Morbid - Episode 267: The Unexplained Death of Ellen Rae Greenberg

Episode Date: September 28, 2021

Today Ash brings you the truly infuriating case of Ellen Greenberg. Ellen was a beautiful, caring 27 year old woman who had everything going for her. She had a great relationship with her family and friends, a  job as a first grade teacher, and plans to marry her fiance Sam in the coming months. There was no indication that Ellen was struggling with suicidal thoughts, yet somehow on January 26th 2011 when she was discovered dead on her kitchen floor after suffering 20+ stab wounds, her death was ruled a suicide. Justice For Ellen Rae Greenberg Petition As always, thank you to our sponsors: Better Help: Special offer for Morbid listeners: get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/Morbid Rothys: Right now, you can get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/MORBID Embr: Listeners can get $50 off by going to embrwave.com/morbid Edmunds: Edmunds is here to guide you to your perfect vehicle. Visit Edmunds.com to see their Best Car Rankings and search for vehicles near you! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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That's ANGI, or download the app today. Hey, weirdos, I'm Elena. I'm Ash. And this is morbid right now. Currently, currently right now. We're here. Brought to you kind of life, but not at all. Not even a little bit. Not even a little bit.

This is very pre-recorded. Psych. It's edited. Gotcha. But yeah, hey, what's going on? Everybody's not sick anymore. So hello. Hey.

And guess what? It never happened for me. It didn't really happen for me either. You hear that knock? That was me. That little knock on the wood? Yeah. No, I got a for me either. You hear that knock, that was me. That little knock on the wood? Yeah, no, I got a scratchy throat for a few days and that was it. I had like, my throat never even got scratchy.

It was just like, am I gonna get scratchy? You know what I mean? It was like, my was hanging on the precipice of being a sore throat, but it never was. So, that would be a great book, the precipice of a sore throat. but it never was. So that would be a great book, The Pressapist of a Soarthrope. The book I wanna write, there you go.

The Pressapist of a Soarthrope. I don't know what it's gonna be about, but a really good short story. Yeah, there you go. At JP. At JP, my brother, my uncle. My uncle. Confused people more.

Yeah. But I think there's, I mean, everybody is clearly still very focused on what's going on with the Gabby Petito investigation. Not a ton of concrete stuff has happened. There's an intense craziness going on. Brian and Tinn are boy is camped. Coming on us live.

You know who is coming on us live? Not us. Brian and Tinn stays live. Yeah, not us. Not us. In London stays live. Yeah, he's staying live. In fact, he's going to be going live soon, I think. He just announced. But the only thing that we do know is that, you know, some other people have involved themselves in the investigation.

And law enforcement, there was a lot of people posting, you know, they have apps that, and I think actually speaking of JP, I think he has an app that shows like what kind of aircraft are going over any given moment? Like what like flying, what's that fucking called? Like Delta, like spirit, what are those called? Airlines? Yeah, airlines, what a fucking airline it is. I was like, are we talking about it?

No, I knew the word, I just couldn't think of it in the moment. Yeah, it just, it says whether it's a private airline, whether it's a private owner of the aircraft, whether it's a law enforcement or news craft or a medical helicopter or whatever. It tells you what the fuck is up. What the fuck's up in the air? Literally what the fuck is up? Actually.

So a lot of people, we're seeing a lot of activity over Fort DeSoto, I believe it is. I don't live in Florida. So I don't know if that's how you say it. I don't even know if that's a real place. I believe it is. I don't live in Florida. So I don't know if that's how you say it. I don't even know if that's a real place. I think it is. Brian Anton told me. Brian Anton says it's a real place.

So I think it's at the very tip of Florida and a lot of people were seeing a ton of activity by a share of helicopter. They seem to be circling last night. So that's a thing that people are posting screenshots that they're at for. It posting screenshots of their app for. It's interesting to say the least there has been a lot of talk about possible activity there. Maybe Brian Laundry's parents were camping there.

Maybe with Brian Laundry during this whole time period. Maybe they didn't come out without him. I don't know. You know who's there though? Brian Enten. Yes. Brian Enten is there. He's going to be going live.

So we'll let you know if we find anything else's there though? Brian Enten. Yes, Brian Enten is there. He's gonna be going live, so we'll let you know if we find anything else out. Also follow Brian Enten. Honestly, we are officially Brian Enten's PR people. I would like you to follow him. We are marketing for him, but like who are these women? Yeah, he's like, please stop. But whatever.

But that's all we have concrete right now. No one has confirmed to see him. No one has anything else other than that. So everything else is just kind of hearsay. Maybe some of it's true, maybe it's not, but we're not gonna share the stuff that's just like floating around the internet. But that's all we got that's real.

Exactly. The whole shitty, the whole, the whole, the whole shitty thing about this is that he's a survivalist. So he could be anywhere in any kind of woods, or it's totally feasible. Like he could be, he had, like this is a head start. I can't start. It's like he could be fucking anywhere.

And where this sport to Soto places is campground. So hopefully. So he has also been there with his parents before, according to some sources. So it's very feasible that he could absolutely be out there. And I think there's like islands around that area too. I saw the overhead footage and they're interesting. It's interesting to say the least.

So I mean, let's all cross our fingers that they've found. And this douche canoe, Allah,, true crime garage that insult came from. So thank you for that. My dad says douche canoe. My dad says douche canoe and he says ass hat. I love ass hat. That's a great one. Yeah, that's a good one.

All of the above is what he is really. Let's hope they find a man. I just want them to, I wanna see him in cuffs. Butage of him getting carried away. Getting a law enforcement law arrested. And then I wanna see his in cuffs. Butage of him getting carried away. Getting the law enforcement law arrested. And then I wanna see his parents as well. So yeah, so that's where we are.

So we obviously are invested in this case. It's just one that really struck us. We feel like Gabby is one of our own. So we just, we wanna see Justice for her and her family. But yeah, I think the Gabby Petito Foundation, the link is still active. So if you can and are able to donate to that, but we'll update you whenever we know more.

Yeah, and in the meantime, I have a wild case for you that was actually, so I started doing this and then I was like, I wonder if anybody suggested this and I popped in our email and it was like super highly requested. Really? I'm excited to hear this. So this is the case of Ellen Greenberg. It sounds familiar.

I think once I start kind of getting into it because I think you'll recognize it maybe because I kind of started to recognize it and I could never pinpoint if I had seen anything about it before. But it's just like impassing. Yeah, exactly. So let's get into it. Ellen Greenberg was her parents Sandy

and Joshua Greenberg's only child. And Sandy and Joshua Greenberg, like I would love for them to be my parents because they just seem like the most wholesome people. They clearly love their daughter with like every fiber of their being. And they're just ripped my heart out. They're just the best people.

Now, because the fact that she was their only child, they were a super close family. Her mother said that Ellen was a warm, joyful girl who loved to cook, loved fashion. Her father said that she was a daddy's girl and she would go out to different sporting events with him. And her friend said that she lit up a room, she had an infectious smile,

and she was that girl that you could call if you needed someone. Oh, I know. So she was, I'm already like, man, she was clearly like an amazing person. And specifically the part about the infectious smile when we post the photo of Ellen on our Instagram,

she has the most beautiful smile. I'm gonna look it up right now. Beautiful teeth, just like warm eyes, just like I would, if I saw her I'd be like, I want to be her friend. Like her smile reaches her eyes. It does. Because you know sometimes she smiles and smiles. She just reaches the eyes. You know it's genuine when it's in the eyes as well. Exactly. Ellen went to Penn State and she graduated with a degree in communications and at that time she thought that she wanted to be a speech pathologist,

but which is like a really cool job and takes a lot to get into doing that. But then she ended up deciding that she actually didn't really want to do that. And what she really wanted to do was become a teacher. Okay. No one was surprised by that at all because Ellen had always loved kids. She was super good around kids. Like, everyone was like, oh yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, oh my god, her smile. She was a gorgeous smile. It literally just like blinded me.

I was like, oh my god, she's beautiful. So genuine. And just seems like you would want to be her friend. Yeah, you're just like, what's hang? You want to get like dinner? Like, let's just be friends. Let's watch some of the dinner. Go to TGI Friday.

It's a nice, good talk to you. Talk about life. But to make her dream a reality of becoming a teacher, she went back to school at Temple University and she got her teaching degree. When she was finished with that, she started working as a first grade teacher and everyone said that job was made for her.

And, woo, again, I say, special kind of person that can be a teacher. All you teachers out there, high five. High five to all of you. High tens, high everything. Because it's damn. Seriously, the kids are a lot, and especially younger kids. That age is tough.

That's a super tough age. Like, even just doing homework with my kindergartners, I'm like, oh, your teachers are special. I can attest to that. Because sometimes I help, and then sometimes I gotta check out. Tough, tough times. So teachers, A-plus. So Ellen A-plus. Yeah, seriously. Ellen also had a boyfriend named Sam Goldberg. They had met through a mutual friend in 2008 and that friend thought they would be great for each other. So she was like, you got to go on a blind date. They did. They super

duper hit it off. Like definitely had a great time and continued dating for about three years. About three years into the relationship they did, like a couple's trip to California, just the two of them, and Sam ended up popping the question on a beach and Ellen said, yes, there's like this really like super cute picture of her on the beach, like flashing her ring, probably right after it happened. of her on the beach, like flashing her ring, probably right after it happened. Like all very wholesome. Yeah, I was gonna say, this is really just sent me up to my man's way.

Yeah, now they set the date and plan to marry in August of 2011. So with all the wedding planning and the stressful job of being a teacher, especially like we were just saying to younger kids, Ellen was talking to some of the people she was closest to, specifically about her anxiety. She was telling her friends and family that she was just feeling overwhelmed, especially at school,

and she was having some trouble sleeping. No one was overly concerned about her mental health, in though regard that they thought she was going to harm herself, but people were concerned enough to encourage her to reach out for some help. So Ellen agreed she was like, yeah, I think that's a good idea. And she started seeing a psychiatrist. What makes a person a murderer? Are they born to kill? Or are they made to kill?

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and force a heated debate about punishment and America's criminal justice system. Follow American scandal wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad-free on the Amazon Music or Wonder App. ["Piano Music"] She only went to see that psychiatrist who was named Ellen Berman, about three times, and she was prescribed clonipin and ambion. She had previously been prescribed zooloft, but that didn't end up working out.

Then she switched to these two, and those were the only medicines that she was on. Now both of those drugs do have side effects including suicidal thoughts, but Dr. Berman had made a note and Ellen's file that she didn't find her to be suicidal, like literally right in the in the file there said not suicidal. Yeah. And I would have assumed that before prescribing things that could possibly like dredge up those thoughts that you, you know, you're evaluated. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, and there was a couple of different notes in her file and she clearly had been evaluated. And everyone agreed that Ellen was stressed,

but they all said in a way it was good stress. It was about her job and it was about her wedding. It wasn't about anything like earth shattering. It's like stress for things that are moving you forward. Like day-to-day things, exactly. Now, one thing that Ellen's father did notice and find concerning was that all of a sudden she was having a hard time making decisions.

And a lot of times she would like go to her fiance, Sam, or say, oh, I'll have to check in with Sam and see what Sam thinks. Like, oh, I don't know, let me talk to Sam. And he was just like, that wasn't really like her. And then when she started getting this kind of anxiety coming on, that became more prominent. She was kind of defaulting, defaulting, definitely, to Sam.

Now, interestingly enough, when Ellen was really going through it with her anxiety, I believe it was before she had gone to her psychiatrist, she actually reached out to her parents about moving back home. She was living with Sam in Philadelphia, and her parents lived about two hours away in Harrisburg. And they were pretty shocked by this. They were a little bit concerned,

because they thought her relationship seemed to be like a loving, caring one, and they said of Sam that he was a fine young man. And she was like, no, it doesn't have anything to do with Sam. I'm just overwhelmed, and I think I need to get away. Okay. And you know, going back home is like a good... Yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with Sam. I'm just overwhelmed. And I think I need to get away. OK. And you know, going back home is like a good,

like a reset button. Exactly. Most of the time. Exactly. So that was kind of when they pushed her. And especially her dad was like, you should go see a psychiatrist. Like, you need to get some help. Yeah, just to kind of like bring everything into perspective.

Yeah. And she had been texting like friends. And she had texted her mom after she went on Clawnipin and Ambien and said that the Clawnipin and the Ambien itself were helping. Like she was feeling better. So on January 26, 2011, it was already a snowy day and a blizzard was right around the corner.

That morning, Ellen went to work at school, but that day the school was having an early release because of all the snow. So she finished up at school and she was heading back to the apartment. She filled up her gas tank on the way home, which you should always do during a snow storm, my friends. You should. And got to have that gas, so your gas line's going to freeze. Just ask my dad. I literally wrote, just ask Papa. There you go.

But so she did that, and then it seemed like she went back home and got into some wedding planning. Not too long before this day, she had sent out the save the dates for her and Sam's wedding. Okay. But there was still a lot of work to do. I haven't gotten married. I don't know all that goes into it, but I'm sure you can attest to the endless amount of work. A lot of work. I remember watching you do all the work and I was like, oh, you need help? And you were like, no, I have it. And I was like, no, control freak. No, I'm a capricorn. I don't need help. I don't need any help with anything. But Ellen, still that way.

Ellen, yeah, right. Ellen was doing the work and figuring out the wedding. And during this time, she was texting with her friends. She had talked to her mom on the phone, sat at a pretty typical snowy afternoon, nothing out of the ordinary. Sounds great, to be honest. Yeah, it's really.

Sitting there, doing some wedding stuff, talking to friends and family. Snowing outside. Snowing outside. Yeah. And at some point, Sam had come home and headed out to the gym, which was like in their apartment complex.

Oh, okay. In the property. Unfortunately, later that day, 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg was found dead on her kitchen floor. Her fiance, Sam, was the one who discovered her body when he was finally able to gain entry to the apartment. So like I said earlier, that evening, Sam had gone to the gym, but when he came back home, the apartment door was locked.

Now he had a lock for, like, the lock on the door knob, but the apartment had the extra security feature that, like, a lot of hotels have. Like that kind of like swing bar, I think it tells. It was on the top of the door. It's like got that little ball that stops the door from opening. So that bar was locked and Sam couldn't get in because there's no way to unlock that from the outside or is there. Anyways, oh, he texted Ellen and he started yelling into the apartment for her, which neighbors did confirm hearing, but he wasn't getting any answer and he was starting to get more

and more irritated. So he first texted her and said, hello, and then he texted, open the door, then what are you doing? Then I'm getting pissed, then hello, then you better have an excuse, then what the fuck? Then ah, then you have no idea. So the last one? You have no idea. Right, so the last one to me was super weird,

because you can look at that in like a couple ways. I think the first being like you have no idea what's gonna happen when I come through this door, because I'm super pissed off right now. Yeah. Or maybe like you have no idea how pissed off I Or maybe you have no idea how pissed off I am. You have no idea how pissed off I am. Or you have no idea that I'm even locked out.

Oh, fuck, you have no idea. Oh, that was, see that one rings pretty, pretty. After all of that, going over and over, like what the fuck, come on. And then kind of realizing it. And then being like, you have no idea. Yeah, like maybe she was taking a nap or like in the shower because I can definitely tell you,

like I've gotten locked out of my apartment before, like haven't brought my fob down and like been texting Drew and he hasn't seen it, and vice versa, and we'd be like, you don't even know that I'm down here. Like please look at your fucking phone. Please look at your phone. So you could look at that other way, 100%.

Now after texting her a bunch and yelling into the apartment, Sam went to find a security guard thinking that maybe they could help him get in the apartment Like maybe they had some kind of tool to open that lock Yeah, but he was told like they didn't have any kind of tool like that and they couldn't do that Now the security guard later said that for someone who had been at the gym He didn't look like it. He was not in gym attire and he was wearing boots But on the same hand, maybe he changed before going back to the house and it was snowing.

That was going to save the boots. So it's snowing. Right. So that's not like super weird, but they did want to point it out. Okay. And he, and the other thing was he didn't have far to go though, like on the other hand. So like, why would he change? Like, what would he change? He was just going home, but it's snowing, so. Yeah, you can really see both sides of that.

You can. But the guard also mentioned that Sam made it a point multiple times to say that he had been at the gym. So could be weird. Maybe he was just fucking panicked because he couldn't get it himself. Yeah, this is like truly one of those things where you're like, I can 100% argue both sides of this.

Exactly. I've been doing a lot of those cases like that feel. You're stressing me out. I'm really just dumbless advocating. Maybe I'm doing it on purpose. It would be like you are. I'm not.

But finally, Sam made his way back to the apartment without the security guard. He later told police that he had the guard with him at this point. Because according to him, he was able to break the lock with force. The security guard later told the police that he never left his post.

Huh, so that was like weird. That one's a weird one. That one's weird. I don't really see both sides of that. Don't know how to argue with another side of that. Nor do I, but maybe you do, listener. So he was able to finally get in the apartment. And once he got in, that's obviously when he saw Ellen.

She was sitting in an upright position, slouched over in front of the lower kitchen cabinets. Sam's initial response was not to call 911. He actually made two phone calls first. One was allegedly to his uncle, who happened to be pretty well connected in the judicial system. And like, you know, and then the other was his parents. So they were already on the way there when Sam called the police at 6.33 p.m. It had been an hour since he started trying to get into the apartment.

So the 911 operator told Sam that he should perform CPR until the EMTs and the ambulance got there and that they would walk him through it over the phone. Okay. His response to that was, do I have to? Can't, okay. Like, I guess you would say, I mean, she's probably like covered and blood at this point.

He's probably freaked out and is assuming in his head that she's dead, but I don't know. It's a weird thing to say. I'm just going strictly off of me. And what you would do if you saw John in that reaction. And this, if that was John, I would be doing everything I could to her back.

Exactly. And I would, it would not deter me. No. Whatever. And that's me too. But again, me. Right. And again.

I'm going to say everybody listening or everybody around the world would do the things. And we've never been in that situation. So sometimes your brain does weird shit. Yeah. Still strange to me. I'm just gonna say it. I'm gonna say it from my point of view, that's strange.

Exactly. But it doesn't necessarily mean it, I mean it, I'm just saying it's strange. Right, I'm talking about. Trust. Just saying it's strange. Now it was when he got closer to Alan's body and he was still on the phone with the operator.

He realized that there was still a knife stabbed into her chest and it had been left there. My God. Yes. When he told the operator, they told him not to do CPR. Like, at that point, I think it would have interfered with something. Well, you never want to pull the knife out. Right. So Sam's father was the one to call Ellen's parents

and told them that something terrible had happened to Ellie, which I was like, oh, ruin me. When her mother Sandy heard what had happened, she said, all I know is my world went dark and I have no daughter. And then also to add on to that, they were two hours away from Ellen's apartment and they were snowed in because of the blizzard. Oh my god.

So this is just your worst nightmare as a parent. That's horrible. Like snowed in, you can't do anything, and at this point, they don't even know exactly what's happened. Oh, that's terrible. So I can like feel the helplessness there. Oh, yeah, it's horrible. So in total, Ellen had been stabbed approximately 20 times.

What? The stab wounds were in her chest, stomach, neck, and head. Oh, yes, and most, so she had been stabbed 10 times between the neck and the head alone, and a lot of them were in the back of her neck and head. Oh my God. Two of the wounds went directly into her brain. On the right side of her body,

the medical team found 11 bruises in quote, various stages of resolution. Specifically, on her abdomen, arm and leg. They said the bruises could have come from some kind of physical activity, like a sport, like a contact sport, from her maybe bumping into things or could have come from a closed fist. They said it could have been any of those things.

Man. Yeah, but the various forms of like, of like resolution was weird to me. And Ellen didn't play any kind of sport where she would have gotten bruised. She played context. And the areas where they were, like bumping into that many thing, I don't know.

And just the fact that they were all in different healing stages set a lot to me. Yeah. I'll leave it at that. They also made note that there were no defensive wound suffered, and that would later become a huge point in this case. Ellen was pronounced dead on the scene at 6.40 pm. Oh, man.

There was no suicide note left at the scene, but almost immediately, the investigators on scene looked at this death like a suicide. I'm sorry, what? She was stabbed in the back of her neck and head 20 times overall, 10 of those being to her neck and head. One that went literally through her skull into her brain.

Like literally into her brain. Okay, yep. So it was that's interesting. Oh, this is going to be even you're going to be interrogated by the end of this. And actually a lot of people that wrote in requesting this were like, I need to hear Elena's expertise when we get to the autopsy report, which I found.

So we'll talk about it. Oh, man. But before we get there, it was even written in the report before any autopsy was completed or a medical examiner even laid a finger on her that this, they thought this was suicide. No, that's not even no. No, no, no. You let's not your job. Speak the body speaks for you. That person speaks for it. That like you don't know. You let the body speak. That's not your job. You're not the body speaks for you. That person speaks for you. Like, you don't know.

You don't just assume because it makes a house out of you and me and everybody in Philadelphia. Especially when there's no suicide note, there's no clear indication. It's like, no. What? No. So the main reason that they thought this was a suicide

was because the fact that there was no forced entry into the house and the door had been locked from the inside. Like, remember the hotel bar lock. Yeah. Ellen and Sam's apartment was on the sixth floor, so it would have been really hard for someone to gain entry through their back balcony. And just to be sure they checked the snow for prints and they didn't find any. Okay. Again, no defensive wounds on the body, So that was another reason they looked at it like this. They checked. I mean, I thought, but I'm not going to say they checked the security cameras from the apartment's lobby and there were no suspicious people in or out of the apartment that didn't live there. Unfortunately, though, there weren't cameras on the hallway leading to Ellen's apartment. So they couldn't look at that. But one

of the main things that was even later mentioned on the autopsy was Ellen's history of anxiety. Okay. Anxiety, not like anything else. The investigators believed that because she was on the medicine she was at the time of her death and The and by the way those were the only drugs found in her system. Nothing else was found But they believed that because she was on those two drugs when she died, those are the two things that could have caused the suicide.

Literally nothing about this rings as a suicide to me. Literally 20 times she was stabbed. And in the head and neck, the back of the head and the back of the neck. Yeah. So Sam's story about being at the gym did line up. They were able to check his key fob records, and they confirmed where and how many times he had used that key fob, and everything was like he said.

He was interviewed by the police. They said that he was cooperative, and he was let go. Then later down the line, he didn't really talk about it, and he got an attorney. Okay. But that's your right, and that's a smart thing to do. I was just going to say in his very recommended in that situation. Absolutely. And the fact that he talked first.

Yeah, he talked first. Yeah. So Ellen's two medications were then taken in as evidence, which is really bizarre to me. Weird as fuck to me. Now, on the contrary, looking at suicide among females, stabbing oneself to death is extremely rare, especially amongst females. Absolutely. Generally, when women commit suicide, they don't choose a violent way. They'll use drugs or, like, carbon monoxide or something like that. It's like on the other side of the coin, women tend to be poisonous. Yes, like when they're killing. Yep.

and tend to be poisonous. Yes, like when they're killing. Yep. Now, the other thing is, and this is among men and women, when someone does stab themselves, it's more likely that they lift up their clothes. Ellen stab wounds went through her shirt. And I actually didn't know that before. I was gonna say that's interesting.

Yeah. There was also a half made bowl of fruit salad on the counter, and it looked like whoever was making it was in the middle of preparing it. The other thing was, like, just to look on the things that she had to look forward to, number one, the wedding, obviously. She just sent out her save the dates. Sam just filled her tank again. Just filled her tank of gas, yep, that's actually why I mentioned that. Yeah.

Sam's birthday was coming up, and she had already made reservations at a restaurant and talked to a friend about what gift she wanted to get him. Her mother, Sandy, had been visiting her two weeks before and said everything was status quo other than the fact that Ellen was like feeling stressed about the wedding and her work. And on top of all of that, like I said in the beginning, her psychiatrist had written on her file

that they did not believe her to be suicidal. Dr. Berman had asked Ellen about her relationship and any abuse, and Ellen said nothing like that was going on. That's like a question they have to ask. Of course. And the doctor even noted that she smiled when she talked about Sam. And you know, and it's like, and of course all of this is not to say that somebody can be planning things and be doing things that seem like they are moving forward and planning on future events and still have a moment of, you know, I can't go on.

Yeah, of course, that's not to say. I just feel like this seems like... Well, the manner in which this happens... Well, that's... And who she was. And who she was. And who she was. And who she was.

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And who she was. And who she was. And who she was. And who she me. This is like wild. It is. And it only gets more wild, please just wait. So let's cut into the autopsy, ma'am. Yes, please. And autopsy was completed the next day on January 27, 2011, by the Assistant Medical Examiner. They concluded that the manner of death was homicide. They noted. They not shocked.

Yes, they noted, and this is directly from the autopsy, multiple stab wounds to the chest abdomen and back of the neck and knife with a 12.5 centimeter blade as present in one of the chest wounds at a depth of 10 centimeters, which is Translates into four inches. Yeah. Yeah. There is an incised wound to the right occipital scalp So there was like a slash to the right occipital scalp. So there was like a slash to the right occipital slope. Yeah. Now, so at that point, the police were to go back to the scene

and re-investigate this as a homicide. Yet two days later, they came back and told reporters that they were still leaning towards suicide. What? It does not ever happen that the police publicly speak out about a medical examiner's findings. It literally annoys me. Like I'm annoyed right now.

Yeah, everyone was. Like the medical examiner, the assistant medical examiner did a fucking autopsy. Did an entire autopsy like that they clearly are trained to do on something that pretty readily looks like a homicide from the outside. The knife was inserted into her chest and obviously was the last blow after all of those stab wounds. And again, it was approximately 20.

And that was the final one inserted four inches into her chest. After stabbing herself that many times. The force, it would take and we will get into that. And you got to remember, I think people forget, you have a fucking chest plate. You have a chest plate, it's not easy, trust me. It's not easy to get through that chest plate with your own force.

Right. And to, in that angle, like I'm making the motion right now, the angle it would take would leave you with very little leverage to get through that chest play. That far in, yup. And you'd probably immediately puncture your lung, which is gonna fuck with your ability to do really anything else at that point.

Right, your strength is gonna be depleted completely. And her lungs were punctured. Yeah, that definitely. If you want to, you can pull up the autopsy while I'm talking. Yeah, I think I'm going to, because it's like really shocking to me. Like, yeah, really shocking. It's bananas.

So, the police were still focusing on Ellen's history of anxiety. And they were also able to determine that only, that the only DNA on the knife was Ellen's own DNA. Okay. Which also, but it's her kitchen. I was just going to say that's say that's the kind of weird stuff. It's not that weird. Yeah.

Because if somebody was wearing a glove. Correct. Which many people do when they commit hate crimes. Yeah, exactly. Now, eventually one of the detectives on the case, I believe his name was John McNaney. He came up with the idea to hire a neuropathologist who could test a piece of Ellen's spinal cord to see if it had been severed or not. Huh.

If it hadn't been, then she still could have inflicted the wounds to the rest of her body. For sure, right? So the help of Dr. Lucy Roke, I believe so you say it, she was a neuro pathologist. A well-respected one at that. Her help was enlisted. She came to the conclusion after examining

that the spinal cord was not severed, but it was punctured. Oh, okay. So in her opinion, Ellen would have gone numb and been able to inflict the rest of the stab wounds. I was going to say because that's like, from what I'm seeing in the autopsy report, it's like the cervical spinal cord was a C2 and C5. I think it was C3 and C5. I think it was C3 and C5.

I think you're right. C2 and C3. Oh, okay, fuck. Those are generally the most severe if you get a spinal cord injury in the cervical vertebrae. Okay. They're the ones that often result in like paraplegia, right? Any kind of paralysis of anything? And that makes sense because they're the closest to your brain.

They're the closest to your brain. They're the closest to your brain. And they can also flank, like there's the whole like C5 stay alive. Anything below the C5 is going to keep you alive. Anything above it has a tendency to be more severe because it can affect the nerves that like flank your lungs and flank your diaphragm and control your breathing. And it can get like really hairy from there.

So if those were punctured, then there's like a possibility she would be numb and at least feel some kind of paralysis. Because I don't know if like any nerves were severed near there. I don't think it says that. It wasn't listed in the autopsy if any of this were severed. It is an interesting note that is punctured and not subred. But it's for, I mean, I don't have the education that you do in this field, but would it be crazy to say that like that would be like very unheard of that she could then stab herself that many times after having her part of her spinal cord be punctured? That's the thing to me.

It's like spinal cord injuries in general are just very severe and tough to work through right away. And it's like, of course, is it an impossibility? No, but it's, yeah. Is it improbable? Yes. Yeah. And also it's gonna cause numbness.

It's gonna cause some sensation issues in your arms as well. Like anything below that. So it's like your arms are gonna be affected by it. And also that's just like really deep to stab someone. To be able to sever or to puncture the spinal cord, you're going hard and deep. And so to your back of your neck, well, that's, think of that angle, yielding a knife, and that just seems, to me, that seems bananas. To me, it makes absolutely no sense

that she did this to herself. Yeah, but I don't, it's just, it's wild to me to believe that she did this to herself. It really is. I agree. And I think the medical examiner's a great soul. Yeah. It seems. Well, funny. At first it seems that they they at least put it as a homicide. So yes. So they and that's the thing. Seeing that like you would have seen that and then like, oh, fuck homicide. I'm sure. Yeah. It makes sense. Yeah. Three months after the medical examiner had originally listed Ellen's death as a homicide,

they changed that manner of death to suicide. Just saw that on there. Three months after. A note about Lucy, Dr. Lucy Works' findings was added to the autopsy report. I believe it's on page three or four if my photographic memory serves me well. Now, Ellen's family does not and really has no reason to believe that she committed suicide. So they made it their fucking mission to find out what happened here. They were able to get the autopsy report, that's why we have access to it, and they were able to get crime scene photos. So they hired former Attorney General Walter Cohen as their lawyer,

and they also hired Detective Tom Brennan, who was worked on over 800 homicide cases. Yeah, I knew that name, I was gonna say. And also worked as Chief of the Doffin County Detectives, and they hired both of those people to work on the case. Now, one of the first people they talked to when they decided to take Ellen's case into their own hands was Dr. Cyrill H. Wekt. Hey, yo! One of the most famous pathologists of all time. That's right. We've mentioned him on the Jominee, Ranze episodes and the Smiley Face Killer episodes

and probably way more than that. Ah, Cyrill. Cyrill. And now in Dr. Wex's opinion, Ellen's death is quote strongly suspicious of a homicide. Yeah, I'm with Cyrill. He also said, I don't understand

how they wrote this off as a suicide. Thank you, Cyrill. I'm with you. Yeah. He specifically noted the wounds to the back of her neck. Yes. That's literally what I'm looking at right now. And I'm like, yes, I don't understand you guys. Now that was in 2012. In 2017, the family spoke with another pathologist, Dr. Wayne K. Ross. And Dr. Ross focused in on the stab wound that penetrated Ellen's brain and said, an injury like that would lead Ellen to have severe pain, cranial nerve dysfunction and traumatic brain signs, as well as numbness, tingling, and a regular heartbeat.

Exactly. Now we've talked about how doctors in this field, especially this field, tend to be cautious about going against the findings of a fellow doctor. This statement almost went completely against the one that Dr. Lucy Rourke made. Yeah. Now, while we're on the topic of spinal cords and Dr. Lucy Rourke, it turns out that there was

another piece of Ellen's spinal cord that was still at the medical examiner's office. Just hanging. Just hanging. Just hanging. just hanging, just hanging. And this was like years later that they found it. Former homicide prosecutor, Guy DeAndrea, had a ton of questions about this case, and while searching for the answers,

he was the one to find that remaining piece of spinal cord. I believe this was around six years after Ellen had been killed, let's say. And there was no consent for them to keep that piece of spinal cord? That I do not know the answer to. Because that is something that can happen

if consent is given. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. That's very interesting. But I don't know if they gave consent or not, so I'm not going to speak to that. But I said that like so.

I'm not going to speak to that. I will not speak to that. Like I'm in court. Because of the thing. No, Tom Brennan was able to get the other pathologist, Dr. Wayne K. Ross, to take a look at that piece of spinal cord. And after the piece was examined, it was determined that it had not only been pierced but severed. I was wondering that.

So that would turn out to be true. Oh, so then the family tried to refute the original neuropathology report made by Dr. Lucy Roke, and at that point, they were told no one could find it. No one could find it. No one could find her report. And when they did get into contact with her, they were told she had no bill for that examination. And she also wrote to them, quote, I would conclude that I did not see the specimen in question, although there is a remote possibility that it was shown to me. So she's basically like, yeah, I don't know, maybe. Perhaps. And she also wrote, possibly, however, I have no recollection, recollection of such a case.

You don't remember that case. You got to do some brain games if you don't remember that case. Also, your name is in the autopsy report. So they should probably take that the fuck out if you don't remember doing it. You spoke on it. Like, she didn't remember it? Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. Like, that's essentially what that translates into. Wow. I would conclude that I did not see the specimen in question, although there is a remote possibility that it was shown to me.

OK, OK. Weird. OK. Now, another question that not only Guy D'Andrea had, but Tom Brennan as well, was about the blood flow that they saw in the crime scene photos. Ellen was sitting upright against the cabinets in the photo that they both described seeing.

And they both described the same line of blood that went from the bottom of her nostril to the back of her ear horizontally. Yeah. Did you see a point cell that that defies gravity? Certainly does. Yeah, that's a way of sitting. That defies gravity. There's no way that your blood flows horizontally because of gravity, your blood flows down.

Sure does. So had she been in that position when she was bleeding? It would have gone down. It would have gone down. Right. Now, in addition to that, both he and Tom Brennan were surprised at the lack of blood at the scene. All of the areas where the stab wounds were inflicted, especially the head, are areas that bleed.

They get cut. There's so many arteries, as obviously as you know. Your neck? Your neck? Like, what? And from what I saw, there was a stab wound to the aortic arch. There was. Like, that's a big blood flow. Yep. But they said, no, there wasn't a lot of blood

at the scene. And Tom Brennan also noted that there was a towel near Ellen's left hand that literally had no blood on it. None, not a drop in the photo. Weird. How would that be possible? No, it's definitely weird. Both of them agree. Deandria and Brennan agree that the crime scene was staged.

Now, in addition to that, one of the detectives, Scott Eelman, I believe is I say it, he reviewed the scene later. He said there was a trail of blood that would have been consistent with the body being moved in the photos. So I was no like, what? I have no idea.

How is this happening so late that everyone's like, oh look at all these evidence? Because in the beginning didn't look at because they didn't treat it as a crime scene. Immediately they walked in there and were like suicide. So seriously. Nothing was really taken into custody other than her medication, which she had for anxiety purposes. I cannot. Now Henry Lee, he actually worked or excuse me, testified for the defense during the OJ trial. He looked at the crime scene photos showing where Ellen had been found and said, quote, the number in types of wounds and bloodstain patterns observed are consistent with a homicide scene.

Yeah. No luminal testing was done to see if there was any blood that could have been cleaned up. So this scene could have been fucking scoured. Oh, for sure it could have. And I didn't like know anything about like the time of death or anything like that because she was just pronounced dead on scene. So it's really interesting to me

that everyone else who's looking at this, that's not on this police force, is like, yeah, this is a homicide, but they literally walked into a woman who had been stabbed 20 times and they were like, yeah, this is a homicide, but they literally walked into a woman who had been stabbed 20 times and they were like, oh, suicide. And it's like, yeah, and I just can't get past the stabbing in the back of the head and the neck. It just doesn't. It just doesn't make any sense. And especially like you were saying, the final stab wound to the chest that the knife was inserted four inches into her chest. Yeah, that's wild, right? That's

really wild to me. Now Tom Brennan and like everybody else in the world probably believes that Ellen Green was murdered in what he calls a blitz attack. Meaning that someone came up behind her and incapacitated her almost immediately, which would make sense when you see that her spinal cord was severed.

Immediately she would have gone numb, tingly. And would be consistent with the lack of defense wounds. Yep, because she wouldn't have been able to fight back. So they were sitting there and a ton of bruises on one side of her body. Boom. Boom. They're sitting there saying that she committed suicide because there's no defense wounds. Her spinal cord was severed. That's why there's no defense, because she didn't have any time to fight back. And again, any spinal cord injury is going to incapacitate you in some way.

It doesn't need any paralyzed. But it means you're gonna be like fucked up. Like it's not gonna be an easy, you can just fight back as hard as possible. Like it's going to mess you up a little bit. Exactly. And not only that, she was also punctured in the brain twice. Yeah, exactly. And it's like that can cause like seizure activity. All of that together.

Emerging in the brain. Like, oh, this is just like. And then the other thing is remember the half made fruit salad on the counter. Yeah. He was like, yeah, she could have been preparing the food when somebody attacked her from behind. And that's exactly what that scene says to you. Yeah, sure does. And the neuro pathologist that he worked with, Dr. Ross, also found evidence of scratch marks and fingernail marks near her throat, as well as a hemorrhage near her throat that would have been indicative of manual strangulation. This is like very infuriating.

Yeah, this is infuriating. It's, I felt like I was a crazy person. To me, someone got away with murder here. Lit, nope, to like some, not even to clearly. Very clearly. Somebody got away with murder. Very clearly. Yeah.

Now let's talk about the locked door, because that is interesting. Like how did somebody get in? Yeah, in the beginning I was like, how do they get in? Yeah. So Sam said that he had been able to break into the apartment basically just by using force. Brennan reviewed the photos from the scene and saw that the lock was still intact except for one screw.

So basically he bumped out one screw and was able to get in. He believed that if Sam had really used force to open the door, the entire lock would have come off the out of the door. Who knows? I was gonna say I can't speak to them because I have no idea. But one of the reasons why the death is listed as a suicide was the fact that the door was locked from the inside

So they were like no one could have gotten in and killed Ellen and slipped out back into the hall Well, both D'Andrea and Brennan pointed out that you can just YouTube how to open that kind of swing back lock from the outside And there's plenty of ways to do it. I watched three videos on it the outside and there's plenty of ways to do it. I watched three videos on it. In one video, they tied a string to like the top and bottom of the lock and then you can pull the ends outside of the string and it unlocks the door perfectly. It pulls the string back so that the ball hinge doesn't get in the way and you can open the door easily. There was another way where they used a rubber band and they did like a similar kind of thing where they tied it around the top and the bottom and then they stuck the rest of the rubber band to the

wall with duct tape and then pulled the door and where it could do it easily. And then I found another video where they literally just used a do not disturb sign and pressed it up against the wall and closed the door, kept pressing and eventually they got into the hotel room. So they're really not a secure lock. If you have one of those, maybe now think about getting it different. Because the amount of videos I only watched three on YouTube, and I'll link them, the amount of videos on how to open

one of these locks from the outside is terrifying. Yeah. So it's not impossible. But I don't know if we should link them to give people, and that's like, yeah, maybe we would. Maybe if you would, yeah. I'd look at that, like, go ahead. Go ahead and find it, but like, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But so if somebody left the apartment, how would they put that lock back on? You could still use the string mechanism to do the same thing and to lock it back. Yeah, to lock it back, but then I guess the question is because that's my question is like, how do you lock it from the outside?

But was it a, but the thing was, was it ever locked from the outside? We don't know because he broke down the door. That's the thing, we're just going off of Sam. Yeah, so actually, I don't know because realistically if you did, the string would be left there. That's true.

But was that ever really locked? I don't know. That's true. Who knows? I don't know. Not me. Now, Ellen's parents filed a request to see if they could get access to her file. That request was denied. What the police commissioner's office did allow them to go in and review the paperwork in her file? But the downs, so they were allowed to go in and review the file, but the downside to that was that it had to be just them and they couldn't make copies of anything or call their lawyers while they were there to help explain anything noted.

So essentially it was a huge waste of their time. Because if they can't understand something, it's like, well, and like you, even reading that autopsy was difficult for me, that's like a different language. Yeah, of course. It's a totally different language. So you're just going in there being like, I hope I get this. Yeah.

So they went in and they were like, we didn't know what anything meant to. Yeah. Why would we? Of course not. Which was incredibly frustrating. They have tried to have Ellen's case reopened, especially after they've gone to these multiple experts and were told, yeah, most of this evidence

is indicative of homicide. But their requests have been denied time and time again. The attorney general released a statement saying that the investigation they had done was a thorough one and to further cement that this was a case of suicide, they referenced Ellen's laptop and said that there were searches for the terms including suicide methods, painless suicide and quick suicide methods.

Now they said that the report was made by the regional computer forensics laboratory and given to the police on April 1, 2011. However, and you will see it in the autopsy, the family had been told originally that no such terms were found on Ellen's laptop, and there was no note of that in the report. And you can see right in front of you,

the autopsy says, analysis of the, what do you say, the dissents laptop? The decedents. The decedents laptop provided no additional information. It says that right there. And it's like that would have been in bowl letters. It literally says that autopsy right there. Yeah, that, no.

So when they were questioned about this, the attorney general said that his office wasn't the one defined it. So quote, we cannot say if anyone police or prosecutor ever looked at it. What's happening? Yeah, so what's going on over there? On October 15, 2019,

Ellen's parents filed a civil lawsuit against the medical examiner, Marlon Osborne, and the Philadelphia County Medical Examiner's office with the ultimate goal of having suicide removed from their daughter's cause of death as they should and replaced with at least undetermined or hostile. I was just gonna say it at the very least. And they said that they were like if you want to put on determined go off, but you do not want our daughters like were like, if you want to put on determined, go off, but you do not want our daughters,

like cause of death going down to suicide when that's not clearly not what happens. That's just like false. Yeah, that's literally made up. And they were like, that's, it's just ridiculous. That's outrageous, as far as I'm concerned. Their attorney, Joe Padrasas stated, quote, under Pennsylvania law, the determination

in the manner of death is always open to reconsideration based on new evidence. And in this case, you can see there's considerable new evidence. Yeah. There is in fact new evidence as recent as 20-21. What? Now give it to me. Oh, honey, just fucking wait for this.

Joe Pedraza says that there's new forensic evidence that proves Ellen could not have stabbed herself 20 times. So they were able to use a process called, I might fuck this up, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, grammetry, I believe, so you say it? It's the art and science of extracting 3D information from photographs. So in this case, they were able to do this

with Ellen's wounds and how the knife would have entered each one. What the evidence shows is that it would have been, quote, very improbable for Ellen to wound herself like they say she did from behind because she wouldn't have been able to use the force necessary. That's what you've been saying in this whole time. Yes, it's the leverage thing and the force that you would need,

it doesn't make any sense. The physics doesn't make sense here. No. You need a certain amount of leverage to do that. Right. No, it just... And immediately, I was like, that doesn't make any fucking sense. That slash to her right occipital is not common in suicides at all.

Yeah. So that was strange in and of itself. Now, are you ready for the best part? I'm actually looking at the photos of that test that they did. Yeah, it's very interesting, right? That slash? Yeah. No.

No. And the other thing is the angle at which some of those entered is from an upright angle. Yeah, sure it is. Her father was like, I don't care if you're triple-jointed. You wouldn't have done it. Like, you can't do that. You can go this, but like, I wish you guys could see us right now, like, I don't care if you're triple jointed. You wouldn't have done it. Like, you can't do that. You can go this, but I wish you guys could see us right now.

We're like, swinging arm. It's not fucking possible. In the more you're the amount of stab wounds, we're gonna have to, like, we can post these photos. Because it's true when you see it in black and white, you're like, what the fuck? I literally know what she did this to herself.

Because also it's like, one even would be shocking to do it at that angle. And after you're incapacitating yourself, after you've done one or two, to be able to do more after that with that force, doesn't make any sense. It makes no sense whatsoever. And then to finish all of those,

and then have that one be the last one in her chest, no, it makes no sense. No. Now, to get even more fucking shady, this is crazy. So they also had a forensic evaluation done on Ellen's computer themselves, like the family. They had it done on the hard drive. And they say it proves that Ellen never made searches

for anything related to suicide. So those are what the fuck? The bullshit. And you can tell their bullshit when they're like, yeah, I didn't write the report, I didn't see it. That's what I love. I love that they're all just passing the fucking book. Like even the medical,

the system medical examiner, they're like Lucy, whatever the hell. She, for her to be like, I just don't remember. She was the neuro pathologist. She was the neuro pathologist. She's, she's just in there being like, I don't know, I don't know. She was the neuro pathologist. She was the neuro pathologist. She's just in there being like, I don't know, I don't know.

Maybe not, maybe some, just figured out, I don't know. Like everyone's just passing the ball. And then it was like, I don't have a bill associated with that. I'm like, yeah, because you probably did someone a fucking favor. Well, it's like, what the fuck? Guys, yeah, what's happening? The fact that they also did a forensic evaluation

on her computer's hard drive and it came back with none of those search terms? No. Like, what? No. So the evidence was said to have been submitted to the Attorney General in January of this year. The Attorney General released a statement saying, Our hearts go out to the Greenberg family on the anniversary of Ellen's traumatic death.

At the urging of the family and following a conflict referral from the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office in 2018, our office reviewed the case and conducted an extensive investigation that did not uncover evidence to change the medical examiner's finding of suicide. There is no statute of limitation on homicide, however, and if any new evidence is brought forward, we believe it should be reviewed with the proper authorities. At this time, no such information has been shared with our office. That's not true, because they literally got that. No. You got the evidence that Joe Pedraza gave them. I'm not into it. So the attorney Joe Pedraza plans to bring this case to trial at some point this year to

prove that the manner of death was a fucking homicide. Hell yes. And there is a change.org petition for Ellen's case to be reopened and it has more than 27,000 signatures. Oh, we got to share that. I was going to say I will link it in the show notes for anyone interested. I am on board. Now, some people do believe that Sam Boehrg's family ties may have led to some kind of cover-up. His uncle may have been the person he called to the scene before he called the police, is a judge and sits as the chair of the ethics and professional responsibility group. He was also appointed by the governor to the court of judicial discipline in 2018. I'm not saying that Sam Goldberg was involved in any way

shape or form. I'm simply just reporting what other people believe to be potentially true. Okay, he does have a criminal record in Arizona. A lot of the violations are just traffic violations and one charge of providing liquor to minors. And he was also evicted by one of his landlords while he was living in Arizona. The landlord tried to bring nine civil judgments against him.

Okay, which is interesting, just worth noting. These days Sam is married with children and he's living somewhere else. I'm not even gonna say where he lives because that's not fair. Yeah and that's and I mean there's nothing violent in that path. There's nothing violent and that she sat there and told her psychiatrist. I was just gonna say the psychiatrist said she seemed genuinely happy talking about right. The only reason why people think that is because he has family involved in

the judicial system. And because he was the only other person around exactly. Or that we know of. And well, there was nobody on the camera or anything like that. So I think people, people always think like the husband do. I was just going to say, I get why people are questioning. Yeah.

But to me, it doesn't make sense. To me, there's just not enough. I can't sit there and say that, I believe, that we could even question that. But I wonder what she was so stressed about and the fact that there was bruises of various healing points. I'm like, was somebody else hurting her?

Yeah, I just, that I don't know, because then I look on the other side and I'm like, I am like, I have like a history of anemia and I bruise like a grape. But all specifically, sometimes I'm right side of heremia and I, bruise like a grape. But all specifically to the right side of her body and there was 11. Yeah, I mean, that's shocking. It definitely is, but then you have to look at both sides.

Yeah, because there's times, you know, there's been times where we're like, where the fuck did this bruise come from? Elena had a bruise on her neck the other day when we were recording and I was like, pause, and she's like, what? I'm like, what the fuck is on your neck? And it was a huge bruise. Yeah, and I was like, I genuinely don't know like, what? I'm like, what the fuck is on your neck? And it was a huge bruise.

Yeah, and I was like, I genuinely don't know where that came from. So it does happen. So she could have been anemic, but I don't know. I don't know. I, all I know is that Ellen Greenberg did not kill herself. No, that is what I know. That is fact.

That's far as I'm concerned. As far as, yeah. Now somebody did that. Just to finish this off and really great timing, because the rain is starting to fall. There's a torrential rain. I don't know if you can hear that. But Ellen's family plans to continue their fight for justice.

Good. And they hope that in the hopes that someday, they'll learn what really happened to their daughter. We're with you, man. Seriously. Her father said, as long as she's in your mind, she's still there. And her mother said, when I think of her,

I have to think of her during life and the gift that she was to us. Oh, that just hurts my heart. So, oh my God, I want to help these people. Sign up, petition, because she was not murdered at all. Excuse me, she did not commit suicide. No, she was murdered. She was murdered. And that family deserves to have fucking justice.

Peace. That's wild that they haven't been able to. And this is just another form of of just like torturing them. Of course it is. They have no, somebody's walking around, she did this. So I hope we have some kind of update because the attorney did plan to bring it to trial later this year.

Yeah, we gotta have it up here. This year is almost over, let's go. Come on guys, let's make this happen because this is like infuriating. I told you, I got to elate as half this morning and I was like, you're gonna be pissed when I give my case today. And I was like, don't tell me anything. And I was like, okay gonna be pissed when I give my case today And I was like don't tell me anything and I was like okay It's gonna be really hard though can we go upstairs and record oh my god. I'm I'm infuriated. It's insane

It's insane and you guys are gonna be even more infuriated when you see the picture we were talking about oh that When you see it right in front of you're like no, no literally. I don't know how anybody thinks that's possible. No no no no Well, we hope you keep listening. And we hope you keep it weird. But that's where you walk into a crime scene. You're like, oh my god, I don't even want to look at any of the evidence that's sitting right here in front of me.

Like, even though that's my job, it is, I think it was suicide. I go, bye. Yeah, don't, don't do that. Don't fucking do that. Let the scene speak to you. Let the body speak to you. Keep it that weird. If you are professional, of course.

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