Summary
This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 3/6/2010, begins on July 22, 2008, when Michael Roseboro, a funeral director in Denver, Pennsylvania, called 911 to report that he had just found the body of his wife, Jan, at the bottom of their swimming pool. Less than an hour later, she was pronounced dead. An autopsy revealed that she had been strangled, beaten and then drowned. Her death was ruled a homicide and the investigation that followed pointed to Michael's personal obsession. 48 Hours correspondent Harold Dow reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the 48 hours podcast, Add Free on Amazon Music. |
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| 0:09.5 | I'm Candace DeLong, and on my new podcast, Killer Psychie Daily, I share a quick 10-minute |
| 0:14.8 | rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the cold-butter killers you |
| 0:20.1 | read about in the news. |
| 0:22.1 | Listen to the Amazon Music Exclusive Podcast Killer Psychie Daily in the Amazon Music |
| 0:27.4 | app. |
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| 0:37.2 | My name is Wayne Ross. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm a forensic pathologist here in Lancaster County. |
| 0:44.0 | A forensic pathologist by definition is someone who does autopsy. |
| 0:50.6 | I have performed over 8,400 autopsy. |
| 0:56.8 | We get involved in trying to understand mysteries, trying to resolve pieces of a puzzle. |
| 1:05.9 | Jan and Michael Rose Barrow would have been well-known in the community, upstanding citizens |
| 1:12.6 | because a Rose Barrow funeral home has been there for decades. |
| 1:19.0 | Jan was a wonderful woman, kind, compassionate, a loving mother, just a great woman. |
| 1:27.9 | Mike and Jan, I thought, man, it's like Barbie and Ken, you know, it's like the perfect |
| 1:31.1 | couple. |
| 1:32.1 | Mike's a county 9-1-1. |
| 1:33.1 | Everyone waits just down. |
| 1:34.1 | Is she breathing? |
| 1:35.1 | No, she's not. |
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