Eleven jurors have been selected so far to hear the case of Michael Roseboro, the Denver funeral home director who is charged with killing his wife.

This morning in Lancaster County Court, the 11th juror, a Manheim Township woman, was selected to join the six other women and four men on the panel.

Attorneys were resuming their efforts this afternoon to select the remaining one juror and four alternates. Testimony in the case is scheduled to begin Friday morning.

Roseboro, 42, a director of his family's funeral home in Denver, is charged in the death of his wife, Jan. The 45-year-old woman was found dead next to the pool in the backyard of their home in Reinholds on July 22. She had been beaten, strangled and drowned, officials said.

Tuesday, after a full day of questioning potential jurors, attorneys had selected 10 jurors to hear the case.

Because testimony in the case may last three weeks, court officials decided Tuesday that four alternate jurors, rather than two, also should be chosen.

Expecting that it may take more than one day to select the remaining six jurors and alternates, Judge James P. Cullen told those jurors who had been selected to return to the courthouse Friday morning, when testimony is expected to begin.

For the second day, Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman, who is prosecuting the case, and Roseboro's attorney, Allan Sodomsky, questioned potential jurors individually and at length before making their choices.

Among the questions the attorneys asked was whether potential jurors knew any of the more than 200 people who may be called to testify.

On the night of his wife's death, Roseboro told police Jan Roseboro had been outside by the pool reading that evening.

Around 11 p.m., Roseboro said, he went outside and found her in the water. He pulled her out, called 911 and tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate her.

Prosecutors believe Roseboro killed his wife because he was romantically involved with another woman.

Defense attorneys maintain he is innocent and suggested that intruders killed Jan Roseboro when they encountered her outside that night.

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