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Which Philly nigger did it?

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Ellen Greenberg was found dead with 20 stab wounds in
Philadelphia in 2011

Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old teacher in Philadelphia, was
found covered in bruises and stabbed to death in her apartment
during a blizzard more than a decade ago.

There was evidence that the scene had been staged and her body
had been moved – including that the dried blood would have
dripped sideways across her face if she’d died in the position
she was found, according to the family’s private investigator.
But authorities ruled it a suicide.

Greenberg’s fiancé, Samuel Goldberg, told investigators he came
home on Jan. 26, 2011, kicked in the locked door to their
apartment and found her dead with a knife stuck in her chest,
leaning "supine" against a kitchen cabinet, according to court
documents.

Despite the blood-soaked crime scene and stab wounds to the back
of her skull, however, investigators found "no evidence of a
struggle in the kitchen area or anywhere else in the apartment."

Dr. Marlon Osbourne, a former pathologist at the Medical
Examiner’s Office in Philadelphia, initially ruled the death a
homicide, based on the injuries, then backtracked and revised
the manner of death to suicide after conferring with city
police, according to a civil lawsuit from Greenberg’s family.

Experts with years of experience in homicide investigations and
forensic pathology told Fox News Digital that the evidence
suggests homicide, not suicide.

When asked for evidence supporting the suicide determination,
Philadelphia police deferred comment to the outside agency now
handling the case.

"This investigation is being handled by the Chester County
District Attorney's Office, please reach out to them," a
spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

The Chester County District Attorney’s Office is conducting an
outside investigation into the case after years of activism from
Greenberg’s family and reluctance to intervene on the parts of
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and Pennsylvania
Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who referred the case back and
forth before the Chester probe.

Tom Brennan, a former state police trooper for 25 years and
private investigator the family hired almost a decade ago, told
Fox News Digital that through depositions in a civil lawsuit,
the family discovered last year that Greenberg suffered a 6.5
centimeter wound to the back of her head after her heart stopped
beating.

Several forensic pathologists, including Dr. Cyril Wecht, one of
the country’s leading experts in the field, reviewed Dr.
Osbourne’s findings over the years and found the circumstances
"strongly suspicious of homicide."

Suicide is "highly, highly unlikely," in Greenberg’s case, Wecht
told Fox News Digital Tuesday, and he said he was "delighted" by
the Chester County review.

"In all my years of experience, and all of the homicides that
I’ve done, and suicides, I’ve never seen anything like this," he
added.

A spokesperson for the Chester County DA confirmed the office
had assigned an investigator and a prosecutor to review the case
but declined to comment further, citing the ongoing
investigation.

Greenberg suffered 20 stab wounds, including 10 to her back, as
well as numerous bruises that pathologists determined had been
inflicted at different times.

"The manner of death cannot be suicide," Joe Podraza, the
Philadelphia lawyer representing her parents, told Fox News
Digital.

The evidence doesn’t add up, he said, citing testimony from one
of the medical examiner’s own employees, photographs of the
crime scene and the nature of Greenberg’s injuries.

"The neuropathologist…testified that the wound in the sample
that remains from Ellen’s spine is a post-mortem wound, or one
that was administered after she was dead and had no pulse," he
said. "If you consider that was not the last wound, because the
knife was found in her chest, you’d have to then agree that
Ellen, while she was dead, somehow proceeded to stab herself in
the back of the head, pull the knife out and then stab herself
in the chest -- all without a pulse."

Greenberg’s parents, Dr. Josh Greenberg and Sandee Greenberg,
told Fox News Digital that after more than a decade of outside
experts re-examining their daughter’s case, they believe that
the evidence does not support suicide. She had defensive wounds
on her wrist that went unacknowledged in the original autopsy,
her body had been moved, and her left hand was gripping the
knife in her chest – although she was right-handed. Evidence
also suggested she suffered stab wounds from two distinct
knives, they said, but only the one stuck in her chest was
recovered.

And according to a statement from the former building manager
provided by Brennan, the family’s private investigator, a crime
scene cleanup crew came in and washed the apartment – before
forensic investigators had a chance to look through it.

"We have never accused anyone of murdering our daughter," Dr.
Greenberg told Fox News Digital. "We have asked the cause and
matter to be changed to undecided or homicide. We would like an
impartial investigation with an impartial prosecutor."

During a 2021 deposition as part of a civil lawsuit Greenberg’s
filed over the suicide designation, former Medical Examiner Dr.
Sam Gulino testified that he’d received no complaints about Dr.
Marlon Osbourne, pathologist in his office who handled
Greenberg’s case.

But department records showed Osbourne was named in at least
three reprimands, according to Brennan. In one, his supervisor,
Dr. Gary Collins, pointed out "serious and dangerous flaws" in
Osbourne’s autopsy work, including missing the signs of manual
strangulation on a victim who, in photographs, clearly had been
strangled, among other mistakes.

"Dr. Osbourne, these major discrepancies show an obvious lack of
care for your work," Collins wrote.

Osbourne has since moved to Florida, where he works in the Palm
Beach County Medical Examiner’s Office. He did not immediately
respond calls seeking comment.

Dr. Wayne Ross, another specialist in forensic and
neuropathology who re-examined Greenberg’s death at Brennan’s
behest, has argued the facts support a designation of homicide
and that Osbourne’s autopsy had missed obvious signs of manual
strangulation that he found in addition to the stab wounds and
other bruising.

"The constellation of scene findings are inconsistent with
suicide," he wrote. "Scene findings compatible with being
staged."

One of the more controversial pieces of evidence is the door
lock on Greenberg’s apartment. Photos show a metal door with a
slinging latch above a regular exterior door lock. The latch is
shown with minor damage – but still attached in a way that makes
it unlikely anyone kicked in a locked door to get inside,
experts told Fox News Digital.

"There’s no way they broke into that apartment," said Pat Diaz,
who served 26 years as a Miami-Dade homicide detective before
becoming a private investigator. "The left side lock would come
right off. Guaranteed."

He also said there would likely be visible damage near the
bottom handle.

"This was not a suicide," he said. "That is usually somebody
with anger when you’ve got that many stab wounds. Somebody was
angry."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/philadelphia-suicide-designation- woman-20-stab-wounds-bruises-ignores-homicide-evidence-experts

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