Philadelphia officials have doubled down on their bizarre conclusion in the death of Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old teacher stabbed 20 times in her locked apartment back in 2011. The latest review from the city’s medical examiner’s office, released just days ago, sticks with the suicide label despite wounds to her back, neck, and head—plus a knife still lodged in her chest when her fiancé found her.
Greenberg came home early that January day due to a snowstorm, only to be discovered lifeless by Samuel Goldberg after he broke through the door. No forced entry, no struggle evident, and Goldberg never faced charges. Yet the initial autopsy called it homicide before a sudden switch to suicide following a huddle between the medical examiner and police detectives.
Former Pennsylvania Attorney General and current Governor Josh Shapiro was running the investigation at the time when it was officially ruled a suicide.
This new 32-page report, penned by Chief Medical Examiner Lindsay Simon as part of a February 2025 settlement with Greenberg’s parents, admits the wounds are odd but insists she did it to herself.
“While the distribution of injuries is admittedly unusual, the fact remains that Ellen would be capable of inflicting these injuries herself,” the document states.
It points to her anxiety issues, notes no DNA from Goldberg on the knife, and claims no signs of abuse in their relationship. The conclusion? “With all of this information considered, it is the opinion of the undersigned that the manner of Ellen Greenberg’s death is best classified as ‘suicide.'”
Her family’s lawyer, Joseph Podraza Jr., isn’t buying it one bit. He blasted the review as “a deeply flawed attempt to justify a predetermined conclusion” and “an embarrassment to the City, and an insult to Ellen and her family.” Podraza ripped into specifics: “It includes false claims like the assertion that a stab wound in Ellen’s spinal column was made during the autopsy, a theory rejected by every credible expert, including the City’s own neuropathologist.”
He added that it ignores bruises all over her body, missing security footage, an unbroken door lock, and evidence of a rocky relationship—plus 3D models showing she couldn’t have reached all those back wounds alone.
This isn’t just sloppy work; it smells like a deliberate whitewash. Why the rush to flip from homicide to suicide after that 2011 police meeting? Whispers of influence have dogged the case for years, with allegations that local bigwigs pulled strings to protect connected folks. Greenberg’s parents sued over what they called a “conspiracy to cover-up Ellen’s murder,” and even Wikipedia notes the uproar over those 10 back and neck stabs plus 11 bruises that scream foul play. Online forums buzz with theories that Philly’s elite circled the wagons, especially given Goldberg’s family ties to the legal world there.
The settlement forced this so-called independent look, but it delivered the same old story. Podraza summed up the family’s resolve: “Ellen’s family just wanted the truth. It is clear the truth will not come from Philadelphia’s law enforcement machinery. Though Ellen’s city turned its back on her, we will continue through other avenues to get justice for her murder, by any means necessary.”
As more details emerge—like the report revealing three extra wounds nobody mentioned before—the questions pile up. How does a locked room, bruising, and knife wounds in impossible spots add up to self-inflicted? This saga exposes how the system can bury inconvenient truths, leaving a murdered woman labeled as her own killer while the real culprits walk free. The fight for answers goes on, because some cover-ups refuse to stay buried.
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What’s the boy friends name?
PA current Governor shapiro was paid off. very shady guy. hes two faced look what he did last budget in pa. swapped on school choice at last second. Hes a worm.
You mean, “what’s the killer’s girl friend’s name?”
I never believed crime stats coming out of blue cities but I thought the murder stats were reliable because there was a body you had to account for . Now obviously even that was wishful thinking
Looks like a job for Dexter.
was she friends with hillary clinton?
We have entered a asymmetric spiritual war of which we have been forewarned.
No man, government, religion, philosophy, etc. can stop what is occurring around
the world. And that goes for churches that have fashioned their organizations
(denominations) after mans own design, not Gods Pattern for His Church
and Families.
Man’s churches are failing as we enter the end of days of which we have been
forewarned. Man’s Churches have assumed to themselves priesthoods and authority (as they supposed) thereby dividing believers one against another.They also assumed responsibilities which God ordained and appointed for Men and Women (The Family) not men’s churches. That is why Christian Families are failing like secular families.
What is God’s Church? It’s Jesus Christ and Born Again Believers having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit our True Guide, our True Teacher, our True Comforter along with God’s Word and the Testimony of His Creation. They are the living breathing Church Of God, adopted Sons and Daughters of God, destined to be with Him throughout eternity.
Money $$$ has no value here, no trips to Alaska, no books to buy, NO, none of that.
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If nothing else read from the home page and then at the top of the home page read from: God’s Family – God’s Church – Message of the Temple Veil, and the Women at the well – Rebuild Restore.
Think for yourself and if you are moved by the Holy Spirit share this site with
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Best to all in Jesus Christ our Savior and Redeemer. Daniel
Dear Reader do you desire to know who is the Prince of this world and his followers? First read the Ten Commandments Thou shalt not as given in your Bible. Then read beginning with the 10th Commandment, saying Thou Shalt and you will apprehend the god of this world and those who follow him. Think about it.
I have heard numerous American so-called pastors say that women are equal to men. And it has been going on for decades. I don’t see any way to salvage a nation that is that far into homosexuality.
Someone called the rabbi and he made some calls to his Ni-Brit brothers, who then got in touch with the Governor who called to the Shabbis goy that made some payoffs and veiled threats.
They have all gone INSANE up there. Threatened, bribed, paid off, etc. Who knows but WE DO.
Husband did it and they are covering it up because they are Jewish.