Twenty Stab Wounds Behind a Locked Door: The Ellen Greenberg Case
Twenty Stab Wounds Behind a Locked Door: The Ellen Greenberg Case
On January 26, 2011, during a blizzard, 27-year-old Philadelphia schoolteacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her locked Manayunk apartment with a knife in her chest and twenty stab wounds, ten of them to the back of her neck. The medical examiner first ruled her death a homicide. Weeks later, after a closed-door meeting with police and prosecutors, the same pathologist changed the ruling, and in 2025, he signed a statement saying he no longer believes that second answer. What happened in that meeting? Why did ten wounds to…
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