Michael Roseboro's DNA was found underneath the fingernails of his dead wife's left hand, an expert said.

His face, a family friend noticed, was "oozing blood" the night Jan Roseboro was killed.

And that same night, a neighbor testified, the backyard of the Roseboro home was "pitch black … there were no lights on."

On Wednesday, a Lancaster County jury listened to an assortment of prosecution witnesses as Michael Roseboro's homicide trial continued for an eighth day.

Prosecutors contend Roseboro, 42, director of a family-owned funeral home in Denver, killed his wife because he was obsessed with his girlfriend and feared the financial cost of a divorce.

On the night of July 22, 2008, Roseboro called 911, saying he had just found his wife drowned in the backyard pool of their Reinholds home.

Jan Roseboro did drown, police said, but she also was strangled and beaten.

Defense attorneys maintain Roseboro is not guilty, suggesting intruders killed the 45-year-old victim as she sat alone by the pool that night.

A state police DNA expert, Sabine Panzer-Kaelin, told the jury that she examined several items given to her from the crime scene.

Examining fingernail clippings from Jan Roseboro's left hand, Panzer-Kaelin testified, she found evidence of 12 of 16 DNA characteristics matching Michael Roseboro's DNA.

The remaining four characteristics, she explained, would have been too similar or clouded over by Jan Roseboro's DNA.

Underneath the fingernails of Jan Roseboro's right hand, Panzer-Kaelin added, she found a "red-brown staining."

Earlier in the trial, police testified that they searched the Roseboro home looking for evidence of the crime and used special chemicals that illuminate blood stains. They found no blood or other such evidence.

Also on Wednesday, Garry Frees, a family friend, testified that he drove Michael Roseboro to the police station hours after Jan Roseboro was killed.

As they sat across from each other in the lobby, Frees said, "I took notice he was wiping his upper lip … it was oozing blood."

"He was constantly dabbing it," Frees said, which caught his attention.

"I couldn't see the wound, just oozing," Frees said.

Under cross-examination, defense attorney Allan Sodomsky asked Frees why he never told police about the oozing until April.

"At the time, I thought this was a drowning," Frees said. "I didn't think anything of it. I thought he cut himself shaving."

District Attorney Craig Stedman asked Frees whether police ever asked about any wounds or just asked him how Roseboro was acting.

Frees said police never asked him about any wounds.

Sodomsky then read aloud Frees' description to police of Roseboro's demeanor after the murder, which was, "Mike has been very quiet and distraught."

A neighbor who lives directly across Creek Road from the Roseboro's backyard, testified that she looked out her window at 10 p.m. the night of the murder and noticed it was "pitch black."

September Malamon testified that she was going through her evening routine on July 22, 2008, getting ready to go to work, as she does every night.

At 10 p.m., she looked out a second-floor window and could see the Roseboros' backyard.

Malamon said she has a clear view of the pool, the back of the house and the courtyard area.

But that night, Malamon said, she could see none of the usual pool lights, patio lights, an automatic dusk-to-dawn light or burning tiki torches.

"There's not a doubt in my mind there were no lights on," Malamon said.

Malamon also testified that while she was in the bathroom getting ready for work, she heard a woman's scream sometime between 9:20 p.m. and 10 p.m.

She didn't tell police until a week later, Malamon explained, because she wasn't sure if it was coming from her television or from somewhere else.

Another witness, Jill Showalter, testified that she had been visiting her father's home on West Main Street the night of the murder.

As she drove home at 10:30 p.m., she turned south onto Creek Road, passing the Roseboro home.

The home, from the front, "seemed unusually dark that night," Showalter said, except for a light in the basement.

As she turned down Creek Road, she noticed no tiki torches burning and said the pool area was dark.

Under cross-examination, Showalter said she never noticed the tiki torches in the yard last summer or anytime before October.

Roseboro's former girlfriend, Angela Funk, who testified for most of Tuesday, briefly returned to the witness stand Wednesday.

Stedman suggested that Funk, who gave birth to Roseboro's son on March 27, had not been completely forthcoming about the relationship and communication between the two.

Funk said she and Roseboro never discussed getting caught by their spouses, never shared concern about an unplanned pregnancy or the unusually large telephone bill that Jan Roseboro was about to receive revealing her husband's hundreds of cell-phone calls to Funk.

"You're not in any way biased in favor of the defendant," Stedman asked.

"Absolutely not," Funk replied.

"I care for him very deeply," the 39-year-old Denver woman testified. "I can't just turn my feelings off."

But, Funk said, she has decided to try and work things out with her husband and maintains that she has always told investigators the truth.

"I never did lie for Mike Roseboro," Funk said.

Judge James P. Cullen is presiding over the trial, which continues today.

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