United States: reopening of the investigation into the suspicious death of a teacher in 2011

Last week, an American judge ordered the imminent reopening of the investigation into the death of Ellen Greenberg, a young woman who died ten years ago.

The 27-year-old teacher's body was found in her home, stabbed 20 times.

The investigation carried out at the time had concluded with a suicide, reports the

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On the afternoon of January 26, 2011, Ellen Greenberg sent her students home as a blizzard hit the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The teacher was found dead in the kitchen of her apartment by her husband a few hours later, a knife stuck in her chest.

Investigators in charge of investigating his death issue several opinions during the five weeks of investigation.

They first think of suicide.

There are no defensive injuries visible on the victim's body and no sign of a struggle on the one who was alone in her apartment, whose door was locked from the inside, according to reports from the

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Ellen's death is then classified as a homicide after examination by the medical examiner.

A thorough investigation concludes with the suicide of the teacher.

"It does not mean anything"

Ellen Greenberg's parents have always believed their daughter was murdered and believe the forensic pathologist changed his findings under pressure from investigators.

Greenberg's parents' attorney Joseph Podraza told the

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Some of the report's conclusions raise questions and have been denied by experts. The lock on the apartment could be easily locked from the outside, according to Guy D'Andrea, assistant district attorney in the Philadelphia Homicide Unit in 2015, when interviewed by the

. Ellen's ability to stab herself ten times in the neck and head and ten times in the stomach, abdomen and chest is also questioned by the expert. To explain the absence of defensive wounds on Ellen's body, Guy D'Andrea points out that the order in which the stab wounds were carried is not known, except the last, in the heart, and that it is likely that theone of the first stab wounds severed the victim's spinal cord, preventing him from defending himself.

The behavior of the fiancé considered suspicious

Renowned medical examiner Cyril H. Wecht, commissioned by Ellen's parents, noted that suicide victims rarely stab themselves repeatedly or through their clothes the way Ellen did. For Guy D'Andrea, the behavior of the fiancé is suspect. He called the emergency services more than an hour after trying to reach his wife and when they ask her to perform first aid, he retorts "

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" says the expert. On the other hand, investigators who spoke to the

noted that there was little blood at the scene of the tragedy and that no luminol test had been carried out to see if theapartment had been cleaned after the teacher's death.

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Ellen Greenberg's parents filed a lawsuit against the medical examiner's office, challenging the conclusion of the autopsy report, and the judge issued an order paving the way for a civil trial.

The date will be fixed later.

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Sandra Greenberg, Ellen's mother, told

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