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By Associated Press, July 25, 2008

Last updated: Friday, July 25, 2008 1:04 PM EDT

REINHOLDS, Pa. (AP) — Police on Friday were searching for the killer of a mother of four who was severely beaten, then drowned in her family’s swimming pool in southcentral Pennsylvania, investigators said.

Jan Roseboro, 45, died at her home in Reinholds on Tuesday night in what investigators said was a homicide. No charges had been filed on Friday and authorities did not identify a suspect.

Roseboro’s husband, Michael, called 911 at about 11 p.m. Tuesday and told dispatchers he found his wife in the pool, investigators said. When police and medics arrived, they found him performing CPR on her, authorities said.

Jan Roseboro was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital, police said.

An autopsy on Wednesday found that Roseboro was “brutally beaten” and had water in her lungs, according to Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, Lancaster County’s coroner.

“Someone used a lot of force on her body and wanted to kill her, and did,” District Attorney Craig Stedman said in Friday’s editions of the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster.