I'd never heard of such a thing'A few weeks later, in an almost unprecedented move, the medical examiner fell in line with police and changed Ellen's cause of death to suicide; case closed. It was his father who called the Greenbergs.D'Andrea has listened to the audio of the 911 call placed by Goldberg that evening.
He said, 'There's no playbook on how you're supposed to react when you find something like this, but I was very struck at the tone. He told police he had kicked in the door because it had been locked from the inside.D'Andrea had assumed that this meant it had been deadbolted but when he reviewed the pictures of the scene D'Andrea saw that the lock was nothing more than a hotel-room style latch.
The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. But for her parents Sandee and Joshua Greenberg the fight was just beginning.Today, they tell DailyMail.com, they have 'a mountain of evidence,' to support their conviction that Ellen was murdered and they will not rest until that truth is acknowledged.Speaking from their home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Sandee, 64, said, 'This is not something we thought, in a million years, we would ever be doing or would ever happen.
Why don't they take us by the hand and lead us to the truth? She covers crime, mayhem and breaking news. She played it off that work was too much but when the teacher who took on Ellen's class saw her books and marking she said everything was perfect. But psychiatrist Dr Ellen Berman, who saw Ellen three times before her death, was clear that her new patient was not suicidal.
The only clarity was the awful realization that their daughter, 27-year-old Ellen, their only child, was dead.Nine years later that catastrophic truth is pretty much the only undisputed fact in what has become the mystery of the death of But it leaves many questions unanswered and DailyMail.com has launched its own investigation.We have spoken with lawyers and investigators at the heart of the case and reviewed numerous expert reports that contradict official findings.
Goldberg's statement to police put the security guard with him when he broke down the door.Ellen's father described her as 'not the same Ellen,' in the weeks before her death.
Her personality was changed. They never did anything. There would be no reason to do that if it had ever been tested.
When you get there, you take a look at the scene and you say, ''Hey you two guys go down and check the trash.'' A knife was still plunged in her heart.But Ellen had been alone and the door locked from the inside. 'Goldberg was led from the scene in handcuffs and taken for further questioning as a matter of course. But no luminol tests were performed. Police suggested that they were caused by 'contact sports.' 'He was saying, ''Oh my God, oh my God, my fiancée, there's blood…'' but he was completely calm.
The patterns were consistent with a repeated beating.
She could have neither defended nor harmed herself after those blowsA crime scene analyst hired by the family noted that Ellen had been moved. He was wearing regular boots. Police said suicide.
When the scene was cleared it wasn't secured and no officer was left on the door.The next day, Brennan revealed, Goldberg's uncle and cousin returned to the apartment.
But calls became less frequent and his last communication with them was an email letting the Greenbergs know he was getting married. He deemed Ellen's death homicide Famed forensic pathologist Cyril H Wecht, instructed on behalf of Ellen's parents, noted that suicide victims rarely stab themselves multiple times or through their clothing as Ellen had beenThe report by the medical examiner deems the manner of Ellen's death a suicide This is the investigative report into Ellen's death along with several expert reports commissioned by the familyThis investigation report sets out the contents of the text messages sent by Ellen's fiancé Sam while allegedly trying to get her to let him into the apartment. 'It took years for us to piece this together. In fact it later transpired that she had no record of ever having being commissioned to study Ellen's spinal column at all.
So, I get the file, I pull everything out and I hone in on what was the primary reason as to why this was ruled a suicide versus a homicide.
'They came in, looked around, said, ''Suicide,'' and left.
I'd never heard of such a thing. Previously, she was a breaking news reporter for the USA TODAY Network’s Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. He found 'evidence of strangulation' and noted, 'There were multiple bruises over the body some of which were fresh, many of which were older. Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old elementary school teacher, was found dead on January 26, 2011 in the kitchen of her Philadelphia apartmentEllen had been stabbed ten times in the back of her neck and head and ten in her stomach, abdomen and chest and a knife was still plunged in her heartThis graphic shows knife wounds Ellen suffered to her neck and chest, that pierced her brain and severed her spinal cordThe 27-year-old elementary school teacher was found dead on January 26, 2011 in the kitchen of her Philadelphia apartment.
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