The Ripple Effect

The heinous murder of Jan Roseboro led to the discovery of the affair between her husband and Angela Funk.
The story doesn't end there. No story like this ever could.
People have been devastated by the death of Jan.
People have been devastated by the affair between Mike Roseboro and Angie Funk.
Friends have discovered how badly they have been lied to and betrayed. Coworkers are now fully aware of why it seemed Angie always had to leave early or be excused for an appointment. Many wonder why it's ok that she used the company computer for clearly personal reasons, i.e. her emails to Mike and his to her.
The investigation prior to the trial led some husbands and wives to learn about things they had no idea of prior to the tragedy.
And in some cases, this was the icing on the cake.
Some have come forward from years past, to tell what they know or witnessed in the past with Angie. They still harbor anger and hurt.
There is destruction because of all that has gone on for many years.
There is even more devastation due to the affair and the murder trial.
It's clear that several people are still in denial.
Those that have finally admitted to themselves that they were used and lied to by Angie surely must know that feeling. Some very good and loving people held out for as long as they could, trying with all their might to believe her, to find an honest basis for her character and behavior.
They learned that their trust and faith was misplaced. And with heavy hearts they had to walk away.
That is the only way you can survive caring for a true Narcissist. You have to cut all ties and walk away. If you don't, the cost is unbelievable. The cost is "you".
To remain in any kind of quasi relationship with a Narcissist, you have to get real with yourself.
You have to admit that they are empty shells, devoid of empathy or the ability to love. They have no identity.
So you must lower your expectations to zero. You cannot expect to get any normal return of emotion or character from them. If you do, you will be crushed.
They will take from you with total abandon, oftentimes holding something you value over your head to make you "walk the line" with them.
For some, that seems to be the way they are dealing with all of this.
If they just let it all go, and make no demands of Angie, and have no expectations of her (the normal expectations we all have from fellow human beings to love, have compassion, empathy, remorse) they can be allowed to be in her world.
If they don't she will either banish them or take away something they cherish.
Everyone that has loved or dealt with a Narcissist deals with two levels of grief.
They deal with the realization the Narcissist really does not love them in any true sense. They are incapable.
And they also have to mourn the loss of a relationship with the Narcissist that they "believed" existed. The Narcissist isn't the person they believed them to be, hence additional grief.
It takes incredible inner strength to deal with a Narcissist. It hurts. Badly.
And for some, they just want to pretend all is well with the world. And for them, that is the only way they can survive and face another day. The alternative is too daunting.
So they make excuses for the Narcissist, allow them to run ripshod over everyone and everything.
But it gets them from today to tomorrow.
Others rage against the Narcissist when they clearly see how the others are apparently fooled by the Narcissist. They are frustrated by the false show and the way some eat it up.
It's the Emporer's new clothes syndrome.
But these folks see that the Emporer is naked. And ugly.
And they want the others to see that too.
The murder and the affair can't be separated.
Nor can you part out the ripple effect this has had on people all over the county.
It's what we've been told about for a year now.
Pain and devastation, everywhere she goes.
There's no stopping that. But those who are dealing with the aftermath now have to face a decision. They can either continue to rail against the injustice or they can save themselves and just walk away.
It's a serious decision.

When Common Knowledge Becomes The News

Today, the Lancaster Newspapers published a story acknowledging the pregnancy of Angela Funk of Denver. Angela Funk is the admitted mistress of Michael Roseboro, who is currently awaiting trial for the murder of his wife of nineteen years, Jan Binkley Roseboro on July 22, 2008.
Many have questioned why this wasn't published prior to today.
As I was told by an Editor of the Lancaster Newspapers, they publish when news is news, not word on the street or innuendo.
Due to the court activity associated with the Funk pregnancy, this is now a matter of public record.
It was also reported that Allan Sodomsky, the defense attorney representing Roseboro filed for a continuance.
This is now, even more than before, a tango.
As the State of Pennsylvania, under the guise of the District Attorney, takes a step forward, the defense takes a step back. And so the dance goes.
Perhaps Mr. Sodomsky was counting on Funk's counsel's success at blocking any serology testing until a later date. That hasn't happened so the defense needs to regroup a bit, which is not out of the ordinary.
With Sodomsky's success rate, the side steps and dips he orchestrates aren't random nor are they thrown against the wall to see what sticks.
Roseboro is in good hands as far as a knowledgeable strategist is concerned. Many pray the DA is up to the challenge.
So now, it's a matter of public record that Angie Funk is bearing a child due on April 1, 2009, and claims the child is Roseboro's. The DNA test will tell the tale.
It has been "word on the street" that Randall Funk, Angie's husband, did have a vasectomy.
At this point, as I've said before, we can only surmise that the unborn child is Roseboro's baby.
Angela Funk has a long and colorful history of promiscuity and usually with married men.
Odds are that it is Roseboro's baby, but I'll wait for the serology and DNA assays to remove all doubt.
As I posted earlier, if the estimated date of delivery is April 1, 2009, then Angie Funk may have clearly known she was pregnant by July 22, 2008, the day that Jan Roseboro was beaten and drowned.
Angie and Mike had sex in Mount Joy the day of the murder.
They also spoke on the phone not long before the murder.
If Angie knew she was pregnant and had already discussed leaving her husband and starting a life with Roseboro, I find it hard to believe that she hadn't told Mike.
Angie takes what she wants. And she wanted Mike.
Married woman do not get pregnant by accident when their husbands have had a vasectomy.
This was a well orchestrated plan by Angie Funk.
The DA indicated that their case is based on the belief that Mike needed an out and he needed it "now".
What was the rush?
The rush was the baby. The baby that Angie told him about.
I believe she pushed him into a confrontation with Jan that night.
The room was getting smaller for Roseboro. He had a wife and children, business and income on one hand. On the other he had his pregnant lover. Now the clock was ticking.
Everything could be managed in the end if Jan didn't try to clean him out, take him to the cleaners.
I don't think the conversation went well that night at the Roseboro home.
Things hadn't been okay for a few weeks.
Mike had already told Jan in the previous two weeks that he wanted a divorce. And Jan's friends clearly saw a difference in her mood and demeanor after that.
Did she have a gut feeling that he really meant it this time? Was all her efforts, pain and heartache to keep her family together a waste?
If Jan wanted to give it one last, sad try and refused to even discuss divorce with Mike that night, did he snap?
Did he see Jan standing there in his way?
Words can get heated. Did Jan tell him that she'd call his father and mother and put an end to this nonesense as she had in the past?
Was that the last straw for Mike? His pregnant mistress was so close...All he had to do was make sure the money was still his, and get free....
One person stood between Mike and his life with Angie. And that was Jan Roseboro.
What needs to be proven also is whether the attack and murder was actually premeditated or if Mike acted in the heat of passion.
Was the "tool" used to strike Jan in the head nearby, placed there in advance by Mike, orchestrating the destruction of this branch of the Roseboro family as we knew it?
Or did he grab it in a fit of rage, having been pushed to the edge by Angie, on the phone?
There are still some very questionable things remaining in this case. Hopefully they will be addressed at trial.
If not, we may never get the truth of what happened that night.
What family members was the DA referring to when he reported that some were being uncooperative?
What other phone calls did Mike make that night immediately after he claims he found her in the pool?
Were any other family members there when the first responders arrived?
Was anyone seen leaving the Roseboro property before the first responders arrived.
There are a few questions about the actions of those close to Mike in the hours and days immediately after the killing. Some people acted very out of character. In ways that others noticed.
Why didn't Mike go with Jan to the Ephrata Hospital?
Why was his affect so flat and calm?
Where is the blood?
Who in the family or close circle is close enough to Mike to consider helping him clean it all up?
I can only pray that the DA has those answers and will reveal them at the trial.
Only after that, if not answered can any of us voice what we now believe to be oddities in the aftermath of the murder.
There is far more to this story than we know. I just hope there isn't far more than the DA knows.

The Narcissistic Personality Alive and Well In Lancaster County, PA

A normal summer day in 2008 ended in horror.

Jan Roseboro's life ended in her backyard. In her in-ground swimming pool, where she had played with her children and spent time with her husband.
Jan Roseboro was alive when she ended up in the pool, either by being thrown or dragged there. Still fighting for her life, or unconscious, we don't yet know. We may never know. There will be opposing theories about that in the upcoming trial, scheduled for July 6, 2009. What we do know from published reports is that there was fresh water found in her lungs at autopsy.

Jan Roseboro had been savagely beaten prior to being thrown or dragged into the pool. She was beaten not long after her husband, Michael, had had two phone conversations with his mistress, Angela Funk. Angela Funk admitted that she and Mike Roseboro had met and had sex on the afternoon of the murder. And that Mike had told her he wanted to leave Jan and start a life with Angela Funk.

Emails from Mike to Angela have been published, in part. The replies from Angela Funk to Mike Roseboro, we have yet to see.

The family has said that Angela is pregnant and claims the child to be a boy, the son of Mike Roseboro, conceived on the very day of the murder of Jan Roseboro. How very poetic.
She also is reported to have told her husband that she doesn't love him, hasn't for some time and wants to be with Roseboro, should he be acquitted of the crime.

I've been told that "Angie" made a trip to New York to meet with television representatives from a popular prime-time news focus show about the Roseboro case. Ever the star, Angie is still front and center.

Angie Funk falls on the far end of the Narcissism spectrum. Already clearly identified as a cheating wife, she has quite a past being involved with married men. And yet, given her dirty role in the heinous murder of a mother of four young children, she has yet to show any remorse. She struts about town, loud and proud. No one that has encountered her has yet to see one moment of embarrassment or shame. Not even to this day.

Her regard for her children was clear the day she first admitted to the affair. While her mother-in-law was playing with her grandchildren, Angie was not far away, having a tryst with Mike. Her shame never stopped her from looking her husband's mother in the eye and lying to her. This woman's son is married to Angie Funk and yet Angie had no qualms using this woman as a babysitter so she could have sex with Jan Roseboro's husband.
Angie, in true Narcissistic form, takes what she wants, when she wants it. A married man? No matter to Angie. Angie is what matters most.
Mike Roseboro allegedly initiated the contact and the affair with Angie. Given his reputation, that isn't hard to believe. But Angie held the power, from the very first contact, to just say, "no".
The word "No" isn't in Angela Funk's vocabulary. She is a cold, soulless creature who takes what she wants. And isn't sorry in any real sense for any real reason.
Lately, Angie is supposedly all in a tither over the nasty things that are still being said about her on the internet. And? Gee, Ang....ya didn't see it coming???
How about the wife of the man you had the affair with when you were married to your first husband? Ya think she had warm and glowing thoughts about you? How about your first husband, the man you lied to and used....ya think you're a warm and fuzzy memory to him?
Anyone with any character and a spine has spoken out, on forums or phone calls or even on the streets of Denver among friends, clearly stating how little they think of you. Those that still defend you are either blind, emotionally unable to face the horrible truth that is you, or if they're male, they're hoping to get a little once this all settles down........
So Angie, you don't like being talked about? Tough.
You gave up your right to the public liking or tolerating you the day you dropped your jeans to have sex with Jan Roseboro's husband. Not to mention all the husbands before him.
You supposedly are wearing that pregnancy like a Miss America banner. Most of us would have moved by now. You have no character Angie. You have no morals. And I hope that karma serves you well.
Now, go cry to your mother over THAT.
And if you did go to NYC and meet with the staff of any news forum television show, I hope that each and every penny you make reaps what you've sown. And I hope that you rue the day you were born.
You have left pain, destruction and hopelessness in your wake, Angie. Your girls are going to have an emotional breakdown when they are old enough to understand what you are, and what you've done. Everyone makes mistakes, but you are a wrecking ball full of intent. There are many stops along your path where you could have made the right decision. And you still aren't.
You may have your church members fooled. Perhaps the men are waiting their turn. And the wives want to keep you close, it's easier to keep an eye on you from there.
What a life you chose, Angie. I almost feel sorry for you in the end. None of us are angels, but I would't trade my judgement day for yours for any amount money. Not even the money you may receive from your trip to NYC .....
Here's a hanky, Angie....go cry to your mother........