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This is the Hidden Killers podcast
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with Tony Bruschi. This last
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week I had the opportunity to sit down and have
1:09
a in-depth conversation with private
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investigator Thomas Brennan. Tom
1:14
is the private investigator that's been hired by
1:17
the parents
1:19
of Ellen Greenberg, Joshua
1:22
and Sandy Greenberg, as they search
1:24
for justice and answers in the death
1:27
of their daughter. A death that
1:29
was quite clearly a homicide, considering
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she was stabbed 20 times. Several
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of those stab wounds, fatal blows,
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which would make it a physical impossibility
1:42
for her to continue stabbing herself
1:45
up to 20 times. The
1:49
problem with this is her death has
1:51
been labeled a suicide by the Philadelphia
1:54
Police Department.
1:56
A department which refuses to investigate
1:59
the death further. and refuses
2:01
to change the cause of death to homicide,
2:04
which it rightfully should be. Why
2:08
is that? Why is it so
2:11
difficult? Why
2:14
are so many refusing to
2:18
speak the truth about
2:20
the death of Ellen Greenberg? We
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Thomas, in our last piece of the conversation,
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we were talking about
2:48
the police work, about
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the investigation or lack thereof
2:54
into what clearly was
2:56
a murder scene. Is
2:58
this something that is truly
3:00
nefarious or could
3:03
other circumstances be at play here? There was
3:05
a horrible nor'easter going on at
3:08
that moment in time. Was it a
3:10
difficulty of getting people from point A
3:12
to point B? Or
3:14
is something else at
3:17
play here
3:18
preventing the investigation from even
3:21
getting off the ground?
3:25
I don't know because according
3:28
to that report that I told you
3:30
about, according
3:32
to that report, the
3:34
fiance was taken to
3:38
police district
3:41
headquarters in Philadelphia
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to be interviewed. We have
3:46
never been allowed to see any police
3:48
reports. Okay, so I don't
3:50
know what was said. I don't know who
3:52
was there. You know, so
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I can't tell you any of that. Okay. Yeah,
3:56
you know, I've heard a lot of rumors that
3:59
he was represented. my castle. Okay,
4:03
so you know, I just don't
4:05
know. I just don't.
4:08
And, you know,
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when
4:15
you take
4:17
a look at that, the scene itself,
4:20
okay, as soon
4:23
as you walk in, as soon as you go into
4:25
the apartment, and you see
4:27
the victim lying, you know, propped
4:30
up in this corner in the kitchen on the
4:32
floor, immediately
4:34
look, you take a look at that. And it's, whoa,
4:37
we just a minute. Okay,
4:41
just a minute.
4:43
You know, and then you see dried and
4:45
coagulated blood, you know,
4:48
you know, that should be running,
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you know, the way
4:56
the way the victim is positioned, it
4:58
should be running vertically. Instead,
5:01
it's running horizontally to the ear. Okay.
5:07
So you take
5:09
a look at that. And then you
5:14
do things like you take a listen
5:18
to the 911 call. And
5:21
you hear the fiance telling
5:23
everyone that she's on her back. Well,
5:27
in the photograph, she's not on her back. She's sitting
5:30
up. That's
5:33
an inconsistency. Okay.
5:38
You know, and, you
5:41
know, because
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I mean, Philadelphia has Philadelphia
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police department, district
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attorney's office, civil
5:56
examiner's office. They
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are you know, all
6:04
three entities completely refused
6:06
to do anything, you know, cooperate
6:08
with us at all. Yeah. At
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all. And, you know,
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and then,
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Tony, I don't
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know, I don't know, even, even
6:19
like with, okay,
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you talk about Dr. Galino,
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Dr. Galino was the medical examiner
6:26
for the Philadelphia
6:28
medical examiner's
6:30
office. Okay. He
6:33
sits resign. But
6:36
anyway, when I first got involved
6:39
in this, the first thing I did was contact
6:41
him. Sure. Okay.
6:45
Now, you have parents who
6:47
believe their daughter was killed.
6:51
It didn't commit suicide.
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I called him and he, you know, and he
6:56
says, I say, well,
6:59
Dr. Galino, I'd like to interview Dr.
7:02
Osborne. Okay.
7:05
He's the, he's the doctor that did the autopsy.
7:07
Okay. Dr. Galino says no.
7:11
Why is that? Okay. So
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about a year goes by and, you
7:19
know, I'm doing some other things with the case on the case.
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And I contact Dr. Wayne
7:25
Ross. Okay.
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Because I know Dr. Wayne Ross is
7:30
a, is a court certified, a court certified
7:33
expert
7:36
and stabled. Okay. So
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I want him to take a look at this case. So
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I give it to him. I give everything
7:44
that I have to him. He takes
7:46
a look at it, comes back to me and says, Hey, Tom, you're
7:48
right. This is a house. There's
7:50
no way in hell this is a suicide.
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I said, okay. So I
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called Dr. Osborne. I, I, you know, I
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emailed him, copied.
7:59
of Dr. Wayne Ross's report and
8:03
he, I called
8:05
him and he said, well, since
8:09
Dr. Ross and
8:11
Dr. R's were one of our medical professionals,
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I'll allow them, I'll allow
8:16
Dr. Ross to speak
8:18
with Dr. Osborn. Okay. Okay.
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So
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that conference
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call, okay, took place
8:28
in the office of the Dauphin County
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coroner here in
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Hendersburg. Okay.
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There were the people present
8:38
were Dr. Wayne Ross, the
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Dauphin County coroner and
8:45
myself. So
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Dr. Ross
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interviewed Dr. Ross and I'm on
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the phone and he got finished
8:56
asking questions and Dr. Ross wasn't
8:59
happy with the way Dr. Ross was answering
9:01
these questions.
9:04
He stopped talking to Dr. Osborn
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and I started talking to him and asking him questions.
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I said, Dr. Osborn, I
9:11
said, right
9:12
when we were finishing up our conversation,
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I said, Dr. Osborn, can you
9:17
tell me why you
9:20
changed the cause and manner of death
9:23
from homicide to suicide?
9:27
Okay. And these, you know, what
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his, his response is in, you know,
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I mean, it's burnt on my brain.
9:34
Yeah. This is the question everyone wants to know the
9:36
answer to
9:38
that. He responded with, okay.
9:41
I did it at the insistence
9:45
of the police.
9:46
Okay. And I
9:48
said, can you tell me
9:50
who they are? I said, did they have a degree in
9:52
path? I said, do any of
9:55
the officers that you talked to have a degree in pathology?
10:00
call ended. Okay. And
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now Dr. Osborne is in Florida.
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I don't know if anyone has had the chance to
10:10
read the depositions of Dr. Gollino
10:13
and Dr. Osborne. I
10:18
don't know why, but Dr.
10:22
Osborne and Dr. Gollino when
10:27
counsel for the Greenberg, Joe Pedraza,
10:31
Mr. Pedraza, when
10:34
he deposed both of those individuals,
10:40
if you read their deposition,
10:42
the transcript of the depositions, Mr.
10:45
Pedraza interviews
10:48
Dr. Osborne and Dr.
10:50
Gollino regarding Dr.
10:52
Gollino's performance.
10:57
They say in their depositions, there
11:00
were never any problems, no
11:03
problems at all. Okay. None of what's
11:05
so happened. Tony,
11:08
I have three memos
11:11
signed by the
11:13
deputy
11:16
medical examiner,
11:19
Dr. Gary Collins, who is now
11:22
the medical examiner for the state
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of Delaware. Three
11:27
memos criticizing
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Dr. Osborne for his performance. Three
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different memos. You
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have two medical professionals that
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lied under oath. Sure. They
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committed perjure. Yeah. This is
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the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony
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Brueske. There's more to come
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in my conversation with Thomas
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Brennan, private investigator
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into
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