{"id":134479,"date":"2024-12-07T21:32:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134479"},"modified":"2024-12-07T21:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:32:47","slug":"ellen-greenbergs-body-was-found-with-20-knife-wounds-authorities-ruled-it-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134479","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Greenberg&#8217;s body was found with 20 knife wounds. Authorities ruled it suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>A pathologist at the medical examiner\u2019s office noted multiple bruises while performing Ellen Greenberg\u2019s autopsy. Later, after reviewing the photos, an outside pathologist working with the Greenberg family wrote that the bruises \u201cwere consistent with a repeated beating.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> \u2014 Sometime around the holidays, Ellen Greenberg began to change for the worse.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>She was anxious, overwhelmed at work, less eager to appear in photographs. She talked to a cousin about moving into her guest room, but didn\u2019t say why. She asked her father if she could come home to Harrisburg, but didn\u2019t say why. He told her to see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed adjustment disorder with anxiety. Her mother came to visit, tried to find out what was wrong, but she felt as if Ellen was holding something back.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>On the morning of January 26th, 2011, Sandee Greenberg spoke with her daughter for the last time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI love you,\u201d Ellen said on the phone. She was 27.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI love you more more more more,\u201d her mother said, and they both went to work.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>That afternoon Ellen returned to the apartment she shared with her fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>That night he called 911 to say Ellen was on the floor, and blood was everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>This story is about secrets, and alleged cover-ups, and how well we know the people we think we know. It\u2019s based on interviews with two dozen people and thousands of pages of official records, some of which have not been previously disclosed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In hindsight, some memories seemed to take on new importance. A cousin, Debbie Schwab, recalled a moment near the end of Ellen\u2019s life. Schwab had recently visited a dermatologist. She was planning to wear a dress to a party, but she needed to cover a mark on her back. Ellen knew just what to do. She recommended Dermablend, a kind of makeup that can make blemishes invisible.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Maybe this was significant. Maybe it wasn\u2019t. But these days, when Ellen\u2019s cousin thinks about what the autopsy revealed, she sometimes thinks of Dermablend.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>A city medical examiner noted 11 bruises on Ellen\u2019s body. He described them \u201cin various stages of resolution,\u201d implying she\u2019d received them over the course of days or weeks. The photographs showed them clearly and suggested that the pathologist had undercounted.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen had one bruise on her abdomen, three more above her right knee, three more on her right thigh. She had a large, dark bruise on her upper right arm, just below the shoulder. She had three more on her right forearm, including a vivid round one near the wrist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Then there were the knife wounds. The medical examiner counted 20 of those. One went through her chest muscles and pierced her liver. One cut her aorta, the largest artery in the body; she lost more than a quart of blood. One cut the dura mater, the membrane surrounding her spinal column. Another went more than three inches deep, near the base of her skull, causing a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding stroke.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>On January 27, 2011, the day after Ellen died, Dr. Marlon Osbourne wrote that she\u2019d been \u201cstabbed by another person.\u201d He ruled her death a homicide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>But police investigators reached a different conclusion, one that continues to astonish her parents, her friends, and more than 163,000 people who have signed a petition demanding justice for Ellen Greenberg.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The police said Ellen had killed herself. And after a meeting with law enforcement officials, the medical examiner changed her cause of death to suicide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733331742419_image001.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733331742419_image001.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733331742419_image001.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733331742419_image001.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733331742419_image001.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Josh and Sandee Greenberg have filed two lawsuits over their daughter\u2019s death. One is pending before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. (Dan Gleiter\/PennLive)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen\u2019s parents have been married 44 years. They live in Wellington, Florida, in Palm Beach County, where they moved after retirement. Josh was a periodontist; Sandee a dental hygienist. Their daughter had perfect white teeth. Sandee is a small and gentle woman who can be fiery when provoked. Josh is a big man, commanding one moment and vulnerable the next. When I visited them in September, he was sitting on a large couch in a sunlit living room near a golf course. Sandee had recently brought him some grapes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t have to marry me,\u201d Josh said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cNo, he \u2014 I know what his qualities are,\u201d Sandee said. \u201cAnd they work for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cOne of my qualities is, I\u2019m tenacious,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t give up, do I?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very tenacious,\u201d Sandee said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>They were both tenacious after the authorities made their ruling in 2011. Neither parent believed that Ellen killed herself. And so they refused to go quietly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The Greenbergs hired forensic pathologists to analyze the scene photos and the autopsy, and a crime-scene expert to interpret the bloodstains. They worked with a retired state police investigator who gathered documents and tracked down potential witnesses. They filed two lawsuits, one seeking to change the ruling on Ellen\u2019s death certificate and the other alleging a conspiracy by local officials to cover up a murder.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Both lawsuits are still active. The first is pending before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In 2023, a lower court ruled against the Greenbergs, saying they lacked standing to bring the lawsuit, but the judges\u2019 opinion said the official investigation of Ellen\u2019s death was \u201cdeeply flawed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The Greenbergs say they have spent more than $700,000 on their lawsuits and investigations. It has continued for more than a decade. It has drawn in a police department, a medical examiner\u2019s office, the district attorneys of two counties, and the Pennsylvania attorney general\u2019s office. And it has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/election\/josh-shapiro-ellen-greenberg-case-suicide-homicide-review-20240805.html\" title=\"raised questions\" rel=\"noopener\">raised questions<\/a> about how Gov. Josh Shapiro handled the case when he was attorney general.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Josh and Sandee Greenberg want the authorities to find and prosecute the person who killed their daughter. But first they must exonerate Ellen of killing herself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Authorities concluded she died alone in a locked apartment<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ten years after he changed his ruling from homicide to suicide, Dr. Marlon Osbourne explained his decision under oath. In a deposition for the Greenbergs\u2019 lawsuit against him and the Philadelphia Medical Examiner\u2019s office regarding the death certificate, he said information from the death scene overruled what he found while examining Ellen\u2019s body. One of the reasons he changed the ruling was that it seemed she must have been alone when she died.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen lived in a sixth-floor apartment at the Venice Lofts, in the quiet neighborhood of Manayunk, between a canal and the Schuylkill River. It seemed like a safe place to live. She died during a snowstorm. No footprints were found on the balcony. So the killer, if there was one, would almost certainly have had to enter and exit through the door from the hallway. To investigators, it appeared the door had been fastened shut from the inside by a hotel-style swing bar latch.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>As Osbourne said, \u201cshe\u2019s the only one found in the apartment, with nothing disturbed, nothing out of place, no other way of getting in there, it doesn\u2019t lend to the fact that someone else was there to do it. So that was discounted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733347199541_Beier_CNN-40.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733347199541_Beier_CNN-40.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733347199541_Beier_CNN-40.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733347199541_Beier_CNN-40.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733347199541_Beier_CNN-40.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Ellen Greenberg lived between a river and a canal in Manayunk, northwest of downtown Philadelphia, in an apartment building that used to be called Venice Lofts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In Osbourne\u2019s mind, the locked-door theory was bolstered by reports that Ellen\u2019s fianc\u00e9, Sam Goldberg, had been accompanied by a Venice Lofts employee when he forced open the door, breaking the latch. A medical examiner\u2019s investigator wrote that \u201can apartment security man was reportedly present during the entry.\u201d Osbourne testified that he met with Philadelphia police officials who told him the same thing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>It\u2019s not clear where this information originated. Anyway, it appears to be untrue.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I\u2019ve found nothing in the records that explicitly says that Sam ever made this claim himself. The medical examiner investigator\u2019s sourcing for the statement is unclear. At one place in the report he seems to attribute it to police; at another to Sam. But there is no mention of this claim on the 911 call or in either of Sam\u2019s statements released by the police. For his part, the security guard, Phil Hanton, filed a declaration saying he did not accompany Sam upstairs that day. Surveillance video showed Sam getting on the elevator without Hanton just before the 911 call was made.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>If Osbourne\u2019s recollection of the meeting is correct, it means someone from the police department gave him false information that helped persuade him to change his ruling from homicide to suicide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Multiple witnesses saw and heard Sam when he was apparently locked out of his apartment. But to Melissa Ware, the property manager at Venice Lofts in 2011, this did not prove that Ellen locked herself in. Ware knew those doors well, understood how the latches worked. She told me someone could have left one of those apartments and fastened the latch behind themselves. One time, by accident, she\u2019d done it herself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cIf you shut the door hard enough, it swings it,\u201d she said of the swinging latch.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done it. I didn\u2019t do it on purpose. But I\u2019m sure if I needed to, I could replicate the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">An outside pathologist says he found evidence of \u2018strangulation\u2019<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I drove west from Philadelphia, into the horse country of Chester County, to meet a man who has performed more than 13,000 autopsies. The office was in the basement of his house. Green hills were visible through the window. On his assistant\u2019s desk was a large black mug that said,<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSo we have three rules in our office,\u201d said Wayne Ross, a forensic pathologist who works with various county coroners in Pennsylvania and reviewed Ellen\u2019s case as a private consultant for the Greenbergs. \u201cWhich is rule out homicide, number one. Two, rule out homicide. Number three, rule out homicide. Those are the three rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ross was dressed for comfort in his socks, gray pants and a faded blue Salt Life T-shirt. Behind him sat a powerful Nikon microscope. In the course of almost two hours, using slides under his microscope and pictures on his gigantic computer monitor, he made his argument that investigators in the Greenberg case had never ruled out homicide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image\">\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid cp-photo-grid--\">\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid__item\">\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/us\/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec-cnnphotos\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733335788676_Beier_CNN-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wayne Ross has extensively studied the Ellen Greenberg case. He believes her death was a homicide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid__item\">\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/us\/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec-cnnphotos\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733349250031_Beier_CNN-35.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ross works in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, and has performed more than 13,000 autopsies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen did not have the telltale cuts on her hands that some victims suffer when defending themselves from a knife-wielding assailant. And many of the wounds on her chest and neck were shallow, which is a pattern sometimes seen when suicidal people nick themselves at first before going deeper. Dr. Jonathan Arden, a consultant for the defense in the Greenbergs\u2019 second lawsuit, wrote in his case report that the shallow wounds were indications of suicide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>But to Dr. Ross, this did not prove Ellen killed herself \u2014 especially given his other findings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He said that if Ellen had been rendered unconscious before she was stabbed, she wouldn\u2019t have been able to defend herself with her hands. And he had an idea of how she might have been incapacitated.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cBut look at the bruises on her neck,\u201d he said, pointing to a close-up photo from Ellen\u2019s autopsy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another one with the scratch, and the bruises. Look like finger marks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He moved on to a gruesome picture of Ellen\u2019s neck, with the skin cut away and the muscles exposed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cNow, here\u2019s the neck opened up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd this this here? That\u2019s a bruise. See that there? That\u2019s a bruise. That\u2019s a hemorrhage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He pointed to a spot of dark red blood, glistening under the lights, against a salmon-colored strand of muscle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThere it is,\u201d he said. \u201cYou see the hemorrhage?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I asked what would cause something like that.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cHand strangulation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>It quickly became clear to me that Ross was diagnosing things that were not in Dr. Osbourne\u2019s autopsy report. When I pointed this out, he said to his assistant, Dave Skinner, \u201cCan you do me a favor, Dave? Can you look on the autopsy and see if they ever mentioned hemorrhages in the neck?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSure,\u201d Skinner said from across the room. A few minutes later he found it, and quoted the report back to Ross:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cFirm brown muscles of the anterior neck have no hemorrhages or injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ross gave an increduous chuckle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>At Osbourne\u2019s 2021 deposition, when confronted with a similar photograph to the one Dr. Ross showed me, Osbourne appeared to see the same thing: an \u201carea of hemorrhage\u201d in the \u201canterior neck muscles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAll right,\u201d said Joe Podraza, an attorney for the Greenbergs. \u201cIs the hemorrhage, as far as you understand, caused by pressure on Ellen\u2019s neck?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s caused by blunt trauma that results from breaking of vessels in that area,\u201d Osbourne said, seeming to confirm an injury to Ellen that was not mentioned in his report. He did not think it indicated strangulation on its own, he said, because he didn\u2019t see a broken hyoid bone or other signs of hemorrhage in the eyes or face.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733335807876_Beier_CNN-33.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733335807876_Beier_CNN-33.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733335807876_Beier_CNN-33.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733335807876_Beier_CNN-33.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733335807876_Beier_CNN-33.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Ross holds an autopsy photo showing apparent bruising on Ellen\u2019s neck. He wrote that Ellen\u2019s bruises \u201csuggest domestic abuse sufficient to account for her anxiety.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Minutes later, Podraza asked Osbourne if he\u2019d gotten any written reprimands or warnings while working at the Philadelphia Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d said Osbourne, whose own attorney declined to comment for this story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Podraza asked him if he\u2019d ever been criticized for sloppy record-keeping or incomplete autopsy reports.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>No and no, Osbourne said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Podraza asked if Osbourne ever faced any criticism of his work in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cNo, not to my knowledge,\u201d Osbourne said under oath. \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>This was not accurate. Attorneys for the Greenbergs obtained documents showing that a supervisor had reprimanded Osbourne in two 2012 memos that referred to multiple cases from 2009 to 2011, the year Ellen Greenberg died. Dr. Gary Collins cited multiple \u201cerrors and discrepancies\u201d in Osbourne\u2019s reports, \u201csome of which were very severe and could have grave consequences for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He wrote that \u201cserious and dangerous flaws in your work were evidenced in case 12-0316, which has been pending since January 2012. Review of the photographs and circumstances clearly shows that there is evidence of strangulation and that the manner of death is a Homicide. The autopsy photographs clearly show a ligature mark around the neck and petechiae of the eyes. Your report reads: \u2018The conjunctiva has no petechiae.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The Collins memo made one thing clear. If Dr. Marlon Osbourne missed evidence of strangulation in the Ellen Greenberg case, it wouldn\u2019t have been the only time he overlooked such evidence.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Ellen Greenberg met her fianc\u00e9 on a blind date<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>One night in 1942 in a village in Poland, a 6-year-old Jewish girl saw her father shot by a Nazi soldier. She thought he was dead, but it turned out he\u2019d only been shot in the ear, and he\u2019d pretended to be dead so they\u2019d leave him alone. That night the Svidler family slipped away from the ghetto and escaped into the woods. Her father dug a cavern in the bank of a stream where they could hide. He foraged for blueberries and mushrooms, read to them from their Bible. They bided their time, waiting until it was safe to come out.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The Svidlers dodged the Nazis until the Nazis were driven out of Poland by the Soviets. After the war, the family escaped again \u2014 this time on a boat to America. As they sailed past the Statue of Liberty, the little girl said to her mother, \u201cMom, I\u2019m going to be free now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Many years later, Linda Schwab <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Displaced-Holocaust-Memoir-Road-Beginning\/dp\/1620063867\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=17263SSX4X206&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.e2b_xG5fWLP7LTCS3Ix85Q.k0cVOQeTnP7mcnSWVdWzrfXi1Egcyth-ALaqZo0fLL4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=displaced+by+linda+schwab&amp;qid=1731075126&amp;sprefix=displaced+by+linda+schwab%2Caps%2C72&amp;sr=8-1\" title=\"wrote a book\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a book<\/a> about her experiences. She went to high school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, joining the color guard and playing half a dozen sports, including tennis. She got married and had a daughter, Sandra Rose, or Sandee. Her first grandchild was Ellen Greenberg.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425952424_copy-greenberg-collage.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425952424_copy-greenberg-collage.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425952424_copy-greenberg-collage.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425952424_copy-greenberg-collage.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425952424_copy-greenberg-collage.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Ellen loved her mother. \u201cShe promised me when I was old and in the nursing home that she&#8217;d sneak cheese fries in and feed them to me,\u201d Sandee says. In the photo at top left, young Ellen poses with her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.  (CNN Photo Illustration\/Courtesy Greenberg Family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen played tennis, like her mother and grandmother, and when she was in high school her father noticed a pattern. She didn\u2019t smash the ball, but she didn\u2019t miss it either. She just kept returning the shots, returning, returning, biding her time, waiting for her chance. Like a \u201chuman backboard,\u201d her father thought, as his daughter persevered through one long point after another.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>At Penn State, her dear friend and roommate Alycia Young noticed something else about Ellen: she was relentlessly organized. Everything had to be in the right place. She loved Ellen, loved going dancing with her, loved the way she could cheer up almost anyone with that brilliant smile, but sometimes Ellen\u2019s meticulous habits could be overwhelming. \u201cYou\u2019d walk away, be like, \u2018I have to go to the bathroom, I\u2019m cutting up this vegetable,\u2019\u201d her friend recalled. She\u2019d come back to find that Ellen had cleaned it all up.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>After graduating and moving to Philadelphia, Ellen worked as a teacher\u2019s aide for a special-needs child and studied at night for a master\u2019s degree. A mutual friend set her up on a blind date with a young man from a wealthy family in the western suburbs. He worked for NBC Sports, often on the golf production team. His name was Sam Goldberg.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>To Ellen\u2019s father, he seemed like \u201ca nice boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cCharming,\u201d her mother said. \u201cThey seemed to really like each other, and she seemed happy. So that made us happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen\u2019s friends liked Sam well enough. He seemed easygoing and harmless. One friend called him a \u201cteddy bear,\u201d and a co-worker remembered Ellen calling Sam her \u201cknight in shining armor.\u201d Ellen was clearly in love. She kept flying out to see him at golf tournaments. On June 27, 2010, Ellen was on a plane with Sam when she grabbed a paper air-sickness bag and scribbled a note to a younger cousin. She drew hearts across the top.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>I did not have any paper to write you a letter so I thought this would be pretty funny. Sammy and I are on our way back from California now. I am actually sitting in First Class and he is in the back! How funny!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>So we have just started talking about wedding plans, but the chat is kind of going in circles. Sam and I really like the idea of the Hershey Hotel (mmm chocolate), next summer. But we are also thinking that a destination wedding could be lots of fun too. I will keep you posted on what we decide. How is camp? Do you like your bunk? Can you dance yet? Give me the scoop!<\/em> \u2764\ufe0f <em>Ellen<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The first idea prevailed. Their save-the-date card announced that Ellen Rae Greenberg and Samuel Hankin Goldberg would be married at the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on August 13th, 2011.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image\">\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid cp-photo-grid--\">\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid__item\">\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/us\/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec-cnnphotos\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733334930906_Beier_CNN-73.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A handwritten note from Ellen is seen on the back of an air-sickness bag. Friends and relatives remember her as a kind and happy person.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid__item\">\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/us\/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec-cnnphotos\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733516454924_cropped-Beier_CNN-47.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Clouds and trees are reflected in the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Friends say Ellen didn\u2019t seem like herself in the weeks before her death<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In the fall of 2010, as she made plans for her wedding, Ellen worked as a first-grade teacher at Juniata Park Academy in a low-income part of Philadelphia. She loved children, but this was stressful work. Some of the students were failing, and she worried about giving them low grades. A colleague would later tell police that one student had tried to choke himself with a sock.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Meanwhile, Ellen\u2019s friend Alyson Stern thought Ellen\u2019s relationship with Sam was changing \u2014 and was changing her. It wasn\u2019t just that she was trying to impress his mother and sisters: losing weight, buying an expensive handbag. She said Ellen seemed increasingly deferential to Sam. When making plans, Ellen needed to ask Sam what he thought. Stern saw them at a party together and noticed Ellen following him around, \u201clike a puppy.\u201d That was not the confident, independent Ellen she used to know.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd one time she said to me on the phone\u2026I might move into your guest bedroom,\u201d recalled her cousin Debbie Schwab, who lived northwest of the city in Plymouth Meeting. \u201cAnd she slept in my guest bedroom sometimes. And I was like, \u2018Okay. Is Sam moving in too?\u2019 She didn\u2019t say anything, and I don\u2019t know how much I pressed her, but I got nothing out of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"pullquote ivanim-fade container\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think she was hiding stuff that was going on in her relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>\n<p>Erica Hamilton, a longtime friend of Ellen Greenberg<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>When she asked her father about moving home to Harrisburg, Josh Greenberg worried that she would lose her job and be unable to find another one after abandoning her post in the middle of the school year. So he helped her find a psychiatrist, Dr. Ellen Berman, who saw Ellen three times in the last month of Ellen\u2019s life. Some of Berman\u2019s notes would later appear in the court file. Here are some excerpts:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>my whole life hard worker<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>she wants to quit but mom and fianc\u00e9e don\u2019t want her to<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>she can get out of contract with 2 weeks notice<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>when she starts to work on something, she starts thinking about everything else \u2014 not suicidal<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>feels 75% better, agrees she should just get through til June<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>she tends to walk around compulsively neatening up<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Dr. Berman diagnosed Ellen with adjustment disorder with anxiety, a condition that can be connected with suicidal thoughts. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/mental-health\/mental-health-adjustment-disorder\" title=\"Potential causes for the disorder\" rel=\"noopener\">Potential causes for the disorder<\/a> include work stress, \u201cbeing bullied,\u201d and \u201cliving somewhere where you don\u2019t feel safe,\u201d WebMD says. According to the medical examiner\u2019s investigator, Berman later said she had asked Ellen about abuse, and Ellen \u201cdenied any verbal or physical confrontations.\u201d The report also cited Berman as saying Ellen had \u201cnothing but good things to say\u201d about Sam Goldberg.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>A drug Berman prescribed for anxiety, clonazepam, has been linked with suicidal thoughts. But Berman had written that Ellen was \u201cnot suicidal.\u201d Dr. Wayne Ross would later write in one of his case reports that Ellen\u2019s bruises \u201csuggest domestic abuse sufficient to account for her anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Sometime in her final weeks, Ellen spoke with her longtime friend Erica Hamilton, who was working on her master\u2019s degree to become a school counselor. Ellen seemed interested in her friend\u2019s newfound counseling expertise. She also appeared to be worried about what she could share with her new psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cShe was really concerned,\u201d Hamilton said, \u201cabout what her therapist was going to keep confidential.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Hamilton told her friend that the only way the therapist could break confidentiality would be if Ellen shared any suicidal or homicidal thoughts. She wanted to know if Ellen was suicidal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd I basically point-blank asked her. \u2018Are you?\u2019 And she said no.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen blamed it all on work, and said she was worried she could get fired for what she told the therapist. \u201cShe was more concerned about the work stress,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cObviously, looking back now, I can tell that was not what she was stressed about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI think she was hiding stuff that was going on in her relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733515207961_Beier_CNN-68.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733515207961_Beier_CNN-68.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733515207961_Beier_CNN-68.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733515207961_Beier_CNN-68.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733515207961_Beier_CNN-68.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Debbie Schwab looks at pictures of Sam and Ellen at her home in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>On Saturday, January 22, Ellen met up with a friend who was also planning a wedding. Ellen was going to be one of her bridesmaids, and they needed to pick out dresses.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cShe was visibly disheveled,\u201d Alyson Stern remembered. Ellen\u2019s hair wasn\u2019t perfectly done the way it usually was. In the dressing room, tears came to Ellen\u2019s eyes. Her friend asked what was wrong.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd she said, \u2018Nothing, nothing, I\u2019m fine. It\u2019s your day.\u2019 She said, \u2018I\u2019m gonna get it together.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen died four days later. As the horrible details slowly emerged, her friend Alycia Young tried to make sense of it. Young went back and forth in her mind about what could have happened. She found it implausible that Ellen killed herself. She couldn\u2019t imagine Sam doing it, either.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>But something bothered her about one of the pictures from the scene. A picture of the kitchen counter in what was usually a pristine apartment. One item was conspicuously out of place.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d Young kept asking herself. \u201cWhy is the knife block knocked over?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">One expert says the crime scene seemed staged<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Rule out homicide, rule out homicide. Dr. Wayne Ross kept saying no one had done that in the case of Ellen Greenberg. On his giant computer screen, he showed me pictures of the death scene. There was Ellen on the kitchen floor, holding a white towel in her left hand. Despite the blood from the stab wounds, the towel appeared to be mostly unstained.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThis looks staged to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Another picture. There was Ellen\u2019s face, with a line of dried blood along her cheek, from the nose to the ear. Ross said that didn\u2019t make sense, because the medics and police found her with her head propped up against a kitchen cabinet. It seemed inconsistent with gravity. The blood wouldn\u2019t have flowed that way long enough to dry.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSo you\u2019ve got to look at the different flow patterns and say, \u2018Well, she\u2019s obviously been moved,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Another picture. Strands of Ellen\u2019s dark hair on the floor.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSee the hair?\u201d Ross said. \u201cSo a lot of times, when you\u2019re being strangled, or somebody\u2019s stabbing you, the person will grab the hair.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ross worked with a company called BioMX Consulting to reconstruct and analyze Ellen\u2019s injuries. The company made 3D models of the knife wounds. And although a police forensic analysis found only Ellen\u2019s DNA on the knife and on her nail clippings, the models showed how hard it would have been for Ellen to inflict all the knife wounds on herself. Reading through the autopsy report, I noticed that some of the wounds on the back of her neck were left of the midline, angled from left to right. Ross had noticed the same thing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image\">\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid cp-photo-grid--\">\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid__item\">\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/us\/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec-cnnphotos\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733336245995_Beier_CNN-7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ross examined a tissue sample from a different case through a microscope at his home office.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid__item\">\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/us\/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec-cnnphotos\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733336254781_Beier_CNN-10.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A knife was found in Ellen\u2019s chest. Ross concluded that a previous stab wound would have caused severe pain, neurogenic shock and possible unconsciousness.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cNow remember,\u201d he said, \u201cshe\u2019s not using her left hand. There\u2019d be blood on it\u2026There\u2019s no blood on that left hand. So how do you even do that? How do you get your arm back there?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cNow, what we did was, we, we got an exemplar police officer, of a similar build, height, arm length. And we had her try to reconstruct. Give her \u2014 we gave her the knife \u2014 and see if she could actually contort herself in these positions. And she couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Sam Goldberg breaks his silence<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Of the nine people I interviewed who knew Ellen well, none said they believed the suicide story. But late in November, I heard back from someone with a different opinion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I had tried for months to get an interview with Sam Goldberg. On the day before Thanksgiving, I sent him a long list of questions. Late that night, he replied to my email. It appears to be his first public statement about Ellen\u2019s death:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>When Ellen took her own life it left me bewildered. She was a wonderful and a kind person who had everything to live for. When she died a part of me died with her. Unimaginably, in the years that have passed I have had to endure the unimaginable passing of my future wife and the pathetic and despicable attempts to desecrate my reputation and her privacy by creating a narrative that embraces lies, distortions and falsehoods in order to avoid the truth. Mental illness is very real and has many victims.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>I hope and pray that you never lose someone you love like I did to a terrible disease and then be accused by ignorant and misinformed people of causing her death.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>If you\u2019re really writing a truthful story, dig deeper, and please do some good by raising awareness for mental health.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>If Ellen did kill herself, Sam was indeed a victim twice. First when he walked into their apartment and saw the woman he loved on the floor with a knife in her chest. Then, in the subsequent years, as whispers turned to rumors, as lawsuits against the authorities proceeded through the courts, as the case became more notorious and the comments proliferated, he became a victim again.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Given all this, it seemed worthwhile to examine his life and see what patterns might emerge. This was easier said than done. Sam never agreed to an interview, and he left most of my questions unanswered. But I kept trying things, and eventually got a list of his classmates from his time at The Shipley School, a private K-12 prep school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. One classmate sent me some pages from the yearbook.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>On his senior photo page, he cut a classic late-90s figure with his slightly unbuttoned gingham shirt and cryptic references to the Dave Matthews Band. His nicknames included Sammy G., Samuel L. Goldberg, and G-Berg. His favorite sayings included <em>chill<\/em>, <em>Chill B<\/em>, and <em>chillin\u2019 like Bob Dylan<\/em>. He did not like complainers, bad advice or being told not to eat in the lounge. His suppressed desire was to \u201cbuy Australia with my wife Ana Kournikova.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image vertical ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                            <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                                <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425140235_ellen-sam.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425140235_ellen-sam.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425140235_ellen-sam.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425140235_ellen-sam.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733425140235_ellen-sam.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Their save-the-date cards were sent out shortly before Ellen died. The couple was to be married in August 2011. (Courtesy Greenberg Family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The yearbook had a picture of him with his parents, Richard and Mindy, and his two sisters. His mom and dad wrote him a note:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>It has always been a gift to have you as our son. Your ability to easily communicate with all those around you is such an admirable trait. Your infectious warmth and positive outlook on life is a wonderful attribute to carry with you into the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>You bring us such smiles and happiness, and we are so very proud of you \u2014 your spirit and your soul.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>Remember, you will always stay \u201cforever young.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I reached out to at least 15 of his Shipley classmates. Not one would speak to me on the record. Three spoke on background, not to be quoted by name. None of them seemed to know him very well.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>One said Sam was nice to everyone, and added, \u201cThere\u2019s no way on earth I could possibly see him hurting someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Another said, \u201cI don\u2019t remember a ton. But I do know that he was very well-liked. He was always very kind. I have no negative recollections of him whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>A third classmate said, \u201cHe was definitely a cool rich kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI did not know him to be a paragon of moral values. This wasn\u2019t the Eagle Scout or the altar boy or the valedictorian.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Shortly before Ellen\u2019s body was found, Sam sent her a flurry of texts<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>After high school, Sam spent some time at the University of Arizona in Tucson. I didn\u2019t learn much about his Arizona years, but his name did come up in a couple of police reports. It was minor stuff. In one case, the police said he was underage drinking and using a fake ID. In another, he and a couple of roommates had apparently been the victims of a burglary. One of his listed roommates was Yosi Samra, who I tracked down and called up. He has done well for himself since college. He now has his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yosisamra.com\/\" title=\"own brand of footwear\" rel=\"noopener\">own brand of footwear<\/a>. It\u2019s called Yosi Samra.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cHe was a normal guy,\u201d Samra said when I asked about Sam Goldberg.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cWe played a lot of basketball together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI have nothing \u2014 nothing bad to say about the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He said they were in a fraternity together, Zeta Beta Tau, and later Sam\u2019s name came up in a group chat between Samra and some other fraternity brothers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI was in complete shock when I heard the news,\u201d Samra said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI mean, people joke about, \u2018Do you think he did it? Do you think he did it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t that type of person. He was like actually a sweet guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible that it could have been a suicide, but I\u2019ve also never seen that side of Sam.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"pullquote ivanim-fade container\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI hope and pray that you never lose someone you love like I did to a terrible disease and then be accused by ignorant and misinformed people of causing her death\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>\n<p>Sam Goldberg, in an email to CNN<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I asked what other friends I should talk to. He said, \u201cI mean, Adam Pally is probably the closest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>That name was familiar. Adam Pally was listed in the police report about the burglary as another of Sam\u2019s roommates. He also did well after college. Pally is a comedian and actor who has appeared on such TV shows as \u201cHappy Endings\u201d and \u201cThe Mindy Project\u201d and in such films as \u201cIron Man 3\u201d and \u201cSonic the Hedgehog.\u201d I reached out to Pally, both directly and through a publicist, and did not hear back. But in late 2020, in the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, Adam Pally and Sam Goldberg started a podcast together. It was about NBA basketball. They called it \u201cBall Sometimes Lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In the first episode, Pally said Sam Goldberg had been his best friend for almost 20 years. When Sam mentioned the Portland Trail Blazers, Pally said, \u201cSammy, as long as we have known each other, roommates in \u2014 at the University of Arizona, playing NBA 2K, drug-fueled for decades, you have always loved the Blazers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In the second episode, Sam told a story about his young daughter smuggling marshmallows into bed. (Sam got <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/12\/fashion\/weddings\/caroline-shnay-samuel-goldberg.html\" title=\"married\" rel=\"noopener\">married<\/a> in 2014; he\u2019s now living in New York.)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cOh yeah, I sneak food all the time,\u201d Pally said. \u201cI sneak liquor, I sneak food, I sneak \u2014 my whole life is sneaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cYeah, me too,\u201d Sam said, adding that \u201cright now, there\u2019s an unopened peanut butter ice cream that I just, I bought, and I hid under a bunch of frozen vegetables, and no one knows about it, and I can\u2019t eat it now, \u2018cause I\u2019m not having sugar, but I will.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>That episode\u2019s sponsor was a man selling high-tech humidors for protecting marijuana and keeping it fresh.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI need that,\u201d Sam said, \u201cbecause it takes me a long time to go through. Like I love having a ton of weed on me, but &#8230; it takes me a while to get through it.\u201d (The police recovered suspected marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia from Sam\u2019s closet after Ellen died.)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Throughout these episodes, Sam Goldberg came across the same way he came across to people who knew him in high school, and college, and after that, when he met and fell in love with Ellen Greenberg. He was easygoing and likable.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Even so, I kept thinking about something I read in the medical examiner investigator\u2019s report. The investigator had found Ellen\u2019s cellphone in the master bathroom and reviewed her call and message log. The investigator listed her \u201clast incoming texts and an email\u201d from Sam Goldberg.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733350856602_Beier_CNN-42.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733350856602_Beier_CNN-42.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733350856602_Beier_CNN-42.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733350856602_Beier_CNN-42.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733350856602_Beier_CNN-42.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Ellen and Sam\u2019s old apartment building is reflected in the Manayunk canal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>These nine messages came in between 5:32 and 5:54 p.m. on the day Ellen died, when Sam was apparently locked out of their apartment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>you better have an excuse<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Philadelphia police apparently didn\u2019t ask about Ellen\u2019s bruises<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I have found no explanation for Ellen\u2019s bruises anywhere in the official record. Nor have I found any indication that the police ever tried to determine their origin. The Philadelphia Police Department did not respond to my interview request.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>When Philadelphia Police Sgt. Timothy Cooney was asked about the bruises in a deposition for the Greenbergs\u2019 civil suit, he said, \u201cI cannot say what caused those injuries.\u201d And when asked whether anyone else could explain the bruises, he said, \u201cThat would be a medical question, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Osbourne, the medical examiner, was at least somewhat curious about them. In his deposition, he said, \u201cI believe I had asked the investigator to find out, through talking to the family, about anything \u2014 if they knew anything about the bruising. Again, I don\u2019t think our efforts to speak to the boyfriend were met successfully. And that would have been a question I would have had the investigator ask him. But I don\u2019t know that any answer was ever garnered from the boyfriend at that time regarding the bruising.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>On February 6, 2011, Sam Goldberg visited Philadelphia police headquarters to answer questions from homicide Det. Willie Sierra. With Sam was Brian McMonagle, who sometimes represents police officers and is known as one of the nation\u2019s best criminal-defense attorneys.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>By this time, Ellen\u2019s autopsy was complete. Her many bruises had been photographed, with 11 of them noted in the report. But in the five-page transcript of Detective Sierra\u2019s interview, there is no mention of Ellen\u2019s bruises.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>It appears Osbourne was right: No answer was ever garnered from Sam Goldberg about Ellen\u2019s bruises.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>That\u2019s because the police apparently never asked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Sam\u2019s relatives say they were on the phone with him as he broke into his apartment<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>On Ellen Greenberg\u2019s last day as a teacher, school closed early for a snowstorm. She walked outside and saw Bruce Stern, a friend and colleague whose son was engaged to one of Ellen\u2019s friends. As Stern helped Ellen clean the snow off her car, they stood in the cold and talked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Ellen was worried. Report cards were coming out soon, and one student\u2019s mother frightened Ellen. If the kid failed, she thought the mother \u201cmight come after her,\u201d Stern said. But Stern was in a good position to reassure her. As the union shop steward at Juniata Park, he knew the school administrators well. They liked and respected Ellen, he said, and he knew her job was not in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Just calm down, Ellen. Calm down. Probably won\u2019t have school tomorrow. Just relax. You\u2019re in good shape\u2026Your bosses know what\u2019s going on, and they have your back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>At the apartment in the early afternoon, Sam also found Ellen worried about work. \u201cShe was very stressed out about school, particular(ly) the grades that were due January 27th, the next day,\u201d he later told police. \u201cShe was trying to do the work but it didn\u2019t seem like she could concentrate on the task at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733269910651_Beier_CNN-48.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733269910651_Beier_CNN-48.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733269910651_Beier_CNN-48.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733269910651_Beier_CNN-48.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733269910651_Beier_CNN-48.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Manayunk is one of the safest neighborhoods in Philadelphia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Sam had noticed a change in Ellen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cIn January when she started getting depressed, she asked me if I would still love her if she was crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously I would try to console her, of course I would. It was pretty much unconditional love at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Around 3:40 p.m., Ellen was texting with her friend Alycia Young. Once again, she mentioned that the grades were due, and she couldn\u2019t seem to get them done. Those were the last outgoing text messages recorded on her phone.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Sam\u2019s phone also went quiet around then, according to records released by the DA\u2019s office to an attorney for the Greenbergs in 2012. Sam\u2019s phone records showed frequent and regular call activity the previous day, other than a gap between about 4 and 7 p.m. The routine of call-making and call-taking continued that morning, and that afternoon. But from around 3:40 to 5:30 p.m. on the day Ellen died, the records showed no incoming or outgoing calls.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>At 4:50 p.m., according to a timeline later released by the authorities, Sam was seen on surveillance video getting off the elevator and walking toward the fitness center. He told police he used the elliptical machine for about half an hour and did a few sit-ups.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>At 5:26, he was seen walking toward the concierge desk, apparently checking his mail. He stepped onto the elevator, reading something in his hand. It was just after that, he said, when he got back upstairs and realized that he\u2019d been locked out of his own apartment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>When the detective asked why he didn\u2019t force open the door right away, he said, \u201cI thought she was in the shower, doing her hair, or doing work with her headphones on, or even taking a nap.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Between 5:32 and 5:54, Sam\u2019s escalating text messages accumulated on Ellen\u2019s phone. He called Ellen\u2019s mother, Sandee. Neighbors saw and heard him in the hallway, banging on the door. He went down to the concierge desk to ask for a special tool to undo the latch, but was told no such tool was available.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In the hour before he got into the apartment, Sam spoke with his cousin Kamian Schwartzman and his uncle James Schwartzman.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Both men are attorneys. Years later, through their own attorney, Geoffrey Johnson, they provided an account of the interaction:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cIndeed, Sam Goldberg did call Kamian Schwartzman to let him know he was locked out of his apartment and that Ellen was not responding to repeated telephone calls and texts from Sam to let him in. Kamian, who was living at his parents\u2019 home at the time, put the call on speaker so that James Schwartzman could listen in as Sam was sitting on the floor in the hallway outside his apartment where several tenants saw him. After some period of time, James and Kamian suggested that Sam go downstairs and ask the security guard to let him in the apartment. In a subsequent call between the Schwartzmans and Sam Goldberg, after being told that Sam went to the security guard and asked for assistance but the security guard either would not or could not help, Sam went back up to the apartment and Kamian and James instructed Sam to force his way in. In fact, Sam was still on the phone when he broke the door and forced his way into the apartment and James and Kamian heard Sam scream hysterically on the phone. At that time, James and Kamian Schwartzman instructed Sam Goldberg to call 911, which he did immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In an email to me this October, Johnson added that \u201cSam was on the telephone with his cousin and uncle, Kamian and James Schwartzman (who were together at James Schwartzman\u2019s home) before, during and after Sam broke down the door. Sam\u2019s entry into the apartment was witnessed \u2013 albeit telephonically \u2013 by the Schwartzman(s).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image vertical ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                            <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                                <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733520990908_door-latch.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733520990908_door-latch.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733520990908_door-latch.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733520990908_door-latch.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733520990908_door-latch.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">A picture of the apartment door later became part of the court file in the Greenbergs\u2019 second lawsuit. (Philadelphia Medical Examiner\u2019s Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Here\u2019s what strikes me about this account: It\u2019s the second time someone has tried to provide a witness for the moment Sam broke into the apartment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>And it\u2019s the second such claim that was later contradicted by other available facts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The Schwartzman account, written by an attorney on behalf of two other attorneys, is not consistent with the records I\u2019ve reviewed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Sam told the police he forced open the door at 6:29 p.m. But the phone records and surveillance video indicate that he was not on the phone with the Schwartzmans, or anyone else, at that time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I called Johnson, the Schwartzmans\u2019 attorney, to go over the timeline. Even after checking back with his clients, he could not account for this discrepancy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThey stick by the story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAll I can tell you is, my clients are steadfast as to the sequence of events from their end of the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>At 6:26 p.m., according to his phone records, Sam got a call from James Schwartzman\u2019s landline. The call lasted a minute and 12 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>At about 6:27, Sam was seen on video near the elevator, talking on a cellphone.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>By 6:29, around the time Sam was getting on the elevator, the Schwartzman call had already been over for about two minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>At 6:30, Sam Goldberg called 911.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">\u2018There\u2019s a knife sticking out of her heart\u2019<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cHelp,\u201d he said, \u201cI need I need\u2026I just, I just walked into my apartment, my fianc\u00e9e\u2019s on the floor with blood everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The operator asked for the address, which Sam provided.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cWhere is she bleeding from?\u201d the operator asked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSee, I don&#8217;t know,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t tell. She\u2019s\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSir, sir,\u201d the operator said, \u201cyou have to calm yourself down in order to get you some help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sorry. She. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m looking at her right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The call was transferred to another operator, who asked Sam what was wrong.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cMy, my, I just, my \u2014 I went downstairs to go work out,\u201d he said. \u201cI came back up. The door was latched. My fianc\u00e9e\u2019s inside. She wasn\u2019t, she wasn\u2019t answering. So after about a half hour, I decided to break it down. I see her now, just on the floor, with blood, like, she\u2019s not, she\u2019s not responding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The operator asked him if she was breathing. He said he didn\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cLook at her chest,\u201d the operator said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The operator repeated the phrase \u201clook at her chest\u201d four times in about 10 seconds. This was more than a minute after Sam said, \u201cI\u2019m looking at her right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>As I listened to this recording with Josh and Sandee Greenberg almost 14 years later, in the living room of their house in Florida, what they found strange about this moment was the thing Sam had not yet said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI think he \u2014 he should have seen the knife by now,\u201d Josh said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThat should have been the first thing he saw,\u201d Sandee said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sticking out of her chest,\u201d Josh said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The 911 call continued. More than two minutes in, Sam had still said nothing about the knife. The operator asked if Sam was willing to try CPR.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI gu \u2014 I have to, right?\u201d Sam said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The operator told him to kneel by Ellen\u2019s side, lay her flat on her back, and rip her shirt off.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cHer shirt won\u2019t come off,\u201d Sam said. \u201cIt\u2019s a zipper. Oh my God. She stabbed herself!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d the operator said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cShe fell on a knife,\u201d Sam said. \u201cOh no. Her knife\u2019s stickin\u2019 out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cHer what?\u201d the operator said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a knife sticking out of her heart,\u201d Sam said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">A former prosecutor questions the official account of Ellen\u2019s death<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I was listening to the call again, in a tower near Philadelphia City Hall, in the law office of former prosecutor Guy D\u2019Andrea. With each passing second, he seemed to get more incredulous.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>Where is she bleeding from?<\/em> the operator asked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>See, I don&#8217;t know,<\/em> Sam said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean, you don\u2019t know?\u201d said D\u2019Andrea, who reviewed Ellen\u2019s case at the request of a colleague who knew the Greenbergs during his time at the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cYou see, you walk in and your fianc\u00e9e\u2019s in a seated position up against the cabinetry. Bleeding. With blood everywhere. How do you not run up and be like, like, \u2018Ellen!\u2019 Like, check the head. Check the face, check the, what\u2019s going on? Right. How do you not do that? So that when you call 911, how do you have zero idea of where she\u2019s bleeding from?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image vertical ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                            <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                                <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348764142_Beier_CNN-92.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348764142_Beier_CNN-92.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348764142_Beier_CNN-92.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348764142_Beier_CNN-92.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348764142_Beier_CNN-92.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Guy D\u2019Andrea worked as a prosecutor for the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office for about eight years. He won a murder conviction in the so-called \u2018Craigslist Killer\u2019 trial in 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>I can\u2019t see anything,<\/em> Sam said on the recording.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cHow about the chef\u2019s knife sticking out of her chest?\u201d D\u2019Andrea said. (The medical examiner\u2019s investigator said it was a steak knife with a five-inch blade.) \u201cHow are you this close to someone with a knife sticking out of their chest and you don&#8217;t see it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cYou would think that he would have already checked her out, right? Isn\u2019t that what you do when you find someone non-responsive? Like, I would do that if it was a stranger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>Are you willing to do CPR with me over the phone?<\/em> the operator asked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>I gu \u2014 I have to, right?<\/em> Sam said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI have to, right?\u201d D\u2019Andrea said. \u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>Oh my God<\/em>, Sam said. <em>She stabbed herself!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p><em>She fell on a knife<\/em>, Sam said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>As a civil litigator, D\u2019Andrea represents survivors of sexual violence. He said he understands that traumatic situations can elicit strange and unexpected responses. Still, he struggled to understand this 911 call. He imagined taking a poll of 100 people, asking them what they would think if they saw a knife sticking out of someone\u2019s chest. How they might guess it happened.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to go on a limb and say 100 out of 100 people wouldn\u2019t have in their top ten ways that could have occurred, someone would have FALLEN on that knife.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>D\u2019Andrea wondered why Sam never seemed afraid on the 911 call \u2014 why it never seemed to occur to him that someone had killed his fianc\u00e9e, and that the intruder might still be in the apartment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cEven if it\u2019s not your first thought, it has to cross your mind. Has to. HAS TO. That someone did this to her. Right? Did you do a sweep of the apartment? Did you make sure you were safe?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I sent Sam Goldberg several questions about the 911 call. He did not answer them.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Josh Shapiro\u2019s office reviewed Ellen\u2019s case when he was attorney general<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>D\u2019Andrea found the case file in a storage closet at the DA\u2019s office around 2015. And the deeper he dug, the stranger it all seemed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He looked at the autopsy photographs, noticed the bruises, and guessed they were inflicted \u201cabusively by another person,\u201d as he would later say in his deposition.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Examining the pattern of knife wounds, he was perplexed by the huge laceration on the back of Ellen\u2019s head: not a stab wound but a deep cut, as if someone had <em>hit<\/em> her on the back of the head with the sharp edge of a knife.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Scanning the timeline, he realized something astounding: Police on the scene had not summoned the department\u2019s Crime Scene Unit, which meant the apartment was not processed for evidence that night.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd in that regard,\u201d D\u2019Andrea said in a deposition for the Greenbergs\u2019 second lawsuit, \u201cthe blood in the other areas of the apartment should have been tested, there should have been testing on the floor and cabinetry, luminol, other testing could have been performed. Why is that important? Well, if they found any cleaning solution or any blood that would have cleaned up \u2014 and the room would have lit up if that happened with the testing materials they have \u2014 then they would know definitively that someone had at least attempted to clean up the apartment, which obviously Ellen would not have been able to do in the state that she was in, meaning dead. So if that\u2019s the case, then this is a definitive homicide, right? And so none of that testing was done. Why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"pullquote ivanim-fade container\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a bizarre way to kill yourself if your searches are for painless suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>\n<p>Guy D\u2019Andrea, former prosecutor<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>By the time Osbourne ruled Ellen\u2019s death a homicide and the Crime Scene Unit made its delayed arrival on the 28th, the police had already given permission to have the apartment professionally cleaned. Evidence they might have gathered was lost forever. A relative of Sam Goldberg had already visited the apartment and collected certain items, including Ellen\u2019s iPhone and computers \u2014 her personal laptop and another one from work. They would later be handed over to the police by the attorney James Schwartzman, the same uncle who said he was on the phone with Sam when Sam forced his way into the apartment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>What was on those computers \u2014 and how it got there \u2014 is still in dispute.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThere is no note found or anything indicative of suicide on the computers or in the rest of the apartment,\u201d the medical examiner\u2019s investigator wrote in his report.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Later, the police sent three computers \u2014 two from Ellen and one from Sam \u2014 to the Philadelphia Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL) for a forensic examination. A police document later summarized the findings: \u201cKeyword Searches were done on every computer searching for Suicide Information and the examination did not reveal anything remarkable.\u201d The same unremarkable results were found on her iPhone.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Thus, D\u2019Andrea was perplexed to get a phone call years later from the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s office when it was reviewing the Greenberg case. He says an attorney there asked him what he thought about the \u201csuicide searches\u201d \u2014 that is, alleged searches for topics related to \u201cpainless suicide\u201d on Ellen\u2019s computer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThey were like, look, not only all the evidence that we have, you know, leading up to this, there was all these searches by painless suicide \u2014 about painless suicide searched by Ellen,\u201d he said in his deposition. \u201cI said, \u2018One, how do you know it was searched by Ellen; two, it\u2019s a bizarre way to kill yourself if your searches are for painless suicide.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348383858_Beier_CNN-54.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348383858_Beier_CNN-54.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348383858_Beier_CNN-54.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348383858_Beier_CNN-54.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733348383858_Beier_CNN-54.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Police officers did not call in the Crime Scene Unit on the night of Ellen\u2019s death.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>When I inquired about this with the AG\u2019s office, a spokesperson mentioned \u201cevidence\u201d that \u201cincluded searches on Ellen\u2019s computer regarding \u2018suicide\u2019 and \u2018suicide methods,\u2019 made near the time of her death. Additionally, there were phone text conversations between Ellen and her mother, in the days preceding Ellen\u2019s death, indicating that Ellen was struggling with her mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The spokesperson said this information had come from the RCFL, where the police sent Ellen\u2019s laptops and iPhone. Given that the police said nothing remarkable was found in that review, I don\u2019t know how to reconcile the conflicting accounts. I asked communications director Jennifer Crandall to provide the underlying evidence, but she declined.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Josh Shapiro, now Pennsylvania\u2019s governor, was attorney general when the agency reviewed the Greenberg case and affirmed the ruling of suicide. I requested an interview with him, but did not get one. After I sent a list of questions, a spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Guy D\u2019Andrea, the former prosecutor, remains skeptical of the claims from the attorney general\u2019s office. In one of our interviews, I asked him to do a thought experiment. If Ellen really had searched for suicide-related material before she died, would that convince him that she\u2019d killed herself?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He said no. Not in light of the physical evidence.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>For one thing, it looked to him as if Ellen had been stabbed when she was already dead.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">Was Ellen stabbed after she was dead?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>As D\u2019Andrea continued his review of the Greenberg file at the DA\u2019s office, he zeroed in on a line from the autopsy report. In a description of the wound that pierced the membrane next to Ellen\u2019s spinal cord, Dr. Osbourne wrote that an eminent neuropathologist had looked at the specimen \u201cand concluded there is no defect of the spinal cord.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>This was important, according to multiple officials who have reviewed the case. If there was an injury to Ellen\u2019s spinal cord, it would have made suicide unlikely or impossible, because she couldn\u2019t have kept stabbing herself long enough to put the knife in her chest, where it was ultimately found. But Osbourne wrote that Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams had found no injury to the spinal cord, meaning it <em>was<\/em> theoretically possible for Ellen to stab herself again after that.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>D&#8217;Andrea wanted to know more.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSo I said, \u2018Okay, well, he\u2019s noting it, but where\u2019s HER report?\u2019 Right?\u201d I mean, that\u2019s what you would expect to see. So I call Doctor Rorke. She has no recollection at all of doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd so I said, show me anything. Show me the logs. Show me her report, show me her actual report. Show me the payment that would have been submitted to her for doing the autopsy. \u2018Well, we don\u2019t have any of those things.\u2019 \u2026 I\u2019m like, like, if none of those things exist, then to me, it\u2019s evidence that it wasn\u2019t done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image\">\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid cp-photo-grid--\">\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid__item\">\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/us\/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec-cnnphotos\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733349858178_Beier_CNN-5.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A tissue sample from a recent case is illuminated under Dr. Wayne Ross\u2019s microscope.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-photo-grid__item\">\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/us\/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec-cnnphotos\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733349858598_Beier_CNN-87.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Guy D\u2019Andrea is now an attorney in private practice, often working with survivors of sexual violence.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Before he left DA\u2019s office in 2017 to go into private practice, D\u2019Andrea says, he told his superiors that Ellen\u2019s death looked like a homicide. And he thought there might still be a way to prove it. As it turned out, the medical examiner\u2019s office had preserved the portion of Ellen\u2019s spinal column that had the wound in question. It was not too late to have a neuropathologist take a look.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In the summer of 2019, neuropathologist Dr. Lyndsey Emery examined Ellen\u2019s spinal column for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. About two years later, in a deposition for the Greenbergs\u2019 first lawsuit, she said she had no opinion about Ellen\u2019s manner of death. She also said she had found no hemorrhage in the wound in the spinal column.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThere is no tissue injury, which I know, then, by looking at it under the microscope. So I have all of this evidence that says there is no \u2014 there\u2019s no hemorrhage or reaction to any of these changes in the spinal cord.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSo what you\u2019re saying is, Ellen would have been dead when this (wound) was administered?\u201d attorney Joe Podraza asked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Later in the deposition, Podraza put a finer point on it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAll right,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if the 1.1-centimeter wound was administered after Ellen was dead, can we agree that she couldn\u2019t have administered that wound, correct?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThat is true,\u201d Emery said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Years later, looking back on this deposition, Podraza\u2019s co-counsel, Will Trask, told me, \u201cI almost fell out of my chair.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd I mean, that was, that was game, set, match.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Podraza remembered it clearly, too. He was sitting in a conference room with Trask and Tom Brennan, a private investigator working with the Greenbergs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd we must have sat in that room looking at each other literally for like five minutes before any of us spoke. Because it was like, \u2018Did I just hear her say there\u2019s a stab wound after Ellen was dead?\u2019 And everybody was like, \u2018Yeah, she just said that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>But their elation did not last. Emery heard from a city attorney after the deposition, and then filed a declaration saying the lack of vital response to the wound did not necessarily mean Ellen was already dead. There could have been other explanations for it. She said once again that she had no opinion about the manner of death.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>What had seemed so clear to the Greenbergs\u2019 attorneys was now unclear again. Officially, Ellen Greenberg\u2019s death remained a suicide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">\u2018I stand by the investigation,\u2019 a police lieutenant says<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I drove east toward the Jersey Shore one afternoon, looking for a police lieutenant who\u2019d been at the scene of Ellen\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I\u2019d been investigating Ellen\u2019s death for more than two months, long enough to know what mattered and what didn\u2019t. Even though several agencies appeared to have failed in one way or another, my questions kept leading back to the police.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The Pennsylvania Supreme Court would soon consider arguments in one of the Greenbergs\u2019 lawsuits. A local judge was considering arguments in another one. The district attorney in Philadelphia had handed the case off to the attorney general, and eventually it ended up with the district attorney in Chester County, which was reviewing the case and would soon announce that it was \u201cinactive\u201d for now because, \u201cbased on the current state of the evidence, we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was committed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>But the most consequential decisions were made at Ellen\u2019s apartment, the night she died. The main decision \u2014 to treat Ellen\u2019s death as an open-and-shut suicide, and therefore not to call in the Crime Scene Unit or aggressively question any potential suspects \u2014 had made other potential evidence difficult or impossible to discover.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>According to the crime scene log, no fewer than 13 police officers entered Ellen\u2019s apartment the night she died. As best I could tell, none had ever given an interview to a reporter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image vertical ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                            <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                                <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733337535157_Beier_CNN-57.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733337535157_Beier_CNN-57.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733337535157_Beier_CNN-57.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733337535157_Beier_CNN-57.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733337535157_Beier_CNN-57.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Light is refracted through broken glass near the 5th District police building in Philadelphia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I drove to the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #5, in Philadelphia, where I\u2019d been told former Det. Willie Sierra now worked. I had a lot of questions for him, including why he didn\u2019t ask Sam Goldberg about Ellen\u2019s bruises.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The receptionist called for Sierra. A few minutes later he came out. I told him who I was and asked if we could talk about the Greenberg case.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cF&#8211;k that,\u201d he said. \u201cI ain\u2019t talking to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Later that afternoon I drove to the Jersey Shore to look for Lt. Walter Bell, the highest-ranking officer at the death scene. Sea Isle City was nearly empty in mid-October, and the further south I drove the more deserted it felt. Almost ghostly. Near land\u2019s end I saw the modest three-story beach house I was looking for. A woman answered the door.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He was in the garage, working on his boat. A muscular man of 62, recently retired, in blue rubber gloves and a sleeveless shirt that said Holmesburg Mens League. Behind him I could see a weight bench and a motorcycle. I told him why I was there.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to be said,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI feel so deeply for the family. I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>He obviously had more to say, so I kept standing there. He started talking again.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>The next part was awkward, because he would say something, and I would start to write it down, and he would say don\u2019t write that down, and I would put the notebook down, afraid that he\u2019d tell me to leave, and to be honest he said more interesting things when I wasn\u2019t writing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>But here are a few things I did write down.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI just want the mother to find peace, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I asked if he still believed that Ellen Greenberg had killed herself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d he said. \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I asked about the bruises.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t explain her bruising on her body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>We talked for a moment about Sam Goldberg.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cTrust me,\u201d he said. \u201cWe know crocodile tears when we see them. The guy was crushed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI stand by the investigation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>There was much more I wanted to ask him. Pictures and documents I wanted to show him. Timelines I wanted to go over. Who did what, when, and why. But Lt. Bell was done talking. His wife said it was dinnertime.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>As I drove back toward Philadelphia, I thought about a story he told me. He said one time a man was found dead, apparently from blunt trauma, and blood was all around. Bell and his colleagues in the homicide unit were ready to go looking for a murderer. And then it all turned. They found out the incident had been captured by a video camera. The footage solved the mystery. No one had killed the man. He had fallen, hurt himself, and died, and if not for the camera they would have been searching for a killer who did not exist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image vertical ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                            <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                                <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733517417962_greenberg-family-pictures-IMG_2737.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733517417962_greenberg-family-pictures-IMG_2737.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733517417962_greenberg-family-pictures-IMG_2737.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733517417962_greenberg-family-pictures-IMG_2737.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733517417962_greenberg-family-pictures-IMG_2737.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Ellen and her parents in an undated family photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhed-part\">\u2018I want justice for Ellen. I want to see that before I die\u2019<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Josh Greenberg was sitting on the couch in Florida, talking about the case, sharing his theories, speculating about the backstory, when suddenly his voice went high with excitement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cLOOK AT THIS!\u201d he said. \u201cLook who\u2019s there. Look who just came in here. Look who just came in here to be with her daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>It was the happiest I\u2019d ever seen him, petting this little dog, a miniature schnauzer named Harri.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s an angel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cDaddy loves you, Harri,\u201d he said, and petted her some more, and said, \u201cHow long do you want Daddy to do this for, Ellen?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Then he caught himself, and called her Harri again.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>In the car after dinner the previous night, we were heading back to their house. Sandee was driving, and I sat in the back. I asked them what they wanted out of life.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI want justice for Ellen,\u201d Josh said. \u201cI want to see that before I die.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I asked what that would look like.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThat she\u2019s exonerated,\u201d he said, \u201cthat she did not commit suicide. And the police open an investigation with an unbiased team led by an unbiased leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>I asked if Ellen had been wrongly accused of killing herself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cCorrect,\u201d Josh said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cSpot on,\u201d Sandee said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re fighting so hard,\u201d she said, referring to various civil authorities in Philadelphia, \u201cthey thought we would give up. But I\u2019m feeling more empowered and more optimistic. Because the lies just keep spinning. And at some point, they\u2019re gonna get what\u2019s coming to \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>To the right, through Josh\u2019s window, I could see the colors of the sunset. Orange and pink and lavender. I asked the Greenbergs if they felt themselves gathering momentum.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Sandee said. \u201cI do. You know, I mean, I\u2019m kind of excited to wake up every morning and find out what\u2019s going to happen next.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cI feel like every day, we get closer to the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>For almost 14 years, they\u2019d been gathering facts about a single day. They saw the picture becoming clearer and clearer. One day Sandee was going through Ellen\u2019s purse when she found a thin white piece of paper. A receipt.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>It was dated January 26, 2011, and time-stamped 1:26 p.m. Ellen had used her Visa card at a gas station on Umbria Street, not far from Venice Lofts. She had spent $41.20 at Pump #4, filling her tank with 12.878 gallons of unleaded gasoline.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-image ivanim-fade\">\n<figure class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t    <picture class=\"u-full-width\">\n                    \t        <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;><![endif]--><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733267373852_Beier_CNN-58.jpg\" media=\"--device\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733267373852_Beier_CNN-58.jpg, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733267373852_Beier_CNN-58.jpg 2x\" media=\"--laptop\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733267373852_Beier_CNN-58.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                    \t        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/.\/media\/images\/s_E5855AFAD4C02F3C836011DAAFB98C2BC164528D7248F84E776118358E19F94F_1733267373852_Beier_CNN-58.jpg\" class=\"lazyload u-full-width u-height-auto \" alt=\"\/\"\/>\n                    \t    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Hours before she died, Ellen spent $41.20 on gasoline.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Was she preparing for a trip? The Greenbergs thought so. In her orderly apartment, there were other signs of motion. A picture showed a makeup case and toiletry bag near the bathroom sink, next to her pashmina scarf, as if Ellen had been gathering her things. She usually wore socks at the apartment, but she was found in her winter boots.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>Josh kept thinking about the time Ellen asked him if she could come home.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>\u201cIn my mind,\u201d he said, \u201cshe was escaping.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cp-text container\">\n<p>She was the tennis player who stayed alive, returning one shot after another. Granddaughter of the little girl who fled into the woods. He imagined her in those final hours, those final minutes: Bruised, but not yet broken. Announcing her departure. 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