TOSS UP, WIFE VS. MISTRESS; MURDER THE WIFE........

Pa. man gets life for wife's murder in swimming pool

The Associated Press, September 25, 2009

LANCASTER, Pa. - A central Pennsylvania funeral director has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife.

Michael Roseboro was sentenced Friday in Lancaster County Court for killing his wife in the swimming pool behind their Reinholds home in July 2008.

The 42-year-old Roseboro had been director of his family's funeral business. He was convicted of first-degree murder two months ago.

Authorities say he wanted to be with his mistress without a messy divorce.

Before Judge James Cullen imposed the mandatory life sentence, Roseboro said he disagreed with the jury's verdict.

District Attorney Craig Stedman described the murder of Jan Roseboro, a 45-year-old mother of four children, as "selfish and senseless."



Michael Roseboro met his mistress, Angela Funk on May 29, 2008 with more than 200 emails exchanged back and forth between them up until Funk's computer from work was seized and emails were retrieved from the hard drive. Angela attempted to remove/delete the emails (more than 200) - about 100 of the emails were distributed to the jury during the trial, the last email dated June 30, 2008 read, (Funk to Roseboro); "I promise to love you and your children for the rest of my life, I have so much love to give." The emails between Funk and Roseboro indicated specific wedding plans and some were very graphic and one may find them offensive.

On the night of July 22, 2008, Roseboro murdered his wife Jan. The number one aggravating factor being - "The murder was especially heinous, atrocious, cruel or depraved (or involved torture)." Roseboro killed his wife and mother of his children in a cruel, brutal fashion while three of the children were in the house less than 25 feet away. Roseboro beat and drown Jan, his greed ruled. The final neighbor testified that she was home the night of the murder. Around 10:30 p.m. she "heard a female scream from the back pool area of the Roseboro's." Another neighbor testified that Michael Roseboro was "cleaning the pool early the morning after the murder." Other neighbors testified that they couldn't have seen anything happening at the rear of the Roseboro house, in the pool area, which is where Jan Roseboro was found, face down in the pool. The evidence just kept piling up and adding up - enough for the jury to convict this poor excuse for a man to be convicted of first-degree murder.

Roseboro earned about $400,000 a year at his funeral home and he wanted to keep his income, his four children and his girlfriend. The only way Roseboro could do all of this was to "get rid of his wife". Evidence and testimony revealed that there was an affair and that Roseboro and Funk had sex for several hours the day Jan Roseboro was killed. The affair also resulted in Funk having Roseboro's baby.

Roseboro has no remorse. He is greedy and a coward. He had a huge secret, assets and a lot of money at stake to be lost in a divorce. Roseboro flipped a coin and did what every cowardly man does - kills his wife. ROSEBORO CHOSE MURDER OVER DIVORCE.

The only thing Roseboro is sorry for is that he got caught. He doesn't care that his children no longer have their Mother. These innocent children suffered and will continue to suffer because of two vain and selfish people (Roseboro and Funk). Roseboro will never apologize as that would be an admission of guilt.

Regarding the sentence......Why didn't DA Stedman go for the death penalty with 18 agrravating factors? Sentence handed down........."LIFE WITH NO PAROLE"

Roseboro was obsessed with another married woman - Angela Funk. He called Funk 57 times in one day. Roseboro wasn't just obsessed with another woman that drove him to kill his wife. The autopsy report revealed that Jan was strangled, beat severely, kicked, punched and then thrown into the family pool.

In my opinion and experience, Jan's death wasn't the first time that she was on the receiving end of Roseboro's temper and/or fist - it is not common for domestic violence to begin with death. Jan was an upscale woman, perhaps she kept silent of any type of abuse for the sake of her husband's community reputation, her family or threats by Roseboro. We will never know. We do know that Roseboro simply wanted it all, at the expense of his wife's life.



Take care and STAY SAFE!
Anny Jacoby
A Success Survivor
"Raising female awareness and skills to reduce susceptibility in response to violence."
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"MEET ME IN THE STAIRWELL" - In Remembrance of 9/11

‘MEET ME IN THE STAIRWELL’

You say you will never forget where you were when
you heard the news On September 11, 2001.
Neither will I.

I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room
with a man who called his wife to say ‘Good-Bye.’ I
held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the
peace to say, ‘Honey, I am not going to make it, but it
is OK..I am ready to go.’

I was with his wife when he called as she fed
breakfast to their children. I held her up as she
tried to understand his words and as she realized
he wasn’t coming home that night.

I was in the stairwell of the 23rd floor when a
woman cried out to Me for help. ‘I have been
knocking on the door of your heart for 50 years!’ I said.
‘Of course I will show you the way home – only
believe in Me now.’

I was at the base of the building with the Priest
ministering to the injured and devastated souls.
I took him home to tend to his Flock in Heaven. He
heard my voice and answered.

I was on all four of those planes, in every seat,
with every prayer. I was with the crew as they
were overtaken. I was in the very hearts of the
believers there, comforting and assuring them that their
faith has saved them.

I was in Texas , Virginia , California , Michigan , Afghanistan .
I was standing next to you when you heard the terrible news.
Did you sense Me?

I want you to know that I saw every face. I knew
every name – though not all know Me. Some met Me
for the first time on the 86th floor.

Some sought Me with their last breath.
Some couldn’t hear Me calling to them through the
smoke and flames; ‘Come to Me… this way… take
my hand.’ Some chose, for the final time, to ignore Me.
But, I was there.

I did not place you in the Tower that day. You
may not know why, but I do. However, if you were
there in that explosive moment in time, would you have
reached for Me?

Sept. 11, 2001, was not the end of the journey
for you. But someday your journey will end. And I
will be there for you as well. Seek Me now while I may
be found. Then, at any moment, you know you are
‘ready to go.’

I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.

God

Women at Risk by Bob Herbert.....George Sodini

New York Times
August 8, 2009

Op-Ed Columnist

Women at Risk

By BOB HERBERT

“I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me,” wrote George Sodini in a blog that he kept while preparing for this week’s shooting in a Pennsylvania gym in which he killed three women, wounded nine others and then killed himself.

We’ve seen this tragic ritual so often that it has the feel of a formula. A guy is filled with a seething rage toward women and has easy access to guns. The result: mass slaughter.

Back in the fall of 2006, a fiend invaded an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, separated the girls from the boys, and then shot 10 of the girls, killing five.

I wrote, at the time, that there would have been thunderous outrage if someone had separated potential victims by race or religion and then shot, say, only the blacks, or only the whites, or only the Jews. But if you shoot only the girls or only the women — not so much of an uproar.

According to police accounts, Sodini walked into a dance-aerobics class of about 30 women who were being led by a pregnant instructor. He turned out the lights and opened fire. The instructor was among the wounded.

We have become so accustomed to living in a society saturated with misogyny that the barbaric treatment of women and girls has come to be more or less expected.

We profess to being shocked at one or another of these outlandish crimes, but the shock wears off quickly in an environment in which the rape, murder and humiliation of females is not only a staple of the news, but an important cornerstone of the nation’s entertainment.

The mainstream culture is filled with the most gruesome forms of misogyny, and pornography is now a multibillion-dollar industry — much of it controlled by mainstream U.S. corporations.

One of the striking things about mass killings in the U.S. is how consistently we find that the killers were riddled with shame and sexual humiliation, which they inevitably blamed on women and girls. The answer to their feelings of inadequacy was to get their hands on a gun (or guns) and begin blowing people away.

What was unusual about Sodini was how explicit he was in his blog about his personal shame and his hatred of women. “Why do this?” he asked. “To young girls? Just read below.” In his gruesome, monthslong rant, he managed to say, among other things: “It seems many teenage girls have sex frequently. One 16 year old does it usually three times a day with her boyfriend. So, err, after a month of that, this little [expletive] has had more sex than ME in my LIFE, and I am 48. One more reason.”

I was reminded of the Virginia Tech gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people in a rampage at the university in 2007. While Cho shot males as well as females, he was reported to have previously stalked female classmates and to have leaned under tables to take inappropriate photos of women. A former roommate said Cho once claimed to have seen “promiscuity” when he looked into the eyes of a woman on campus.

Soon after the Virginia Tech slayings, I interviewed Dr. James Gilligan, who spent many years studying violence as a prison psychiatrist in Massachusetts and as a professor at Harvard and N.Y.U. “What I’ve concluded from decades of working with murderers and rapists and every kind of violent criminal,” he said, “is that an underlying factor that is virtually always present to one degree or another is a feeling that one has to prove one’s manhood, and that the way to do that, to gain the respect that has been lost, is to commit a violent act.”

Life in the United States is mind-bogglingly violent. But we should take particular notice of the staggering amounts of violence brought down on the nation’s women and girls each and every day for no other reason than who they are. They are attacked because they are female.

A girl or woman somewhere in the U.S. is sexually assaulted every couple of minutes or so. The number of seriously battered wives and girlfriends is far beyond the ability of any agency to count.

There were so many sexual attacks against women in the armed forces that the Defense Department had to revise its entire approach to the problem.

We would become much more sane, much healthier, as a society if we could bring ourselves to acknowledge that misogyny is a serious and pervasive problem, and that the twisted way so many men feel about women, combined with the absurdly easy availability of guns, is a toxic mix of the most tragic proportions.

Take care and STAY SAFE!

Anny Jacoby

A Success Survivor

"Raising female awareness and skills to reduce susceptibility in response to violence."

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The War-At-Home: Domestic Violence Takes A Shocking Toll

I would like to share an article from my "home state, home county newspaper"; Monroe County, Pennsylvania, The Pocono Record.

The War-At-Home: Domestic Violence Takes A Shocking Toll
By Beth Brelje
Pocono Record Writer
July 12, 2009 6:00 AM

In Pennsylvania, 18 lethal incidents of domestic violence have shocked neighborhoods and broken hearts since Memorial Day.

The deaths total 26 and range in age from 18 months to 97 years. Seven perpetrators of domestic violence died in the act, six by suicide and one shot by police.

Monroe County has had the highest number of domestic violence related deaths, five, since Memorial Day.

Statistics show men are as likely as women to be killed - 16 males and 10 females died. According to police allegations, three sons were murdered by their fathers, one father was killed by his daughter and one mother was murdered by her son. Three girlfriends killed their boyfriends, and one husband was killed by his wife of 37 years. Two wives were murdered by their husbands.

If the numbers seem high, consider how many incidents of physical or emotional abuse go unreported in this often secret crime.

Elaine Long, a domestic violence survivor from Kresgeville, says children are especially vulnerable to violence in the home.

"Children are resilient, but emotional scars can't be seen until they're adolescents and adults," said Long. "It's a learned behavior. If no one intervenes, it perpetuates through each generation."



Perhaps it's time for another Memorial Day, to remember the victims of family violence in Pennsylvania, summer 2009:

• May 26, Lehigh County: Hector Fuentes, 44, was beaten to death in Allentown, and his cousin, Luis Anaya, 24, was arrested. According to reports, Anaya had been living with Fuentes because he had nowhere else to go. Anaya was charged with homicide.

• May 30, Berks County: Kathryn Lena, 97, was shot by her son, Gary Lena, 67, in Reading. He then committed suicide. Police said health issues may have played a role in their deaths.

• May 31, Philadelphia: Lillian Rodriguez 56, was shot in the head by her boyfriend, Jose Rodriguez, 55. The two were sitting on stools at a public bar at closing time. Jose Rodriguez shot her then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.

• June 1, Allegheny County: Robert Tomer, 24, killed himself after a four-hour standoff with police. A sister called police to report Tomer was threatening their mother, father and a nephew in the home. Family members were able to get outside after police arrived, but Tomer barricaded himself inside the home and shot himself when police entered. Officers had been called to the house on previous occasions.

• June 2, Dauphin County: Gary Wiest, 60, was stabbed to death with a steak knife in Harrisburg. His daughter, Chanel Lee Wiest, 32, was charged with criminal homicide. Gary Wiest had been stabbed more than 40 times. The two argued over money before the murder.

• June 7, Lebanon County: Jeanette Ebling, 71, was found dead in her home, sitting in a motorized wheelchair, with a cord wrapped around her neck. Her son, David Ebling, was charged with homicide.

• June 8, Northampton/Monroe counties: A 9-year-old boy was kidnapped at gunpoint by his father, Daniel Autienrath, 31, of Palmer Township. Autienrath's estranged wife had filed a protection from abuse order against him. Autienrath led police on a 40-mile car chase from Nazareth through Stroudsburg to Tobyhanna, where state police forced his vehicle off the road. In the ensuing shootout, Autienrath shot Trooper Joshua Miller, 34. Miller returned fire, killing Autienrath. Miller died of his wounds. Another state trooper was shot but survived.

• June 14, Huntingdon County: Danny Frank, 60, told his ex-girlfriend he was going to commit suicide if she didn't come over to his house. She alerted authorities. Frank held police at a standoff and then shot himself to death.

• June 20, Fayette County: Carmen Higginbotham, 30, was run over by a car and killed, and her 44-year-old husband was charged. He fled the scene, but was later arrested for homicide. The couple had six children between them. Two were his from a previous marriage, two were their biological children, and two were adopted.

• June 21, Philadelphia: Police claim Rafeea Parker, 33, was shot on the street by her boyfriend's mother's boyfriend, Marvin "Brown" Nesmith. Parker died at the scene. Police allege Nesmith then shot his girlfriend, Renee Farrow 55, who later died at the hospital. The shooting happened on Father's Day with six family members present. Family members said Farrow, a mental health worker, dated Nesmith for 10 years and stayed with him because she thought she could help him with his mental problems.

• June 21, Monroe County: Justin Uckele, 19, was shot and killed on Father's Day, and his father, Bernard John Uckele, 62, has been charged. Justin Uckele's girlfriend, who also lived in the home, had gotten into an argument with the father. The fight turned physical. Uckele came home from work to confront his father and was shot.

• June 21, York County: A woman with mental disabilities, Kathy Stoner, 49, was shot in the head by her brother, David Stoner, 54, who then turned the gun on himself. According to neighbors, David Stoner had slid into depression. A year after losing his job as a mechanic, he could not find work. He took care of his sister and was worried about what would happened to his sister if he died.

• June 26, Fayette County: Clarence Blair III, 46, a father of two, was stabbed in the chest, and police have accused his girlfriend, Dayna McMaster, 32. After the stabbing, McMaster drove Blair to the hospital, where he died. McMaster was charged with criminal homicide.

• June 26, Montgomery County: Joseph Cressman, 60, was shot by his estranged wife, Cathy, in a murder-suicide. Police found the couple seated inside Cressman's pickup truck, which was parked in the driveway. Both were bleeding from gunshot wounds to the head. A handgun was found in Cathy Cressman's lap. Joseph Cressman was pronounced dead at the hospital. Cathy Cressman underwent surgery but later died. News articles quote the Montgomery County district attorney's report as saying Cathy Cressman had stated that if she could not have her husband of 37 years, nobody would. She purchased a .38-caliber revolver the day of the shooting.

• June 28, Montgomery County: Brian Janus, 28, had been arguing with his younger brother and his mother. After they left the house, the argument continued between Brian Janus and his father, David Janus, 54. Brian Janus went to his bedroom in the basement, and David Janus went upstairs, got a hunting rifle, and forced open a locked filing cabinet containing ammunition. He loaded the rifle on his way back to the basement, where he confronted his son. The Montgomery County district attorney alleges David Janus pointed the loaded rifle at his unarmed son and pulled the trigger. He is charged with murder.

• June 30, Erie County: Peggy Carlson, 42, a prison guard and mother of five, was shot by her out-of-work husband, Dean Carlson, 40. He told his father, who called 911. Then Dean Carlson drove to a remote area, parked his car on a railroad trestle, shot himself and fell to the bank of the creek below.

• July 4, Allegheny County: Chondale Terry, 28, was shot after watching the July 4th fireworks, and his girlfriend, Ciara Roberts, 20, has been charged. The couple had argued during the fireworks show, and when Terry walked away, Roberts loaded a revolver and shot and killed Terry while he stood at a bus stop, according to the criminal complaint.

• July 6, Monroe County: Victoria Adams, 21, and her son, Sidney Michael Parrish, 18 months, were shot and killed in their Effort home, and the baby's father, Michael John Parrish, 23, has been charged. Parrish is a guard at Monroe County Correctional Facility with many white-supremacist tattoos on his body. He fled the scene with a friend and was captured in New Hampshire. He is charged with first-degree murder, and the district attorney said he will seek the death penalty.

Pennsylvania

The Nation's First State Domestic Violence Coalition - Founded 1976

May each family member and friend feel God's loving embrace as He wraps His loving arms around each of you as He protects and guides you on your journey of healing.



Take care and STAY SAFE!
Anny Jacoby
A Success Survivor
The Realistic Female Self-Defense Company
"Raising female awareness and skills to reduce susceptibility in response to violence."
www.annyjacoby.com
www.realisticfemaleselfdefense.com



If you are in an abusive relationship, you need a plan.

Moving Out, Moving On; authored by Susan Murphy-Milano
will guide you through the necessary steps of ending a
relationship safely.

You can purchase your copy HERE.