'Suicide' ruling for teacher's 20 stab wounds may be reexamined

Yes, this woman was stabbed 20 times, 9 or 10 of them to the back of the head. It was ruled a homicide, then there was a closed door meeting between police and the ME, and it was reversed to suicide. The DA stepped aside due to a conflict of interest. The AG, who is now the governor, was accused of having a conflict of interest. And the doctor who changed it from homicide to suicide now lives in Florida and refuses to talk to anyone. Nah, nothing fishy here.

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Last year, a panel of appellate court judges ruled against the parents' request to force the Philadelphia medical examiner to reclassify Greenberg's death from suicide to homicide or undetermined. The panel found that the parents lacked standing.

But the judges also slammed the city, police and the medical examiner's office for the investigation.

Greenberg's parents alleged a murder cover-up and vowed to take their fight to the state's Supreme Court, finally succeeding last week after outside experts warned them they would face an uphill battle.

"We always wondered why we didn't have standing, Ellen's mother and father," her father, Dr. Joshua Greenberg, told Fox News Digital. "We started it as a fight for Ellen, but… we are fighting on standing and on the ability to challenge the medical examiner. Right now the medical examiner's conclusion cannot be challenged."

After Greenberg's death, a forensic pathologist with the city medical examiner's office named Dr. Marlon Osbourne ruled it a homicide, according to court documents. Then he reversed course after meeting with police behind closed doors and dubbed it officially a suicide.

Greenberg was discovered dead in her kitchen in January 2011 with 20 stab wounds, including 10 from behind, at least one of which could have been inflicted after she was already dead, according to court documents. Her body was also covered in bruises in different stages of healing.

Investigators found a half-made fruit salad on the countertop and signs of a struggle, including that the knife block had been knocked over.

There was evidence the door lock had been tampered with and that her body had been moved, according to her parents' lawyer, Joe Podraza. He told Fox News Digital the knife found at the scene had never been fingerprinted.

The crime scene was cleaned up before detectives arrived with a search warrant, according to court documents. And the appellate court judges said they had not been given any record of police interviews with the building security guard or with Greenberg's fiance, who called 911 to report finding her slumped over in their apartment.

But city police and prosecutors have repeatedly insisted the death was a suicide.

"They never talk about the big gash to Ellen’s head," Dr. Greenberg said Monday. "They never talk about the restraint on the wrists, how she was restrained, only that there was no defensive wounds."

There's also missing video evidence, he said.

"This is such a bogus case," he added. "It's a cluster----."

The Chester County District Attorney’s Office is conducting another outside investigation after Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner stepped away due to a conflict of interest and former Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who is now the governor, was accused of having another conflict of interest.

Dr. Osbourne has since moved to Florida, where he works in the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner’s Office. He has not responded to requests for comment on the Greenberg case.

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