Family Wins Major Victory as ‘Suicide’ Ruling in Teacher’s 20 Stab Wounds Case May Be Reexamined

There was a lot of disagreement about a pathologist’s decision that Ellen Greenberg’s death from 20 stab wounds was a suicide. Now, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments from her parents and their lawyer about the decision.

His mother, Sandee Greenberg, told Fox News Digital that the family found out on Tuesday that the court had agreed to hear their case. The court will decide if her parents have the legal right to question the medical examiner’s results as the executors of her estate.

A group of appellate court judges turned down the parents’ request last year to make the Philadelphia medical examiner change Greenberg’s death report from “suicide” to “homicide” or “undetermined.” The panel said that the parents did not have grounds.

When the judges looked into the case, they also said bad things about the city, the cops, and the medical examiner’s office.

Greenberg’s parents said there was a cover-up of the murder and vowed to take their case to the state’s Supreme Court. Last week, they finally won, even though outside experts told them it would be hard.

Dr. Joshua Greenberg, Ellen’s father, told Fox News Digital, “We always wondered why we didn’t have standing.” “We started the fight to protect Ellen, but now we’re fighting to stay alive and be able to question the medical examiner.” Right now, no one can question the medical examiner’s decision.

According to court records, Dr. Marlon Osbourne, a forensic scientist with the city medical examiner’s office, said that Greenberg’s death was a murder. He changed his mind after talking with police behind closed doors and now says it was a suicide.

Greenberg was found dead in her kitchen in January 2011 with 20 stab wounds, 10 of which were from behind. According to court records, at least one of the stab wounds could have been done after she was already dead. She also had a lot of bruises that were all at different stages of healing.

On the counter, investigators found a half-made fruit salad and signs of a fight, like a knife block being knocked over.

Joe Podraza, the lawyer for her parents, said there was proof that the door lock had been messed with and that her body had been moved. He told Fox News Digital that DNA had never been found on the knife that was found at the scene.

Court records show that the crime scene was cleaned up before officers with a search warrant got there. The appellate court judges also said they had not seen any records of the talks the police had with the security guard at the building or with Greenberg’s fiancé, who called 911 to say she found her slumped over in their apartment.

But city cops and prosecutors have said over and over that the death was an accident.

“The big cut on Ellen’s head is never brought up,” Dr. Greenberg said on Monday. “They never talk about the restraint on the wrists, how she was restrained, only that there were no defensive wounds.”

Also, he said, there’s no video proof.

He also said, “This is such a fake case.” “It’s a cluster—-.”

Podraza and Tom Brennan, the family’s private investigator, say that a lot of the information in the case needs to be looked at more closely. Greenberg was found with a “pristine” white towel in her left hand, even though she had been stabbed nearly twenty times and was lying in a bloody kitchen.

A well-known forensic pathologist named Dr. Cyril Wecht looked over the autopsy on his own and said that the evidence was “strongly suspicious of homicide.”

If you look at the forensic proof, Wecht, who died in May, told Fox News Digital that he thought Greenberg probably didn’t kill himself because it was “highly, highly unlikely.”

“In all my years of experience, and all of the homicides that I’ve done, and suicides, I’ve never seen anything like this,” he added.

Dr. Henry Lee, a well-known and respected forensic scientist, also looked over the case. According to court papers, he said that Greenberg “would have had a hard time inflicting herself” the wounds on the back of her head and that they were “consistent with a murder scene.”

The Chester County District Attorney’s Office is looking into the matter again with help from outside sources. This comes after Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner stepped down because of a conflict of interest and after Josh Shapiro, who is now governor of Pennsylvania, was accused of having another conflict of interest.

Since then, Dr. Osbourne has moved to Florida and now works for the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner’s Office. He hasn’t answered when asked for his thoughts on the Greenberg case.