Ep 24: Apartment 603: Ellen Greenberg Was Found Stabbed 20 Times in Her Locked Apartment — and the Coroner Called It Suicide | The Case That Won't Close

January 26th, 2011. Philadelphia. A major blizzard is shutting the city down.A man returns from the gym to the apartment he shares with his fiancée. The door is latched from the inside. He knocks. No answer. He calls out. Nothing. After a few minutes he makes a decision and steps inside.Ellen Greenberg is on the kitchen floor, slumped against a cabinet. She is 27 years old. There is a ten-inch serrated knife in her chest.Ellen had been stabbed twenty times. Ten of those wounds were to the back of her head.The medical examiner ruled it a suicide.What followed is one of the most baffling, contested and heartbreaking cases in modern true crime — a ruling that her parents refused to accept, that forensic experts called catastrophically wrong, that federal prosecutors eventually agreed was worth a second look, and that still, to this day, has no resolution.This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the death of Ellen Greenberg — the Philadelphia case that asks how a woman can be stabbed twenty times and have it called self-inflicted, who had the most to gain from that ruling, and why the fight for answers is still very much alive.Topics: Ellen Greenberg | Philadelphia true crime | unsolved murder | suicide or homicide | cold case | forensic pathology | apartment 603 | Cyril Wecht | 48 Hours | true crime 2011 | YKMNew episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.