Did Gov. Shapiro (PA) cover up murder? Woman died of 20 stab wounds to back; fiancé looks sketch; Shapiro called it suicide
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Names.
- dead woman is Ellen Greenberg
- fiance is Samuel Goldberg
- Schwartzman family are Goldberg's friends
- Schwartzmans had line to then-AG Shapiro
The case was initially ruled a homicide by Philadelphia Medical Examiner Marlon Osbourne, but then police publicly challenged the ruling by the medical examiner and Osbourne switched, saying that it was a suicide...Josh Shapiro, then the Attorney General in Pennsylvania, backed the finding...However, the Greenburg family has tried to overturn the decision and turn it back into a homicide case for years.
Shapiro sent a letter to the Greenberg family’s lawyers in 2011 that his office reviewed the case and found it to be a suicide. But many details in the case do not add up, according to reporting from Gavin Fish. On Jan. 26, 2011, Goldberg called 911 in order to report that Greenberg on the floor with "blood everywhere" at around 6:31 pm. Goldberg told investigators he had left to go to the gym 45 minutes earlier, but that when he came back the door was locked.
He claimed that he could not get in contact with Ellen by phone and reverted to breaking down the door and finding her body. Goldberg had in fact called his cousin, Kamian Schwartzman, at 6:14 pm for about five minutes. Sam then missed several calls from his uncle James Schwartzman but answered his phone at 6:26 pm. Both his cousin and uncle are lawyers and were in the apartment building before first responders arrived as early as 6:34 pm but claimed in a letter to Fish that they got to the building "closer to 7:30.
PennLive reported in 2024 that Ellen's "body was slumped against a kitchen cabinet in a seated position. However, an attorney for Ellen's parents said in court Tuesday that her body had been moved."
James Schwartzman as well then-AG Shapiro were in similar political and social circles and came from the same neighborhood. James Schwartzman [went] back to the apartment, a crime scene at the time, and took [Ellen Greenberg's] laptop, work laptop, and cellphone. Police got the devices from them two days afterward.
Whatever happened there: Somebody wanted to cover up something.
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