Ellen Greenberg's death by 20 stab wounds was ruled homicide, then switched to suicide. When Shapiro was asked to review the case as attorney general, his office stood by the suicide ruling.
has come under scrutiny for a review his office conducted of one of Philadelphia’s most perplexing death cases while he served as state attorney general.
Investigators on the scene treated her death as a suicide because the apartment door — which Goldberg said he broke down — was locked from the inside, there were no signs of an intruder, and Greenberg had no defensive wounds,But the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office discovered a total of 20 stab wounds to Greenberg’s body — including 10 to the back of her neck — along with 11 bruises in various stages of healing, and ruled her death a homicide.
Shapiro’s office had the case for more than a year. It was only when The Inquirer pressed the office for answers that Shapiro’s spokesperson at the time, Joe Grace , said in a 2019 statement that the office had conducted a “thorough investigation” and that the “evidence supports ‘Suicide’ as the manner of death” and the AG has “closed this investigation.
“While the Office of Attorney General does not have an actual conflict in this matter, circumstances beyond our control have created the appearance of a conflict and our involvement is no longer serving one of the primary purposes of the District Attorney’s original conflict referral,” Stieber said via email at the time.
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