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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Suspicious Death of Ellen Greenberg: Unaliving or Cover-Up? Inside Philly's Most Controversial Case

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0

It was one of their last phone calls and Ellen Greenberg's mother, Sandy Greenberg, was speaking

0:06.0

to her one-time fiance Sam Goldberg and she says to him, you know Sam, we know this was not a

0:14.4

suicide. And she says on the other end of the line was dead silent.

0:21.0

Welcome to the global phenomenon,

0:23.1

Surviving the Survivor,

0:24.6

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

0:28.6

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

0:32.9

What's up, SDS Nation?

0:34.2

Welcome to Surviving the Survivor.

0:35.5

This is the show that brings you the very best

0:37.9

guests in all of true crime, night in and night out, and you're all in for a big treat tonight.

0:46.1

Did Ellen Greenberg really kill herself? The medical examiner in the city of Philadelphia for the last 14 years has basically said, no.

0:56.0

The original medical examiner just recently said something different, which will tell you about.

1:01.7

But 14 years after 27-year-old first grade teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her locked Philadelphia, to be precise, Manny Uncle, a little suburb apartment.

1:14.2

She was stabbed 20 times with 11 bruises on her body.

1:17.5

The official ruling remains a suicide.

1:22.8

This was a big blow to family and friends just the other week.

1:27.5

The case has exploded again because of this,

1:30.4

because of what Dr. Lindsay Simon,

1:32.5

the medical examiner reaffirmed during her ruling.

1:36.4

Her new report insists that Ellen's bruises were not consistent

1:40.8

with intentional infliction by another person, but rather the result, this is an interesting

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