Bombshell update in horrific case of bride-to-be whose death was ruled a suicide after she was stabbed 20 times - as her family speak out

Parents of a young coach recovered pinch 20 stab wounds person won nan correct to situation nan ruling of her decease arsenic a suicide.

Ellen Greenberg, 27, was recovered dormant connected nan room level of her flat successful Philadelphia successful nan mediate of a blizzard on January 26, 2011.

She had 10 stab wounds to her cervix and nan backmost of nan head, and 10 to her stomach, abdomen, and thorax pinch a 10-inch weapon still plunged into her heart.

Her fiancé Sam Goldberg told constabulary he collapsed down nan door, which was locked from nan inside, recovered her, and attempted CPR pinch connected nan telephone pinch 911.

Assistant Philadelphia Medical Examiner Marlon Osbourne initially ruled her decease a homicide but changed it to termination aft a gathering pinch constabulary and prosecutors.

Greenberg's parents Joshua and Sandee person spent nan 13 years since, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, trying to reverse it.

'Ellen stabbing herself 20 times earlier dying is bulls**t. She died from a very vicious, very achy weapon attack,' Joshua told DailyMail.com 

After amassing a wealthiness of grounds pointing to homicide, they sued nan ME's agency and Osborne successful 2019 but were rejected by the Commonwealth Court past September.

But nan Pennsylvania Supreme Court this week granted their entreaty to perceive nan lawsuit arsenic a 'matter of statewide importance'.

'We're smiling, we're very optimistic... I dream we're making our girl proud. There's been a batch of frustration, but we haven't fixed up,' Sandee said.

The tribunal will perceive arguments connected whether 'executors and administrators of an property person opinionated to situation an erroneous uncovering recorded connected nan decedent's decease certificate'.

The bid noted 'that uncovering constitutes a barroom aliases worldly impediment to betterment of victim's compensation, restitution aliases for wrongful death, arsenic good arsenic backstage criminal complaints'. 

Joshua said nan family would alteration a longstanding precedent if it won, and hoped Greenberg's origin of decease would astatine slightest beryllium changed to 'undetermined'.

'Medical examiners apparently person this expertise that you and I don't person - they tin locomotion connected h2o truthful their conclusions cannot beryllium challenged, isolated from by a court. So, we are challenging thing that cannot beryllium challenged,' he said.

The family's lawyer, Joseph Podraza, said getting nan uncovering changed could unit Greenberg's decease to beryllium reinvestigated arsenic a imaginable homicide.

'We've sewage our fingers and toes crossed. That's why we were ecstatic erstwhile nan Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided to return up nan matter,' he said.

'We're hopeful that 1 of nan reasons that they took this lawsuit is to group that precedent and to correct what we contend is an erroneous determination.'

Though the Commonwealth Court recovered nan Greenbergs had nary opinionated to situation nan aesculapian examiner, nan judges were different connected their side.

The 39-page determination was a scathing indictment of really nan lawsuit was handled, giving them dream for nan Supreme Court appeal.

Judges wrote they were 'acutely alert of nan profoundly flawed investigation' and their sentiment was written ''in nan interests of justice' and 'with hopes that equity whitethorn 1 time prevail for nan unfortunate and her loved ones'.

'It's virtually each devoted to really messed up and sloppy and substandard nan constabulary investigation was and really galore mistakes they made,' Podraza said.

City of Philadelphia lawyers maintained 'the rule makes clear that a aesculapian examiner tin beryllium incorrect arsenic to nan mode of decease yet cannot beryllium compelled to alteration it'.

Greenberg's parents and their lawyer laid retired nan grounds they based on pointed to nan first-grade coach being murdered.

They spent years conducting their ain investigation pinch backstage detectives, respective pathologists, and photogrammetry recreating each of nan 20 stab wounds.

'This is not thing we thought, successful a cardinal years, we would ever beryllium doing aliases would ever happen. We thought location was a very agleam future. We were readying for early generations ne'er expecting her life to extremity for illustration this,' Sandee said.

'It took years for america to portion this together. At nan opening I was sitting up astatine nighttime looking astatine reports pinch a centimeter ruler trying to fig retired really that really translated into really shallow aliases heavy nan incisions were connected my child's body. 

'We realized we needed to get experts to thief america do this truthful that's what we did.'

DailyMail.com conducted its ain investigation in 2020, speaking pinch nan experts nan Greenbergs employed on pinch others - each of whom agreed nan lawsuit wasn't arsenic unfastened and unopen arsenic authorities insisted.

Since then, Podraza has conducted depositions pinch Osbourne and different aesculapian experts progressive successful nan case, arsenic portion of nan lawsuit.

The depositions revealed startling caller information, including that 1 of nan wounds whitethorn person been inflicted aft Greenberg's bosom stopped.

'That took america retired of hypothetical and put america successful reality, that you tin really constituent to beingness grounds that establishes a homicide versus suicide,' Podraza said, crediting it pinch getting nan Supreme Court appeal.

Much of nan suspicion has fallen connected Goldberg, who is now a joined father-of-two moving arsenic a movie and TV shaper successful Manhattan.

He has ne'er spoken publically astir his fiancée's death, and ne'er been outright accused of causing it.

'Police execution investigations usually commencement pinch nan group who are person successful narration to nan victim,' Joshua said.

He added that fixed nan number of wounds, location could person been a 2nd attacker pinch a execution limb that was ne'er found.

Greenberg's assemblage was besides covered successful 11 bruises connected her arm, abdomen, and limb astatine varying stages of healing, which her begetter claimed had to beryllium from maltreatment complete a agelong play of time.

'I deliberation those injuries are important to nan full thing,' he said, adding that covering up nan maltreatment could beryllium a motive for murdering her.

Joshua said his daughter's behaviour changed and she wanted to discontinue her job, time off Goldberg and move backmost location pinch her parents, and they had agreed to return her in.

'Sandy and I some judge Ellen was going to spell location that day,' he said.

'She had taken disconnected nan engagement ring, had packed up her makeup, which was very valuable to her, and she was readying to leave.

'And I deliberation things didn't activity retired well, and she ne'er made it home.'

Police claimed nan bruises were apt from playing interaction sports, aliases doing yoga aliases Pilates - nary of which Greenberg did. 

'The full point is baloney,' Joshua said.

Greenberg's parents besides insisted she was not suicidal, but she was tense and anxious successful nan weeks starring up to her death.

Friends told her parents that they excessively noticed a change, and that progressively she deferred to Goldberg connected decisions she would erstwhile person made for herself.

Her parents made her a woody that she could travel location if she saw a psychiatrist astir what was troubling her, and she agreed.

'Ellen's behaviour had changed, and nan constabulary tried to opportunity that she was crazy and suicidal. Well, she wasn't,' Joshua said.

'I made an statement because she wanted to travel location and I wanted to return attraction of her, but I didn't want her to suffer her occupation if she didn't person to.'

Psychiatrist Ellen Berman saw Greenberg 3 times, diagnosed her pinch anxiety, and prescribed her Ambien and Klonopin - but was very clear that she wasn't suicidal.

Podraza besides said nan FBI searched her machine and didn't find immoderate suicide-related searches.

They objection to nan very thought that Greenberg could person stabbed herself 20 times, including 10 times successful her cervix and nan backmost of her head.

They included eight wounds to her chest, including nan four-inch coiled to her heart, a two-inch coiled to her stomach, a 2.5-inch gash crossed her scalp, and 10 wounds up to 3 inches heavy to nan backmost of her neck.

'Just deliberation of nan magnitude of nan wounds. The symptom of that unsocial would incapacitate anybody who was not nether immoderate psychotropic supplier influence,' Podraza said.

'With each of nan nervus bundles that are surrounding [the backmost of nan neck], it's intolerable that she would person continued to self-inflict, origin nan assemblage would person conscionable unopen down from conscionable nan magnitude of nan symptom going done it.'

A deposition with Lyndsey Emery, a erstwhile pathologist astatine nan ME's office, besides revealed 1 of nan wounds whitethorn person been post-mortem.

Emery was asked successful 2019 by Chief Medical Examiner Sam Gulino to analyse a conception of Greenberg's spinal file kept successful storage.

She told nan deposition that hemorrhaging astir nan wounds connected nan spinal file and nan dura that didn't person any hemorrhaging astir them.

'Lack of hemorrhage intends nary pulse,' she said.

There were 2 different possibilities, Emery said - Greenberg could person died very soon aft nan coiled was inflicted, aliases it wasn't superior enough.

But she admitted she would expect to see hemorrhaging if Greenberg was live erstwhile she was stabbed.

'My lawyer almost fell disconnected his chair erstwhile she said during nan deposition, but we had nary knowledge of that astatine all,' Joshua said.

'You cannot person a post-mortem coiled inflicted by yourself if you are a termination victim.'

A period later, Emery made a written declaration saying she didn't afloat grasp nan scope of nan mobility and location were 3 much reasons location could person been no hemorrhaging.

But Podraza and Greenberg's parents are skeptical. 

They besides don't judge Osborne erstwhile he said he took a conception of Greenberg's spinal file to renowned neuropathologist Lucy Rorke-Adams to look it.

Bizarrely, he put it successful a jar and walked it done dense snowfall to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where Rorke-Adams worked.

Osborne claimed she looked astatine it and could spot nan spinal cord itself wasn't cut, truthful Greenberg wasn't paralyzed and could person kept stabbing herself.

However, Rorke-Adams ne'er billed for nan consultation aliases wrote a report, and years later said she had nary representation of nan full episode.

More came retired of a deposition with Gulino, who said he and Osborne were summoned to an 'unusual' gathering pinch nan constabulary and DA's office.

'[It's] clear that they were presenting accusation because they felt that nan mode of decease was different from what had been ruled,' he said. 

It was during that gathering that constabulary claimed they confirmed a doorman was pinch Goldberg erstwhile he collapsed nan doorway down - contempt him ne'er saying so.

This became a pivotal infinitesimal successful nan lawsuit and was a cardinal facet successful nan mode of decease being changed to suicide. 

'[It] was important to find retired if it was broken, if anyone was location to spot it beryllium broken, aliases is it conscionable nan communicative we're getting from nan decedent's fellow that it was surgery by him,' Osbourne said. 

'[It] doesn't look for illustration anyone other could person been successful nan room to inflict those injuries different than Ms Greenberg herself, and that is really I came to nan conclusion of suicide.'

But nan doorman, Phil Hanton, submitted a signed connection saying he wasn't location and ne'er near his station arsenic he was nan only 1 connected duty.

Goldberg told constabulary he had gone to nan gym downstairs astir 4.45pm and couldn't get backmost wrong nan flat erstwhile he returned half an hr later.

Neighbors heard him yelling to her done nan door, and frustrated, he began calling earlier texting her 9 messages.

They were: 'Hello,' 'open nan door,' 'what r u doin,' 'i'm getting pissed,' 'hello,' 'you amended person an excuse,' 'what nan f***' 'ahhh' 'u person nary idea.'

Goldberg went backmost downstairs to inquire nan flat building information defender if he had immoderate benignant of instrumentality that he could usage to break in. The defender did not.

Cameras successful nan building besides showed Hanton did not spell upstairs pinch Goldberg.

Podraza claimed location were indications that Goldberg whitethorn person moreover called 911 from nan hallway, not wrong nan flat for illustration he claimed.

The location was nan doorway itself that Goldberg claimed to person surgery nan fastener on.

The doorway had a plaything fastener that Greenberg's family said was hardly damaged and not successful nan correct measurement for it being kicked in.

'It wasn't damaged. It wasn't bent. It wasn't pulled retired of nan wall. There's very small if immoderate damage, to that lock, which would person to person been nan formed to let personification to to spell to spell into that apartment,' Joshua said.

Osborne admitted during nan deposition that if he knew location was conflict astir what happened pinch nan door, he would person ruled Greenberg's decease 'undetermined'. 

Other reasons he cited nether oath for his move to termination were nan spinal cord exam, nan deficiency of protect wounds, nary incapacitating narcotics successful Ellen's system, nary motion of an intruder, Goldberg's statements, and constabulary findings astatine nan scene.

Goldberg said he called 911 erstwhile he saw Ellen's body, nan audio of which was only released during nan depositions.

'Help!... My fiancée's connected nan level pinch humor everywhere,' he said.

He later added, 'I can't spot anything... there's thing broken... Ellie!... I deliberation she deed her head.'

'Oh my god! She stabbed herself... she fell connected a knife... location is simply a weapon sticking retired of her heart.'

Goldberg said his fiancée was lying down connected nan level erstwhile he recovered her, but erstwhile constabulary arrived she was propped up against nan wall, contempt him saying he did CPR connected her.

'There's a streak of humor from Ellen's receptor to her chemoreceptor connected 1 broadside of her face. That's horizontal,' Joshua said.

'So if nan humor was travelling by was by nan unit of gravity and it went from nan chemoreceptor to nan ear, that intends nan position of Ellen's caput was lying connected her backmost pinch her look facing nan sky. 

'Then really did you get to a seated position? The assemblage was moved.'

Podraza believes nan metropolis has fought Greenberg's family bony and nail for 13 years because it was covering up really severely 'botched' nan investigation was. 

'The astir troubling point is that connected January 26th, nan homicide detectives did not summon nan crime segment unit, contempt it being suspicious,' he said.

'As a consequence of that, it near nan premises unguarded and allowed non-official unit entree nan adjacent day. 

'It resulted then, successful a crime, a crime scene, cleanable up company, really scouring nan premises, and cleaning it, and Sam's relatives having entree to region immoderate they desired - each earlier nan constabulary were notified that nan aesculapian examiner's agency wished this to beryllium a homicide. 

'So by nan clip nan constabulary showed up, it was excessively late.'

Joshua agreed arsenic he claimed nan metropolis sent an service of lawyers to artifact them astatine each turn.

'We person had to walk hundreds of thousands of dollars and 13 years trying to get justness for our daughter,' he said.

'And it could person been handled correct distant without spending a hellhole of a batch of money and a batch of time. 

'How overmuch is nan metropolis spent connected this? How overmuch is nan metropolis wasted, clip wise, wherever they could beryllium doing much beneficial things to nan citizens of Philadelphia and nan authorities of Pennsylvania?

'What they're covering up, I don't know. Are they covering up constabulary inadequacy and mistakes? Are they covering up immoderate different characteristic aliases person? 

'I don't know, but it's a screen up. There's a correction location here, a large f**king mistake.'

Another bizarre section was then-Pennsylvania Attorney-General Josh Shapiro, now governor, recusing himself from nan lawsuit successful July 2022.

A YouTuber claimed Goldberg's family were contributors to Shapiro's campaign, and he truthful had a 'conflict of interest'.

Shapiro recused himself 3 days later and his agency said though location was nary existent conflict, location was an 'appearance' of one.

Greenberg's parents blasted Shapiro astatine nan time, but Joshua declined to remark to DailyMail.com, since nan erstwhile attorney-general was now nan frontrunner to beryllium Kamala Harris' moving mate.

'He stole 4 years from us, holding nan lawsuit successful his office, and we person nary grounds of him doing anything,' Sandee said successful 2022.

There is not yet a day for immoderate proceeding earlier nan Supreme Court, and nan entreaty could return up to a year.