Hulu -Docuseries recognize the death of the teacher who has been stabbed 20 times found

In January 2011, teacher Ellen Greenberg of the first class was found dead with 20 stab wounds in the kitchen of her apartment in Philadelphia. After breaking down a locked door, Sam Goldberg, Greenberg’s fiancé, discovered her body with a 10-inch long kitchen knife stuck out of her chest and stab wounds at the back of the head and her back.

On the spot, the police surprised all the family and friends of Greenberg when they ruled her death a suicide. After the police had removed her body, a professional cleaning company wiped the kitchen from Greenberg.

Then, just a few days later, during the funeral of Greenberg, the office of the Philadelphia Medical Examiner reigned the business. Inexplicable, four months later the cause of death of Greenberg was switched back to suicide. The city of Philadelphia closed the case without further investigation.

The bizarre and tragic death of Greenberg is the subject of the ABC News Studios docuseries “Death in Apartment 603: What happened to Ellen Greenberg?” The three -part series, directed by Nancy Schwartzman, investigates the creepy business and follows the parents of Ellen, Josh and Sandra Greenberg, who never believed that their daughter tried suicide, tried to discover what really happened for the past 14 years.

SCHWARTZMAN began to film the series in February, immediately after a civil lawsuit that De Greenbergs was abolished against the city of Philadelphia, an agreement was arranged that the current medical investigator would re -examine the case. Philadelphia officials were instructed to complete their reinstall to the death of Ellen Greenberg before October 14.

“It was this perfect moment to let the cameras roll on the story because there was a momentum,” says Schwartzman. “There were legal steps, which lasted forever, but suddenly all came together, so that when we filmed, we were in the moment we had developed, now in combination with who Ellen was, who her family was, and how all this proof came together.”

For the Josh and Sandra Greenberg, working with ABC News and Schwartzman meant an opportunity to draw more attention to the business and Ellen’s life.

“We would like to have this documentary to help bring justice to Ellen,” says Josh Greenberg. “But the majority of this series is to talk about Ellen and how special she was.”

Sandra Greenberg adds: “We wanted the world to get to know us as a family. We wanted people to learn who Ellen was and what kind of person she was. She loved life.”

In addition to the Greenbergs, Schwartzman interviewed the friends of Ellen and extensive family, Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Stephanie Farr, former Philadelphia Police Officers, a detective and forensic pathologists Joseph Scott Morgan and Dr. Michelle Dupree, who noticed that they had never heard of a case where someone stood in the back. The pathologists also discuss “Teacher bookmarking markings” on the neck of Greenberg and Kneuzingen in different stages of healing in her body.

“There are no rumors, theories and conspiracies (in this document),” says Schwartzman. “Everything we (investigate) in the series is public registration and has come through the legal process and discovery. It raises many questions. What we saw with our dive in the study is that there was clearly human error.”

These human mistakes demonstrably include cleaning the kitchen where Greenberg died and the uncle of Sam Goldberg mysteriously the computer of Greenberg from her bedroom without permission after her death.

“In short, what we wanted to point out was this snowball effect,” says Schwartzman. “You have all these serious mistakes, whether or not they are nasty or not, that would be considered errors in any research, and then a lack of willingness to just get correctly and say:” You know what. On that night our beat agents made a mistake. “

Although Goldberg did not participate in the series, his voice can be heard through a 911 call that he did after discovering the bloody body of his fiancé.

“She fell on a knife!,” Says Goldberg the 911 operator. “Her knife sticks out. There is a knife from her heart.”

When the 911 operator says she will go through it by doing CPR, when he is prepared, Goldberg answers: “I have to, right?”

“The man who would marry my daughter has children with her – when asked to do resuscitation and says,” I have to, “I couldn’t believe my ears,” says Sandra Greenfield.

The series also contains the voice of Governor Josh Shapiro through news images of archive news. Shapiro inherited the case when he was the attorney general of Pennsylvania. In 2019, his office confirmed his case as suicide.

Shapiro’s attitude on the Greenberg case remains unchanged. “There is nothing that I wanted to give some finality more than to give some finality, some clarify and we received more proof more information in the course of our research that unfortunately did not show what they wanted, but actually pointed out more information that pointed to a suicide,” Shapiro said at a press conference in February.

Schwartzman put his hand out to Shapiro for an interview. Just like the Philadelphia police, the office of the medical investigator, the office of the attorney general and the office of the public prosecutor, refused.

“I think this is where documentary films really shine because we do our best to keep those in power to take into account,” says Schwartzman.

“Death in Apartment 603: What happened to Ellen Greenberg?” is currently streaming at Hulu.