The bizarre 2011 death of a beloved Philadelphia school teacher who was found with 20 stab wounds was yet again ruled a suicide \u2014 but her family\u2019s attorney blasted the latest report as \u201ctripe.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the latest report on the high-profile case released Friday, the coroner\u2019s office said a new review of the evidence determined that Ellen Greenberg, 27, likely took her own life on Jan. 26, 2011 in her apartment, People Magazine reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Greenberg was found with stab wounds all over, including the back of her head and her heart.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the distribution of injuries is admittedly unusual, the fact remains that Ellen would be capable of inflicting these injuries herself,\u201d Philadelphia\u2019s Chief Medical Examiner Lindsay Simon wrote, the outlet said.<\/p>\n Ellen Greenberg, 27, was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment on Jan. 26, 2022, with 20 stab wounds. JusticeForEllen2019\/Facebook<\/p>\n Simon described Greenberg as a \u201cyoung woman suffering from anxiety.<\/p>\n \u201cWith all of this information considered, it is the opinion of the undersigned that the manner of Ellen Greenberg\u2019s death is best classified as \u2018suicide,’\u201d Simon wrote on Friday. \u201cAll opinions state in this report are expressed with a reasonable degree of medical certainty.\u201d<\/p>\n The ruling is the latest twist in the wild case, which has seen Greenberg\u2019s heartbroken parents twice sue the city and the medical examiner for allegedly botching the investigation. <\/p>\n In a scathing statement to The Post on Monday, Joseph Podraza, a partner with the law firm of Lamb McErlane, which represents Ellen Greenberg\u2019s parents, called the new ME report \u201ctripe.\u201d<\/p>\n Ellen Greenberg with her fiance, Sam Goldberg, before her stabbing death in Philadelphia in 2011. Family Handout<\/p>\n A reconstruction of the injuries suffered by Ellen Greenberg shows 20 stab wounds, including behind her head. Court documents<\/p>\n \u201cIt includes false claims, like the assertion that a stab wound in Ellen\u2019s spinal column was made during autopsy, a theory rejected by every credible expert, including the city\u2019s own neuropathologist,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Podraza called Simon\u2019s review \u201cdeeply flawed,\u201d and said it ignored unexplained bruises, missing surveillance footage from the scene and a recreation that found Greenberg couldn\u2019t cause the wounds.<\/p>\n \u201cSimon builds a flimsy case on distorted portrayals of Ellen\u2019s mental health, propped up by cynical distortions of Ellen\u2019s managed anxiety, a condition widely experienced daily by over 40 million Americans,\u201d the lawyer said. \u201cShame on you, Simon.\u201d<\/p>\n Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment by her fianc\u00e9, Sam Goldberg, during a blizzard.<\/p>\n The knife that killed Ellen Greenberg, whose death in 2011 was first ruled a homicide but is now ruled a suicide. Medical Examiner’s Office<\/p>\n Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment by her fianc\u00e9, who has never been ID\u2019d as a suspect. Family Handout<\/p>\n The autopsy determined that she was riddled with bruises and suffered 20 stab wounds, including to her neck, back, head and heart \u2014 with a knife found protruding from her chest. <\/p>\n Goldberg has never been considered a suspect.<\/p>\n In the initial autopsy report, then-assistant coroner Marlon Osbourne ruled Greenberg\u2019s death a homicide.<\/p>\n But that changed weeks later, when Osbourne met with Philadelphia police and bizarrely changed his ruling to suicide, sparking the first wave of controversy over the case.<\/p>\n In 2023, an appellate court called the police investigation into the teacher\u2019s death \u201cdeeply flawed,\u201d<\/a> but upheld the ME\u2019s suicide ruling in the case. <\/p>\n Josh and Sandee Greenbberg have fought for over a decade to review their daughter\u2019s death, disputing it was suicide. Family Handout<\/p>\n Osbourne later flipped again, and in February called it \u201csomething other than suicide.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n