Ellen Greenberg’s parents continue to seek justice in connection with their daughter’s death, after officials initially labeled it a suicide.
According to ABC 7, Ellen’s parents, Sandee and Josh Greenberg, told investigative reporter Anne Emerson that they want Ellen’s fiancé, Sam Goldberg, to come forward and speak about the case.
So far, Goldberg reportedly has not responded.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, 27-year-old Ellen, a first-grade teacher, was found fatally stabbed in her Manayunk apartment in 2011. Goldberg said he left for the gym while Ellen chopped up fruit in the kitchen.
He returned home to find the front door locked, with the swing lock attached to the inside side of the door, according to what he told police.
Goldberg said he called and texted Ellen numerous times, but when he couldn’t get an answer and couldn’t get help from the apartment management, he broke the lock himself.
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Inside the apartment, Ellen was found slumped over in the kitchen, with “some of her upper body/shoulders resting against the lower half of the white kitchen cabinets,” court documents stated.
Police have not arrested Goldberg or named him a suspect.
Earlier this month, according to DailyMail, Goldberg was spotted in New York City, but when questioned about the case, he fled into a building.
Meanwhile, a Philadelphia judge ruled Friday that a lawsuit can proceed against several city officials over the handling of Greenberg’s death.
The federal government requested documents last month from the Philadelphia Police Department and other official agencies, in connection with the case.
The judge dismissed the lawsuit for one defendant — a police supervisor who was a sergeant at the time of Greenberg’s death in 2011 — but other officials with the city’s police department and medical examiner’s office remain defendants.
“It’s very good news in that it takes things out of the state of Philadelphia which we cannot trust and places it in the hands of the federal government,’ Sandee told DailyMail.
“There’s been so much corruption they need fresh eyes on it… It’s been a very long time coming. January 26 will be 15 years but we’re gaining momentum and Ellen knows.”.
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[Featured image: Ellen Greenberg/Family handout]