Michael Roseboro is the focus of a "48 Hours Mystery" special about his conviction for the 2008 murder of his wife, Jan.

But it is the other woman who plays the most compelling role in the CBS program, which was broadcast Saturday night.

During the one-hour segment, viewers here and across the nation got a revealing look at Angela Funk, the woman who had an affair with Roseboro and became pregnant with the Denver funeral director's baby shortly before his wife's murder.

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Prosecutors say Roseboro killed his wife, strangling her, beating her and leaving her in the family pool, so he could be with Funk.

Funk describes herself as "just an average ordinary person" during her opening interview in the program, which notes that she was a married mother of three children and an insurance adjuster.

But viewers got to see another side of the Denver woman as well.

What they saw was a girlfriend who carried on an intense affair with Roseboro, a man who "made me feel like a woman, a beautiful woman."

They saw a mistress who became suspicious and angry after she learned she was the latest in a series of Roseboro's affairs.

They got to listen in as Funk made a remarkable call to Roseboro from a police station interrogation room, confronting him about a girlfriend.

They watched a woman wrestling with the growing knowledge that Roseboro may have killed his wife.

They also heard an affectionate paramour who cheerfully spoke to Roseboro by phone after their son was born, while Roseboro was behind bars on charges that he killed his wife.

At times guarded, at times frank — "We had sex," she says of her and Roseboro's activities on the day of Jan Roseboro's murder — Funk speaks throughout the program about her relationship with Roseboro and the aftermath.

"He didn't love me if he killed his wife for me," she says in a quivering voice at the end of the broadcast. "He used me. That's how I feel."

Though she spoke to the correspondent for the national show, Funk has given no interviews to the local press. She hung up when a reporter called her Saturday to seek her reaction to the CBS program.

The program, titled "Lady in the Pool," takes viewers through the Roseboro case from the discovery of Jan Roseboro's body to her husband's conviction.

It also shows, for the first time, Roseboro speaking about the case in a sequence filmed at the Mahanoy State Prison in Schuylkill County, where he is being held on a life sentence. His attorney is appealing the case.

Wearing blue prison scrubs, cheap black canvas sneakers and a five o'clock shadow, Roseboro reads a brief written statement, denying his wife's killing and adding, "I miss her very much."

Saturday's program was broadcast on Roseboro's 43rd birthday.

The local prosecutor said he wished the show could have shown more of the evidence against Roseboro, but said the program was limited by its one-hour format and the producers' desire to portray the case as a mystery.

Still, Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman said he thinks viewers who knew nothing about the case would conclude Roseboro was guilty.

"I think they're going to see him exactly for what he is: a cold and detached murderer," he said.

East Cocalico Township Police Sgt. Larry Martin said, "I thought, overall, it was fair. This is a mystery show. They want to make it look like, to the end, what do you think?"

Defense attorney Jay Nigrini, who worked with lead defense attorney Allan Sodomsky, also thought the show was fair but that viewers might come away with a "strong suspicion" Roseboro was guilty.

Roseboro's mother, Ann, was interviewed for the show but declined to speak about it afterward.

In an interview before the broadcast, she said, "The reason I participated was because they were going to do the show regardless. I wanted to give my side about the son we know, the compassionate and caring person he is."

Mrs. Roseboro said she did not and does not want to be in the limelight but felt she had to speak.

"I completely believe in my son's innocence," she said. "It's just really, really hard."

The program put Lancaster County in the national spotlight again, as the area has been the site of numerous murders that have captured wide attention.

Not surprisingly, "48 Hours Mystery" showed the stock footage that the national media seems to return to over and over when filming in the county: Amish buggies clip-clopping down the road, farms, bucolic scenes.

It offers this description of Denver: "Where nothing much ever happens, and folks here like it that way."

It features interviews with all of the major players in the case. In addition to Stedman and Sodomsky, it shows county forensic pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross, members of Michael Roseboro's family, friends of the Roseboros and members of Jan Roseboro's family.

Prosecutors note how they came to the conclusion that Roseboro killed his wife. Thousands of e-mails, texts and phone calls pointed to his relationship with Funk, they say. Scratches on his face and his DNA under his wife's fingernails pointed to their final struggle. Jan Roseboro's injuries pointed to the fact that she was murdered.

Roseboro's defenders repeat their belief that an intruder robbed and killed Jan Roseboro, saying $40,000 of her jewelry was missing after the killing.

Interlaced through it all are interviews with Funk and excerpts of e-mails she and Roseboro exchanged during their affair.

One of the most fascinating parts of the program is an interview between Funk and two local police officers taped at the Ocean City, N.J., police station. Funk was interviewed while on a planned vacation at the beach before Roseboro was arrested.

One of the officers tells Funk that Roseboro has had several affairs going back at least 10 years.

"Wow," an obviously surprised and upset Funk says. "I just want to call him and say, 'You bastard.' "

And then, amazingly, she does call him on her cell phone from the interview room.

"Michael," she says, her voice furious, "Who's Cathy?"

"You had an affair with her, apparently, according to her," she continues. "How do I know that? I trusted you!"

Tearfully, she tells Roseboro, whose voice is not heard, she doesn't know what to believe anymore. People are telling her, she says, that he's the only one who could have "done it," apparently referring to the murder.

"I can't believe you would jeopardize what we had," she says.

But her tone then changes to one of conciliation.

"Yes dear," she says, as she ends the conversation. "I love you too."

Another phone call provides a second, unguarded look at the relationship between Funk and Roseboro.

Roseboro called Funk to talk to her in April 2009, just weeks after their baby was born and after he had been in Lancaster County Prison for about eight months on charges that he had killed his wife. The phone call was recorded by the prison.

"He looks just like you," Funk says of the couple's baby, adding later, "He is the spitting image of you."

"Poor guy," Roseboro says, in a joking tone.

"I don't think it's that bad," she replies, her voice light and affectionate.

"He don't have a chance," Roseboro says, matching her tone.

"Oh my goodness," Roseboro adds later, obviously delighted to be talking to her. "It's so good to hear your voice."

The show also features numerous intense e-mails between Funk and Roseboro, in which they profess their love for each other during their affair.

In an e-mail exchange hours before Jan Roseboro was murdered, Roseboro tells Funk, "I need to be your husband."

She writes in an e-mail, "I always wondered what it would be like to be your wife. I guess I won't have to wonder too much longer."

"48 Hours" reporter Harold Dow asks Funk what that means.

"Too much longer doesn't mean it's going to be next week or next year," Funk says, adding she did not know Roseboro was going to kill his wife.

"I honestly did not know anything was going to happen," she says. "If I had known, I would have stopped it. I would have said something. I would have called the police. I would have done something.

"I didn't know."

Stedman later says on the show that while he does not think Funk knew Roseboro was going to kill his wife, she does know more than she has told prosecutors.

Funk denies that.

In the end, Dow asks Funk what she would like people to know about her. The show notes that she is still with her husband, but Funk says their marriage is "day by day."

"I want people to know I'm sorry for my indiscretions with Michael," she says. "I'm sorry to his family, to his kids, to Jan's family, to my family and friends."

"I hurt a lot of people," she adds, crying, "and I'm sorry."

What would she say to Roseboro?

"Be honest — to your family, to your kids and to Jan's family.

"They deserve to know the truth."

cstauffer@lnpnews.com