A first-grade teacher found dead on her kitchen floor with twenty stab wounds. A knife protruding from her chest. The door locked from the inside. And a medical examiner who changed his ruling after a closed-door meeting with police.

On January 26, 2011, twenty-seven-year-old Ellen Greenberg was discovered by her fiancé Sam Goldberg in their Philadelphia apartment [citation:1][citation:2]. She had been stabbed more than twenty times, including wounds to the back of her head, neck, and torso, with a ten-inch kitchen knife left in her chest [citation:5][citation:10]. The assistant medical examiner initially ruled it a homicide. Four days later, after meeting with Philadelphia police and the district attorney's office, he changed the ruling to suicide [citation:2][citation:3]. For fourteen years, her parents have fought to uncover the truth. They point to unexplained bruises in various stages of healing, a lack of defensive wounds they believe resulted from strangulation before stabbing, and a three-dimensional recreation they claim proves Ellen could not have inflicted all the wounds herself [citation:4][citation:8][citation:10]. In October 2025, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office reaffirmed the suicide finding, citing her struggles with anxiety and the absence of anyone else's DNA on the knife [citation:1][citation:7]. Her attorney called the report deeply flawed and an insult to her family [citation:4]. Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the question of who was in Apartment 603 remains unanswered.

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