Police say woman was beating herself continually for several weeks before she committed suicide by stabbing herself twenty times (1 Viewer)

[fooferdoggie]

this is so corrupt but why??
A city medical examiner noted 11 bruises on Ellen’s body. He described them “in various stages of resolution,” implying she’d received them over the course of days or weeks. The photographs showed them clearly and suggested that the pathologist had undercounted.
Ellen had one bruise on her abdomen, three more above her right knee, three more on her right thigh. She had a large, dark bruise on her upper right arm, just below the shoulder. She had three more on her right forearm, including a vivid round one near the wrist.
Then there were the knife wounds. The medical examiner counted 20 of those. One went through her chest muscles and pierced her liver. One cut her aorta, the largest artery in the body; she lost more than a quart of blood. One cut the dura mater, the membrane surrounding her spinal column. Another went more than three inches deep, near the base of her skull, causing a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding stroke.
On January 27, 2011, the day after Ellen died, Dr. Marlon Osbourne wrote that she’d been “stabbed by another person.” He ruled her death a homicide.
But police investigators reached a different conclusion, one that continues to astonish her parents, her friends, and more than 163,000 people who have signed a petition demanding justice for Ellen Greenberg.
The police said Ellen had killed herself. And after a meeting with law enforcement officials, the medical examiner changed her cause of death to suicide.

She had 20 knife wounds and at least 11 bruises. Authorities said she killed herself

Ellen Greenberg was found dead in 2011 in her Philadelphia apartment with a knife in her chest. Despite contradictory evidence, her death was ruled a suicide. Years later, her parents are still fighting to find the truth.

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[bird]

this is so corrupt but why??
A city medical examiner noted 11 bruises on Ellen’s body. He described them “in various stages of resolution,” implying she’d received them over the course of days or weeks. The photographs showed them clearly and suggested that the pathologist had undercounted.
Ellen had one bruise on her abdomen, three more above her right knee, three more on her right thigh. She had a large, dark bruise on her upper right arm, just below the shoulder. She had three more on her right forearm, including a vivid round one near the wrist.
Then there were the knife wounds. The medical examiner counted 20 of those. One went through her chest muscles and pierced her liver. One cut her aorta, the largest artery in the body; she lost more than a quart of blood. One cut the dura mater, the membrane surrounding her spinal column. Another went more than three inches deep, near the base of her skull, causing a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding stroke.
On January 27, 2011, the day after Ellen died, Dr. Marlon Osbourne wrote that she’d been “stabbed by another person.” He ruled her death a homicide.
But police investigators reached a different conclusion, one that continues to astonish her parents, her friends, and more than 163,000 people who have signed a petition demanding justice for Ellen Greenberg.
The police said Ellen had killed herself. And after a meeting with law enforcement officials, the medical examiner changed her cause of death to suicide.

She had 20 knife wounds and at least 11 bruises. Authorities said she killed herself

Ellen Greenberg was found dead in 2011 in her Philadelphia apartment with a knife in her chest. Despite contradictory evidence, her death was ruled a suicide. Years later, her parents are still fighting to find the truth.

www.cnn.com

Um, might one timidly posit that she was in a relationship, perhaps clandestine, with a member of law enforcement?

 

[fooferdoggie]

Um, might one timidly posit that she was in a relationship, perhaps clandestine, with a member of law enforcement?

really I didn't read that far. this was so bad. nothing the family can really do either but get it out and tell people.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Um, might one timidly posit that she was in a relationship, perhaps clandestine, with a member of law enforcement?

The story hints that the husband should be looked at. It said that what the police told the coroner was that there was no sign of forced entry or someone coming or going through the side (no footprints in the snow). The husband said he had to get someone to break the door open, but there is security camera footage showing him approaching on his own. The property manager said it was possible to (and had done so herself) latch the door from the outside by accident. The coroner also missed signs of strangulation (and documentation from the same time period shows that he had missed obvious signs of it in other cases as well).

 

[Scoutster]

The claim of how she died, doesn’t seem very logical. Somebody should probably be ordering new investigation.

 

[fooferdoggie]

The story hints that the husband should be looked at. It said that what the police told the coroner was that there was no sign of forced entry or someone coming or going through the side (no footprints in the snow). The husband said he had to get someone to break the door open, but there is security camera footage showing him approaching on his own. The property manager said it was possible to (and had done so herself) latch the door from the outside by accident. The coroner also missed signs of strangulation (and documentation from the same time period shows that he had missed obvious signs of it in other cases as well).

man, that's just crazy. reminds me of the Idaho coroner https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-coroners-baby-deaths I bet we see a lot more of this soon.