2011 death of Philadelphia teacher with over 20 stab wounds and cuts is again ruled a suicide

Philadelphia’s top pathologist ruled that a schoolteacher found with a kitchen knife in her chest died by suicide, the latest conclusion in a case in which officials have repeatedly reversed their findings in the 2011 death of Ellen Greenberg. In a 32-page report completed last week, Chief Medical Examiner Lindsay Simon wrote that while the distribution of Greenberg’s injuries — she was found with more than 20 stab wounds and cuts to her neck, head and torso — were “admittedly unusual, the fact remains that Ellen would be capable of inflicting these injuries herself.”