Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor,

where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, SCS Nation?

Welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor,

the podcast that promises to bring you the very best guests in all of true

crime.

Tonight is no exception.

And personally, this is, by the way, people always say me personally, which is redundant

and it drives me crazy.

So just personally, this story has really hit home from me.

And I am beseeching everyone who's about to listen or watch to please share the show, not for me, but for Ellen's parents who are here

and let public officials know that we are not happy. The thumbnail title for this is it's always shady in Philadelphia,

which I came up with myself, and I was proud of myself for that. And it's fitting for what we're

about to discuss. But for those of you who do not know, Ellen Greenberg was found dead back in

2011. It was the evening of January 26th.

It was a nor'easter was rolling in. It wasn't like snow, you know, little flurries. It was a big snowstorm.

Ellen had stopped it, fill up her car with gasoline. She was in the process of making a fruit salad.

She was living with her fiance,

a guy named Sam Goldberg. And then at some point in evening, 911 gets a call from Sam Goldberg.

Police go over there. They find 20 stab wounds to 10 to the front, 10 to the back, a bunch to the back of the neck,

and a huge gash, like a four or five-inch gash on the top of Ellen's head.

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