Ellen Greenberg Update Part 1

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Cloud10

True Crime

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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PART ONE: On January 26, 2011, twenty-seven-year-old first-grade teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment with twenty-three stab wounds and more than thirty bruises. Despite the violence of the scene, her death was ruled a suicide—a ruling that has been challenged for more than a decade by Ellen’s parents, Josh and Sandee Greenberg. The case has since become one of the most hotly debated unsolved deaths in the country, raising questions about investigative integrity, forensic inconsistencies, and what justice really looks like when institutions close ranks. In this two-part episode, we revisit Ellen’s case through the lens of the Hulu documentary Death in Apartment 603 and the newly released 2025 report by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lindsay Simon, which once again reaffirms suicide as the official manner of death. We unpack the new findings, the conflicting expert opinions, and the haunting contradictions that still surround the case. Join us as we look closer at a case where every answer seems to lead to another question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we dive in today, Sleutowns, if you haven't re-listened to Maggie's original episode on Ellen Greenberg,
0:06.9	go back and do that first. She covered the case back in July 2020 in the middle of COVID,
0:13.0	and it's the perfect foundation for what we're going to talk about today. Because, well, so much has happened since then.
0:24.6	What hasn't changed, though, is the heartbreak, the disbelief, the question that still hangs in the air, what really happened to Ellen Greenberg?
0:30.6	A special shout out to Gavin Fish, who posted the 911 call in its entirety on YouTube, the audio from which we will discuss in this episode. I'm going to be the Welcome to coffee and cases where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold.
1:20.9	My name is Allison Williams.
1:22.8	And my name is Maggie Damran.
1:24.6	We will be telling stories each week in the hopes that someone out there
1:27.8	with any information concerning the cases will take those tips to law enforcement, so justice
1:32.7	and closure can be brought to these families. With each case, we encourage you to continue
1:36.9	in the conversation on our Facebook page, Coffee and Cases podcast, because, as we all know,
1:42.7	conversation helps to keep the missing person in the public
1:45.4	consciousness, helping to keep their memories alive. So sit back, sip your coffee, and listen to
1:51.2	what's brewing this week. It's been 14 years since that snowy January afternoon. And remember,
1:56.7	we were in Philadelphia, January 26, 2011. That was a lot of 20s. That was a lot of 20s.
2:03.8	When 27-year-old, first grade teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her Venice law department.
2:10.1	And yet here we are, 2025, still fighting over what her manner of death even was.
2:14.8	Crazy. Which is insane to me. You think that after 14 years with all this technology advancement that we've had and
2:20.8	multiple independent experts weighing in, there'd be some kind of closure or at least a
2:25.3	determination of undetermined.
2:27.8	Right.
2:28.0	So then we could reinvestigate.
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