Ellen Greenberg Update: ME Says He Was Wrong! NOT Suicide!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The death of Ellen Greenberg was initially ruled a homicide, but without warning or explanation, Doctor Marlon Osbourne changed the ruling to suicide. Ellen's parents have spent the last 14 years trying to have it changed back to homicide, or undetermined. The Greenberg's have two civil suits about the case, one headed for the state supreme court later this year, but on the first day of jury selection for the other case, a settlement is reached. Doctor Marlon Osbourne, who conducted the autopsy on Ellen Greenberg as the former assistant medical examiner with the ME's office, signed a sworn verification statement in which he says he now believes Ellen's manner of death should be designated as something other than suicide. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and breakdown how this change impacts the case today and in the future.

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00:00:00 Introduction

03:29.50 Dr. Osbourne changes ruling from homicide to suicide

07:23.79 The life of Ellen Greenberg

12:21.71 location of injuries

17:19.04 Joe talks about autopsy

22:22.18 Greenberg had active day, no issues

27:36.97 Classification of "manner of death"

32:45.96 Giving a statement to police

37:06.32 Steps in death investigation

42:48.71 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	January 26th, 2011.
0:10.0	I guess by all measure is kind of an innocuous date.
0:15.0	I don't remember what I was doing on that date.
0:18.0	And unless it's your birthday perhaps, or you had some seminal event that
0:23.0	occurred, most of us would just look at that date and just kind of march on. That's what we do,
0:29.7	right, in life. But for one family, that date marks a moment in time
0:40.9	that will be forever
0:44.0	written in their hearts.
0:47.6	It's the date of the death of Ellen Greenberg. And it also marks that moment in time
0:57.1	when both her mama and her daddy
1:02.7	were scarred forever.
1:09.2	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks.
1:15.7	Brother Dave, 14, 14, 14 years later.
1:24.6	And we have had, I don't know, people throw around the term seismic many times, but we've had kind of a seismic shift, I think, just in the past 48 hours relative to this case that has just, it's gone on and on forever and ever involved in
1:47.5	Ellen and her death.
1:50.0	And there's been a ruling on the civil side of all this.
1:55.1	And I think that it is kind of a seismic, at least when you look at it from the perspective
1:59.6	of the family.
2:00.2	Would you agree with
2:00.9	that? Yes, 100% because we have the death of Ellen Greenberg and you and Nancy have done,
2:10.2	Nancy Grace, have done a remarkable job of studying this case and you know more about it than a lot of the investigators probably.
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