Judge dumbfounded by error in Ellen Greenberg suicide probe after teacher was found stabbed 20 times

The parents of 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia teacher whose 2011 death was ruled a suicide after she was found with nearly two dozen stab wounds and covered in bruises, appeared in court last week, where a judge told them the city’s suicide declaration was “puzzling.”  Greenberg was found in her kitchen with 20 stab wounds and a knife in her chest with a half-made fruit salad on the countertop during a blizzard on Jan.6, 2011.

Her parents, Dr.Josh and Sandee Greenberg, have been entangled in legal battles with the government since their daughter’s death, fighting the determination that it was a suicide. Oral arguments were heard Dec.

11 in a Philadelphia courtroom as part of a 2022 lawsuit the Greenbergs filed that accuses local officials and the medical examiner’s office of covering up their daughter’s death and participating in a “concealed conspiracy for the purpose of disguising Ellen’s homicide as a suicide,” according to legal documents.This was the first time the Greenbergs sat in a courtroom and listened to arguments in their daughter’s case. “I feel like we’re advocating for her,” Sandee said in a statement to Fox News Digital after the hearing.

“We are getting closer to justice for Ellen.We are very determined and not giving up.”At the time of her death, Greenberg had sent out save-the-date notices for her wedding with Sam Goldberg, who said he returned home from a gym, broke down the door, and found his fiancée’s body in their shared apartment in Manayunk, a quiet neighborhood in Philadelphia. In the hour before Goldberg called 911, he sent Greenberg a series of calls, emails, and eerie text messages, according to court records. Between 5:32 p.m.

and 5:54 pm, Goldberg’s last nine texts to Greenberg included the following: “Hello,” “open the door,” “what r u doin,” “im getting pissed,” “hello,” “you better have an excuse,” “what the f***,” “ahhh,” and “u have no ...