Sunday, September 21, 2025

September 21: Ellen Greenberg: Philadelphia: TV criminal justice analyst Nancy Grace calls for answers in her death -"Months after a medical examiner reversed his ruling and called Ellen Greenberg‘s death a homicide," Court TV reports, noting that: This beautiful young first-grade teacher at Juniata Park Elementary School was stabbed at least 20 times, including 10 times to the back,” Grace said as she introduced the case to the CrimeCon audience. “How can a woman be stabbed 10 times in the back, plus so many more and that be suicide?” Grace asked, suggesting that not even five-time Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comăneci would be able to create the stab wounds to herself."


PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Joining Grace was frequent Court TV guest and forensic pathologist Joseph Scott Morgan, who highlighted autopsy photos showing bruising to Greenberg’s neck and wrists. “These are textbook strangulation marks,” Morgan said. “So she strangled herself to subdue herself before she stabbed herself?” Morgan suggested that Greenberg was held down by her neck while she was being stabbed, and said that suicide in this case is an “empirical impossibility.” “I’ve been around a lot of dead bodies,” Morgan said. “I’ve never had one attack me with a knife.”


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STORY: "Nancy Grace fights for answers in Ellen Greenberg’s death", published by Court TV, on September 5, 2025.


GIST: "Months after a medical examiner reversed his ruling and called Ellen Greenberg‘s death a homicide, Nancy Grace highlighted the case at CrimeCon, urging the audience to join the fight for justice.

Greenberg, a 27-year-old Philadelphia schoolteacher, was found stabbed to death in her apartment on Jan. 26, 2011. Dr. Marion Osbourne initially ruled the death a homicide but changed the ruling to suicide just days later after a closed-door meeting with Philadelphia police and the district attorney’s office.

“This beautiful young first-grade teacher at Juniata Park Elementary School was stabbed at least 20 times, including 10 times to the back,” Grace said as she introduced the case to the CrimeCon audience. “How can a woman be stabbed 10 times in the back, plus so many more and that be suicide?” Grace asked, suggesting that not even five-time Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comăneci would be able to create the stab wounds to herself.

Joining Grace was frequent Court TV guest and forensic pathologist Joseph Scott Morgan, who highlighted autopsy photos showing bruising to Greenberg’s neck and wrists. “These are textbook strangulation marks,” Morgan said. “So she strangled herself to subdue herself before she stabbed herself?” Morgan suggested that Greenberg was held down by her neck while she was being stabbed, and said that suicide in this case is an “empirical impossibility.”

“I’ve been around a lot of dead bodies,” Morgan said. “I’ve never had one attack me with a knife.”

Grace, who has developed a close relationship with Greenberg’s parents, told the audience the family has spent their life savings trying to prove their daughter did not take her own life. The Greenbergs said they can’t even bear to visit her gravesite.

Despite Dr. Osbourne formally reversing his ruling and calling the death a homicide, no suspects or persons of interest have ever been named. “Who is being protected, and why is it at the cost of justice?” Grace asked.

When audience members pressed for more details about Greenberg’s fiancé, Grace noted only that his “uncle is a judge who works with the judicial nomination committee.""

The entire story can be read at: 


https://www.courttv.com/ne ws/nancy-grace-fights-for-answers-in-ellen-greenbergs-death/


PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:


https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985


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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan:

Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;


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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!


Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;


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