Greenberg, 27, was found by her fianc\u00e9, Sam Goldberg, with<\/a>\u00a0more than 20 stab wounds to her body, including to her heart and the back of her head, and her death was initially ruled a homicide before being controversially classified as a suicide<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The case, which has been plagued by allegations of a ‘cover-up’, received renewed attention late last year as officials again ruled that Greenberg’s death was a suicide when it was re-evaluated by the city of Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to sources speaking to the inquirer, prosecutors are not focusing on the manner of Greenberg’s death, but are centering questions on how a variety of agencies handled the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n The new probe is set to look into whether any missteps by investigators at the time could amount to criminal corruption, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n Greenberg’s parents have long sought answers over her death and say they do not believe that she could have inflicted the many stab wounds on herself, which included her being found with a kitchen knife sticking out of her heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n The family’s attorney Joe Podraza told the Daily Mail at the time that the medical examiner’s conclusion was<\/a> ‘tripe, an embarrassment to the City, and an insult to Ellen and her family.’<\/p>\n The heavily scrutinized investigation into the death of Ellen Greenberg, who was found dead by her then-fianc\u00e9, Sam Goldberg, is set to be reopened by federal prosecutors<\/p>\n Greenberg was discovered with more than 20 stab wounds to her body, including to her heart and the back of her head, as seen in the Philadelphia medical examiner’s analysis. Her death was initially ruled a homicide before being controversially switched to suicide<\/p>\n Following news of the new investigation, Podraza said in a statement to the Inquirer that Greenberg’s parents are ‘ecstatic’ that the case is being reopened.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘If that is in fact correct and accurate, that the federal government is going to investigate… this is exactly what we’ve wanted all along,’ he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘It’s unfortunate it’s taken more than seven years to get to this point but we are really grateful and thankful to the US attorneys and, of course, are available to assist in any way we can in helping their investigation.’\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n When Greenberg was found stabbed to death by her then-fianc\u00e9, Goldberg, investigators at the scene immediately treated the incident as a suicide because he told them the apartment was locked from the inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although he said he broke down the door to get inside, police said there were no signs of a break-in when Greenberg died, and said she had no defensive wounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n Her death was ruled a homicide the next day by then-Philadelphia medical examiner Marlon Osbourne, noting that she suffered knife wounds to the back of her neck, heart, and many bruises in various stages of healing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Investigators returning the next day to the apartment found that it had been professionally cleaned and that devices owned by Goldberg had been removed by Goldberg’s uncle, James Schwartzman, who was at the time the\u00a0Chairman of the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a lawsuit brought by Greenberg’s family in 2022, they alleged that errors in the handling of the investigation and evidence from the apartment was ’embarrassingly botched’ and resulted in a ‘cover up.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Greenberg was found dead by Goldberg in their apartment in 2011, and a Hulu documentary last year revealed that when he called 911, he told a dispatcher she ‘fell on a knife’<\/p>\n In remarks to the Daily Mail, one of the first times Goldberg\u00a0had spoken of the case, he said renewed scrutiny on his former fianc\u00e9’s death was ‘awful’ due to the documentary<\/p>\n In October last year, the case received renewed national attention in a Hulu documentary, which brought scrutiny on Goldberg and his actions at the time of Greenberg’s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n This included the documentary revealing Goldberg’s call to 911 when he found her body, as he told dispatchers she ‘fell on a knife.’\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/105539995-15466805-The_heavily_scrutinized_investigation_into_the_death_of_Philadel-a-23_17684847541.jpeg\")
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