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Murder or Suicide? New evidence compels reopening baffling ‘suicide’ cold case of Philly teacher, Ellen Greenberg, found by fiancé in her apartment with 20 stab wounds – Half in the back of her head, brain pierced, spine severed

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Philadelphia authorities finally reopen &&num;8216&semi;suicide&&num;8217&semi; case of 27-year-old Philadelphia teacher found by fiancé in her apartment with 20 stab wounds &&num;8211&semi; and a knife stuck in her heart <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Investigators are re-examining the 2011 death of Ellen Greenberg&comma; after new technology unearths evidence suggesting she may have been killed <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Greenberg was found in the kitchen of their shared Philly apt by her fiancé Sam Goldberg on January 25&comma; 2011 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Medical Examiner overturned initial assumption of homicide and ruled Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s death as suicide&comma; at the time <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Her family has since pressed for her case to be re-reviewed after finding evidence that investigators overlooked <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Pushing for justice her parents hired a private investigator and commissioned the new technology of photogrammetry for 3D examination of the corpse <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Photogrammetry left the creators<strong> concluding that all of the wounds could not have been self-inflicted<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Half of her wounds<strong> &&num;8211&semi; 10 &&num;8211&semi; were inflicted to the back of her head and spine <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>One <&sol;strong>graphic shows Ellen&&num;8217&semi;s spinal cord had actually been severed and her brain pierced in two forceful stabs to the neck<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The significance was that she could have neither defended nor harmed herself after those blows <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b2a2a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Besides&comma; she was stabbed with several undiscovered knives <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-Greenberg-1-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415846" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"609"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Philadelphia police have re-opened investigation of the death of 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg &lbrack;photo&rsqb; in her Philadelphia apt on Jan 25&comma; 2011&period; It was ruled suicide&comma; but new evidence suggests some of the wounds could not have been self-inflicted<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Investigators are reviewing evidence from the crime scene of a female teacher from Philadelphia they say may have been staged to appear as a suicide nearly a decade ago&period; <br>On January 26&comma; 2011&comma; Sam Goldberg called 911 to report that he found his fiancée&comma; Ellen Greenberg&comma; dead in the kitchen of their Philadelphia apartment&period; <br>Greenberg had over 20 stab wounds on various parts of her body&period; The 27-year-old who was found with still plunged into her heart&comma; had 10 stab wounds to the neck and back of the head&comma; with an additional 10 to her stomach&comma; abdomen&comma; and chest&period;<br>Her death was initially ruled as a homicide before the Medical Examiner Marlon Osborne changed the ruling to suicide&period;<br>The case has since been handed to the Chester District Attorney&&num;8217&semi;s Office for re-review as evidence suggests the crime scene was staged based on the position her body was found and the angle of dry blood across her face&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;In all my years of experience&comma; and all of the homicides that I&&num;8217&semi;ve done&comma; and suicides&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve never seen anything like this&comma;&&num;8217&semi; forensic pathologist Dr&period; Cyril Wecht told <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;foxnews&period;com&sol;us&sol;philadelphia-suicide-designation-woman-20-stab-wounds-bruises-ignores-homicide-evidence-experts" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Fox News Digital<&sol;a> as he claimed suicide is &&num;8216&semi;highly unlikely&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-Greenberg-with-her-fiance-Samuel-Goldberg-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415847" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"816"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Ellen Greenberg with her fiancé&comma; Samuel Goldberg &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; who found her body and called 911 to report that she&&num;8217&semi;d killed herself<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Ellen&&num;8217&semi;s body had been found by her fiancé&comma; Samuel Goldberg&comma; with whom she lived&comma; and he said the door was locked from the inside&period;<br>Goldberg claims that he urgently knocked down the door&comma; alleges that she &&num;8216&semi;stabbed herself&&num;8217&semi;&period; However&comma; later photogrammetry recreation of each of Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s 20 stab wounds appears to contradict the suicide theory&period;<br>Photogrammetry &&num;8211&semi; a new technology which was unavailable at the time of Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s death &&num;8211&semi; is able to create a 3D anatomical recreation of a corpse<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-Greenberg-murder-photos-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415857" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"549"&sol;><figcaption><strong>A photogrammetry recreating each of Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s 20 stab wounds was commissioned by the Greenberg family lawyer&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A photogrammetry recreating each of Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s 20 stab wounds was commissioned by the Greenberg family lawyer&period;<br> The 3D anatomical recreation of a corpse&comma; showed the size&comma; depth&comma; and length of each stab wound&comma; with the creators concluding that all of them could not have been self-inflicted&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-Greenberg-autopsy-image-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415861" width&equals;"850" height&equals;"552"&sol;><figcaption><strong> Photogrammetry showed the size&comma; depth&comma; and length of each stab wound found on the body of Greenberg&period; The creators concluding that all of them could not have been self-inflicted<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-Greenberg-autopsy-image-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415879" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"538"&sol;><figcaption><strong>One graphic shows Ellen&&num;8217&semi;s spinal cord had actually been severed and her brain pierced in two forceful stabs to the neck&period; She could have neither defended nor harmed herself after those blows according to the private examiner hired by the family <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">At the time&comma; police claimed that the door of Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s apartment was locked from the inside and there were no signs of a struggle&period; <br>Goldberg told investigators he came home in 2011&comma; kicked the door&comma; and found his fiancé dead with a knife clinging to her chest&period; <br>He was heard in a 911 call&comma; telling the dispatcher that Greenberg had stabbed herself&period; &&num;8216&semi;Help&excl;&&num;8230&semi; My fiancé&&num;8217&semi;s on the floor with blood everywhere&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>He later added&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I can&&num;8217&semi;t see anything&&num;8230&semi; there&&num;8217&semi;s nothing broken&&num;8230&semi; Ellie&excl;&&num;8230&semi; I think she hit her head&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Oh my god&excl; She stabbed herself&&num;8230&semi; she fell on a knife&&num;8230&semi; there is a knife sticking out of her heart&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>According to a <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;foxnews&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Fox News<&sol;a> report&comma; the front door showed minimal damage&comma; indicating it was unlikely that it had been forced open&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-Greenberg-with-her-fiance-Samuel-Goldberg-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415862" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"442"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Ellen Greenberg with her fiancé&comma; Samuel Goldberg&period; In his 911 call Goldberg said he found his fiancé on the kitchen floor on Jan 25&comma; 2011&comma; adding that she&&num;8217&semi;d killed herself<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Eight years later&comma; the Greenberg family have not pointed fingers at any individual&comma; but they are bent on finding justice&period; The family urged case the Philadelphia District Attorney&&num;8217&semi;s Office to re-review the case and it was eventually handed off to the Pennsylvania Attorney General&period; However&comma; from 2019&comma; it was slow-walked until that office was kicked off the case in July&comma; 2022&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Unfortunately&comma; after four years of work&comma; new expert testimony and information has been publicly alleged but withheld from our investigators and new accusations of a conflict of interest have been made against our office&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the Attorney General&&num;8217&semi;s Office said at the time&period; <br>Now&comma; the Chester District Attorney is diving into what essentially became an unsolved cold case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-Greenberg-lived-with-her-fiance-Samuel-Goldberg-in-this-Philly-apt&period;-building&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415865" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"462"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Goldberg found Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s body in their shared Philadelphia apt with lots of DNA evidence&comma; but the apt was cleaned by a crime scene crew before investigators were able to walk through<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Despite her death being ruled a suicide&comma; Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s parents are convinced otherwise&period; <br>Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s father&comma; Joshua&comma; &&num;8216&semi;absolutely 100&percnt;&&num;8217&semi; believes that his daughter was murdered&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m not going away&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Joshua previously said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m going to get justice for my daughter&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>In 2020&comma; they said during our own investigation that they had a &&num;8216&semi;mountain of evidence&&num;8217&semi; to support their conviction that Ellen was murdered and they will not rest until that truth is acknowledged&period;<br>Ellen&&num;8217&semi;s mother Sandee said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;This is not something we thought&comma; in a million years&comma; we would ever be doing or would ever happen&period; We thought there was a very bright future&period; We were planning for future generations never expecting her life to end like this&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;It took years for us to piece this together&period; At the beginning I was sitting up at night looking at reports with a centimeter ruler trying to figure out how that really translated into how shallow or deep the incisions were on my child&&num;8217&semi;s body&period; We realized we needed to get experts to help us do this so that&&num;8217&semi;s what we did&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Guy D&&num;8217&semi;Andrea was an Assistant DA in Philadelphia&&num;8217&semi;s homicide unit in 2015&period; A colleague asked him to take a look at the puzzling case of a &&num;8216&semi;suicide&&num;8217&semi; committed by 20 self-inflicted stab wounds&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Right away it piqued my interest&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;d never heard of such a thing&period; So&comma; I get the file&comma; I pull everything out and I hone in on what was the primary reason as to why this was ruled a suicide versus a homicide&period; Now if that&&num;8217&semi;s conclusive I don&&num;8217&semi;t need to go much further&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>However&comma; that was not what he found going through the case file&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-right-with-her-parents-Sandee-and-Joshua-Greenberg-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415875" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"543"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Ellen &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; with her parents Sandee and Joshua Greenberg prior to her death&period; The family has gone to great lengths seeking justice for their daughter<&sol;strong>&period; <strong>They filed a lawsuit in 2021 citing new evidence that Ellen suffered a deep wound to the back of her head after her pulse halted<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s parents&comma; Joshua and Sandee&comma; further suggested their daughter had defense wounds on her body that weren&&num;8217&semi;t initially acknowledged by investigators&period;<br>The bereaved couple have gone to great lengths to obtain justice for their daughter who they maintain was murdered&period; A decade later&comma; Joshua Greenberg is still seeking justice for his daughter&period; Sandee Greenberg believes Ellen&&num;8217&semi;s death was disguised as a suicide when it was not&comma; &&num;8216&semi;We cannot let this go unnoticed&comma;&&num;8217&semi; She said&period;<br>The family has since launched a lawsuit in 2021 citing new evidence that the 27-year-old suffered a deep centimeter wound to the back of her head after her pulse halted&period;<br>Further evidence cited includes how the knife plunged into her chest was being held in her left hand when she was right-handed&period; <br>Additionally&comma; she was stabbed with another undiscovered knife&period; <br>It was also found that Ellen&&num;8217&semi;s spinal cord had been severed and her brain pierced in two forceful stabs to the neck&period; She could have neither defended nor harmed herself after those blows&period; <br>The apartment was then cleaned up by a crime scene crew before investigators were able to walk through&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-with-her-father-Joshua-Greenberg-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415876" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"598"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Determined dad Joshua Greenberg&comma; seen &lbrack;right&rsqb; with Ellen&comma; is still seeking justice for his daughter more than a decade late<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A private investigator has suggested that Medical Examiner Osbourne missed the trauma on Ellen that proved strangulation&period; <br>Despite the weight of the evidence&comma; the victim&&num;8217&semi;s father has never pointed fingers at an individual in the murder of his daughter&period; <br>On the day of her death&comma; Greenberg had filled up her gas tank before arriving home and didn&&num;8217&semi;t leave a suicide note &&num;8211&semi; casting even more doubts on the likelihood that her death was caused by suicide&period; <br>A search of the hard drive of the Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s computer conducted by the FBI in 2011 revealed no suicide-related searches&comma; said the family&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer&comma; Josh Podraza&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-right-with-her-mother-Sandee-Greenberg-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415877" width&equals;"835" height&equals;"716"&sol;><figcaption><strong> &&num;8216&semi;We cannot let this go unnoticed&&num;8217&semi;&colon; Sandee Greenberg believes&comma; Ellen&&num;8217&semi;s death was disguised as a suicide when it was not <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Additionally&comma; photogrammetry was commissioned to recreate each of the 20 stab wounds was commissioned&period;  The technology of photogrammetry&comma; which was unavailable at the time of the alleged murder&comma; is able to create a 3D anatomical recreation of a corpse&period; <br>The photogrammetry conducted on Ellen Greenberg showed the size&comma; depth&comma; and length of each stab wound&comma; with the creators concluding that all of them could not have been self-inflicted&comma; particularly the wounds found on the back of her neck and head&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;Ellen-Greenberg-crime-scene-photo-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-415878"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Ellen Greenberg&&num;8217&semi;s body was found seated on the floor&comma; propped up against kitchen cabinets&comma; yet a streak of coagulated blood ran in a horizontal line from her nose to her ear&period; <strong>A crime scene analyst hired by the family noted that Ellen had been moved<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A crime scene analyst hired by the Greenberg family notes that Ellen had been moved&period; She was found seated on the floor&comma; propped up against kitchen cabinets&comma; yet a streak of coagulated blood ran in a horizontal line from her nose to her ear&period; <br>Another graphic shows Ellen&&num;8217&semi;s spinal cord had actually been severed and her brain pierced in two forceful stabs to the neck&period; The significance was that she could have neither defended nor harmed herself after those blows&period; <br>The private investigator believes that the ME missed the trauma on Ellen that proved strangulation&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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