Teacher's unlikely 'suicide' ruling called out as web sleuths dig into surveillance video

Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia teacher, died connected Jan. 6, 2011, during a nor'easter that unopen down overmuch of the city. She had 20 stab wounds, including 10 to the backmost of her caput and neck, but authorities yet deemed her decease a suicide.

Few radical looking astatine the lawsuit from the extracurricular agree. Outside investigators and a sheet of Pennsylvania judges person pointed retired glaring flaws with the constabulary effect and autopsy findings portion calling for an autarkic review. 

A transgression country cleanup institution cleared the flat earlier constabulary arrived with a hunt warrant, according to the family's lawyer, Joe Podraza. The weapon recovered successful Greenberg's thorax was ne'er fingerprinted, and a 2nd imaginable limb was ne'er recovered. Investigators didn't usage the blood-detecting chemic luminol to analyse the scene.

An autarkic probe is presently underway, initiated astir 2 years agone by the Chester County District Attorney's Office, which stepped successful aft some Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and erstwhile Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, present the governor, some recused themselves.

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Ellen Greenberg, left, successful an undated household photo. (Greenberg family)

Amateur sleuths and supporters of the household from astir the state person spent hours watching clips of surveillance video from the flat building's lobby and hallways for clues. Two of them precocious shared their findings with the family, her parents told Fox News Digital.

One, a puerility person of Greenberg's who works for the Navy successful Mechanicsburg, Ellen's parent Sandee said, told her helium believes assemblage connection shown by men coming and going from the elevator bay indicates "nervous" and "suspicious" behavior. He besides questioned whether 1 man, who the household antecedently thought mightiness beryllium the relative of Greenberg's fiance, Sam Goldberg, could beryllium idiosyncratic other entirely.

WATCH: Sam Goldberg, fiance of Ellen Greenberg astatine the time, seen successful 2011 surveillance footage

The other, whose time occupation is arsenic a librarian successful Chester County, wherever the extracurricular probe is underway, told PennLive that she believes a antheral seen "nervously bouncing around" the lobby goes up and down the elevator earlier utilizing "a Kleenex to dab the blood" from an unspecified injury. She reportedly sent that accusation to investigators.

Greenberg's father, Dr. Josh Greenberg, told Fox News Digital the household welcomes the enactment – but that much factual grounds whitethorn beryllium disposable connected video that hasn't yet been released to the public.

WATCH: Phil Hanton, a information defender astatine Ellen Greenberg's flat astatine the time, is seen successful 2011 surveillance footage

"What the constabulary are withholding, they lone gave america similar a three-hour model of video, not the full time before, not the full time after," helium told Fox News Digital. "They person Melissa Ware, the gathering manager's videotape of the transgression scene. They someway can't nutrient that."

"The constabulary aren’t funny successful solving this crime," helium sighed.

Philadelphia constabulary did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. They person antecedently declined to sermon the case, citing the open investigation successful Chester County and the ongoing civilian litigation.

A divided representation shows Ellen Greenberg smiling successful an undated household photograph and a computer-generated photograph based connected an autopsy study showing knives wherever she had been stabbed 20 times. The forensic pathologist, Dr. Marlon Osbourne, concluded they were self-inflicted. (Greenberg family)

Greenberg's parents person been progressive successful bitter tribunal battles with the government, accusing the aesculapian examiner's bureau of covering up their daughter's homicide, demanding constabulary crook implicit much grounds and seeking to person the designation of "suicide" connected her decease certificate replaced with "undetermined" oregon "homicide."

Police released respective hours of surveillance footage from Greenberg's flat gathering connected the nighttime of her decease to Podraza, who archetypal shared it with Gavin Fish, an autarkic investigative newsman who has a website dedicated to solving the case.

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The parents of Ellen Greenberg sermon the case. (Fox News)

There are hours of further surveillance video that constabulary person not yet turned over, according to Dr. Greenberg, and a signaling of the transgression country earlier it was cleaned up has besides been withheld from the family, helium said.

"The building’s spot manager, Melissa Ware, aboriginal explained that an unnamed [Philadelphia Police Department] typical had advised her to telephone a third-party work to person the flat thoroughly cleaned," Commonwealth Judge Ellen Ceisler wrote successful an appellate ruling past year. "There is nary grounds successful the grounds that Ms. Ware, the unidentified cleaning service, oregon the PPD typical were ever interviewed by investigating authorities."

WATCH: Melissa Ware discusses cleanup astatine Ellen Greenberg's apartment

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Ware antecedently spoke to Fox Nation astir the lawsuit and the flat cleanup. 

"I received a telephone from idiosyncratic successful Sam's family. I deliberation it mightiness person been the uncle. They wanted to travel to the flat to get a fewer idiosyncratic effects for the funeral. I instantly called the constabulary to spot what I could oregon couldn't do, and they told maine that determination was nary occupation letting them in. It was nary longer a transgression scene," Ware said. "And past I asked, Well, what is the information of the flat look like? Because I hadn't been inside. And is determination idiosyncratic that could cleanable it up? And they said that it's thing they didn't do. I asked for a recommendation. They gave maine a transgression country cleanable up." 

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Dr. Greenberg believes Ware's video could incorporate clues that mightiness shed airy connected what truly happened. So could his daughter's devices – 3 laptops and 2 cellphones – which helium says vanished from the transgression scene.

Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old Philadelphia teacher, was recovered dormant successful her flat successful 2011 – with 20 stab wounds – in a lawsuit that investigators ruled a suicide. Her parents bash not judge that mode of decease is accurate, based connected accusation they've uncovered successful implicit a decennary of battling with metropolis leaders. (Sandee Greenberg)

"The archetypal EMT person, 30 years of acquisition with this benignant of thing, helium knew thing was incorrect connected the scene," helium told Fox News Digital. "No 1 ever interviewed him and asked, ‘What did you spot erstwhile you walked into the apartment?’"

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Ware, a erstwhile gathering manager, thought the cleanup was unusual and recorded the flat connected video, helium said. But contempt repeated requests to police, the household doesn't person a copy.

"Something isn't right," Dr. Greenberg said. "We've got evidence. We person facts. This is not a substance of a crazed begetter and parent screaming connected a table. We did everything the close way."

He said helium and his woman person kept up their combat for answers for 14 years and person nary plans to springiness it up.

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Last year, a sheet of appellate tribunal judges ruled against the parents' petition to unit the Philadelphia aesculapian examiner to reclassify Greenberg's death. The sheet recovered that the parents lacked standing, but the judges slammed the city, constabulary and the aesculapian examiner's bureau for the investigation.

As portion of the parents' civilian lawsuits, they are scheduled to conscionable with an autarkic forensic psychiatrist.

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A batch of grounds successful the lawsuit deserves scrutiny, according to Podraza and the family's backstage investigator, Tom Brennan. Despite collapsing with astir 2 twelve stab wounds successful a bloodstained kitchen, Greenberg was recovered clutching a "pristine" achromatic towel successful her near hand.

Dr. Cyril Wecht, a famed forensic pathologist who conducted an autarkic reappraisal of the autopsy, recovered the grounds "strongly suspicious of homicide."

Wecht, who died successful May, antecedently told Fox News Digital that aft looking astatine the forensic evidence, helium believed the thought that Greenberg could person died by termination was "highly, highly unlikely."

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Another highly respected forensic pathologist, Dr. Henry Lee, besides reviewed the case. He recovered that the space of the wounds connected the backmost of Greenberg's caput "would person been hard to inflict herself" and that her injuries were "consistent with a homicide scene," according to tribunal documents.