BOMBSHELL BOOK: "WHAT HAPPENED TO ELLEN?" Bride Stabbed 20 Times Ruled Suicide

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her apartment by her live-in fiancé, Sam Goldberg.

She had been stabbed more than 20 times in the back, neck, and torso. Her death was initially ruled a homicide, but after a closed-door meeting, officials changed the ruling to suicide.

For more than 14 years, Ellen’s parents, Josh and Sandee Greenberg, have fought to overturn that decision.

Now, after settling two lawsuits, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office will reopen the investigation. The decision follows a sworn statement from a former pathologist admitting he was wrong to change the ruling from homicide to suicide.

The Greenberg's do not believe Ellen commits' suicide and neither does Nancy Grace. Her book, What Happened to Ellen? An American Miscarriage of Justice is out today.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Sandee Greenberg - Ellen Greenberg's Mother, Twitter: @justice4ellentw, Facebook: @justice4ellenFB, GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-ellen;Facebook: #Justice For Ellen
Benee Knauer - Author of "What Happened To Ellen?: An American Miscarriage of Justice"
Guy D’Andrea - Former Prosecutor in Ellen Greenberg Case, Attorney at Laffey Bucci D’Andrea Reich & Ryan
Caryn Stark - Forensic Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
Tom Brennan - PI Consultant for Ellen Greenberg's Family
Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author of "Blood Beneath My Feet," and Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;" X: @JoScottForensic
John Luciew - Journalist for PennLive.com and The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa.[ Specializes in true crime and cold case investigations for PennLive.com], Author: “Kill the Story;" X: @JohnLuciew

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0:00.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:05.0	A bombshell book. What Happened to Ellen?
0:10.4	The bride to be stabbed 20 times, including in the back of the head, to the back of the neck, to the back?
0:26.9	A horrible gash on the back of her head? How could that be ruled suicide? And why? We want justice for Ellen. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being
0:37.2	with us. I see her now just on the crime stories. Thank you for being with us.
0:37.8	I see her now just on the floor with blood. She's not, she's not responding. I don't know. I can't tell.
0:44.3	She, I don't, I can't see anything. She doesn't, there's nothing broken. She's bleep, Ellie, she may have slipped his blood on the, on the table. Her face is a little purple.
0:56.0	Regardless of what you may hear on that 911 call,
1:00.0	there is no way that this young bride to be a first grade teacher
1:05.0	slipped and fell on a knife 20 times.
1:09.0	That did not happen. And according to many, many sleuths and many
1:16.0	full-on experts, including death investigators, medical examiners, lawyers, investigators,
1:23.7	she did not commit suicide absolutely impossible.
1:29.3	Let's learn what we can from the original 911 call.
1:34.6	Help, I just walked in my apartment, like, she has to be on the floor with blood everywhere.
1:39.0	What is the address?
1:41.8	But please come.
1:42.8	Help.
1:43.4	Oh, no.
1:45.0	Oh, no. Please, Harry, please.
1:46.0	She's bleeding from.
1:47.0	See, I don't know.
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