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‘Something terrible has happened to Ellie.’

Sandee Greenberg will never forget those words, though she cannot remember clearly what came next, only that the world fell out from under her.

She called to her husband to pick up the other phone and amid the confusion that followed. The only clarity was the awful realization that their daughter, 27-year-old Ellen, their only child, was dead.

Nine years later that catastrophic truth is pretty much the only undisputed fact in what has become the mystery of the death of Ellen Rae Greenberg, a bizarre case and now the subject of a new ‘Accident, Murder, Suicide’ documentary now streaming on Oxygen.

But it leaves many questions unanswered and DailyMail.com has launched its own investigation.

We have spoken with lawyers and investigators at the heart of the case and reviewed numerous expert reports that contradict official findings. And we have learned new details of the evening of Ellen’s death and its aftermath, that we can reveal here for the first time today.

We have spoken with lawyers and investigators at the heart of the case and reviewed numerous expert reports that contradict official findings. And we have learned new details of the evening of Ellen’s death and its aftermath, that we can reveal here for the first time today.

Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old elementary school teacher, was found dead on January 26, 2011 in the kitchen of her Philadelphia apartment

Ellen had been stabbed ten times in the back of her neck and head and ten in her stomach, abdomen and chest and a knife was still plunged in her heart

This graphic shows knife wounds Ellen suffered to her neck and chest, that pierced her brain and severed her spinal cord

The 27-year-old elementary school teacher was found dead on January 26, 2011 in the kitchen of her Philadelphia apartment. She had been stabbed ten times in the back of her neck and head and ten in her stomach, abdomen and chest. A knife was still plunged in her heart.

But Ellen had been alone and the door locked from the inside. There was no other way in or out, no sign of struggle and she had no defensive wounds. Police said suicide. The next day the medical examiner ruled homicide.

Guy D’Andrea was an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia’s homicide unit. He told DailyMail.com, ‘Right away it piqued my interest. I’d never heard of such a thing’

A few weeks later, in an almost unprecedented move, the medical examiner fell in line with police and changed Ellen’s cause of death to suicide; case closed. But for her parents Sandee and Joshua Greenberg the fight was just beginning.

Today, they tell DailyMail.com, they have ‘a mountain of evidence,’ to support their conviction that Ellen was murdered and they will not rest until that truth is acknowledged.

Speaking from their home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Sandee, 64, said, ‘This is not something we thought, in a million years, we would ever be doing or would ever happen. We thought there was a very bright future. We were planning for future generations never expecting her life to end like this.

‘It took years for us to piece this together. At the beginning I was sitting up at night looking at reports with a centimeter ruler trying to figure out how that really translated into how shallow or deep the incisions were on my child’s body. We realized we needed to get experts to help us do this so that’s what we did.’

Guy D’Andrea was an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia’s homicide unit in 2015 when a colleague asked him to take a look at the puzzling case of a ‘suicide’ committed by 20 self-inflicted stab wounds.

He told DailyMail.com, ‘Right away it piqued my interest. I’d never heard of such a thing. So, I get the file, I pull everything out and I hone in on what was the primary reason as to why this was ruled a suicide versus a homicide. Now if that’s conclusive I don’t need to go much further.’

Ellen’s body had been found by her fiancé, television producer Samuel Goldberg, with whom she lived. He told police he had kicked in the door because it had been locked from the inside.

D’Andrea had assumed that this meant it had been deadbolted but when he reviewed the pictures of the scene D’Andrea saw that the lock was nothing more than a hotel-room style latch. He knew that these can be easily locked from the outside, and so he considered the certainty of the door being locked from the inside debunked.

The next issue was that there had been no defensive wounds on Ellen’s body. Nobody can know the order of the stabs apart from the fact that the final one was to her heart as the knife was still there.

But if one of the first stabs to her neck had lacerated Ellen’s spinal cord case she would have been rendered incapable of fighting back. And D’Andrea was perplexed by the huge gash on top of Ellen’s head which seemed consistent to him with being struck from behind.

The attorney took his questions to the medical examiner and was told that a neuropathologist had examined the spinal column and said that the knife had not pierced it. This meant that Ellen would have been able to defend herself if she was being attacked.

Ellen’s body had been found by her fiancé, television producer Samuel Goldberg, with whom she lived, and he said the door was locked from the inside

Goldberg said the door to the apartment was deadbolted but when when Assistant District Attorney Guy D’Andrea reviewed the pictures of the scene he saw that the lock was nothing more than a hotel-room style latch

Investigative analyst Brennan said, ‘There is no way that a lock like that can be kicked in without it coming off the door or the door frame but the only [damage] was one missing screw.’

D’Andrea took his questions to the medical examiner and was told that a neuropathologist had examined the spinal column and said that the knife had not pierced it. This meant that Ellen would have been able to defend herself if she was being attacked

Another graphic show’s Ellen’s spinal cord had actually been severed and her brain pierced in two forceful stabs to the neck. She could have neither defended nor harmed herself after those blows

A crime scene analyst hired by the family noted that Ellen had been moved. She was found seated on the floor, propped up against kitchen cabinets, yet a streak of coagulated blood ran in a horizontal line from her nose to her ear

D’Andrea asked for the neuropathologist’s report but was told it couldn’t be found. He told DailyMail.com, ‘You have to have a report. You can’t base a conclusion on hearsay.’

At the time the ME’s office did not have a neuropathologist on staff and Ellen’s final autopsy report attributed the finding to Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams, an expert regularly instructed by the office.

In fact it later transpired that she had no record of ever having being commissioned to study Ellen’s spinal column at all.

There was no invoice, no log entry and no recollection on her part of a case that was memorably unusual.

D’Andrea contacted Tom Brennan, the state police veteran turned Criminal Investigative Analyst working pro-bono for the Greenberg family and told him that they needed to hire their own neuropathologist.

D’Andrea explained, ‘I found that they had kept that sample of spinal column at the medical examiner’s office. There would be no reason to do that if it had ever been tested.’

The family did as he suggested, and the finding was clear.

Ellen’s spinal cord had been severed and her brain pierced in two forceful stabs to the neck. She could have neither defended nor harmed herself after those blows.

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The narrative that informed the police view in the first place had come from Ellen’s fiancé, Goldberg who spoke to the investigating officers who attended the scene. His was the only account of what transpired at the apartment that day.

Ellen had come home early that day as there had been a blizzard that closed schools early.

Ellen’s parents Sandee and Joshua Greenberg tell DailyMail.com they have ‘a mountain of evidence’ to prove their daughter was murdered

None of it makes any sense to Ellen’s father, Joshua, 70, who said, ‘Why have they put us through this? Why don’t they take us by the hand and lead us to the truth?’

According to her mother Sandee, Ellen’s death was disguised as a suicide when it was not. She said, ‘We cannot let this go unnoticed’

Goldberg said he left her to go the building’s gym at around 4.45pm and returned at 5.30pm to find he couldn’t get in.

Neighbors confirmed hearing him shouting for Ellen through the front door.

Frustrated, he began calling before texting her the following nine messages: ‘Hello,’ ‘open the door,’ ‘what r u doin,’ ‘i’m getting pissed,’ ‘hello,’ ‘you better have an excuse,’ ‘what the f***’ ‘ahhh’ ‘u have no idea.’

Goldberg went back downstairs to ask the apartment building security guard if he had some sort of tool that he could use to break in. The guard did not. Goldberg returned several times asking the guard to come with him to help break down the door. Goldberg’s statement to police put the security guard with him when he broke down the door.

Ellen’s father described her as ‘not the same Ellen,’ in the weeks before her death. He said, ‘Everything was, ”I’ll have to check with Sam. I’ll have to see what Sam says”’

The guard told both police and the family’s own investigator that he was not and had not left his post.

According to D’Andrea, ‘The security guard said the thing he noticed as odd, was that Sam kept telling him he had been at the gym, but he wasn’t wearing sneakers. He was wearing regular boots.’

By the time Goldberg entered the apartment and called 911 it was 6.33pm.

D’Andrea points out, ‘That’s an hour since he started trying to contact Ellen. I don’t know about you, but you’re gone 30 minutes and you get back and the love of your life isn’t responding how long before you think, ‘there’s something really wrong here.’ Ten minutes, 20 minutes……an hour?’

Goldberg called at least two other numbers before he dialed 911 – his parents and his uncle, an attorney. They were on their way to the scene almost before emergency services. It was his father who called the Greenbergs.

D’Andrea has listened to the audio of the 911 call placed by Goldberg that evening. He said, ‘There’s no playbook on how you’re supposed to react when you find something like this, but I was very struck at the tone.

‘He was saying, ”Oh my God, oh my God, my fiancée, there’s blood…” but he was completely calm. And the dispatcher keeps asking him to describe what’s happening and he’s spending all this time telling them how he’d been to the gym and come back…

‘Then the dispatcher tells him you’re going have to start performing CPR. She says, ”I’ll walk you through it.” He says, ”Do I have to?” That stuck in my mind.

‘It’s like two or three minutes in that he notices she has a knife in her chest. You know, you’re right there next to the body and it’s not like a little paring knife. It’s a butcher’s knife.’

According to D’Andrea Goldberg told the dispatcher, ‘She must have fallen on it.’

Goldberg was led from the scene in handcuffs and taken for further questioning as a matter of course. He would not speak without legal representation.

DailyMail.com has learned that he gave a brief statement but that subsequent law enforcement attempts to speak with him were declined.

D’Andrea said, ‘He was perfectly within his rights to say no. You can’t compel someone to talk and once it had been ruled a suicide there was no case to answer.’

Forensic neuropathologist Wayne Ross found ‘evidence of strangulation’ and noted, ‘There were multiple bruises over the body some of which were fresh, many of which were older.’  He deemed Ellen’s death homicide

Famed forensic pathologist Cyril H Wecht, instructed on behalf of Ellen’s parents, noted that suicide victims rarely stab themselves multiple times or through their clothing as Ellen had been

The report by the medical examiner deems the manner of Ellen’s death a suicide

This is the investigative report into Ellen’s death along with several expert reports commissioned by the family

This investigation report sets out the contents of the text messages sent by Ellen’s fiancé Sam while allegedly trying to get her to let him into the apartment. This investigation report sets out the contents of the text messages sent by Ellen’s fiancé Sam while allegedly trying to get her to let him into the apartment

A crime scene analyst hired by the family noted that Ellen had been moved. She was found seated on the floor, propped up against kitchen cabinets, yet a streak of coagulated blood ran in a horizontal line from her nose to her ear.

Blood spatters on the toes of her Ugg boots also suggested that she had been standing when some of the wounds were inflicted.

All of the investigators with whom DailyMail.com spoke noted there was surprisingly little blood at the scene causing them to wonder if there had been an attempt to clean up. But no luminol tests were performed.

Investigative analyst Brennan, 76, described himself as, ‘disgusted,’ by the ‘total lack of basic police work,’ that took place at any stage of this investigation.

He said, ‘In a case like this, in an apartment complex, it’s basic police work. When you get there, you take a look at the scene and you say, ”Hey you two guys go down and check the trash.” But they never did that. They never did anything.

‘They came in, looked around, said, ”Suicide,” and left.’

He said, ‘There is no way that a lock like that can be kicked in without it coming off the door or the door frame but the only [damage] was one missing screw.

‘That door was closed and given a hard tug from inside to make it look like it had been forced and when somebody cleaned up they cleaned up too well.’

Ellen was declared dead at 6.40pm. When the scene was cleared it wasn’t secured and no officer was left on the door.

The next day, Brennan revealed, Goldberg’s uncle and cousin returned to the apartment. They told the security guard they were going to get him a suit for the funeral. They left with Goldberg’s laptop, Ellen’s personal laptop, her work laptop and her cellphone.

Brennan said, ‘Her laptop was not password protected. By now the medical examiner has said this is homicide. But those devices are gone.’

The police took possession of the devices on January 29 – two days after they had been taken and three days after Ellen’s death. But the chain of evidence had been broken so nothing recovered from them can ever be admissible in court.

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