The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office has revisited the case of Ellen Greenberg, a Pennsylvania teacher whose mysterious death in 2011 has long spurred questions. After thorough review, the office has reaffirmed its original conclusion: Ellen Greenberg’s death was a suicide.

This reaffirmation by the medical examiner’s office was made public shortly before a significant legal hearing at the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, scheduled for October 14. According to a report from People Magazine, this decision is pivotal in the ongoing legal and public discourse surrounding the case.

In a detailed re-examination, Philadelphia’s Chief Medical Examiner, Lindsay Simon, uncovered additional evidence, including 20 more bruises and three additional perforations on Ellen’s skin, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Despite these findings, Simon maintained that the evidence supports a conclusion of suicide.

In a comprehensive 32-page report, Simon elaborated on the factors contributing to this determination. She highlighted Ellen’s anxiety, particularly in relation to her role as a first-grade teacher. Simon noted that Ellen had expressed concern over her decision to assign inflated grades to her students, which may have compounded her stress.

Simon further explained that Ellen had been addressing insomnia linked to her anxiety through medication. However, she tragically did not live to tackle the underlying anxiety itself. This context, according to Simon, was crucial in understanding the circumstances leading to Ellen’s death.

“Thus, she had an increase in energy to act on her anxious thoughts.”

Since their daughter’s death, Dr. Josh and Sandee Greenberg have been locked in court disputes over changing the cause of death.

They claimed that the medical examiner’s office is hiding evidence of her homicide and filed lawsuits in an attempt to have her death certificate amended from “suicide” to “homicide” or “undetermined.”

The medical examiner’s re-examination came after the Greenburg couple settled two lawsuits against city officials. As part of the settlement, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office agreed to review Ellen’s initial autopsy.

The findings were handed over to the Greenberg couple’s lawyer, Joseph Podraza Jr., Friday afternoon.

“The whole thing was bogus,” Joshua Greenberg reportedly said. “I expected the city to do this. Her synopsis doesn’t change a darn thing. Philadelphia will do everything they can to prove their point.”

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As CrimeOnline previously reported, Ellen was found deceased in her Manayunk apartment in 2011. Greenberg’s fiancé, Sam Goldberg, said he left for the gym while Ellen chopped up fruit in the kitchen.

He returned home to find the front door locked, with the swing lock attached to the inside side of the door.

Goldberg said he called and texted Ellen numerous times, but when he couldn’t get an answer and couldn’t get help from the apartment management, he broke the lock and walked inside.

Inside the apartment, Ellen was found slumped over in the kitchen, with “some of her upper body/shoulders resting against the lower half of the white kitchen cabinets.”

Goldberg has not been named a suspect in the case.

Several inconsistencies and irregularities have surfaced with forensics in the case, including how Ellen could have managed to stab four inches into her chest after stabbing herself multiple times.

Ten of the stab wounds were to the back of her neck, one stab wound was to the back of her scalp, another wound was on her stomach, and eight wounds were found on her chest.

Further, Ellen was left-handed, but the knife was held with her right hand, according to the autopsy report.

A forensic examination indicated that Ellen also had two sharp force injuries that lacked bleeding, meaning the wounds could have been inflicted after her death.

Neuropathologist Lyndsey Emery, who was hired by the city of Philadelphia to evaluate Ellen’s spinal cord, told Ellen’s family attorney that Ellen had no hemorrhaging, as it strongly suggests she did not have a pulse when she was stabbed.

She concluded that at least one of the 20 stab wounds on Greenberg occurred postmortem.

“That didn’t surprise me as much as when I turned to reading the substance of this alleged report,” Podraza said.

“Overall, I think it’s a product that’s disingenuous and really constitutes tripe.”

To learn more about Ellen Greenberg and the case, visit the “Justice for Ellen” Facebook page. You can also sign the “Justice for Ellen Rae Greenberg” petition on Change.org.

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[Feature Photo: Ellen Greenberg/Family Handout]