"How is this a suicide?" Former Prosecutor on the Ellen Greenberg Case | Have a Seat Ep.13 Guy D'Andrea

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Chris Hansen

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by former Philadelphia Prosecutor Guy D’Andrea who reviewed and consulted on the 2011 death of beloved teacher, Ellen Greenberg. Despite being stabbed over 20 times in the chest, neck and back of her head inside her own apartment, authorities have still ruled her death a suicide. Now the Co-Managing Partner at Laffey Bucci D’Andrea Reich& Ryan, D’Andrea and Hansen breakdown the evidence, or lack there of, that all signs point to homicide and discuss how someone might just have gotten away with the murder of Ellen Greenberg. Photos provided by the Greenberg Family. This episode is brought to you in part by Home Title Lock: Go to https://hometitlelock.com/chrishansen and use promo code HANSEN to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of their Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's a saying I recently heard that stuck with me, and that is the best way to get away with a homicide is to have it ruled a suicide.
0:20.2	Now, I'm not suggesting that's exactly what happened
0:24.2	in the Ellen Greenberg case, but it did get us thinking here to have a seat about the Ellen
0:30.1	Greenberg case. And that's the case of the woman who died in her own apartment back in January
0:36.1	of 2011, 20 plus stab wounds. And the case was
0:41.6	ruled a suicide. There was further investigation. And just last month from this recording in
0:48.9	October of 2025, the suicide ruling was upheld. Now, this raises a lot of questions. How can somebody
0:57.2	commit suicide or why would somebody commit suicide by stabbing themselves more than 20 times?
1:04.0	She was found by her fiancé at the time, with whom she lived in their apartment in Philadelphia.
1:13.3	And so we have so many questions about this. And I thought that one of the best people to whom we can ask these questions is a fellow
1:20.6	by the name of Guy D. Andrea, who's a lawyer, but he was also a prosecutor early on in the Ellen Greenberg case.
1:28.8	And so it is we're very fortunate to have Guy take a seat with me today.
1:32.6	Hey, Guy.
1:34.0	Hey, Chris.
1:34.8	How are you?
1:35.5	I'm good.
1:36.1	Thanks for joining us.
1:38.2	Take me to the beginning of your involvement in this case.
1:41.7	How did you first become aware of it?
1:44.4	And what was your actual role?
1:47.5	Sure.
1:48.0	So at the time, I was a homicide prosecutor in Philadelphia.
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