There's a lot Angela Funk says she can't remember about her affair with Michael Roseboro.

That's despite more than 1,400 phone calls, 1,000 text messages and 200 e-mails, which were sent during the course of an extramarital affair that lasted less than two months with Denver funeral director Roseboro.

Funk, who faces no charges, offered few details about the calls and messages despite repeated prodding by District Attorney Craig Stedman last week in the trial of Roseboro, who is accused of killing his wife, Jan Roseboro, last July.

Funk, who gave birth to Roseboro's child on March 27, told the jury that her relationship with Roseboro is over, but she stumbled when Stedman asked her to tell the court the baby's name.

"Michael … Matthew … Francis Allen … Roseboro … Rudy," Funk said in response to Stedman's query. She initially said Roseboro's first and last name before correcting herself; her response was greeted by disbelief and disgust in the spectators' gallery where friends and family of both Michael and Jan Roseboro sat.

The baby's name, Matthew Francis Allen Rudy, shares three initials with Roseboro. Allen is Roseboro's middle name and Rudy is Funk's maiden name.

Funk's attorney, Amy Rothermel, of Reading, sat in the front row among media during Funk's testimony. Rothermel denied the name has any relation to Roseboro's, calling it pure coincidence.

While Rothermel had already admitted "Allen" was a direct acknowledgment of Roseboro being the real father, Stedman probed further about the other middle name, Francis.

"He [Roseboro] liked that name," Funk said.

Stedman quickly pointed out that Francis also happened to be the name of one of Roseboro's good friends, Frank Tobias.

Tobias and his wife, Karen, were the recipients of a letter Roseboro sent from prison last October. In the letter, Roseboro accused his wife of starting an extramarital affair in late 2007.

At the end of court Tuesday, Rothermel maintained that "Allen" was still the only direct acknowledgment of Roseboro being the real father.

"She's not denying it's Michael's baby," said the Rev. William Cluley, a media liaison for the Roseboros. "She doesn't want the child to live with a cloud over his head."

Mistress enters
Angela Funk had her two days in court last week.

After listening to Cpl. James Strosser of the Pennsylvania State Police read every recovered e-mail sent between Funk and Roseboro last year, jurors finally saw the woman whose affair with Roseboro allegedly motivated him to kill his wife.

Funk nervously walked into the courtroom through the entrance everyone takes into court and sat at the witness stand Tuesday. She would sometimes return after recesses through the door that jurors and Roseboro use to enter the courtroom.

During Tuesday's lunch break, she walked down the fourth-floor hall with her attorney — a rare public appearance outside the courtroom.

She avoided eye contact and walked to a secure area accessible only to jurors and court personnel. Rothermel said the district attorney and court officials allowed Funk to use a private entrance to enter and leave the courthouse.

News photographers hoped to get a shot of Funk as they camped in front of the courthouse's main entrance on North Duke Street, but they left empty-handed.

Rothermel has said that Funk verbally agreed to give an interview to the CBS national news-documentary program "48 Hours." But Rothermel brushed off requests by local reporters for a statement from her client.

Rothermel told reporters that Funk will not comment regarding the case or her testimony.

'Moving on'
Funk testified that despite two phone calls placed by Roseboro from prison to her during the month of April, she's "moving on" and claimed that it's "no longer an option" to be with Roseboro should he be acquitted.

"I've had a change of heart," she told the district attorney, as Michael Roseboro glanced down at the papers in front of him, making little eye contact with her throughout the testimony.

Just what initiated that change for her wasn't made clear to the jury.

In the April phone calls, which were played for the jury last week, Roseboro and Funk said they still loved each other.

Earlier in her testimony, District Attorney Stedman asked Funk if she was in a loveless marriage with Randy Funk.

"Yes," she responded.

But Funk said later that she's "working it out" with her current husband for the sake of her children. She has two daughters, ages 6 and 4, with Mr. Funk.

At the lunch break Tuesday, there was no sign of Randy Funk. Mr. Funk, who briefly testified Tuesday morning, answered Stedman's questions about his wife's whereabouts July 22. He glared at Michael Roseboro almost the entire time.

When he was excused by the judge, Funk stared at Roseboro until he passed the defense table and left the courtroom.

Manipulative mistress or a caring mom?
Both attorneys drew pictures of Funk that tell tales of great contrast.

An e-mail sent July 22, the day of the killing, from Funk to Roseboro read: "I always wanted to be your wife. I guess I won't have to wonder too much longer."

An agitated Stedman demanded to know whether the e-mail was "pure coincidence." Funk responded that it was.

Roseboro's defense attorney, Allan Sodomsky, was far more gentle in his treatment of Funk, portraying her as a caring mother who just wants to protect her baby.

Sodomsky apologized when he had to ask her difficult questions about when she discovered she was pregnant last August.

"She's not trying to create responsibility for the Roseboro family," said Rev. Cluley. "She hasn't asked anything of them."

When no record of a conversation between her and Roseboro was available, Funk simply said she didn't know what it was about or didn't recall the specifics. When queried about the general tone of conversations between her and Roseboro, she said it was usually "small talk" or talk about their mutual "interests."

When Stedman had a written record or a police statement, she said her memory was refreshed and she admitted to the specifics of conversations or meetings.

"If that's what it says," she told Stedman on several occasions.

What was discussed in the 60 phone calls, 47 text messages and 13 e-mails sent between Funk and Roseboro on July 21 and 22?

Stedman indicated that Funk and Roseboro spent the most time together on the afternoon of July 22 at a Mount Joy apartment, where they had sex before leaving at around 5 p.m.

During their separate drives home, they had a 36-minute phone call.

And then there was another call, 17 minutes long, at 8:42 p.m. It was the last time Funk spoke to Roseboro before Jan Roseboro's death.

Then, there were several calls and a text message, with no response from Roseboro, at 9:37, 9:43, 10:08 and, finally, a text at 10:14 p.m.

"I don't remember," Funk said when queried about the details of those messages.

Funk explained that the text message she sent at 10:14 p.m. was probably just an innocuous greeting for when Roseboro turned his cell phone on the next morning.

Funk returned briefly Wednesday morning to finish her testimony.

The two families
"We want justice for Jan," friends of Jan Roseboro said during Tuesday's lunch break.

Jan's family also wants Michael Roseboro to be convicted.

Ralph and Ann Roseboro stand by their son, who they admit made some bad choices in life.

But despite their differences and their close proximity in the courtoom, the two families have handled a difficult situation "very well," Cluley said.

Cluley, the interim pastor of Faith United Lutheran Church in Denver, which Michael and Jan Roseboro attended for 20 years, said the families have been gracious.

Susan Van Zant, Jan's sister, walked up and hugged Michael Roseboro's mother, Ann, during a Friday recess.

The two families sit in separate rows and don't often converse.

About eight relatives and friends of Michael Roseboro sit in the courtroom's back row. About 12 of Jan's relatives and friends sit in the front row.

"There's not going to be any winners in this," the Rev. Cluley said.

Susan Van Zant has been taking care of the three youngest Roseboro children, who still live at the family residence in Reinholds.

Yes, Your Honor
James P. Cullen has a dry wit and a keen sense of fairness, but the judge who presides over the Roseboro murder trial is a man of contrasts.

"Everyone's wanted fairness," said Rev. Cluley. "The judge has been phenomenally fair."

Cullen, a former defense attorney has a low tolerance for courtroom antics.

"He does not suffer fools gladly," writes Mike Winters in an e-mail. Winters, a local attorney unrelated to the case, describes Cullen as "methodical, precise [and] thorough."

Numerous times during the Roseboro trial, Cullen has raised his voice to cut off theatrics from the district attorney and Roseboro's defense team.

"I don't want to hear it," Cullen snapped, after Allan Sodomsky took a potshot at Stedman when the district attorney accused the defense of intentionally misleading the jury.

The judge does show a humorous side.

During a bench conference with counsel Thursday, Cullen accidently pressed an alarm button, which called security up from the courthouse lobby.

A sheriff's deputy came through the back door of the courtroom where jurors enter and walked behind the judge's bench to figure out what was going wrong.

"So what am I supposed to do?" a confused Cullen asked the deputy.

"You're not supposed to hit it," the deputy told him, as spectators laughterd

To which Cullen looked up and told the courtroom:

"Apparently pressing this button causes great distress to the security people. That's why I never touch a computer, I only use a pen and tablet of paper."

Up next: Autopsy; Roseboros testisy
The prosecution is expected to rest early Monday as it calls its last witness, Dr. Wayne Ross, the county's forensic pathologist, who performed the autopsy on Jan Roseboro the morning of July 23, 2008.

Court dismissed early Friday afternoon when attorneys informed Judge Cullen there needed to be further discussion about how the evidence taken from the autopsy was going to be presented to the jury.

Sam Roseboro, 18, Michael Roseboro's eldest son, will testify for the defense next week. Sam Roseboro was outside in the court halls, expecting to testify late last week, with his grandmother, Ann Roseboro. Both are sequestered by the defense and not allowed inside the courtroom until they testify as witnesses.

Other observations
• During one of their April phone calls, Michael Roseboro told Funk that he's "so sick" of basketball and having to watch Black Entertainment Television in prison.

• After the two calls Roseboro made to Funk in April, she stopped direct communication with Roseboro. Prisoners are told, through two audio warnings, that their calls are recorded by prison officials.

According to her testimony Tuesday, she sent a note with a picture of Matthew Francis Allen Rudy to Roseboro after the two calls. The content of that note was not revealed.

• The district attorney said Roseboro called Funk a total of 45 times during his imprisonment, but only two of those calls were successful. The other 43 calls didn't go through to Funk because she wasn't on a pre-approved prisoner-contact list for Roseboro.

• Constitutional law wonks would have enjoyed Thursday's proceedings. A lengthy discussion of the Fourth Amendment's search-and-seizure clause ensued after the defense questioned the East Cocalico Township Police Department's evidence-gathering procedures. The question arose when the defense asked why police didn't declare the Roseboro home right after the killing a "crime scene."

"This is getting more confusing by the minute," Judge Cullen told counsel during a recess.

Upon redirect by the district attorney, Sgt. Larry Martin explained that the need for probable cause prevented police from seizing the Roseboro home for evidence gathering.

"The U.S. Constitution has something to do with that," Stedman pointed out.

Staff writer Michael Schwartz contributed to this report.

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Paul Franz is a Sunday News staff writer. Contact him at pfranz@lnpnews.com or at 295-5063.