WATCH: Ellen Greenberg’s ex-fiancé dodges questions as feds reopen death case of teacher with 23 stab wounds

The erstwhile fiancé of Ellen Greenberg was reportedly spotted connected the streets of New York City conscionable days aft it emerged that the probe into the Philadelphia teacher’s decease has been reopened by national authorities. 

Sam Goldberg, 43, was seen wearing a achromatic jacket, grey sweatpants and beanie arsenic helium departed his $1.88 cardinal Manhattan apartment, which helium shares with his woman and 2 children, according to the Daily Mail. 

Goldberg reportedly remained tight-lipped and refused to reply questions regarding the quality that national prosecutors person precocious moved to reopen the probe into the 2011 decease of Greenberg, who was recovered with 23 stab wounds.

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Sam Goldberg is pictured leaving his New York City flat connected Jan. 15, 2026. The probe into the decease of Goldberg’s erstwhile fiancée, Ellen Greenberg, is acceptable to beryllium reopened by national prosecutors, according to instrumentality enforcement sources.  (The US Sun / Mega)

"It's precise bully quality successful that it takes things retired of the authorities of Philadelphia, which we cannot trust, and places it successful the hands of the national government," Greenberg's mother, Sandee Greenberg, told the Daily Mail. 

"There's been truthful overmuch corruption they request caller eyes connected it," she added. "It's been a precise agelong clip coming. January 26 volition beryllium 15 years but we're gaining momentum and Ellen knows." 

The lawsuit made headlines aft Goldberg discovered 27-year-old Greenberg with implicit 20 stab wounds covering her body, including to the backmost of her caput and her heart. 

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Ellen Greenberg, left, successful an undated household photo. (Greenberg family)

The circumstances surrounding Greenberg’s decease person fueled statement for years, with investigators pointing to the information that her assemblage was discovered wrong a locked flat that had been forced unfastened by Goldberg aft she failed to respond.

Her decease was initially ruled a homicide, but reclassified arsenic a termination successful 2011 erstwhile adjunct aesculapian examiner Dr. Marlon Osbourne changed the mode of decease aft gathering with Philadelphia Police investigators.

Goldberg has ne'er been named a fishy oregon been accused of immoderate transgression successful transportation to Greenberg’s death.

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Sam Goldberg is pictured leaving his New York City flat connected Jan. 15, 2026. (The US Sun / Mega)

Following the merchandise of a Hulu documentary shedding caller airy connected the lawsuit successful October 2025, Goldberg said that helium had been "screwed over" by the film, including his 911 telephone erstwhile helium recovered his fiancée’s body, successful which helium told authorities she "fell connected a knife." 

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"Yeah I person been. It's atrocious and it sucks," helium told the Mail. "But I person thing other to say."

Last month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania requested documents relating to the lawsuit from the Philadelphia Police Department and different agencies, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

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However, national authorities are reportedly not expected to look into the ruling that Greenberg’s decease was a suicide, but alternatively volition look into the anticipation of transgression corruption among section officials astatine the clip of the investigation.

Dr. Josh and Sandee Greenberg successful Philadelphia aft a colony was reached with the metropolis successful their girl Ellen's case. (Gavin Fish )

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In 2022, Greenberg’s household filed a suit against the metropolis implicit the handling of the probe into her death. 

In 2023, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court acknowledged that errors were made successful the investigation, but opted to disregard a suit filed by Greenberg’s household looking to alteration her authoritative mode of death.

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Last year, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office reaffirmed its determination to classify Greenberg’s decease arsenic a suicide, successful a important stroke to her family, according to People. 

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In a ruling, the tribunal reportedly conceded it had "no prime nether the law" to person the mode of decease changed, but admitted, "This tribunal is acutely alert of the profoundly flawed probe of the victim's decease by the City of Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) detectives, the City of Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (DAO), and the MEO [Medical Examiner's Office]."

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. Fox News Digital was incapable to instantly scope Goldberg for comment. 

Fox News Digital's Emma Bussey contributed to this report.