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(NewsNation) — The parents of Ellen Greenberg connected Thursday offered a full-throated rejection of the latest authoritative ruling that Greenberg died by suicide successful her Philadelphia flat successful 2011.
For years, Josh and Sandee Greenberg person said their 27-year-old schoolteacher girl was murdered and person filed ineligible actions to reopen the case. This week, Philadelphia Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lindsay Simon issued a study reaffirming the office’s erstwhile uncovering of termination aft evaluating a wide scope of information, including Ellen Greenberg’s past of anxiousness and by watching a caller Hulu docuseries.
Simon besides noted that Greenberg and the live-in fiancé who recovered her body, Sam Goldberg, were not successful an abusive relationship.
Appearing connected Thursday's “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Josh and Sandee Greenberg said the M.E. went beyond the scope of what she should she person done — mainly, a reappraisal the carnal evidence. Ellen Greenberg had 23 stab wounds, including incisions to the backmost of her head.
“I deliberation my girl was murdered,” Josh Greenberg said.
“By whom?” Vargas asked.
“I don’t know. I’m not going there,” the begetter replied. “We person ne'er gone there. We’ve lone asked for 2 things: an unbiased probe led by an unbiased investigator.”
He said the lawsuit isn’t closed: “This ruling, which is truthful fallacious and truthful bogus, opens the lawsuit up to much questioning. … It didn’t settee thing with us.”
Dr. Marlon Osbourne, the pathologist who conducted the archetypal autopsy connected Ellen Greenberg, initially classified the decease arsenic a homicide, but changed it to suicide. Osbourne earlier this twelvemonth signed a connection saying the decease should beryllium classified arsenic thing different than suicide.
