The 20 stab-wound suicide
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A pathologist's controversial ruling that Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old Philadelphia woman whose death by 20 stab wounds was a suicide, will receive a new review after Pennsylvania's Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments from her parents and their attorney.
The family learned the court had agreed to hear their case on Tuesday, Greenberg's mother, Sandee Greenberg, told Fox News Digital. The court will examine whether the parents, as executors of her estate, have legal standing to challenge the medical examiner's findings.
Last year, a panel of appellate court judges ruled against the parents' request to force the Philadelphia medical examiner to reclassify Greenberg's death from suicide to homicide or undetermined. The panel found that the parents lacked standing.
But the judges also slammed the city, police and the medical examiner's office for the investigation.
Greenberg's parents alleged a murder cover-up and vowed to take their fight to the state's Supreme Court, finally succeeding last week after outside experts warned them they would face an uphill battle.
"We always wondered why we didn't have standing, Ellen's mother and father," her father, Dr. Joshua Greenberg, told Fox News Digital. "We started it as a fight for Ellen, but… we are fighting on standing and on the ability to challenge the medical examiner. Right now the medical examiner's conclusion cannot be challenged."
The Chester County District Attorney’s Office is conducting another outside investigation after Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner stepped away due to a conflict of interest and former Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who is now the governor, was accused of having another conflict of interest.
What could Shapiro's alleged conflict of interest possibly be? He was AG at the time...
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Just no.
Self-inflicted stab wounds tend to be sideways, not vertical, unless they're in the abdominal area, because of how people hold the knife and the power it takes to run a knife into the body.
I've seen people cut their own throat, but I've never seen somebody commit suicide by stabbing themselves in the back of the head or in the back of the neck. Women can reach further behind them than men can, but think at what angle the arm would have to be at to inflict those wounds and how much power could be generated from that position.
That just doesn't look right.
