Summary of M. William Phelps's Love Her to Death

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 On July 22, 2008, EMT Cory Showalter was the first responder to the Roseboro house. He noted that the husband appeared calm, breathing normally, and not gasping for air. He was not dripping wet.
#2 Firestone noticed several tiki torches around the pool, and the entire area was well lit by spotlights from the house. Roseboro was standing nearby, dressed only in red boxer shorts, with no expression on his face.
#3 The AED took a reading of Jan’s vital signs and indicated whether to shock her heart with the paddles or continue manual CPR. It didn’t mean she was dead, but it did mean that she had no pulse.
#4 As the ambulance took off with Jan Roseboro, her husband, Michael, stood by and watched. He never approached the ambulance or asked anyone about his wife.

Sujets

• Violence
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science
• Violence in Society

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822547780
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on M. William Phelps's Love Her to Death
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#1

On July 22, 2008, EMT Cory Showalter was the first responder to the Roseboro house. He noted that the husband appeared calm, breathing normally, and not gasping for air. He was not dripping wet.

#2

Firestone noticed several tiki torches around the pool, and the entire area was well lit by spotlights from the house. Roseboro was standing nearby, dressed only in red boxer shorts, with no expression on his face.

#3

The AED took a reading of Jan’s vital signs and indicated whether to shock her heart with the paddles or continue manual CPR. It didn’t mean she was dead, but it did mean that she had no pulse.

#4

As the ambulance took off with Jan Roseboro, her husband, Michael, stood by and watched. He never approached the ambulance or asked anyone about his wife.

#5

Firestone, the ECTPD detective, went around the pool area looking for signs of a struggle. He didn’t find anything out of the ordinary.

#6

Firestone went around the pool, and saw a red cell phone on the bottom of the pool, along with two small brown stones. The stones were similar to those used in the landscaping around that particular section of the pool.

#7

On the night of the murders, Mike Texter went over to the Roseboro house to hang out with Sam. When he arrived, he saw that Michael was wearing the same red swim trunks he had on while sitting in the water a little over an hour earlier.

#8

Detective Larry Martin had been working in his garden before watching a little television and then heading off to bed to read. It was a few minutes after 11 p. m. when a ringing telephone woke him up. The call was not about a grateful citizen, but rather a suicide that didn’t look so cut-and-dry.

#9

Because it was so strange for an adult to drown in their own pool, Martin wanted to make sure everything was fine. He spoke to several people at the scene, and found out that Jan had not been drinking.

#10

Martin called Keith Neff, one of the detectives, and told him to meet him at the police station. He was a vivacious and hyper cop who had never investigated a murder.

#11

The ECTPD is not a police department that is usually involved in murder cases. It had been years since the ECTPD had investigated a single murder case, and over ten years since a murder case hadn’t been solved within a few hours.

#12

The ECTPD is located in the bottom floor of what looks like an old library, but is actually the Town Services Department. There is a $75,000 crime scene van with all the latest high-tech gadgets parked out back.

#13

The house where the drowning took place was by far the largest and most contemporary in the neighborhood. It was an addition that had just been completed as the summer of 2008 began.

#14

When Neff and Martin spoke to Firestone, he explained that Roseboro had told him that his wife had died. However, no one had told Roseboro that she had died.

#15

With Jan’s death, the ECTPD would be dealing with a new set of investigatory problems. It was going to be a long night.

#16

The job of detective was a position that was tested for. Neff took the examination, passed, and was offered a desk and a badge. In his four years as a detective, Neff had never testified in a jury trial.

#17

When Keith Neff arrived at the scene, he noticed that Michael Roseboro was standing off in the back of the house inside the screened-in porch, surrounded by family, including his son Sam. The other three children, Sam, David, and Katie, did not wake up.

#18

The family reputation of Michael Roseboro was mentioned by several people at the scene. It seemed strange that he never came up to ask any questions, or even to check on the condition of the victim.

#19

The investigation revealed that the blood outside the house could have been washed away by the rain, so it was possible that Jan had fallen and didn’t leave any blood behind.

#20

When Michael Roseboro arrived at the police station, he was preoccupied and emotionless. There was a sadness there for what had happened, but it was overshadowed by an eerie feeling of coldness.

#21

The friends of Jan and Michael Roseboro, Gary Frees and Rebecca Donahue, drove Roseboro to the ECTPD so he could speak with Keith Neff and Larry Martin. It had to be done. Roseboro needed to clear up any confusion, add any details he could, so Neff and Martin could write their reports.

#22

The interview was fairly informal, except for the fact that Neff was not wearing any police equipment. He did not have his gun or badge. He asked Roseboro what time he got up the day before, July 21, 2008, almost two mornings ago now.

#23

Roseboro was able to explain an average day in the life of his family. He was a husband and father, and he had no problems answering questions. He was able to explain what happened when his wife woke up during the night and asked him to rub Vicks VapoRub on her back.

#24

Neff asked Roseboro what happened between the time he last saw Jan, lying in the pool, and the time he jumped in and pulled her out. Roseboro said it was about an hour.

#25

The ECTPD was able to obtain a consent to search, which was all they could do legally. They needed Roseboro’s consent to go into his house.

#26

The coroner was an elected position in Pennsylvania, and the deputy coroner was a doctor. They were going to perform an autopsy on Jan Roseboro’s body.

#27

Detective Neff continued the interview with Michael Roseboro. He asked about any drugs or medications Jan might have been taking, and Roseboro said his wife took ten to twenty milligrams of Adderall every day.

#28