The parents of Ellen Greenberg have filed a lawsuit against the medical examiner’s office, who they feel improperly ruled her death a suicide. The Pennsylvania woman was found stabbed to death in her home, suffering more than 20 stab wounds.
According to CBS Philly, a judge has granted Greenberg’s family a non-jury trial in the case against the coroner’s office. Her parents are fighting to have her cause of death ruled a homicide.
“We look forward to the trial in hopes of obtaining justice for Ellen,” Ellen’s mother, Sandra Greenberg, told the outlet. She also expressed that they were pleased the case was allowed to go to trial.
Greenberg, 27, was discovered dead on her kitchen floor in 2011 by her fiance, Sam Goldberg. She suffered from stab wounds to her head, neck, chest, and torso.
Her death was ruled a suicide, citing a lack of defensive wounds, DNA on her body that was not hers, and no signs of forced entry.
Marlon Osbourne, the medical examiner, initially ruled the death a homicide before amending the cause to suicide more than a month later. The city’s attorney maintained that the suicide ruling was reached based on experience and did not prevent the death from being investigated as a homicide.
The family argued that a team of experts they hired noted an overturned knife in the apartment, suggesting the possibility of a struggle. They also noted a wound found on the back of her head may have left her unconscious and unable to fight back.
The family also questioned why her actions leading up to her death didn’t suggest she planned to take her own life. She stopped to fill her car with gas on the way home from her teaching job, and no suicide note was found.
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