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Detective Perspective

111: Ellen Greenberg (Part 2)

Detective Perspective

Derrick Levasseur

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

On January 26, 2011, 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg left work early when a snowstorm hit Philadelphia. She stopped for gas on her way home, then spent the afternoon grading papers in the apartment she shared with her fiancé, Sam.

That evening, Sam called 911 to report that he had found Ellen in the kitchen with a knife in her chest. She had been stabbed twenty times, including multiple wounds to the back of her head and neck.

At first, the Medical Examiner ruled her death a homicide. But weeks later, the ruling was changed to suicide, shocking many. 

Ellen’s parents have spent more than a decade fighting that decision, convinced their daughter didn’t take her own life, and that the truth about what happened to her is still being covered up.

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Research/Writing: Haley Gray

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm I'm a licensed

0:30.6

private investigator and former police detective. Each week I'll be covering an unsolved case and story

0:35.8

format. I'll then give you my opinion

0:38.1

on that investigation and give you contact information for the individuals or organizations

0:43.2

connected to the case so that if you have any leads, you can contact them directly. So if you're

0:48.5

interested in true crime, specifically unsolved cases, and you would like to hear my opinion

0:53.0

on those investigations.

0:55.1

Please consider subscribing, whether you're watching on YouTube or listening on Apple Podcasts,

0:59.9

Spotify, or whatever platform you use. That was a lot. I don't have my teleprompter. I don't have

1:06.0

anything in front of me. That was just from memory. I think we've done a few of these episodes.

1:10.1

Thank you for joining me for part two of Ellen Greenberg.

1:13.2

You know, we're going to get into the episode, but real quickly, this is a little different. I'm sure for anybody who's watching on YouTube, you can see that the background, a little different. If you go to a wide here, it's not perfect. It is not perfect. I have a lot I want to do.

1:28.3

Right now I don't even have the other light on yet because someone's going to be sitting in that chair in a minute.

1:32.1

We actually just did the interview.

1:34.2

I'm recording this after the fact.

1:36.7

I was going to see how well this interview went with Dr. Priya Banerjee.

1:43.7

And I didn't know if it was going to be 15 minutes or

1:47.1

45 minutes. It ended up being an hour and a half. So it's going to be a whole episode by itself.

1:53.4

But I wanted to at least put this opening on it and let you guys know that the interview

1:58.6

is going to be part two, but we are going to have a part three.

2:03.2

I found the whole conversation very enlightening. As I said to you guys in part one, it really,

2:08.8

to me, drove home the point of what I believe. And by the end of this episode, you're going to

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