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Which Philly nigger did it?

Philadelphia investigators ruled Ellen Greenberg's 2011 stabbing
death a suicide despite widespread criticism of their findings

The knife found piercing the chest of 27-year-old Philadelphia
teacher Ellen Greenberg has never been fingerprinted, according
to the attorney for her parents, who are suing city officials
over an alleged coverup of her murder.

Greenberg was discovered dead in her kitchen in January 2011
with 20 stab wounds, including 10 from behind.

But city authorities have said for years that her death was a
suicide and are still embroiled in a court battle over evidence
in the case, which her parents want access to. One piece of that
evidence is the knife itself.

"We would like to have it tested, minimally, just to see if
there are fingerprints on it, because if there aren't any
fingerprints, that says a lot," said Joseph Podraza, the
attorney for Joshua and Sandee Greenberg and their daughter’s
estate.

It would mean someone — a potential killer — wiped them off
after she was dead, he told Fox News Digital.

"And if there are fingerprints other than Ellen's on that knife,
well, that says a lot too: Somebody clearly did stab her," he
said. "And it's never been fingerprinted."

Dr. Michael Baden, a renowned forensic pathologist who is not
connected to the case, said if the knife has been stored
properly all this time fingerprints can be analyzed.

"Fingerprints usually don't go away unless they are wiped away,"
he told Fox News Digital. "If the knife has been properly
preserved, a foreign fingerprint might still be findable."

A lot of evidence in the case deserves scrutiny, according to
Podraza and the family's private investigator, Tom Brennan.

Despite collapsing with nearly two dozen stab wounds in a
bloodstained kitchen, Greenberg was found clutching a "pristine"
white towel in her left hand, the lawyer said.

"I think that that towel that's in her left hand was used to
wipe it (the knife handle)," Podraza told Fox News Digital. "And
I think that somebody may have come upon the scene quicker than
they thought, and that's how that towel ended up in her left
hand."

"How many people are cutting up fruit for a fruit salad to eat
for lunch, then decide, 'Oh, you know something, I'd rather kill
myself now?'" Podraza said. "'So let me go get a white towel,
hold it in my left hand while stabbing myself 20 times to
death.'"

Last month, a panel of appellate judges ruled against the
parents' request to force the Philadelphia medical examiner to
reclassify Greenberg's death from suicide to homicide or
undetermined.

But the panel also slammed the city, police and the medical
examiner's office for the investigation.

"The facts surrounding this matter are extremely disturbing and
the Parents’ tireless efforts over the past 12 years to learn
exactly what happened to their daughter on the evening of
January 26, 2011, warrant our sincere sympathy," Commonwealth
Judge Ellen Ceisler wrote in the majority opinion.

"The experts they enlisted have all raised serious factual
questions about Dr. [Marlon] Osbourne’s and Dr. [Sam] Gulino’s
conclusions, and even the [medical examiner's office] now
concedes that there 'is no dispute that evidence in the record
could support other conclusions about the manner of death.'"

Ceisler outlined glaring flaws in the investigation. Osbourne's
initial finding was that the death was a homicide, but his
determination came after the crime scene had been cleaned up and
before police arrived with a search warrant.

And Dr. Cyril Wecht, a famed forensic pathologist who conducted
an independent review of the autopsy, found the evidence
"strongly suspicious of homicide" and "noted that the
investigators made no effort to examine the knife found in the
Victim’s chest for fingerprints," she wrote.

A separate judge is expected to hear oral arguments on the
family’s request for evidence in the case as part of a separate
lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to cover up a murder. The city is
actively fighting against the disclosures.

Officials have said they cannot answer questions directly
related to the case, citing the pending litigation and an
ongoing outside investigation in the hands of the neighboring
Chester County District Attorney’s Office.

A Philadelphia spokeswoman told Fox News Digital last month the
city was "pleased" with the appellate ruling in its favor.

"The city is now, and has always been, deeply sympathetic to
Joshua and Sandra Greenberg's pain and deep grief over the loss
of their daughter," she said in a statement. "If Mr. and Mrs.
Greenberg have new evidence about their daughter’s death, we
urge them to present it to the investigators in Chester County,
as they have the authority to reopen the investigation."

Dr. Marlon Osbourne, the former assistant Philadelphia medical
examiner, has not responded to emails or phone messages. He
continues to work as a forensic pathologist and is an associate
medical examiner in Palm Beach, Florida.

The parents plan to appeal last month's appellate decision to
the state's Supreme Court, Podraza said, which he called "a road
map" on how to get away with murder.

"That's the most astounding aspect of the opinion. You have, as
I read it, three judges saying this young woman was murdered.
The investigation is grossly flawed and embarrassing. There is a
murderer or murderers out there. But our hands are tied, and
nobody can do anything except the government officials, and
you're therefore subject to their whims," he told Fox News
Digital.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/knife-used-suicide-philly-woman- stabbed-20-times-never-tested-fingerprints-lawyer-says

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