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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Bride sends out 'Save-the-Dates,' found stabbed 20 times, RULED SUICIDE!

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Teacher and bride-to-be Ellen Greenberg is found inside a locked apartment stabbed 20 times, including the back of the neck. It's ruled a suicide but does the evidence support the claim? Greenberg's family has filed a lawsuit against the Philadelphia County Medical Examiner's Office to compel officials to change the cause of death back to homicide or undetermined. Joining Nancy Grace today:Sandee Greenberg - MotherJosh Greenberg - FatherDarryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta Ga www.angelaarnoldmd.com Tom Brennan - Private Investigator for the GreenbergsJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime NetworkBrian Sheehan - reporter, WHP-TV Local 21 Follow the investigation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForEllen2019

Transcript

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0:00.0

MUSIC

0:06.0

Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:08.0

MUSIC

0:14.0

How can a beautiful, brilliant, 27-year-old woman die of 20 stab wounds?

0:24.0

And it's a suicide?

0:27.0

I'm not buying it, and her parents agree.

0:38.0

Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:46.0

As the world whizzes by around us between politics and this and that,

0:52.0

this family is leading a crusade for justice.

0:56.0

Won't you join us?

0:59.0

Let me tell you what happened.

1:01.0

First of all, take a listen to this.

1:03.0

Nearly a decade of long days and late night thoughts.

1:07.0

But for Josh and Sandy Greenberg, it's been worth every minute.

1:11.0

We didn't go away, and we're not going away.

1:14.0

For years, the couple struggled to get anyone to reinvestigate the death of their 27-year-old daughter Ellen.

1:20.0

A elementary school teacher living in Philadelphia with her fiance.

1:24.0

The break we had in this whole thing then just last month, a small victory.

1:28.0

A Philadelphia judge ruled the couple could move forward with a lawsuit against the city's medical examiner in an attempt to get her official cause of death removed from the record.

1:38.0

There's a murderer out there, a killer, somebody who brutally attacked somebody with multiple stab wounds, and let her bleed to death, and left her for dead.

1:49.0

Though that's not how the city sees it.

1:52.0

Instead, investigators concluded Ellen stabbed herself 20 times in her kitchen.

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