Why Has Ellen Greenberg’s Case Been Buried for 14 Years? Corruption or Cover-Up?
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
For 14 years, Ellen Greenberg’s death has sat in legal limbo. After being ruled a suicide despite 20 stab wounds, her case has been passed from agency to agency, each refusing to take responsibility. The District Attorney recused himself, the Attorney General’s office punted it back, and county prosecutors declined to act. The result: no arrests, no suspect, and no justice.
In this segment of Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski, former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins the discussion to unravel how the system has failed Ellen Greenberg. Why did the medical examiner reverse an initial homicide ruling after a private meeting with police? Why have officials fought against reopening the case despite mounting evidence? And is this incompetence — or something more deliberate?
The Greenberg family has fought tirelessly for answers, but every attempt to force accountability has been stalled or buried. We explore the political dimensions of the case, including questions about then–Attorney General Josh Shapiro, now Governor of Pennsylvania, and whether connections or corruption played a role in shutting down the investigation.
This is more than a case about one woman’s death. It’s about what happens when a justice system chooses to protect itself instead of the people it serves.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.5 | Typically, you would investigate until someone says stop, which they did. |
| 0:13.4 | I mean, that's literally what happened. |
| 0:15.5 | It's just someone said stop way before anyone should have actually said stop. |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.3 | I mean, in the four, go ahead. |
| 0:23.1 | There should be a checklist of things that you do when somebody has died. |
| 0:27.8 | And I feel like they just checked everything off and went, oh, we didn't do it. |
| 0:31.6 | Again, the fingerprinting, I think, would have been a really important thing to do. |
| 0:36.8 | This happened in 2011. So, |
| 0:39.5 | you know, there probably there weren't ring cameras. There weren't things like that. So you |
| 0:43.2 | don't have surveillance to look into. You don't have. No, you're at surveillance to look into. |
| 0:47.7 | Well, in the building. Yeah. In this case, but there was a building camera. |
| 0:51.2 | But there wasn't, there weren't cameras inside their apartment. I mean, |
| 0:54.3 | I've got two cameras running in my apartment right now. But, you know, there's, there wasn't, I don't think there was Amazon Alexa that you could go back and hear what happened. No, none of that exists. No, that. So, you know, there are things that they, they couldn't have done back then, but they did the very, they didn't even do the bare minimum here. |
| 1:14.3 | And that's, that's the big problem. I mean, this is a self-reported timeline with so many, so many holes in it. I mean, it's, this is, it just blows your mind. It blows your mind that this is even |
| 1:30.9 | a conversation anyone is having with the evidence that exists for at least looking at this. |
| 1:38.9 | I mean, the whole, the whole premise of this was a suicide is based on Sam's self-reported story. |
| 1:46.6 | The physical evidence of the, of her death, of the crime, which is not considered a crime, |
| 1:54.1 | contradicts the whole damn thing. |
| 1:56.2 | I mean, the lock doesn't prove what he claimed at all. |
| 2:01.2 | The wound pattern screams homicide. |
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