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PA Attorney General Again Determines Mysterious Death of Ellen Greenberg a Suicide After Review

The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office (AG) has completed the review of the mysterious death of Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia school teacher who was found stabbed nearly 20 times in 2011. The AG’s office reaffirmed that her death was a suicide.

The AG’s office previously reviewed the case in 2019 and had determined the death was a suicide.

“I think this is a vicious homicide,” Josh Greenberg, Ellen’s father said in a CBS 3 Philly interview. Their attorney, Joseph Podraza of Lamb McErlane, agrees. “You don’t stab yourself when you’re dead,” Podraza said. “That’s just a basic medical proposition that no one disputes.”

The Greenberg’s attorney uncovered what Podraza called new evidence in the case last year. In December, he provided it to the state attorney general’s office to review. Part of that new evidence is the deposition of a medical expert who reexamined a part of Greenberg’s spinal tissue, which found some interesting results.

“What’s significant here is that there’s no hemorrhage,” Lyndsey Emery, a neuropathologist, said in her deposition.

“You don’t stab yourself when you’re dead,” Podraza said. “That’s just a basic medical proposition that no one disputes.”

The Greenbergs are now suing the city of Philadelphia, trying to change Ellen’s manner of death from suicide to homicide or undetermined.

Lamb McErlane attorney Joseph Podraza is representing the Greenberg family, who have spent over 10 years fighting to have their daughter’s death ruled a homicide, not a suicide.

Click here to see the story on CBS3 Philly.

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