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Final Days On Earth with Claire St. Amant

Justice Pending, Episode 18: Ellen Greenberg

Final Days On Earth with Claire St. Amant

Claire St. Amant

News, True Crime

4.5784 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Claire and Susan discuss the 2011 mysterious death of Ellen Greenberg in Philadelphia.


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0:00.0

This is a Rogue Media Network podcast.

0:06.3

Do you ever have a story that you just can't get out of your head?

0:10.6

One that you play the details of over and over with your friends.

0:15.2

Well, you've come to the right place.

0:17.9

I'm Claire.

0:19.1

And I'm Susan.

0:20.4

And this is justice pending. A weekly true crime

0:24.4

podcast where we discuss tantalizing crimes with more questions and answers.

0:31.9

Welcome back to Justice Pending, the podcast where we break down cases stuck in legal limbo, battles for truth, and the

0:39.4

people fighting against the system. I'm Claire. And I'm Susan. And today's case is one that has

0:46.0

haunted the true crime community for years. We're talking about the tragic death of Ellen Greenberg,

0:52.5

a 27-year-old teacher who was found dead in

0:55.4

her Philadelphia apartment in 2011 with 20 stab wounds, including injuries to the back of her

1:02.0

head and neck.

1:03.9

Her death was ruled a suicide, something her parents, forensic experts, and frankly, anyone

1:10.1

with common sense has never accepted.

1:13.1

And after 14 years of fighting, there's finally been a breakthrough. The medical examiner

1:18.5

who originally ruled Ellen's death a homicide, then mysteriously changed it to a suicide,

1:24.5

has now come forward saying he was wrong. This means Ellen's case is finally

1:32.0

being reopened, a huge win for her parents, who have spent over a decade battling the city

1:38.5

of Philadelphia to get justice. But here's what makes this case even more bizarre, even to this day. Ellen's fiance at the time,

1:46.9

Sam Goldberg, has never publicly pushed for the case to be reexamined. In fact, after Ellen's death,

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