A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge on Wednesday afternoon blasted the city and its attorneys for the time it’s taking to conclude a reexamination of the 2011 suspicious death of Ellen Greenberg.
The schoolteacher was discovered inside her Manayunk apartment, where she had been stabbed close to two dozen times. Her death was initially labeled a suicide, but the medical examiner disagreed, listing the death as a homicide.
Months later, after a meeting of city officials, the ruling was changed back to suicide. In a virtual hearing, Judge Linda Carpenter said she was frustrated and didn’t understand why the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office was taking so long to reinvestigate Greenberg’s death…