5.02.25 CRU with Nancy Grace: Stabbed 20 Times: Ellen Greenberg’s Case, a Changed Ruling, and Sean Combs Rejected Plea

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Podcast Title: 5.02.25 CRU with Nancy Grace: Stabbed 20 Times: Ellen Greenberg’s Case, a Changed Ruling, and Sean Combs Rejected Plea

Today, Nancy Grace and Sheryl McCollum expose what they call one of the most disturbing miscarriages of justice in recent memory. Nancy details the tragic case of Ellen Greenberg, a young teacher found with 20 stab wounds, including 10 in her back; yet authorities labeled her death a suicide.The duo calls for the medical examiner to come forward following the pressure to change the opinion. Nancy and Sheryl discuss the parental lawsuits, alleged manipulation of medical findings, and secret meetings involving state officials. Last but not least, Nancy and Sheryl give the latest on the Sean Combs, a.k.a Diddy case. Following a rejected plea, they break down what trial stands to look like starting May 5th, 2025.

Nancy’s book: What Happened to Ellen?: An American Miscarriage of Justice is available now. All proceeds will go to National Center Missing Exploited Children - NCMC

Show Notes:

(0:00) Welcome! Nancy and Sheryl introduce this week’s crime roundup
(0:10) Latest in the courts
(0:30) The Ellen Greenberg case
(4:00) Nancy breaks down the legal injustice in the Ellen Greenberg case
(4:45) The role of the medical examiner
(6:00) Writing the book - twice, to gain awareness in Ellen’s case
(7:30) Public awareness and media advocacy
(11:00) The secret meeting and immunity
(13:00) Medical examiner reverses ruling in Ellen Greenberg’s death
(14:00) The New England serial killer
(17:30) “Swans don’t swim in sewers.”
(19:00) FOIA challenges
(21:00) Sean Combs a.k.a Diddy rejects the plea deal
(23:30) Sean Combs trial starts May 5th,2025
(25:30) Predictions of the trial start
(27:00) “C’s get degrees.”
(27:30) Final thoughts

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Nancy Grace is an outspoken, tireless advocate for victims’ rights and one of television's most respected legal analysts. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor. She is the founder and publisher of CrimeOnline.com, a crime- fighting digital platform that investigates breaking crime news, spreads awareness of missing people and shines a light on cold cases.

In addition, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a daily show hosted by Grace, airs on SIRIUS XM’s Triumph Channel 111 and is downloadable as a podcast on all audio platforms - https://www.crimeonline.com/

Connect with Nancy:

X: @nancygrace

Instagram: @thenancygrace

Facebook: @nancygrace

Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice.

Connect with Sheryl:

Email: [email protected]

X: @ColdCaseTips

Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crime Roundup.
0:11.6	I'm Cheryl McCollum, and I'm joined by the one and only Nancy Grace.
0:16.6	Morning, honey.
0:17.5	Good morning.
0:18.6	You know what?
0:20.0	Proud Mary, keep on rolling. I'm telling you it's
0:23.3	quite a week in America's courts. I'm telling you all across the country, Cheryl. I mean,
0:31.1	this week, first of all, I'm going gangbusters on the book. What happened to Ellen and trying so hard to bring awareness to her story, it's going to take a miracle.
0:45.8	I've never put it to the parents this way, but it's going to take a miracle to get that case reopened.
0:51.3	Because after everything that, hold on, let me hit my tea, after everything that's happened,
0:57.2	you know, it took the parents suing, I can't believe this, suing Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
1:05.8	to find out why the medical examiner changed the real thing.
1:11.7	The girl, Ellen, is beautiful.
1:15.3	Stabbed 20 times, 10 of those in the back, severing her spinal cordura.
1:21.2	And they called it suicide.
1:22.7	Okay.
1:23.2	So they fought and they fought and they fought and they fought.
1:25.9	And I know they are just bone tired.
1:29.1	And, you know, I figured out what bone tired means.
1:32.1	It means you were tired in your bones, that your bones are just aching.
1:37.8	They are bone tired, weary with fighting the fight.
1:42.7	I was trying so hard to help them. So they sue, they sue the fight. I was trying so hard to help him.
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