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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Is the Death of Ellen Greenberg a Cover-Up or Astonishing Incompetence?

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

#STSNation [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/stsnation], Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/bestguests] in all of True Crime… A 12-year quest to overturn a coroner's ruling of suicide in Ellen Greenberg's brutal stabbing death has ended in a legal defeat for her parents. "We're deeply disgusted," Ellen's mother, Sandee Greenberg said "I'm beyond tears." And now we're finding out the knife found in her chest was never processed for fingerprints by Philly police. What's going on? Ellen Greenberg was a 27-year-old first grade teacher at Juniata Park Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At approximately 6:40 p.m. on January 26, 2011, Ellen was pronounced dead as a result of twenty stab wounds, including ten to the back of her head and neck. In addition, there were eleven bruises in various stages of resolution on her right arm, abdomen, and right leg. Signs of abuse. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, the Medical Examiner, Dr. Marlon Osbourne, ruled her death a suicide. #BestGuests [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/bestguests]: America's most respected Detective Fil Waters spent decades in the law enforcement world becoming an expert at obtaining criminal confessions. He spent 23 years working as a homicide detective in the Houston Police Department investigating more than 400 homicide cases, including one that took the life of his good friend and fellow police officer. Detective Waters is also a Marine and the owner of Kindred Spirits Investigations. He also starred in the show "The Interrogator". Agent Scott Duffey is Director of Wilmington University's Criminal Justice Institute. Scott is a retired FBI supervisory Special Agent of the Wilmington, Delaware Resident Agency. He worked violent crime matters, gangs, bank robberies and Fugitive task force cases for 20 years before being promoted supervisor of the violent crime task force in Wilmington, Delaware Prior to FBI, served 5 1/2 years as a Pennsylvania police officer #TrueCrime [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/truecrime] #TrueCrimeCommunity [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/truecrimecommunity] #Idaho4 [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/idaho4] #BryanKohberger [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/bryankohberger] #AnaWalshe [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/anawalshe] #DomesticViolence [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/domesticviolence]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

0:08.0

What's up, STS Nation? Welcome to another episode of Surviving The

0:14.0

Survivor. The podcast that promises to bring you the very best guess in all of

0:20.3

true crime and it is now a time honor tradition a time honor tradition that

0:27.6

Phil Waters is uh fashionably late this is his new thing. Obviously in the midst of securing his Ferrari

0:38.1

negotiations. What is today's excuse, Phil Waters?

0:41.8

Yeah, I'm only a minute play right.

0:44.8

That's making a difference or a mile right? What would happen to Phil if you were in the

0:51.4

Marine Corps still and you told your boot camp drill instructor that you were only a minute late.

0:56.6

What would he do?

0:57.6

Oh, this would not have happened.

0:59.8

Okay. So, well, today I have, I've got someone who is inquiring about a case, somebody they want me to interview in a very interesting

1:20.1

Oregon murder case and yeah so and we might want to talk about this later it's a very interesting

1:28.0

deal so I'd love to hear it you were just coming in in the intro here.

1:33.4

Of course, you guys know,

1:35.2

Great Scott, Chichoo Crime Phil,

1:37.2

a show so good, it happens every Friday

1:39.4

and you're looking at America's most respected detective Phil Waters, formerly of the Houston Police

1:46.4

Department. He is a homicide detective and not just any homicide detective, but has one of the

1:52.1

best clearance rates in criminal

1:53.8

confession rates that any detective could have and as you just heard he is now the

1:58.4

owner of kindred spirits investigations he's also the star the show The interrogator that he wishes was called the interviewer.

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