Ellen Greenberg’s “Suicide” or Brutal Murder? The Day Everything Went Wrong
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
On a snowy January afternoon in Philadelphia, 27-year-old teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her apartment with 20 stab wounds — including multiple deep injuries to the back of her neck and head. Authorities ruled it a suicide. But from the very first look, nothing about this case made sense.
In this segment of Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski, we revisit Ellen’s final day. Her fiancé Sam Goldberg says he left for the gym, only to return later and find the swing-bar lock engaged from the inside. When he finally entered, Ellen was on the floor with a knife buried in her chest. The medical examiner initially called it what it clearly looked like: homicide. But within hours, that ruling was flipped to suicide, leaving a family blindsided and a city questioning how such a conclusion could ever hold up.
This discussion explores the timeline, the shocking details of Ellen’s wounds, and the implausibility of the suicide theory. How can a woman stab herself 20 times — severing her spinal cord in the process — and still be written off as a suicide? And why did authorities rush to close the case instead of securing it as a crime scene?
Join us as we examine the evidence and the contradictions that continue to haunt the Greenberg family’s fight for justice.
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| 1:07.3 | All right, this is a case that we have been covering for quite some time. A lot of people have been covering for quite some time. And we're going to dig deeper into it again today because it needs some attention. The Ellen Greenberg case, as you've probably been following around and along for a while. You know, the parents of Ellen Greenberg are supposed to be getting this |
| 1:29.9 | investigation reopen, looking at it a little bit further, deeper down. That's at least what the courts |
| 1:35.3 | have said. Have the authorities followed through? The investigators followed through on any of that, |
| 1:40.6 | any of the follow-up, any of the yes, we're going to look at this further. Of course they haven't. Because it's Philadelphia, and that's how it works in Philadelphia. When you don't want something to happen, it doesn't happen. So for those of you new to this case, welcome. This is going to blow your mind. And I want to say first before we jump into it, we're going to hear a lot of things. |
| 2:01.2 | We're going to hear a 911 call from her ex-fiance. |
| 2:03.6 | We're going to hear a lot of evidence that doesn't look all that positive for her ex-fiance. |
| 2:09.5 | But I need to say her ex-fiance has never been charged with anything. |
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