Buried the Podcast

In 2011, 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment, stabbed 20 times, including 10 times in the back of her neck. At first, her death was ruled a homicide. Days later, it was suddenly reclassified as a suicide.This episode of Buried unpacks the procedural failures, forensic contradictions, and legal obstructions that followed. From a spinal cord examination with no written report, to a body embalmed before transparency, to a crime scene scrubbed clean before the warrant was signed, Ellen’s case was mishandled at every level.We name names. We cite the statutes. And we examine how the truth was buried not by mystery…but by the very people tasked with finding it.

In May 2006, Rey Rivera disappeared without a trace. A week later, his body was found beneath a hole in the roof of Baltimore’s historic Belvedere Hotel. What followed wasn’t just a mystery, it was a cascade of missed procedures, overlooked evidence, and assumptions that may have buried the truth for good.This episode of Buried breaks down the official investigation from a forensic and procedural standpoint, no theories, just facts. We examine the role of law enforcement, the medical examiner, and the impact of early tunnel vision on the case’s trajectory. From Maryland’s statutory requirements to overlooked surveillance footage and the undetermined manner of death, we ask the hardest question: Did the system fail Rey Rivera?