December 18, 2010, Ellen’s computer revealed She search results for suffocation and suicide methods.

Ellen asked her parents if she could move back home to Harrisburg. They thought it odd, given her impending marriage in August, but their daughter assured them it had nothing to do with Goldberg, her fiance.

January 8, 2011 Ellen texted her mom, Sandra, “I’m starting the med I know u don’t understand but I can’t keep living with feeling this way,”

January 10, 2011  a few weeks before her death, her computer revealed searches for quick death. She also opened an article on euthanasia and browsed a website about painless suicide.

• 7:00 AM Ellen spoke to her mother.
• 12:00 PM Ellen received an text from a friend “Yah, you are getting out early” and replied with “Thank Goodness”
• 1:15 PM Ellen Greenberg left her job early as schools closed due to severe weather
• 1:26 PM Ellen stopped for gas. Topping off her tank ensured her fuel lines wouldn’t freeze during the massive winter storm.
• 2:30 PM, she makes a call to a local restaurant
• 14:33 PM – Ellen called someone call lasted 30 seconds
• 4:45 PM- Goldberg left the couple’s home around 4:45 p.m., surveillance at their apartment building captured Sam entering the on-site gym.
• 4:46 PM, Ellen uses her laptop.
• 5:30 PM Sam Goldberg left the on-site gym, stopped in the lobby to check his mail, and then headed back up to their 6th-floor apartment.
• 5:30 PM until 5:42 PM Sam calls Ellen and sends her texts from
• 5:32 PM – 5:54 PM Sam emailed and texted Ellen.
• 5:44 PM Neighbors heard Goldberg call Ellen’s name several times.
• Sam Goldberg called Kamian Schwartzman to let him know he was locked out of his apartment and that Ellen was not responding to repeated telephone calls and texts to let him in. Kanin suggested to ask Security Doorman for help.
• 6 PM, Sam went downstairs in the lobby requesting help from the doorman Phil Hanton, The doorman tells Sam that it is against policy for him to break down doors, but he can call Ellen. 
• 6:07 and 6:10 PM, Ellen’s cell gets two calls from Venice Lofts, but no one answers. The doorman Phil Hanton offers to call the police.
• 6:14 PM Sam Goldberg calls Kamian Schwartzman to tell them that the security guard could not help.
• 6:26 Sam Goldberg Answers a Phone Call from James Schwartzman
• 6:28 PM Sam Goldberg is seen on the video going upstairs 
• 6:30 PM Sam went back up to the apartment and Kamian and James instructed Sam to force his way in. Sam stayed on the phone when he broke the door and forced his way into the apartment.
  
• 6:31 PM –  James and Kamian heard Sam scream. They instructed Sam Goldberg to call 911.
• 6:33 PM – Sam Called 911
• 6:36 PM Emergency Responders Arrive On-Scene
• 6:42 PM – When medics arrived they found Ellen in a semi-upright position between two corner cabinets, she was pronounced dead.
• 7:30 PM James and Kamian Schwartzman arrived at the Venice Lofts Apartments, after they received multiple calls from Sam Goldberg
• 7:31 PM Officer Jamie Budd arrived, and requested the medical examiner
• 8:27 PM Detective arrived to the scene (20:27)

• 7:41 AM LE Interviewed Josh and Sandra Greenberg
  
• 3:00 AM Ellen’s body was removed from the Venice Loft apartments and transported to a morgue for an autopsy.
• 9 AM, a Dr. Marlon Osbourne performed an autopsy on the decedent. In his examination, he noted “multiple stab wounds to the chest, abdomen, and back of neck.”
• Melissa Ware, the property manager, contacted the police department because James Schwartzman, attorney and Sam’s uncle asked for access to the apartment to get a suit for his nephew. The police department told Melissa it wasn’t an active crime scene and went so far as to give Melissa the number of a crime scene clean-up crew.
• Made an arrangements with the Crime Scene Cleanup to clean up the apartment on the same day.
  
• Once apartment was cleaned, she called James Schwartzman who showed up and removed not only a suit from the apartment but also Ellen’s purse, cell phone, and laptop.

Medical examiner ruled Ellen’s death homicide

• Dr. Osbourne initially concluded that the manner of the Victim’s death was homicide. As a result of his determination, PPD detectives obtained a search warrant identifying various items in the apartment “of evidentiary value in the investigation of a homicide by cutting instrument.” When the PPD detectives arrived to execute the warrant the day after the Victim was found, they discovered that the kitchen had been cleaned and a number of the apartment’s contents removed.
• The building’s property manager, Melissa Ware, explained that an unnamed PPD representative had advised her to call a third-party service to have the apartment thoroughly cleaned.

March, 2011, the PPD demanded a face-to-face meeting about Ellen’s case with Osbourne and Gulino, Osbourne’s boss, which was also attended by a high-ranking representative from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. following meetings with investigators, Dr. Osbourne made an unprecedented decision to change his original ruling. He reversed his earlier classification of the death as a homicide and concluded that Ellen’s death was actually a suicide.

March 3, 2011, sometime after the clandestine meeting had ended, Ellen’s Death Certificate Information was quietly updated from homicide to suicide.

Lab provided a search history from Ellen’s computer between Dec. 18, 2010, and Jan. 10, 2011, that was recovered by law enforcement’s Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL) and turned over to police on April 1, 2011. It included the search terms _suicide methods, quick suicide,_ and _painless suicide._ He provided some of Ellen’s text messages, as well.

On April 4, 2011, Osbourne reissued a death certificate reflecting that Ellen’s death had been declared a suicide.

April 15, 2011, the MEO Investigation Report was revised to reflect that when the fiancé “forced entry into the apartment” “an apartment security man was reportedly present during the entry,” the very information Osbourne claimed he received at the clandestine meeting which he now claims convinced him to amend Ellen’s manner of death to a suicide

June 7, 2012 Dr. Wayne K. Ross issued a report stating “The scene findings were indicative if a homicide”

April 4, 2017 Detective Scott Eelman Provided a report. He state that Ellen’s Body was moved.

January 28, 2018 Dr. Henry-C.Lee-PhD issued a report stating “The number and type of wounds and bloodstain patterns are consistent with a homicide.

• October 15, 2019, the Parents, in their capacity as administrators of the Victim’s Estate, filed a Complaint in the Trial Court, seeking mandamus and declaratory relief. During the course of pre-trial discovery, the parties submitted several exhibits as evidence.
• The building’s property manager, Melissa Ware, explained that an unnamed PPD representative had advised her to call a third-party service to have the apartment thoroughly cleaned.

Judge Glynnis D. Hill ruled in October 2021 that the civil suit filed by Ellen’s parents, Joshua and Sandra Greenberg of Harrisburg, against the Medical Examiner’s Office and Dr. Marlon Osbourne could proceed to trial.

February 2022 The court heard arguments from Joseph Podraza, the Greenberg’s attorney, and Kelly Diffily, a senior attorney with the city’s Law Department, at the Widener Building in Center City.

February 4, 2022 the Commonwealth Court granted the city’s petition and ordered the civil trial be placed on hold, pending a decision in the appeal case.

July, 2024, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is Granted