Ellen Greenberg autopsy discrepancies: Photos show bruises
- Ellen Greenberg found dead in 2011 with 20 stab wounds
- Former prosecutor suspects death was actually homicide
- Greenberg researched suicide methods using Google
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NewsNation) — NewsNation’s Brian Entin has uncovered discrepancies in the Ellen Greenberg autopsy report.
Greenberg’s body was discovered Jan. 26, 2011, by her fiancé, Samuel Goldberg, who told police he kicked open the apartment door after returning home from the gym and receiving no answer from Greenberg. Once inside, Goldberg said, he found his fiancée in the kitchen, leaning against a cabinet with a knife in her chest and 20 stab wounds. Greenberg suffered stab wounds to her torso, back and head.
Greenberg’s death was initially ruled a homicide, then quickly reclassified as a suicide.
Entin spoke to the prosecutor assigned to Greenberg’s case, Guy D’Andrea, who said there was no way it was a suicide. D’Andrea said the medical examiner agreed to change the cause of death, but then D’Andrea left the state attorney’s office for private practice. The state attorney general took over and determined the cause of death was suicide.
D’Andrea is especially concerned by the 911 call made by Greenberg’s fiancé. He said it doesn’t make sense the fiancé didn’t notice a knife sticking out of Greenberg’s chest until two minutes into the call.
Autopsy photos, which were not initially made public, show images of stab wounds and bruises. A steak knife can be seen sticking out of Greenberg’s chest, along with blood and her eyes being open.
Greenberg also reportedly used Google to research suicide methods, but the searches weren’t added to her evidence file until years after her death.
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The family consulted two experts, one of whom determined that a stab wound to her brain would have resulted in “severe pain, cranial nerve disfunction and traumatic brain signs” as well as “numbness, tingling (and) irregular heartbeat.”
That conclusion went against the findings in the medical examiner’s report, which determined that there was no damage to the spinal cord. But the Philadelphia Inquirer reported in 2019 that neuropathologist Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams said she had no recollection of the case, despite being the doctor cited in the medical examiner’s report.
When Gov. Josh Shapiro was reportedly asked to review the case as attorney general, his office stood by the ruling. Greenberg’s parents fear Shapiro never took the case seriously.
“I think he (Shapiro) tried to keep his hands off it as much as possible. I think deep down he knew this was a hot potato,” Josh Greenberg said. NewsNation has reached out to Shapiro’s office but has yet to hear back.
NewsNation’s Tyler Warnell contributed to this report.
