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Ellen Greenberg’s parents are relentlessly pursuing justice for their daughter, whose death was initially classified as a suicide by authorities.
In a conversation with ABC 7, Ellen’s parents, Sandee and Josh Greenberg, shared with investigative journalist Anne Emerson their desire for Ellen’s fiancé, Sam Goldberg, to break his silence and provide his account of the events surrounding her death.
Currently, Goldberg has not issued any public statements in response to their request.
As detailed by CrimeOnline, Ellen, a 27-year-old first-grade teacher, was discovered with fatal stab wounds in her Manayunk apartment in 2011. According to Goldberg, he had gone to the gym while Ellen was preparing fruit in the kitchen.
Upon his return, he reportedly found the front door locked from the inside, with the interior swing lock engaged, as he relayed to law enforcement.
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 himself.
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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,” court documents stated.
Police have not arrested Goldberg or named him a suspect.
Earlier this month, according to DailyMail, Goldberg was spotted in New York City, but when questioned about the case, he fled into a building.
Meanwhile, a Philadelphia judge ruled Friday that a lawsuit can proceed against several city officials over the handling of Greenberg’s death.
The federal government requested documents last month from the Philadelphia Police Department and other official agencies, in connection with the case.
The judge dismissed the lawsuit for one defendant — a police supervisor who was a sergeant at the time of Greenberg’s death in 2011 — but other officials with the city’s police department and medical examiner’s office remain defendants.
“It’s very good news in that it takes things out of the state of Philadelphia which we cannot trust and places it in the hands of the federal government,’ Sandee told DailyMail.
“There’s been so much corruption they need fresh eyes on it… It’s been a very long time coming. January 26 will be 15 years but we’re gaining momentum and Ellen knows.”.
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