Ellen Greenberg & Donna Adelson, Attorney Eric Faddis Expert Legal Breakdown
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In Philadelphia, Ellen Greenberg was found dead with twenty stab wounds, yet her death is still officially classified as a suicide. In Florida, Donna Adelson sits in a state prison for orchestrating her former son-in-law’s murder, preparing to appeal a conviction that rocked her family to its core. Both cases raise a larger truth: the law doesn’t always get it right — and when it does get it wrong, it rarely admits it.
Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski and Stacy Cole on Hidden Killers Live to unpack the legal and moral threads tying these two stories together. From medical examiner recantations and conflicted expert testimony to the complex machinery of appeals, we look at how American justice sometimes closes ranks instead of cases.
What does it mean when a city won’t reverse a death ruling everyone questions? What does it say when a wealthy Florida family can still fight the system for years after a life sentence? And why do so many families — from Greenberg to Markel — feel like they’re fighting not for justice, but against it?
This double feature dives into the fault lines of law, power, and truth. Because when systems protect themselves more than the people they serve, everyone should be asking — what does justice even mean anymore?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.0 | And the insanity continues on in the case of Ellen Greenberg, more than 14 years after she was found in her Philadelphia apartment. |
| 0:18.3 | The city has doubled down again on calling itself |
| 0:23.3 | inflicted on aliveing by oneself. The word YouTube doesn't like, you know what I'm talking about. |
| 0:29.4 | The latest 2025 review by Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Lindsay Simon, was supposed to bring |
| 0:34.8 | clarity. It was part of the settlement from the agreement that her family had with the state that they'd re-examine this and, I don't know, maybe actually do their job this time. |
| 0:46.6 | Instead, it's raised even more questions. |
| 0:48.8 | The original pathologist has now recanted, saying the ruling was wrong. |
| 0:53.4 | It didn't influence the new medical examiner at all. |
| 0:56.5 | The family says they've been shut out of the promised re-examination, |
| 1:00.3 | and the public is asking how 20, more than 20. |
| 1:03.1 | They've added more to it. |
| 1:05.0 | 23, I believe we're at now. |
| 1:06.6 | Stab wounds, including to the back of the neck, |
| 1:08.6 | can still be written off as self-inflicted today. |
| 1:11.7 | Former prosecutor, Eric Fatt is joining as defense attorney to look at what's left legally, |
| 1:16.7 | procedurally, and morally. |
| 1:19.8 | Where we sit right now? |
| 1:22.8 | That's the big question. |
| 1:24.3 | Where do the Greenbergs go from here, Eric? |
| 1:27.7 | Tony, it seems like the Greenbergs may have exhausted any kind of legal avenue that they can |
| 1:33.8 | pursue. You know, there's no appellate process for a medical examiner's findings. You typically |
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