“Do You Think I Killed Her?” Sam Goldberg’s Haunting Words About Ellen Greenberg
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the system doesn’t just fail you — it rewrites the story entirely?
In this emotionally raw and deeply insightful episode of Hidden Killers Live, host Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to discuss the most disturbing layer of the Ellen Greenberg case: the aftermath.
After Ellen was found with 20 stab wounds — including 10 to the back of her neck — the medical examiner originally ruled her death a homicide. But that ruling was quietly reversed after a meeting with police. No new evidence. No second autopsy. Just a narrative pivot that reshaped everything.
And because it was ruled a suicide, the apartment wasn’t preserved. It was cleaned. Her devices were removed by her fiancé’s uncle. Chain of custody was destroyed. Crime scene photos were incomplete. And the investigation? Essentially shut down.
In this segment, we explore the psychological impact of institutional betrayal — not just on Ellen’s family, but on every family forced to accept a story that doesn’t make sense. We also dig into:
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Why families are often shamed into silence when they challenge suicide rulings
- What it means when someone close to the victim — like a fiancé — shows no visible grief or curiosity
- How mental health labels like “anxious” are weaponized to close cases
- And whether emotional closure is still possible when legal justice never comes
Sam Goldberg, Ellen Greenberg’s fiancé at the time of her death, has never been charged with any crime in connection to this case. He has consistently maintained that Ellen’s death was a suicide. All individuals mentioned in this segment are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.9 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:11.3 | One piece that I forgot to mention earlier when we were talking about Stacy's thoughts and my thoughts on how that relationship was going, |
| 0:19.1 | I had forgotten that in the documentary, |
| 0:26.2 | her friend was also getting married. And she was talking about how she was sharing all of her planning with Ellen and so excited. And Ellen wanted nothing to do with sharing her plans for |
| 0:33.3 | her wedding. She wouldn't talk about it, didn't want to, which to me just adds another layer of, |
| 0:38.5 | I'm not happy in this situation. This is not really what I want. I want out. |
| 0:44.1 | That would certainly be a sign that you're not in a great place if you're not, you know, |
| 0:50.0 | you wouldn't want to do that. You wouldn't want to talk about that. Some friends, they kept in contact with Sam. |
| 0:57.9 | Even the family did for a bit. |
| 1:01.6 | Had, you know, civil, cordial conversations, even joked back and forth a little bit, how they miss her and all that. |
| 1:08.4 | And then you get that one question question do you think i killed her um |
| 1:12.6 | and and then you get kind of you know the the silence that that goes on and the answer is well we |
| 1:20.3 | we don't think that you know it was a suicide so again it's hard to examine the behavior or figure out what the person is thinking behind that question. |
| 1:30.9 | But is that a question of someone who would have done this? |
| 1:36.0 | I mean, or is it more like, I'm really trying to gauge the room on this? |
| 1:41.0 | Because, look, beyond what happened here and what we know about Sammy, |
| 1:44.8 | he doesn't, again, doesn't seem like some sort of vengeful, |
| 1:49.9 | murderous type. |
| 1:51.4 | So that plays into his favor. |
| 1:54.6 | Right. |
| 1:55.3 | Right. |
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