PA - Ellen Greenberg, 27, Philly teacher’s brutal stabbing, ruled suicide but possible homicide, Jan 2011

[Dejavuicutooo]

Though I don't agree it was a suicide, I have to correct this finding. This lock can absolutely be kicked in, I have had it kicked in before. While it has also been kicked in at countless times in hotels...So, that statement that he(Breenan) says, is incorrect.

 

[nighttimesleuth]

Happy to see some movement in the right direction.

Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office Referring Ellen Greenberg Case Back To Philadelphia DA’s Office – CBS Philly

While the case shifts from the state AG's Office to the Philadelphia DA's Office, Greenberg's parents say they just want justice for their daughter.

philadelphia.cbslocal.com

 

[Snackcakes66]

Hopefully the Chester County investigators can come to a reasonable conclusion
Chester County DA will investigate 2011 death of Manayunk teacher ruled suicide

 

[ilovewings]

Hopefully the Chester County investigators can come to a reasonable conclusion
Chester County DA will investigate 2011 death of Manayunk teacher ruled suicide

Great news----praying for justice at long last

 

[swedeheart]

Death of 27-year-old in a case ruled as a suicide is being re-reviewed

Investigators are reviewing evidence from the crime scene of a 27-year-old teacher from Philadelphia that they said may have been staged to appear as a suicide nearly a decade ago.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Seattle1]

DA Reopens Case of Teacher Stabbed 20 Times in Death Ruled Suicide

The parents of Ellen Greenberg, a beloved Pennsylvania schoolteacher found stabbed 20 times more than a decade ago, say they will not stop until authorities move beyond the suicide ruling. "We’re not gonna let this go," her father said.

www.insideedition.com

8/11/22

The case of a beloved Pennsylvania schoolteacher found dead with 20 stab wounds is being reopened more than a decade after it was initially ruled a suicide.

The family of Ellen Greenberg emphatically denied there being any chance that she could have killed herself. The 27-year-old educator was about to be married when her fiancé told police he came home from the gym to find her lying in their Philadelphia apartment on Jan. 26, 2011

Her fiancé, Sam Goldberg, told the 911 operator he thought she may have slipped and hit her head, and audio recording of the call captured the moment he discovered she had been stabbed.

“Her shirt won't come off, it's a zipper. Oh, my God, she stabbed herself,” he said.

Greenburg was stabbed 20 times, 10 in the back of her neck, once in the scalp, eight times in the chest and in the abdomen.

Her death was at first ruled a homicide but was later changed to suicide. Her parents have spent the last 11 years fighting that ruling.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Woman whose 'suicide' is being reanalyzed called her pal before death

A Philadelphia teacher and bride-to-be whose 'suicide' death cops are now re-investigating called her best friend before she was stabbed 20 times.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Sillybilly]

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[ilovewings]

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/news/da-reopens-case-of-teacher-found-with-20-stab-wounds-whose-death-was-

Hoping this brings some answers: what a sham the case was handled so poorly initially---shall we just say it was "botched"--- I really hate cases like this- I see too many of them. No telling how many so called suicide cases have never been re-investigated-- and will never bring real answers and closure for those families

 

[everlearning]

The Prosecutors' podcast is covering this right now. Such a puzzle. They play the 911 call. That's pretty interesting when compared to what was notated at the crime scene by police.

 

[Warwick7]

Death of 27-year-old in a case ruled as a suicide is being re-reviewed

Investigators are reviewing evidence from the crime scene of a 27-year-old teacher from Philadelphia that they said may have been staged to appear as a suicide nearly a decade ago.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Warwick7]

'It Sounded Rehearsed:' Investigation Reopened into Shocking Death of Bride-to-Be Once Ruled a Suicide

The stabbing death of teacher and bride-to-be Ellen Greenberg was once ruled a suicide, but now is being investigated anew as a homicide.

celebmagazine.com

 

[cocomod]

<modsnip> Or are we thinking someone from outside of the house? Any neighbors hear anything? Any drugs in her system (like something to knock her out)??

 

[ashhouston]

glad it's reopened. always weird shes supposed to be getting married but called her parents asking to move back home dont seem like a person getting happily married jmo

 

[IDK]

So if it was suicide, how on earth did she stab herself in the chest after severing her brain stem?

“Another graphic shows Ellen's spinal cord had actually been severed and her brain pierced in two forceful stabs to the neck. She could have neither defended nor harmed herself after those blows”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8332995/amp/Parents-27-year-old-teacher-stabbed-dead-say-murder-not-suicide.html

 

[Snackcakes66]

Lawsuit filed against Philadelphia in death of Manayunk teacher

 

[Warwick7]

Ellen Greenberg 'suicide': Pennsylvania court hears arguments in family's bid to overrule medical examiner

A Pennsylvania appeals court will decide whether a civil lawsuit in the brutal 2011 death of Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg should move to trial.

www.foxnews.com

 

[IDK]

Ellen Greenberg 'suicide': Pennsylvania court hears arguments in family's bid to overrule medical examiner

A Pennsylvania appeals court will decide whether a civil lawsuit in the brutal 2011 death of Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg should move to trial.

www.foxnews.com

Thanks for the update:

“We are cautiously optimistic that the panel will find the estate of Ellen Greenberg may proceed to trial on her mandamus and declatory actions against the City (of Philadelphia) and Dr. Osbourne so that the manner of her death may be changed from suicide to something else," he said. "Only then can we begin to secure justice for Ellen."

I hope so too.

 

[Seattle1]

Thanks for the update:

“We are cautiously optimistic that the panel will find the estate of Ellen Greenberg may proceed to trial on her mandamus and declatory actions against the City (of Philadelphia) and Dr. Osbourne so that the manner of her death may be changed from suicide to something else," he said. "Only then can we begin to secure justice for Ellen."

I hope so too.

I've followed cases where it's indeed a tall burden to get the ME/Coroner to revise the manner of death from suicide to undetermined or homicide. However, it did not prevent the Zahau family from prevailing in their wrongful death suit against Adam Shacknai while Rebecca Zahau's manner of death remains as suicide.

 

[IDK]

Ellen Greenberg's parents vow to keep up fight for justice 12 years after brutal stabbing ruled suicide | Fox News

Ellen Greenberg's family is still fighting for justice 12 years after she was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment under suspicious circumstances.

www.foxnews.com

“Thursday marks 12 years since the shocking death of the 27-year-old teacher, and her family is still questioning the circumstances and conflicting evidence. She had been stabbed 20 times, with 10 of the wounds to the back of her head and neck, and her family says she was covered in bruises, old and new.”
The first lawsuit is seeking to have her cause of death revised from suicide to homicide or undecided. A separate, more recent civil suit also accuses several officials close to the case of a conspiracy to cover up Greenberg's homicide, according to the family's attorney, Joseph Podraza.”
“Podraza told Fox News Digital Thursday he expects the court to determine whether the first case will go to trial within the next three months.”