Tonight on the Hill, I discussed the case of Ellen Greenberg, whose death was ruled a suicide over ten years ago despite multiple stab wounds. Now, her cause of death is being reexamined, and I pressed Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on this controversial ruling.
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Tonight on the Hill - Over ten years ago, Ellen Greenberg's death was ruled a suicide after her body was found riddled with stab wounds. Now, her cause of death is being reexamined. NewsNation's @BrianEntin presses Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on the controversial suicide ruling. @thehill @newsnation #happeningonthehill #ellengreenberg
Speaker 0: On the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro. Also now answering his first question in years on the Ellen Greenberg case. Fourteen years ago, the 27 year old Philadelphia Teacher was found dead in her apartment. The cause initially labeled a homicide, but then changed to a suicide. Shapiro inherited the case when he was the Pennsylvania attorney general.
And in 2022, his office agreed with the suicide ruling. But now the Philadelphia Medical Examiner believes that Greenberg's death is not a suicide.
Speaker 1: I don't think I should speak for the city of Philadelphia and and why they chose to make the decision they did. There's nothing I wanted more than to give these parents some finality, some answers, some clarity. And we received more evidence, more information during the course of our investigation, that sadly didn't show what they wanted it to show.
Speaker 0: The governor answering those questions as our Brian Enten was the one asking them, in Pennsylvania just yesterday. Brian joins us live tonight. Brian?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Blake. This is a crazy story. I can tell you. I've been looking into it for more than a year. All of the medical experts that I've talked to say there is no way that this was a suicide.
This young woman, she was found stabbed 20 times, stabbed in the front, in the heart, all over her chest, stabbed in the back, stabbed in the spinal cord. Okay. The, pathologist say you cannot keep stabbing yourself after you're stabbed that many times and stabbed in the spinal cord. It is just totally impossible. It's a bizarre situation.
The medical examiner fourteen years ago first ruled it, a homicide, which seemed to make sense to a lot of people. But then in a very strange twist, a short time later, changed it to suicide. And then very recently, more than a decade later, said that it does not appear to be a suicide. And and Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, has been brought into this whole mess because he was the attorney general. He reviewed the case, and he sided with, the suicide ruling, which a lot of people have questioned because, this young woman who, who died, Helen Greenberg, her fiance, a man named Sam Goldberg, has has family members, high powered lawyers that have connections to the governor, and a lot of people are questioning whether that may have played a role, into why he decided that it was a suicide.
Speaker 0: And when when you were asking the governor about this, he addressed the family's reaction, right, of the the Greenberg family reaction. What did he say?
Speaker 2: Yeah. He did. And this has been very controversial in the last twenty four hours. A lot people are offended by this, including, Ellen's family or both her parents. She was an only child, by the way.
They they don't feel like the governor has ever taken this case seriously. Let's listen to what he said.
Speaker 1: Lashing out isn't gonna change, the evidence here. And I'm hopeful that as this process goes forward, if any new information comes to bear, that it immediately be shared with the Chester County District Attorney and allow the DA there to, you know, to conduct an investigation.
Speaker 2: So it'll be interesting to see what happens, Blake, now that the medical examiner has said that it's not a suicide. Will there be a new criminal investigation? And for Josh Shapiro, politically, this is something that keeps coming up.
