The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office announced the decision in a 32-page report signed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lindsay Simon on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The review came after Greenberg’s parents, Josh and Sandee Greenberg, settled lawsuits with the City of Philadelphia earlier this year that required the office to reevaluate her manner of death.
Greenberg, 27, was discovered by her fiancé, Sam Goldberg, on the kitchen floor of her apartment during a blizzard on Jan. 26, 2011. She had been stabbed 23 times in her chest, abdomen, scalp, and the back of her neck, the report states — three more wounds than originally documented. The knife was still protruding from her chest.
Simon wrote that Greenberg was “a young woman suffering from anxiety” who was worried about her work as a teacher and was under psychiatric care. She concluded that “while the distribution of injuries is admittedly unusual, the fact remains that Ellen would be capable of inflicting these injuries herself.”…