Will Anyone Ever Be Charged in the Death of Ellen Greenberg?
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
20 stab wounds. A knife in her chest. Bruises in various stages of healing. The official ruling? Suicide.
Now, 14 years later, with a new Hulu documentary (Death in Apartment 603) and a court-ordered review underway, the question that refuses to go away is this:
Will anyone ever be held accountable for Ellen Greenberg’s death?
In this special longform commentary, we cut through the noise and walk through the most disturbing, undeniable facts of this case—the forensic findings, investigative failures, and shifting stories that have led many to believe there’s been a cover-up from the very beginning. Why did the medical examiner reverse a homicide ruling under police pressure? Why was the crime scene released for cleaning before a full forensic sweep? And why does Ellen’s death certificate still say suicide, when even the original pathologist now says it shouldn’t?
We also ask the harder question: What’s stopping prosecutors from filing charges, or even opening a formal investigation? From chain-of-custody issues with Ellen’s electronics to conflicting elevator surveillance and 911 call timelines, this case isn’t lacking in evidence—it’s been drowning in it. What it’s lacked is the institutional will to follow it.
With the public demanding answers, Ellen’s parents fighting through the courts, and the Hulu series putting the spotlight back where it belongs, we’re at a pivotal moment. Will this be the turning point? Or will the system once again find a way to look away?
Justice delayed doesn’t have to be justice denied. But it will be—if no one acts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. Hey, welcome to the program. We're going to talk about a case that literally requires you to suspend reality to believe it. The case of Ellen Greenberg. If you're new to it, maybe you just saw the Hulu documentary |
| 0:22.0 | and now you're doing your rabbit hole search on the internet |
| 0:25.2 | to find out what is this all about. |
| 0:27.4 | Well, welcome. |
| 0:28.1 | We've been putting out a lot of content on it for the last couple of years, |
| 0:31.0 | and I'm glad you're here because more people need to know about this. |
| 0:35.4 | So if you are passionate about this case, press subscribe, press share on this, |
| 0:39.4 | and please let everybody know and scream from the rooftops |
| 0:41.8 | that Ellen Greenberg did not kill herself. |
| 0:45.1 | Because I don't know what we need to do |
| 0:47.3 | sort of a miracle for actual human beings |
| 0:49.8 | to be investigated in this case that is clearly a homicide. |
| 0:54.8 | But let's go all the way back to the beginning. |
| 0:58.2 | And let me be clear by what we do this. |
| 1:00.2 | I am not naming anyone as the killer. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm not calling anyone a killer. |
| 1:03.9 | Everyone is innocent until proving guilty. |
| 1:05.6 | And a lot of people have maintained their innocence and no one's been charged. |
| 1:10.4 | Now that we have that out of the way. |
| 1:13.1 | It was a Wednesday afternoon, January 26th of 2011, when everything changed for the Greenberg |
| 1:20.0 | family, Ellen Greenberg, which is 27 years old. |
| 1:25.6 | First grade teacher, a daughter, a fiance, an only child. She was found dead on the |
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