Mental Health Misused, Evidence Destroyed, Questions Ignored | Ellen Greenberg Deep Dive
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ellen Greenberg was found with 20 stab wounds — including 10 in the back of her neck. And yet, her death was ruled a suicide. How? And more importantly — why?
In this deeply psychological and emotionally charged episode of Hidden Killers Live, host Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to unpack not just the facts of the case, but the emotional truth that’s been obscured for over a decade.
We start with Ellen’s mental state — not just in the days before her death, but over the months of quiet withdrawal that went ignored or misinterpreted. She stopped wearing her engagement ring. She told her parents she wanted to come home. And yet, no one — not friends, not authorities — ever seemed to ask what she might have been retreating from.
Then we turn to the psychiatric timeline. Ellen had three sessions with a psychiatrist. No history of suicide attempts. No diagnosed depression. No recorded ideation. And yet that paper-thin narrative — “she was anxious” — became the foundation for an official suicide ruling.
We also confront what happened after her death — the reversal from homicide to suicide, the cleaned crime scene, the missing chain of custody, and the devices removed by her fiancé’s uncle before detectives could investigate. Her fiancé, Sam Goldberg, never pushed back on the suicide narrative. In fact, he reportedly said, “Do you think I killed her?”
This case isn’t just forensic failure. It’s emotional sabotage, institutional betrayal, and a test of whether truth still matters when it's inconvenient.
This episode doesn’t just question the ruling — it questions the people who accepted it.
Sam Goldberg, Ellen Greenberg’s fiancé at the time of her death, has never been charged with any crime in connection to this case. He has consistently maintained that Ellen’s death was a suicide. All individuals mentioned in this segment are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.3 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:04.8 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:12.9 | We're talking about the Ellen Greenberg case and all of the failures and all of the questions that are now being asked, thank God publicly, |
| 0:25.0 | since the new Hulu documentary has come out, death in apartment 603, what happened to Ellen |
| 0:30.6 | Greenberg? And I want to note again, Sam Goldberg, Ellen Greenberg's fiance at the time of her |
| 0:35.1 | death, has never been charged with any crime in connection |
| 0:39.0 | to this case. He has consistently maintained that Ellen's death was a suicide. All individuals mentioned |
| 0:44.2 | in this segment are presumed innocent and less proven otherwise. We are having a discussion. |
| 0:48.9 | We are talking about theories. We are talking about opinions based on the information that has come out. |
| 0:54.8 | We are not saying that Sam had anything to do with Ellen's death. |
| 0:59.4 | Theoretically, we're talking about all the what-hifts and asking the questions of why. |
| 1:05.4 | Why was this handled the way it was? |
| 1:07.9 | Joining us now, psychotherapist and author, Chavon Scott, Chavon. |
| 1:14.1 | This is a case that I know we've been talking about for years on and off. I know the documentary, |
| 1:20.0 | obviously, that's out now. Give me your reactions to what you have absorbed thus far now that this new one is out, |
| 1:29.7 | and we're kind of seeing it from a slightly different perspective. |
| 1:33.1 | I have tried to keep a really open mind and look at all sides here. |
| 1:37.9 | And where I end up, it kept coming into my mind if Stephen King and Agatha Christie decided |
| 1:43.8 | to collaborate on a story, we'd all go, |
| 1:47.3 | whoa, that's quite a story there. |
| 1:48.9 | And we want to know what the solution is. |
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