One interesting factor I think was strongly used as to help cover and ruled Ellen as a "suicide", is that her laptop on January 10th, 2011 had a search for quick death and euthanasia, while also browsing a website about painless suicide options.
She was also the week of December 18th, only after THREE SESSIONS with a psychiatrist, was prescribed Klonopin (used to treat anxiety, seizures, and phobia disorders; is a benzodiazepine) and Ambien (used for insomnia). She was diagnosed with anxiety and panic attacks.
They recommend if you have depression or suicidal thoughts, to not take Ambien. Moreover, this just means after three sessions, her psychiatrist basically gave her a drug prescription that exasperated her depression suicidal symptoms (ie - further means of covering up and ruling it a suicide).
Klonopin, side effects depression and may cause suicidal thoughts ( ie - another piece of evidence to pin suicide as a ruling on Ellen!).
Taking these two drugs together is strongly discourage and can lead to dangerous side effects.. like death as one of the main side effects besides difficulty breathing, severe drowsiness, and unresponsiveness. It can also cause motor coordination issues to confusion, even dizziness.
If a doctor is prescribing this... if Sam knew the lethal combo of these two drugs together, while learning about the massive side effects, he would 100% use that to his advantage tbh, because it means he could easily get away with murder and blame her depression, anxiety, and panic attacks for it.
What's also interesting, Sam called around 5:44pm Kamian Schwartzman, an attorney who's also a cousin of Sam, to let him know he was locked out of the apartment at the exact same time Sam called 9-1-1.
Kamian's father is Politically-Connected Philadelphia attorney, James Schwartzman.
Let's break down some of this timeline with some immense details from this website that has an insane amount of details for this entire case.
- Both relatives, also lawyers, instruct Sam at 6:30pm to break open the door.
- At 6:31pm, they instructed Sam to call 9-1-1
- Sam calls at 6:33pm
- EMS arrives on scene at 6:36pm
- 6:42pm EMS found Ellen up right between two cabinets and pronounced dead
- 7:30pm, both James and Kamian arrived at the Venice Loft Apartments
- 7:31pm arrives and request the ME
- 8:27pm Detectives arrive on the scene
- January 27, 3am, her body was removed from the scene
- 9am and later, Melissa Ware the property manager of Venice Loft Apartments, contacted the police between James and Kamian Schwartzman, Sam's uncle and cousin who are lawyers, asked for access to the apartment to get a suit for Sam. The police told Melissa it "wasn't an active crime scene anymore", went so far as to give Melissa the number for a crime scene clean-up crew. She made arrangements same day for clean up. Once the apartment was cleaned up, Melissa called James Schwartzman (Sam's uncle), who showed up and REMOVED not only the suit from the apartment, but Ellen's purse, cell phone, and laptop. After all that, then a police search warrant was given for the apartment.
Items searched and seized from the property as follows:
- Assorted knives
- Blood Samples
- A serrated knife with a black handle
- Assorted paint samples
- A bloody hand towel found in the kitchen
- Other potential evidence items related to the crime scene
- Assorted clothing
- More blood samples
- A diamond ring (most likely the engagement ring)
- Latex Prints
- Rubber Maid container
January 29th, Police retrieved Ellen's cell phone and laptop from James C. Schwartzman.
March 2011, PPD demand a meeting face-to-face with Osbourne and Gulino. Also a high-ranking Philadelphia District Attorney was part of this meeting. After the meeting, the ruling from homicide to suicide was made.
April 1st, laptop forensics went through Ellen's search history from December 18th, 2010, through January 10th, 2011.
April 4th, 2012, Detective Scott Eelman in his report, stated Ellen's body was moved. He stated:
It is my opinion, that Ms. Greenberg was not In the position in which she was found at the time that the blood was deposited on her sweat pants, sweat shirt and shoes. lt's also my opinion that Ms. Greenberg’s head had been in several positions during the time of blood flow and it remained so for enough time as to have the blood flow across her face and back toward her ear, upward toward her eyes and also downward toward her chin.
It is my opinion that tho blood stain evidence in this case ls inconsistent with positioning which Ms. Greenberg was found. Furthermore. I have serious concerns regarding the patterned blood stain to the loft of Ms. Greenberg’s right leg, the minimal amount of bloodstains on the floor in comparison with those found on the clothing of Ms. Greenberg and the flow patients of the bloodstains on Ms. Greenberg’s face relative 10 the position in which she was found.
During 2011 - 2013, Greenberg's parents said Goldberg sporadically kept in touch with Sandee for two or three years after her death. 'At the end of the conversation, I would always say, you know, Sam, this was not a suicide, we know this is not,'
she told DailyMail.com, 'He never responded, and he would just hang up.
(Him not responding, then immediately hang up after her mother said that... very suspicious.)
June 7, 2012, Dr. Wayne K. Ross issued a reporting stating, "The scene findings were indicative of a homicide".
In 2013, Sam was still in touch with Ellen's parents, he informed them he was getting married to Caroline Fay Shnay, the daughter of well-off real estate agents, at the Plaza in New York City on January 11, 2014, almost exactly three years after Greenberg's death. The couple live in a two-bedroom apartment in Grammercy Park they bought for $1.8 million in 2017. (ie - motives to murder Ellen is he met Caroline anytime within the year of her murder, as in Sam is film and tv producer, her father has wealthy connections to line his pocket for himself and his own projects!).
January 28th, 2018, Dr. Henry-C. Lee, PhD, issued a report stating, "The number and type of wounds and bloodstain patterns are consistent with a homicide".
At the time of 2019, Ellen's parents Attorney contacted the Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro, 48th Govern of Pennsylvania since 2023 by the way, with the new evidence, who later still kept it as ruled a suicide.
And as of late 2024 and into 2025, we know the case is 100% being escalated and looked at, even reviewed to the point that it's reaching a level of not just attention with the public, but throughout the entire city of Philly is watching for what is going to happen.