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Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime where we get Big Mad over True Crime.

I'm your host Heather Ashley and today's episode is one that I've gotten request after request after request for.

This is the case of Ellen Greenberg.

Small talk sucks, so let's dive in.

27 year old Ellen Greenberg was known for her megawatt smile and her bubbly personality.

No one was a stranger to her. Her personality was positive and infectious, and everyone who knew her said the same thing.

Basically she was the best.

She was a teacher at an elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and loved her job.

She had so much so that she had actually gone back to school to do it.

It wasn't her initial career choice, but in time she realized it was her calling and went back and got a second degree to make it happen.

With a personality as big as Ellen's it's no surprise that she had a ton of friends, lifelong friends, college friends, work friends, and friends that she just met along the way.

And they were all counting down the days until her upcoming wedding.

In 2010, after three years of dating, her boyfriend Sam popped the question and Ellen was ecstatic.

By August she was trying on wedding dresses and planning out all the details for the wedding that she had been dreaming about since she was a little girl.

This was a romantic and exciting time in her life, but in 2010 something changed.

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