a pulse and was still breathing? Or was that the perfect ending to your plan?
Did you want the cause of death to be drowning or did you just toss her into the pool like a ragdoll and then walk away?
You beat her senseless and choked her into unconsciousness, right? Or did you push her into the pool as she struggled and then held her under the water until she stopped fighting back?
A blow in anger and rage is one thing. This killing wasn't quick. It took a few minutes. It took a push into the pool or it took holding Jan under the water. This wasn't an accidental killing.
From the time the first blow was struck you had the power to STOP. You would have faced maybe assault and domestic battery charges.
That wasn't the plan. Jan needed to be gone. Completely.
Because you and Angie wanted to be together.
To the two of you, that makes sense.
To the rest of the normal world, it's criminal and immoral.
I know that there are so many of us who are remembering Jan Roseboro every day. We see her wherever there are families with laughing children. And I doubt we will ever forget.
I pray the jury thinks of Jan. Review the evidence and think of Jan.
She never deserved what Mike and Angie did to her. Neither did her children.
God Bless Suzie for loving those children. She is an angel in their lives.
And The Trial Continues......
Each day of the Roseboro murder trial is revealing more and more about the chain of events leading up to the death of Jan Roseoboro.
Mr. Steadman is doing a remarkable job of leading the jury along a path of information that is cohesive and straightforward.
He has much to deal with.
He has the circumstantial platform to deal with to be sure.
There is no smoking gun, as of today. But there is smoke.
I really did like his analogy about circumstantial evidence and the fallen snow.
You don't have to see the snow falling to know that has, indeed, snowed.
And he and the State of Pennsylvania believe that no one had to physically see Mike Roseboro beat, strangle and drown Jan to know that he did it.
Mr. Steadman has to accompany each and every juror down a path that leads to only one conclusion. There can be no other explanation.
We all make assumptions every day. In some very mundane situations and in some very serious ones also.
We are all learning much about Mike and his behavior up to and including today.
We know about his professed and taped love for Angela Funk. We also know that unless he had fallen out of love with her since April of this year, he is a liar.
He is wearing his wedding ring.
In April, he is taped telling Angie that he loves her. And today he is wearing a wedding band that Jan placed on his finger. Hmmmm....now which is an expression of the truth?
It's much the same with the case of the renewal of vows.
He was going to profess his undying love for Jan last summer. And he was wondering how Angie should style her hair for their wedding. Hmmmmm...now which is an expression of the truth?
Mr. Sodomsky is apparently going to do everything in his power to minmize Mike's relationship with Angie. How on earth is he going to be able to battle his own client?
His own client is his biggest hurdle. His client is actually the enemy of his own case.
I can't imagine the spot Mr. Sodomsky is in. He took the case and is obligated to defend Mike to the very best of his ability. He's a fantastic lawyer, no doubt about that.
But how can he pass the affair off as simply a few rolls in the hay when his client is still telling Angie that he loves her. And he's dim enough to do it a setting in which it could be taped and played for a jury?
I would be livid and disgusted. It's a bit late in the game for Mike to have to find another attorney but I don't think this is going to be a highlight of Mr. Sodomsky's career.
If he can gain a not guilty verdict, though, this may be the best case of his career after all.
Mike is playing for the prosecution's team. He's shooting himself in the foot at most turns.
Everyone is entitled to a learned and professional defense. Even the guilty.
Mike is entitled to the best defense possible, and he has that in Mr. Sodomsky.
But how hard can this be for his lawyer to stand in open court and face that jury when Mike himself takes his own case three steps back every day?
By allowing himself to taped in those phone calls with Angie Funk, and by stating that he still loves her, Mike has shown the jury that he wants Angie AT ALL COSTS.
He has no self control. Not even to save himself from a sentence of life with no possibility of parole.
How many people now believe, truly believe, that Mike wasn't going to do whatever he had to to be with Angie? Or to at least free himself up to be able to be with her?
Those taped phone calls in April of this year are a lynch pin.
It shows the jury how Mike feels NOW.
I wonder if that wedding band is a bit tight on his finger.
It certainly was a noose around his neck last July......
Mr. Steadman is doing a remarkable job of leading the jury along a path of information that is cohesive and straightforward.
He has much to deal with.
He has the circumstantial platform to deal with to be sure.
There is no smoking gun, as of today. But there is smoke.
I really did like his analogy about circumstantial evidence and the fallen snow.
You don't have to see the snow falling to know that has, indeed, snowed.
And he and the State of Pennsylvania believe that no one had to physically see Mike Roseboro beat, strangle and drown Jan to know that he did it.
Mr. Steadman has to accompany each and every juror down a path that leads to only one conclusion. There can be no other explanation.
We all make assumptions every day. In some very mundane situations and in some very serious ones also.
We are all learning much about Mike and his behavior up to and including today.
We know about his professed and taped love for Angela Funk. We also know that unless he had fallen out of love with her since April of this year, he is a liar.
He is wearing his wedding ring.
In April, he is taped telling Angie that he loves her. And today he is wearing a wedding band that Jan placed on his finger. Hmmmm....now which is an expression of the truth?
It's much the same with the case of the renewal of vows.
He was going to profess his undying love for Jan last summer. And he was wondering how Angie should style her hair for their wedding. Hmmmmm...now which is an expression of the truth?
Mr. Sodomsky is apparently going to do everything in his power to minmize Mike's relationship with Angie. How on earth is he going to be able to battle his own client?
His own client is his biggest hurdle. His client is actually the enemy of his own case.
I can't imagine the spot Mr. Sodomsky is in. He took the case and is obligated to defend Mike to the very best of his ability. He's a fantastic lawyer, no doubt about that.
But how can he pass the affair off as simply a few rolls in the hay when his client is still telling Angie that he loves her. And he's dim enough to do it a setting in which it could be taped and played for a jury?
I would be livid and disgusted. It's a bit late in the game for Mike to have to find another attorney but I don't think this is going to be a highlight of Mr. Sodomsky's career.
If he can gain a not guilty verdict, though, this may be the best case of his career after all.
Mike is playing for the prosecution's team. He's shooting himself in the foot at most turns.
Everyone is entitled to a learned and professional defense. Even the guilty.
Mike is entitled to the best defense possible, and he has that in Mr. Sodomsky.
But how hard can this be for his lawyer to stand in open court and face that jury when Mike himself takes his own case three steps back every day?
By allowing himself to taped in those phone calls with Angie Funk, and by stating that he still loves her, Mike has shown the jury that he wants Angie AT ALL COSTS.
He has no self control. Not even to save himself from a sentence of life with no possibility of parole.
How many people now believe, truly believe, that Mike wasn't going to do whatever he had to to be with Angie? Or to at least free himself up to be able to be with her?
Those taped phone calls in April of this year are a lynch pin.
It shows the jury how Mike feels NOW.
I wonder if that wedding band is a bit tight on his finger.
It certainly was a noose around his neck last July......
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