More than ten years ago, during a blizzard, Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old Philadelphia teacher, was found stabbed to death in her apartment and covered in bruises. According to the family’s private investigator, there was evidence that the scene had been staged and that her body had been relocated, including the fact that dried blood would have fallen sideways across her face if she had died in the position she was found. But the police determined it to be a suicide.
However, police are now reviewing the investigation to determine whether they may have overlooked some important evidence that would indicate Greenberg was murdered rather than killed herself.
The court filings show that Greenberg’s fiancé, Samuel Goldberg, claimed he returned home on January 26, 2011, bashed in the locked door to their apartment, and discovered her dead with a knife stuck in her chest, leaning “supine” against a kitchen cabinet.
Authorities discovered a knife still lodged in the victim’s torso with a hole cut through her heart when they got on the scene. Greenberg suffered ten knife wounds to her neck, ten to the back of her head, and ten more to the front of her body, in the chest, abdomen, and stomach.
When the Medical Examiner Marlon Osbourne looked at the evidence, the initial ruling that the young teacher’s death was a homicide was altered to suicide. It appears that the crime scene may have been arranged to make it appear that the young instructor killed herself with the knife, prompting authorities to reexamine the case and turn over evidence to the Chester District Attorney’s Office.
Dr. Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist said:
“In all my years of experience, and all of the homicides that I’ve done, and suicides, I’ve never seen anything like this,” according to his professional judgment, given the evidence of the knife attack, it is “extremely unlikely” that Greenberg committed suicide, he continued.
There was no evidence of a struggle during her final moments of life, as authorities learned that Greenberg’s apartment had been locked from the inside, back in 2011.
The deceased’s fiancé, Golberg told authorities that he found his beloved on the floor dead as a doornail, after he came to her home, and kicked in the door.
Golberg informed the authorities that his fiancee had killed herself by stabbing during a 911 call, stating:
“Help!… My fiancé’s on the floor with blood everywhere.” He added, “I can’t see anything… there’s nothing broken… Ellie!… I think she hit her head. Oh my god! She stabbed herself… she fell on a knife… there is a knife sticking out of her heart.”
At the moment, the Attorney General’s Office stated. Currently, the case is being investigated by the Chester district attorney, “Unfortunately, after four years of work, 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.”
“I’m not going away. I’m going to get justice for my daughter,” Joshua Greenberg said, the father of Greenberg believes “absolutely one hundred percent” that his daughter was killed.
Sources: AWM, DailyMail, NyPost